The Calgary General Hospital was demolished as a result of provincial government policy in the mid-1990s.

Amid all the closures and rationalizations, the Calgary General is unique in two respects.
It was the biggest North American hospital ever to shut down and have its functions, equipment,
staff and patients integrated into existing hospitals, and its closure left Calgary
as the only large city in Canada without a downtown emergency department.

The hospital comprised numerous buildings constructed over an extended period of time beginning in 1910.
In total, seven buildings over three stories in height and 84,000 m2 in area were imploded using ~2300 kg of explosives.

The hospital building was demolished by implosion of October 4, 1998.
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