Demolition workers found a time capsule near the chapel in a portion of the general hospital that was expanded<\/p>\n
Mayor Matthew Shoemaker says a surprise time capsule found among the rubble of the former general hospital may not be the only one that will be discovered.<\/p>\n
“I think we kind of had an expectation there’s probably a time capsule, if not more than one, in the building somewhere, but\u00a0we\u00a0didn’t know where it was,” said Shoemaker in an interview today, a few hours after the capsule was opened.<\/p>\n
Shoemaker said the time capsule was found by demolition workers with Green Infrastructure Projects, near the chapel in a portion of the general hospital that included an expansion which was completed in 1963.<\/p>\n
“It was handed over by\u00a0GIP to our staff,”\u00a0Shoemaker said.<\/p>\n
The time capsule was built using\u00a0a short length of copper pipe, welded closed on one end, and a screw-on top on the other.<\/p>\n
It was opened this morning in Shoemaker’s office, with the mayor; CAO Tom Vair; Larry Girardi, project manager of port development at the City of Sault Ste. Marie; and Sault Museum executive director William Hollingshead in attendance.<\/p>\n
Inside was a copy of the Sault Daily Star newspaper from April 29, 1963, some pamphlets for a capital campaign, some medallions and typed pages, among other items.<\/p>\n
Typewritten pages included contributors to the $4-million capital campaign and a list of doctors and the Grey Sisters working at the hospital at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
A timeline on one of the pages indicated the City of Sault Ste. Marie had put forward $1 million for the expansion.<\/p>\n
“It was interesting to see that\u00a0in April they started this capital campaign and by September or October they had all the money raised,” said Shoemaker.<\/p>\n
One pamphlet about the hospital carried the title The Doors that Never Close.<\/p>\n
“That was\u00a0ironic, given the the context we’re dealing with now,”\u00a0Shoemaker said.<\/p>\n
The time capsule and its contents were entrusted to the Sault Museum after its opening.<\/p>\n
Shoemaker said the oldest parts of the building, going back as far as 1899, may\u00a0hold more secrets to be uncovered during demolition.<\/p>\n
“Hopefully there will be more\u00a0time capsule discoveries to come. We’re not sure, but we we think there may be an original one in there,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Demolition workers found a time capsule near the chapel in a portion of the general hospital that was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,278174],"class_list":["post-787124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-matthew-shoemakergeneral-hospital-demolition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}