The hospital on Queen Street, formerly called the Asylum for the Insane, Toronto, held events like dances and concerts for patients. The ticket pictured below, is for a concert given at the hospital that was held on February 2, 1892, by Toronto’s Holy Trinity Church Choir for patients, staff and friends.
Daniel Clark, the hospital’s Superintendent, later wrote in that year’s annual report, concerning this and 22 other concerts that year, “that our city friends are many, and as energetic as ever in their efforts to give pleasure to our patients in so many ways. A mere statement of thanks is inadequate to express what all feel at these evidences of self-sacrifice, which are freely rendered without any remuneration beyond the feeling of satisfaction at doing a good and charitable work among the most severely afflicted of our fellow beings.”
