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Sir Andrew Macphail, doctor and essayist
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Andrew Macphail, born at Orwell, Prince Edward Island, became a distinguished doctor and writer and McGill’s first professor of the history of medicine (1907–37). Knighted for his service with the Canadian Army Medical Corps in the First World War, he founded and edited the University Magazine and wrote books, plays and poems sharply criticizing the modern age, contrasting the rural life of his childhood with urban industrialism.
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Sir Andrew Macphail National Historic Person ↗
Parks Canada (Directory of Federal Heritage Designations)
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