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McGill Library
McLennan Library Building3459 rue McTavish
Montreal, Quebec
H3A 0C9
From 1926 until 1932 Bruce Baken Wright (1898-1971) and Kenneth Furby Noxon (1900-1979) practiced architecture in partnership.
Worthington, E. D. (Edward Dagge), 1820-1895
Edward Dagge Worthington (120-1895) was the first surgeon in Canada to perform a capital operation using ether as an anaesthetic. In 1834 he was indentured for seven years to Dr. James Douglas of Quebec but after serving five years he accepted an appointment as a staff-assistant surgeon in the British army. Later, he spent two years in Edinburgh attending lectures and walking the hospital, returning to Canada in 1848. He built up an extensive practice in the Eastern Townships and gained the reputation of being a leading surgeon in that part of Canada. He was a member of the Canadian Medical Association and one of the governors of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Quebec. Dr. Worthington was also a strong supporter of the volunteer movement and served in the Quebec regiment of Volunteer Light Infantry in 1837-38, in the 53rd Battalion since its formation and in active service in both the Fenian raids. (Rose, Geo. MacLean. A Cyclopaedia of Canadian Biography. Toronto, 1888, vol. 2, pp. 456-58)
Worthington, E. B. (Edward Bruen), 1860–1942
Lieutenant Colonel Edward Bruen Worthington was born in Sherbrooke in 1860. In 1883 he took his degree of LL.B. at Bishops College University and was admitted as a notary public the following year. He was a senior captain in the 53rd battalion of infantry. (Morgan 1898, pp. 1104-05)
Worthington, Arthur Norreys, 1862-1912
Colonel Arthur Norreys Worthingon was born in Sherbrooke in 1862 and graduated in medicine at McGill College University in 1886. He became a surgeon of the Sherbrooke Hospital and the president of the District of St. Francis Medical Association. In his career as a legislator, Norreys became mayor of Sherbrooke, 1901-02 and was elected to the House of Commons in 1906. In addition, he was an officer in the volunteer movement; surgeon major in 18S7 and lieutenant colonel in 1901. During the Northwest Rebellion (1885) he served with the field hospital and was present at the action at Batoche and the operations against Big Bear's band. In 1900-02, he served with the Royal Canadian Artillery in South Africa and was present at the operations in Transvaal and the actions at Lydenburg, Belfast, Orange River Colony and Faber Put. (Henry James Morgan, Canadian Men and Women of the Time. Toronto, 1912, pp. 1187)