Spinal Cord Rehabilitation Program at Lyndhurst Centre

Following the Second World War, many Canadian veterans returned home wounded
and disabled. The available hospital services were inadequate for their needs. Lyndhurst Lodge opened in 1945 to help fill this gap for servicemen who had suffered spinal cord injuries. Located on Lyndhurst Avenue in Toronto, near Casa Loma, it soon became a nationally and globally renowned hospital.

Dr. Albin T. Jousse, an internationally respected Canadian physiatrist, became its first medical director and set it on its pioneering course. Dr. Jousse received the Order of Canada in 1969 in recognition of his notable work.

The Canadian Paraplegic Association, an organization formed in 1945 by paraplegic
veterans, assumed the facility's ownership in 1950 and, in 1974, built a new, larger
facility at the present location at 520 Sutherland Drive.

In 1998, Lyndhurst Hospital became part of the newly formed Toronto Rehabilitation
Institute.