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The Hamilton General Hospital Training School for Nurses was established at City Hospital in 1890. It was initially a two-year-long apprenticeship style program led by the head nurse and physicians, but expanded to a three-year program involving formal instruction and on-the-job training. The Hamilton General Hospital School of Nursing was discontinued in 1973 when Mohawk College took over the program.

The Hamilton Academy of Medicine (HAM) is a local voluntary professional association and a territorial branch society of District 4 of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA). Its role is to strengthen the camaraderie among the physicians and surgeons of Hamilton and the surrounding region and to offer them opportunities to engage with scientific, political, and social developments impacting the medical profession.

A precursor of HAM, the Hamilton Medical and Surgical Society, was established on February 3, 1863. Its principal function was to host the annual election of the six doctors who would have hospital privileges. After this function was lost, and confronted with disputes among its members, on October 24, 1899, it was decided to abandon this organization and begin again.

On November 7, 1899, a new association, the Hamilton Medical Society (HMS), was established. Prior to WWI, its members met once a month from September to May to listen to presentations by fellow members or guest speakers. From 1906, they held an annual clinical day, which consisted of presentations at one of the hospitals followed by a dinner.

Following WWI, in 1919, HMS affiliated with the OMA, one of the first local medical societies to do so, and adopted a new constitution that was in line with that of OMA. This greatly expanded its purpose. While its focused remained on education, it began to organize social events such as picnics and golf tournaments.

In 1919, as a result of its affiliation with OMA, the HMS established an Executive, made up of the President, Vice-President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The Executive was responsible for policy and for arranging the annual program. Another notable change was the introduction of standing and special committees to handle social and political issues of particular concern to doctors as they arose.

In 1931, HMS changed its name to the Hamilton Academy of Medicine (HAM) and opened its first permanent headquarters in the newly built Medical Arts Building at 1 Young Street in downtown Hamilton. To legally incorporate, it applied for and was issued letters patent on February 25, 1932. In addition, HAM's constitution and bylaws were revised. A Council was introduced, made up of the Executive, OMA Delegate, and the Chairs of current standing and special committees. The Council, which met quarterly, became responsible for policy and planning.

In 1934, the first Section—subgroup of members of a particular medical or surgical specialty—of HAM, the Section of General Practice (later renamed Section of Family Medicine), was established. It would be joined by sixteen others over the following decades.

In 1936, HAM relocated its headquarters to 286 Victoria Avenue North, the building which had formerly housed the Babies’ Dispensary Guild, a municipal property leased to the Hamilton General Hospital. Rent was a nominal $1 plus free use of its library by the Hospital. This remained its headquarters until 1990, when it sold its library to the Hospital and returned to the Medical Arts Building, its current home.

Dr. Richard T. Weaver, MB, FACS, FRCSC, was born in North Western Canada in 1898 and raised by missionary parents in a remote part of Manitoba. He became fluent in Cree, the language spoken by the local Indigenous Peoples. At the age of eight he travelled by canoe and pony 500 miles to the South, which linked up to the rail line. From there he then travelled to St. Catharines to attend Ridley College. He was commissioned as an officer in the Royal Field Artillery in 1917 at the age of 19 and served in England and France from 1917–19. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1924 and practiced general medicine in St. Catharines for a few years, before doing postgraduate training in obstetrics and gynecology in New York, Salzburg and Vienna.

Dr. Weaver, one of the first consultant obstetricians and gynecologists in Hamilton. He established his practice in 1933 and was the first to limit his practice exclusively to this specialty. He was chief of obstetrics and gynecology at the Hamilton Civic Hospitals from 1942–58. During that time, he established a strong department and was responsible for training a number of obstetricians and gynecologists, who now practice in Hamilton and throughout Canada. He was a significant force in Canada in promoting gynecology as a specialty and in raising the standards of gynecological care. Dr. Weaver was especially skillful at vaginal surgery and was mainly responsible for its widespread use in Canada. He had a special interest in gynecological malignancy and served for many years on the Medical Advisory Committee of the Ontario Cancer Foundation.

Dr. Weaver retired from active practice in 1973.Dr. Weaver would pass away a year later.

