May 24, 2012

North Toronto media heirs make historic gift

Families donate $30 mil to Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Michelle Ervin
Dr. Catherine Zahn of donation recipient CAMH

Dr. Catherine Zahn of donation recipient CAMH

Thomson media heirs Linda C. Campbell, Gaye Farncombe and Susan Grange and their families have donated a record-setting $30 million to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). This is the single largest private gift a Canadian mental health facility has ever received, according to the centre.

“This contribution is such a powerful promise of a better future for the people that we look after,” said Darrell Louise Gregersen, president and CEO of the CAMH Foundation.

The funding will support groundbreaking research in areas such as brain circuitry, which has demonstrated big potential to improve the lives of those living with conditions including Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia and depression.

Equally important, it will allow the centre to attract top international talent and invest in state-of-the-art technologies.

The donors are continuing in the philanthropic spirit of their late mother, Audrey Campbell (daughter of media magnate Roy Thomson). Campbell and her daughters made a donation of $25 million to breast cancer research at Princess Margaret Hospital back in 2005.

This article appears in the January 2012 issue of Post City Magazines

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