Mission Memorial Centre

The Mission Memorial Centre, also known as the Old Hospital, is a one-storey building located on the corner of 5^th Street and James Street in Mission, British Columbia. The community of Mission continues to be proud of the significant contributions made by local citizens through fundraising and special events that allowed the hospital to open debt-free and to add important machinery and space over the next forty years of its operation. Constructed in 1924, the Mission Memorial Hospital was the first purpose-built hospital in Mission. The building continued to operate as a hospital until 1965, when the new Mission Hospital opened in another part of town. The Old Hospital building was purchased by the local government in 1966, but sat empty until 1973 when the Mission Memorial Centre Society (MMCS) was created and took over operation of the building. The people of Mission wanted to create a useful structure that would help the living while honouring the dead, and the building acts as a memorial to commemorate and honour the casualties of war.