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Delta throwback: Health unit coming

Council had a deadline to see if it could budget for most of the construction, otherwise the provincial grant would have to be returned.
Sandor Gyarmati
Sandor Gyarmati
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From left: Dr. McInnes, assistant health unit director, Mayor Dugald Morrison holding the $40,000 cheque, Dr. Kornder, health unit director, and Dan Doswell, Delta’s information officer. Council and the department of health approved the new municipal hall area for the unit.Delta Optimist file

Let’s head back to the April 1969 pages of the Optimist when plans were discussed for a new medical health centre next to Municipal Hall.

The municipality and Boundary Health Unit planned to build the $132,000 unit, which received a $40,000 grant from the province.

The growing municipality at the time, which still didn’t have its own hospital, was seen as requiring its own health centre to meet the needs of residents.

Fast forward to 2023 and Fraser Health’s South Delta Public Health Unit relocated from the building adjacent to the current Delta Municipal Hall in the Ladner Civic Precinct. The city then began planning to move some civic departments into the available space.