Identity area
Reference code
UTA 1260-8
Title
Homewood Sanatorium
Date(s)
- 1909-1937 (predominant 1923-1926) (Creation)
Level of description
Series
Extent and medium
0.25 m of records (multimedia)
Context area
Name of creator
(1874-1970)
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
In 1923, Dr. Farrar left the Department of Soldier’s Civil Re-Establishment to become Medical Director of Homewood Sanatorium, a private asylum in Guelph, Ontario. The records in this series were created in Dr. Farrar’s capacity as head of Homewood and include colleagues’ professional correspondence, patients’ intercepted outgoing correspondence, patient case files and promotional flyers. Series also includes images of nursing staff at Homewood, 1923-25.
For photographs, see Box /003P (12).
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Researchers must request access to the Clarence B. Farrar fonds given the volume of personal health information distributed across the fonds. Please contact us for additional information or to make a request.