Born Jan 4, 1921, Leonard served in the military during World War II, with deployments in England and Sicily, and was a member of the Lorn Scots protection platoon. In 1941, he married Ada Elaine, beginning a relationship that would last over five decades. Leonard's life changed significantly in 1949 when he sustained an industrial injury near the McGivney ammunition dump while working with New Brunswick Hydro, resulting in paraplegia. Despite this setback, Leonard demonstrated remarkable resilience, undergoing extensive rehabilitation and continuing his professional career with New Brunswick Hydro for over three decades, eventually rising to the position of supervisor.

Beyond his professional achievements, Leonard cherished time with his family, which included two sons and two daughters. He passed away on June 20, 2002.

Dr. Ronald Bayne was born on January 25, 1923, and became a pivotal figure in advancing care for older adults and geriatric medicine in Canada. Following in the footsteps of his father, Dr. Henry Douglas Bayne, Ronald graduated from McGill University’s medical school in 1947. After completing his internship at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal, he pursued advanced training at the New England Medical Centre in Boston (1950) and at the West Middlesex Hospital in England (1951-1955), where he worked with Dr. Marjory Warren, a leading pioneer in British geriatrics.

Bayne returned to Quebec in 1955, practicing as a general practitioner in Sherbrooke before moving to Montreal in 1959, where he became Chief of Medicine at Ste. Anne’s Hospital for veterans. His academic career flourished when he joined McGill’s Faculty of Medicine as a lecturer in psychiatry un Dr. Travis Duncey. In 1970, Dr. Bayne transitioned to McMaster University in Hamilton, becoming a professor of medicine, a role he held until his retirement in 1989.

A dedicated advocate for gerontology, Dr. Bayne co-authored a monograph on patient-directed care with sociologist Joseph Lella in 1986 and led the Canadian Association on Gerontology from 1983 to 1987. He was instrumental in founding the McMaster Office on Aging (1979), later known as the McMaster Centre for Gerontological Studies (1985), which merged with the Department of Health, Aging, and Society in 2006.

Dr. Bayne’s legacy includes innovative contributions such as the Assessment and Placement Service (APS), which laid the groundwork for Ontario’s Community Care and Access Centres, providing essential care for elderly and chronically ill populations. Dr. Ronald Bayne passed away on February 6, 2021, at the age of 97, leaving behind a lasting impact on the field of geriatric care and education.

Elisabeth Dorothea Bing (nee Koenigsberger) was born 8 July 1914, in Gruenau, a suburb of Berlin. She trained as a physical therapist in England after her family fled Nazi Germany due to her Jewish ancestry. Her interest in obstetrics began after working with new mothers.

In 1949, she moved to the United States to practice and promote natural childbirth methods. She co-founded the American Society for Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics (now Lamaze International) and is known as “the mother of Lamaze”. Bing advocated for the importance of mothers to make informed childbirth decisions and was regarded as a pioneer in pregnancy and childbirth education. She wrote several books, including “Six Practical Lessons for an Easier Childbrith”, and she was featured in the 1975 documentary “Giving Birth: Four Portraits”.

In 1951, she married Fred Max Bing and had a son, Peter, at 40, to which she wrote about her experience as an older mother.

Elisabeth Bing passed on May 15, 2015, at the age of 100.

Blanche Vivian Chudyk nee Reid (1923-2016) was a graduate of the Hamilton General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1946B.

Jeanette “Jan” Alwyn Houghton nee Joyce (1924-2015) was a graduate of the Hamilton General Hospital School of Nursing Class of 1946B. She helped organize reunions and was the official class representative with the Hamilton Civic Hospitals Nursing Alumnae Association. Jeanette would act as an "unofficial archivist" for her class.

Dr. (Robert) Brian Haynes is a professor emeritus at McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences in the Health Information Research Unit. His work focused on clinical epidemiologist/internist with experience in clinical care (diabetes), clinical informatics and health services research in general, and practitioner performance and patient adherence in particular. Dr. Haynes research activities fall in the domain of knowledge translation research, at the interface between health care research and clinical practice, including information retrieval, critical appraisal of evidence, summarization, synthesis, dissemination, and application of evidence in support of health care.

Haynes completed his pre-medical studies from University of Calgary in 1967 and then enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine at University of Alberta until 1971. He completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D., under David Sackett from McMaster University in 1973 and 1975 respectively. In 1977, he became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada (internal medicine).

In 2010, Dr. Haynes became an Officer of the Order of Canada.

In 2016, Dr. Haynes retired from the university faculty poster and medical practice.