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On this day the completed brick structure was formally opened with a public reception. The new structure was located to the east of the hospital to which a Board Walk connected it. It measured 26 feet by 28 feet, and was two stories high with a stone basement below. The contractor was C. B. Miller, and the cost was nearly two thousand dollars.  
 
Before this new Home was completed, the Nurses were housed in living quarters inside the Hospital. This space was now needed for Hospital purposes as it was used to over capacity.  
 
Back in mid-June the Hospital Board had requested from City Council a five hundred dollar Grant for the rising project, but the city councillors only voted to give one-half of the solicited money’s. Cornwallis municipality donated one hundred dollars, and amounts of lesser coin came mainly from Eastern Canadian companies.  
 
A request was issued for more donations, and one new Brandon enterprise named Nation & Shewan planned a Hospital Day. This involved the donating ten percent of one week’s sales to the Infirmary. The members of the Hospital Aid group also renewed efforts to raise further funds.  
 
Their most successful event was a ‘Promenade Concert’ at the Opera House on October 12th. At the concert the Hon J.W. Sifton distributed medals, and Diplomas to the first local School of Nursing graduates, being Miss Emma Cranston, and Miss Florence Tyers. They immediately received offers for hospital positions in Fargo, and Calgary respectively.  
 
 
Source: Brandon a City by G. F. Barker.