toronto convalescent homes ww1

[krissy]

coffee jj ?
you need something ha !ha !.
some great answers there ,but im afraid none of them were right, but how can i let you continue its obviously had a weird affect on you 
I A T T =  I am totally Thick !
simple when you think of it eh?
krissy

[krissy]

hi jj
just to update you about my grt uncle fred jefferis, we have found out that he was injured twice whilst serving with the cef.
firstly he was shot twice in his right arm and was sent to shorncliffe, then in 1916 he was suffering from shell shock after and explosion, he was sent back to toronto and placed in a military convalescent home, until he was discharged unfit to serve.
how sad is that, you begin to wonder how he managed after and what type of work he would have been capable of, as he was still in his early 20s i would have expected him to return home to mum in the uk, but we know that was not the case so we are still searching he must have settled somewhere, his last address was in toronto so now we have to start again from there.
will let you know if we come up with anymore
krissy

[krissy]

ps. we think it was a place called spadina military hospital that he was sent to in toronto, has anyone heard of it?
krissy

[J.J.]

Yes there is!
http://www.ideasmag.artsci.utoronto.ca/issue1_1/feature4.html

but now you still need to see about records....I'll poke around....J.J.


excerpt:
....to house Knox College; four decades later, the Presbyterians relocated eastward, on St. George. The structure then became home to the Spadina Military Hospital for convalescing World War I soldiers, to the armories of the Toronto Regiment, to the Connaught Laboratories, which conducted drug research and development, and finally to the university itself.

[J.J.]

Here you go, Krissy...

http://tinyurl.com/29e92c  but you will need to order the records I think through your library...   *acronym...*IADITD....  (I'm a dodo in that department)...so maybe someone can tell you what to do with this information...

   J.J.

[krissy]

thanks again jj,
though having gone to the site i havent got a flippin clue what im doing ha! ha! told you  IATT 
maybe i should email them and see what they say.
will let you know
hugs
krissy

[J.J.]

You can post a question here, and they talk about stuff in their live chat...
http://www5.oclc.org/questionpoint/LACA/LACA_EN.htm
Maybe you could ask how to get the file sent...or if it even will contain the information you need in the first place...J.J.

[krissy]

jj as always your a star 

will give it a go and see what happens and get back to you

krissy

[J.J.]

Hello Krissy.  Going to post your other thread with attestation papers:  http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=36759.0

I imagine you sent for his digitized files as did I for mine...Now free of charge, lucky new searchers!!!!
I see he sailed back Oct 23rd or wait, was it Sept. 30th,  altho the 3 other Brantford boys he was to return with, ( see news url) appeared to have returned before Oct 21??? It appears both dates are useless as he was already in Spadina Military Hospital Oct 19 
He surely had a case of shell-shock after being unconscious for 8 hrs. I am sad that there was no follow-up after his return home! Perhaps because of the early discharge.
Digitized files- CEF Archives: http://central.bac-lac.gc.ca/.item/?op=pdf&app=CEF&id=B4803-S036
Newspaper: http://www.doingourbit.ca/profile/edward-wreaks