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Frank William Green

1876 – 1953

Canadian politician

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Lived 1876 – 1953 (aged 77). Frank William Green was a Canadian politician.

Frank William Green (March 15, 1876 – December 24, 1953) was a Canadian physician and politician.

Green was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1876 to Alexander Alfred Green and Theophila Turner Raines. He attended Corrig College at Victoria. After the death of his father in 1891, Green relocated to Montreal to attend McGill University where he would obtain his medical degree. Upon his graduation from McGill in 1898, Green worked as a physician on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway Crowsnest Pass line, in the Kootenay Valley, working on horseback. A partnership with Dr. James Horace King of Cranbrook which started in 1903 was described as a "cornerstone in local medicine", with modern innovations being in use at the time, two examples being the first x-ray machine in the city being purchased for their hospital and the use of automobiles within the practice.

In the 1941 British Columbia general election, Green was elected as a Conservative to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the district of Cranbrook. He was elected again in 1945 as a coalition member, serving until his retirement in 1949.

He married Lillian Barbara Staples of Stillwater, Minnesota, in June 1905. One of his sons, William Otis Green also became a doctor in the Cranbrook area, with whom he later shared a practice with. Frank W. Green died in 1953 of heart problems at St. Eugene Hospital in Cranbrook, which he had established. He was later cremated in Calgary. His wife Lillian died on October 22, 1965, at Cranbrook.

The F. W. Green Medical Centre and F. W. Green Memorial Home continuing care centre at Cranbrook are both named after him.

Electoral history Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Oscar Albin Eliasin

Liberal Arnold Joseph McGrath

Co-operative Commonwealth Fed. Henry Gammon

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Canadian politician (1876-1953)

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Frank William Green was born on 15 March 1876 in Victoria.

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Frank William Green died on 24 December 1953 in Cranbrook.

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Frank William Green was a politician.

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