Toronto Rehab has been running a fund raising campaign called “Everything Humanly Possible”. The million dollar goal is to improve the various rehab programs for traumatic brain injury, heart, stroke, and spinal cord injuries. I am happy to advise you that the board was successful because of contributors such as Judith R. Wilder. She gave a $5 million gift to the Toronto Rehab Centre’s campaign.

Judith is the daughter of Edward William Bickle. In the 1940s Mr. Bickle was a Toronto Stock broker, political fundraiser, and one of the original board members of the small hospital on Dunn Ave. - “The Toronto Hospital for the Incurables”. Not being a big fan of the name, he had it changed to The Queen Elizabeth Hospital.

Judith continued her father’s involvement with the hospital. As a young woman, she volunteered at the hospital. In the 1970s, she became a member of the board. As the Board’s Chair, she oversaw the reconstruction of the Dunn Avenue site and the purchase and renovation of the old Mount Sinai Hospital at 550 University Avenue.

On April the 10th, 2008, the Bickle family was honoured for their long-standing generosity. The Queen Elizabeth Centre was officially renamed the E.W. Bickle Centre for Complex Continuing Care and Judith Wilder was thanked for her kind donation.

We toast the Wilder/Bickle family’s tremendous humanitarian efforts and kindness, all of which to help the disabled community.