$37.5 Million Gift Renames Hospital for Child Lost to Cancer

Canadian industrialist Myron Garron and his wife, Berna, have donated $37.5 million to Toronto East General Hospital, which will be renamed for the son they lost to cancer 40 years ago, The Globe and Mail writes. The gift, announced at an emotional ceremony Wednesday, will fund equipment purchases and a research chair at what is now Michael Garron Hospital.

Michael Garron was born at Toronto East in 1962. He was diagnosed six years later with soft-tissue cancer, a rare form of the disease, and died at age 13. Myron Garron, a banker by training who made his fortune in car-parts manufacturing, and his wife gave $22.5 million in 2010 to the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, where Michael was treated.