Maurice Macdonald Seymour

Maurice Macdonald Seymour (July 7, 1857 – January 6, 1929), Commissioner of Public Health, was a physician and surgeon of the early North-West Territories in Canada. He founded the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League which incorporated and constructed the Fort Qu'Appelle sanitarium. Seymour established the Saskatchewan Medical Association in 1906.

Biography

Early life and education Seymour was born July 7, 1857, in Goderich, Canada West, to Captain Maurice Bain Seymour and Maria Macdonald. Captain Seymour was born in Ireland and his wife Maria Macdonald in Scotland. Maurice Seymour and Maria had three children.

Physician and surgeon Seymour was employed in Montreal for the West End Dispensary as a surgeon as well as for the Board of Health as the district surgeon. He served as both president and vice-president of the Medical Council of the North-West Territories During the North-West Rebellion. in 1885, Seymour assisted the 95th Battalion, Manitoba Grenadiers as surgeon. Winnipeg: Established 1738 as Fort Rouge; renamed 1822 Fort Garry; incorporated in 1873 as the City of Winnipeg. Sandwich: In 1794, after the American Revolution, the settlement of Sandwich was founded. Windsor, Ontario, was established as a village in 1854 (the same year the village was connected to the rest of Canada, by the Grand Trunk Railway/Canadian National Railway), then a town in 1858, and ultimately gained city status in 1892.