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Is there a mediacl directory for tracing canadian doctors in the 1880's.
help gratefully received.
Lee
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Hi again Lee,
There are some Canadian Directories available here: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/canadiandirectories/index-e.html
I can see Abner Cherry, your possible George's father, listed as the hotel keeper in Concord in the 1884-1885 Ontario Directory. Haven't found a George Cherry, Physician yet...
To other Rootschatters - some possible info has already been found about the man Lee is searching for here:
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,196235.msg978849.html#msg978849
MJP
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Hello Lee
There are 3 publications that could be helpful:
Title: Polk's medical register and directory of North America
Medical register and directory of North America
Medical and surgical register of the United States
Polk's medical and surgical register of the United States and Canada
Medical and surgical directory of the United States
Publisher: Detroit, 1886-
Description: v.
Notes: Title varies: 1886, Medical and surgical directory of the United States. 1890-96, Medical and surgical register of the United States. 1898, Medical and surgical register of the United States and Canada. 1900, Polk's medical and surgical register of the United States and Canada. 1902, polk's medical register and directory of the United States and Canada. 1904- Polk's medical register and directory of North America.
Subjects: Physicians--North America--Directories ; Physicians--United States--Directory ; Physicians--Canada--Directory
Canadian library holding this title is: McGill University, Osler Library of the History of Medicine ;
Holdings: 1890,1893,1896,1898,1900,1902,1904,1906,1908,1910,1912 ,1917
Call no.: W 22 DA2 P769
These two are published in 1896 and 1897 respectively and may not cover your timeframe.
Title: Physicians and surgeons of America : a collection of biographical sketches of the regular medical profession Author: Watson, Irving Allison, 1849-1918
Publisher: Concord, N.H. : Republican Press Association, 1896.
Description: iv, 843 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
Subjects: Physicians--United States--Biography ; Physicians--Canada--Biography ; Physicians--United States--Biography ; Physicians--Canada--Biography ; Biography--United States ; Directories--United States
Some Canadian libraries holding this title are: McGill University, Osler Library of the History of Medicine ; University of Western Ontario, Allyn & Betty Taylor Library ; University of British Columbia, Walter C. Koerner Library ; Glenbow Museum, Art Gallery, Library and Archives
Title: Flint's medical and surgical directory of the United States and Canada
Medical and surgical directory of the United States and Canada
Publisher: Flint, N.Y. 1897.
Description: 1026 p.
Subjects: Physicians--Canada--directories ; Physicians--United States--directories
Canadian library holding this document: University of Manitoba Libraries, Neil John Maclean Health Sciences Library
You could contact the individual libraries or try and locate a library closer to you that may have these titles. Contact information for the libraries mentioned above can be found by searching the National Library of Canada library gateway website: http://www.collectionscanada.ca/gatepasse-bin/libcats?l=0/
Linda
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Another thread on the subject...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,29363.0.html
Someone found the 1891 for Lee where he is indeed listed as being Canadian born...
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Here is a page with some advice...http://user.itl.net/~glen/doctors.html