Community health is concerned with the maintenance, protection and improvement of the health status of a community population. In this formulation, though, it is ambiguous about whether this is a service of the administrative state, or the common good of a local people. In our position, we emphasize the solidarity of community health, and its corresponding grounding in the non-profit sector.
We have initiated a project to examine the history of community health in the province.
Andrew Downs (1811-1892) created the first Zoological Gardens in North America in Dutch Village in 1847, at the head of the Northwest Arm, expanding it eventually to over 40 hectares (100 acres) in size. He was humble and gentle, a practicing naturalist, who saw Nature as the greatest Temple and set out to share it with the public at large, not as dead, sterile taxidermied mounts, but as a living menagerie, to be experienced by all.
