Thought this bit of historical information might be of interest here from "heritagemississauga". Ontario old-timers will certainly remember the Gage textbooks but not necessarily know of the connection to the hospitals:
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The youngest son of Andrew and Mary Jane Gage, and most well-known, was William James Gage. William was born in 1849 at Palestine. In his early years he attended the school at Derry West, rather than the nearby school at Palestine, because he wished to be taught by the Derry West teacher Dr. C.Y. Moore. He then later attended the high school in Brampton. He had a strong desire to enter into the medical field from childhood, but soon found that he was not suited to it. Instead, William Gage went to work for Adam Miller, a publisher in Toronto. Some years later he took over the business, renaming it W.J. Gage and Co., and published many school textbooks.
Later on in his life, William J. Gage was elected president of the Toronto Board of Trade, and he organized the Associated Trades Board of Ontario. He then began the project of founding a privately funded sanatorium. Despite some criticism, William J. Gage founded Muskoka Cottage Sanatorium, Muskoka Free Hospital for Consumptives, King Edward Sanatorium, Toronto Free Hospital for Consumptives and the Queen Mary Hospital for Consumptive Children. In 1913, William James Gage was honoured as a Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, and in 1918 he was knighted. Sir William J. Gage received an honourary degree of Doctor of Laws from Mount Allison University. He also started numourous foundations, gave a park to the city of Brampton and left money for the maintenance of the Dixie Cemetery, where his parents were buried. William James Gage died in 1921.
Posted 12/02/2013 11:45 am
