Donald Shaver search widely for diversified breeding stock. Local breeders, knowing his reputation were reluctant to sell to him for fear of competition. In 1946, there were 256 registered chicken breeders in Canada. Shaver Poultry became the 257th. By 1958, only Shaver remained, along with seven other major poultry breeders worldwide. The principle of hybrid vigour had been well established for corn, but the costs and time required to test chicken crosses were higher. Small breeders (as Shaver was at the time) could not afford permanent scientific staff, so Shaver obtained assistance from geneticists conducting research at universities and government institutions. Shaver
Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre care. Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre The Hotel Dieu Shaver Health and Rehabilitation Centre is a specialty healthcare centre in the south-end of St. Catharines, Ontario. Its mandate is to provide complex continuing care and rehabilitation services to patients in the city and Niagara Region. The centre is a result of hospital restructuring in St. Catharines which saw the "Hotel Dieu Health Sciences Hospital" (an acute care hospital in the city's downtown) assume governance and management of the "Shaver Hospital" and "Niagara Rehab Centre", which were formerly managed under the Niagara Health System (NHS). The NHS assumed responsibility