M EDICAL M ILESTONES $5 Quebec HeritageVOL 3, NO. 10 JULY-AUGUST 2006 News James Douglas Jr. Anatomy of an eclectic mind Immortal Melody A tribute to Dr. James Robert Adams Beating the Barriers Canadian cardiology pioneer Maude Abbott Quebec CONTENT HeritageNews EDITOR CHARLES BURY PRODUCTION & DESIGN DAN PINESE Pesident’s Message 3 Leaving Bedlam Rod MacLeod PUBLISHER Letters 4 THE QUEBEC ANGLOPHONE HERITAGE NETWORK TimeLines 5 400-257 QUEEN STREET Here’s to history’s schoolmarms Dan Pinese SHERBROOKE (LENNOXVILLE) Memory lapses Dan Pinese QUEBEC Celtic cross on Grosse-Ile Marianna O’Gallagher J1M 1K7 Ste. Agathe, Sarnac Lake rekindle tradition Joseph Graham PHONE 1-877-964-0409 Anatomy of an Eclectic Mind 10 (819) 564-9595 The life and times of James Douglas Jr. Patrick Donovan FAX Dr. E.D. Worthington 14 564-6872 An early Quebec anaesthetist Charles Bury CORRESPONDENCE Immortal Melody 16
[email protected] James Robert Adams, music and medicine Joseph Graham WEBSITE Beating the Barriers 19 WWW.QAHN.ORG The legacy of Maude Abbott Dan Pinese The Unsung Genius 20 Reginald Fessenden Terry Skeats PRESIDENT St. Columban 24 RODERICK MACLEOD An Irish settlement remembered at last Sandra Stock EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Return to Hear 26 DWANE WILKIN Reading oral history Dan Pinese HERITAGE PORTAL COORDINATOR MATHEW FARFAN Book Reviews 27 OFFICE MANAGER The Scots of Montreal KATHY TEASDALE America Steppin out Quebec Heritage Magazine is Photo Essay 29 produced on a bi-monthly basis by the Old-fashioned day Jacqueline Hyman Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) with the support of The Department of Canadian Heritage and HindSight 30 Quebec’s Ministere de la Culture et A Progress of Germs Dwane Wilkin des Communications.