Henry Edwin Gillanders M.D. (1892 - 1965)

Born 27 Mar 1892 in PQ, Canada

Ancestors

Husband of Ethel (McIntosh) Gillanders — married 1924 in Quebec, Canada

Died 23 Dec 1965 at age 73 in Canada

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Biography

H. E. Gillanders, B.A., M.D., C.M. Henry Edwin Gillanders, of Irish descent, was born on March 27, 1892 in Leeds, Quebec and was educated in medicine at McGill University and graduated in 1920. He came to Potton in 1921, after buying the practice of Dr. E. H. Henderson. In 1924, he married Ethel McIntosh. They had one daughter, Margaret Ethel, who sadly died the day of her birth in 1934.

Dr. Gillanders was Mayor of the Municipality of the Township of Potton from 1939 to 1942 and Worshipful Master of St. John’s Lodge # 27, in Mansonville. Always called "Doc", he was well known and much respected for his ability to diagnose his patient’s disorder, quickly and accurately. He practiced social medicine and attended at the birth of most of Potton’s babies of the time, first driving a horse and sleigh, then his Model T Ford. After adapting his own car to skis bolted on the back wheels, he became the first in the Township to use the B7 snowmobile invented in 1937 by Joseph-Armand Bombardier in Valcourt, in the Eastern Townships. He faced many difficult situations. In the spring of 1923, Mansonville and surrounding area was hit with a typhoid epidemic in which roughly 200 people were afflicted and about 20 people perished.[1] Dr. H.E. Gillanders died on December 23, 1965.

Dr. Gillanders was also an expert marksman, and was a founder of the Mansonville Rifle Club, which is still an active association. The range is found off Travor Road.

Biographer of the Gillanders family

Sources

• Clan Gillanders by H. Edwin Gillanders B.A.,M.D., C.M., L.M.C.C.

Biographer of the Gillanders family

• Yesterdays of Brome County, Volume 1, pages 128-131

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