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My Father’s Medical Training
y father, John Robert, was an only child. Despite a challenging childhood helping my grandfather with deliveries,
Mhe entered medical school at Queen’s University in 1931 and graduated in 1937. Although teachers initially doubted
him, he excelled. While at Queen’s he met and dated my mother, Jean M. Truscott from Kingston, one of the three
daughters of Samuel Truscott, a school inspector for Frontenac County Schools. Following his MD graduation, in July 1937
he began an internship at Mount Hamilton Hospital. During this internship marriage was against the rules. He thus secretly
married Jean Truscott at the Hamilton Cathedral on September 21, 1937. It is not clear when John and Jean’s parents
became aware of the marriage. The notice of the wedding in the Kingston Whig Standard didn’t appear until the summer of
1938.
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