The Ontario Cancer Institute ( OCI ) is the research division of Princess Margaret Cancer Centre , affiliated to the University Health Network of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine . As Canada 's first dedicated cancer hospital , it opened officially and began to receive patients in 1958, although its research divisions had begun work a year earlier. Because, at that time, a stigma was associated with the word "cancer", the hospital was soon renamed the Princess Margaret Hospital , although the whole operation was called the Ontario Cancer Institute incorporating the Princess Margaret Hospital, or OCI/PMH. Clinicians usually preferred the hospital name, while the scientists used OCI.
4-729: The original location of the OCI/PMH was at 500 Sherbourne Street in Toronto . In 1995, the whole operation moved to a new building at 610 University Avenue, and the new Princess Margaret Hospital became part of the University Health Network . The OCI continued as the research arm of the PMH, that in 2012 changed its name in Princess Margaret Cancer Centre . This Toronto -related article
8-469: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a medical organization or association is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Sherbourne Street, Toronto Sherbourne Street is a roadway in Downtown Toronto . It is one of the original streets in the old city of York, Upper Canada . It starts at Queen's quay , and heads north to South Drive. It
12-532: Is two lanes for its entire length, though the part south of Bloor has bike lanes. It was named by Samuel Smith Ridout (son of Thomas Ridout ) in 1845 after the town in Dorset, England ; the Ridout family emigrated from Sherborne to Maryland in 1774. Before 1845 the short stretch from Palace Street (now Front Street East) to Duchess Street (now Richmond Street) was called Caroline Street . In 1838, following
16-792: The Upper Canada Rebellion , seven blockhouses were built, guarding the approaches to Toronto, including the Sherbourne Blockhouse , built at the current intersection of Sherbourne and Bloor . In the 19th Century Sherbourne was lined with the stately homes of many of Toronto's most prominent families, but by the 20th Century the remaining stately houses, like 230 Sherbourne Street, had been converted to rooming houses. Streetcars ran down Sherbourne from 1874 (as horsecar service until electrified in 1891, then as Belt Line to 1923 and finally as Sherbourne streetcar line) to 1942. Buses did not begin on Sherbourne until 1947 and
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