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- 1889-1893 (Creation)
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6 cm of textual records
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Name of creator
Biographical history
Robert Elgie Macdonald, physician, was born about 1869 in Stratford, Ontario, and died in 1897 and is buried in Stratford. He entered Trinity Medical College, Toronto, in 1889. After graduating in 1893 he received his licence and began to practise in Stratford. He died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight.
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Archival history
Dr. Macdonald's niece, in about 1963, gave the materials to Dr. Robert H. Welch, a cousin of Dr. Macdonald's mother (and a patient).
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Fonds was donated in 1993 by Dr. Robert H. Welch of Toronto who received the material from Dr. Macdonald’s niece in the 1960’s.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Fonds consists of a notebook of lectures in medicine by Dr. W. B. Geikie, 1889-1892; a notebook of lectures in midwifery by Dr. A. Temple, 1889-1893; and a notebook on prescriptions, 1889-1890.
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None expected
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Public domain
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Dates of creation revision deletion
2011-11-22
Language(s)
- English