[1] The hospital opened at its original location on February 10, 1925 when it received its first patient: 10 year old Harvey Jones from Haileybury Ontario.

It was felt an Ottawa location would not greatly affect access to those in the US Northeast, or eastern Canada, only being about 200 km from Montreal.

The president of the Shriners brought up the potential threat of Quebec separation to influence the move out of the province.

[3] Two years following, unsatisfied with the prior decision, the London Shriners decided to invoke a last minute resolution to move the hospital once again, based on the fact the Quebec government still continued to delay the project or fully decontaminate the land where the hospital was to be built.

On October 13, 2011, the official ground breaking ceremony for the new Shriners hospital took place, on the site of the MUHC superhospital.