Dawson, Howard le Rossignol, 1895-1979

Howard Le Rossignol Dawson was born in 1895, attended the Academy in Westmount, entered McGill University in 1914 receiving a B.A. in 1918 and graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1921. While at McGill, he was an active member of Epsilon Phi and became Secretary of the Medical Undergraduate Society. He then practised at the Royal Victoria Hospital and obtained a position as Assistant Demonstrator in McGill’s Pathology Department (1923-1924). In 1924 Howard Dawson was appointed Assistant Resident in the Department of Surgery of Yale University’s School of Medicine, but soon returned to Montreal and the Royal Victoria Hospital. He once again obtained the position of Assistant Demonstrator at McGill from 1927 to 1936, this time in the Department of Surgery, and continued to teach there until 1959, rising to the ranks of Demonstrator in 1936, Lecturer in 1939 and Assistant Professor in 1942. He also maintained a private practice and served as medical advisor to the Royal Trust Company from 1937 to 1960. He died in 1979. Howard Dawson’s cousin, Stephen Arthur Dawson, attended McGill, served in the 9th Canadian Field Ambulance, trained in the Naval Air Service and then was killed in France in 1918 while flying for the Royal Air Force. Dawson’s friend Ross Kerr, also a Royal Air Force pilot, was killed in 1917.