George Robert Grasett: The new park is coming to a small patch of pavement in front of a 47-storey condo at the corner of Adelaide and Widmer Streets. , according to CBC. Dr. Grasett died of typhus while treating recently-landed Irish migrants who had fled the Great Famine in their homeland. The park will also dedicated to his colleagues Susan Bailey and Edward McElderry who also worked to treat the sick. Toronto downtown condo zone will soon get a little greener with a new park to be erected in the memory of those who helped Irish immigrants who'd fled the deadly famine in the mid nineteenth century, But this is more than a piece of new green space. The park will be named in honour of Dr. George Robert Grasett who in 1847, was the chief medical officer at Toronto Emigrant Hospital, which was located near the site of the new park.
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