In 1917, the Federal government seized possession of the Hotel Brant for use as a soldiers’ hospital. The original Brant home was used as housing for hospital staff.
While recovering at the Brant Military Hospital, First World War veterans returning from the battlefield could expect physical and emotional rehabilitation. Following the war’s end, patients were slowly relocated to other institutions and the facility’s doors were finally closed in September 1923.
After sitting abandoned for fourteen years, the entire hospital complex, along with the original Brant home, was eventually demolished in 1937.
Image Credit: Joseph Brant Museum collection, 1997.236.30
Published at the Brant Military Hospital, Carry On was largely written by staff and patients.
Image Credit: Joseph Brant Museum collection, 1997.236.31
Each new volume included local news updates, listings for social events, and literary works such as original poetry.
Image Credit: Joseph Brant Museum collection, 2012.32.1045
Staff set up hospital beds for convalescing soldiers along the verandah overlooking Lake Ontario.