The Fifteen Year Plan

In 1917, Dr. James Douglas, Chancellor of Queen's University, donated $100,000 towards a fund for the redevelopment of KGH’s teaching and research facilities.  An ambitious 15-year building plan was developed to include:

• a service building for dietary, dining and storage
• a central heating plant
• a city isolation hospital
• a 26-bed extension to the Empire wing
• construction of the Douglas wing
• construction of the Richardson laboratories

Initial estimates for the complete plan totaled more than $600,000 and in May 1919 the Ontario government voted to give $400,000 to the Kingston General Hospital.