Hugh Ernest MacDermot Fonds
20 cm of textual records and photographs.
1858-1970
Hugh Ernest MacDermot was born in Jamaica in 1888 and received his medical training at McGill, graduating in 1913. He served in the Canadian Army Medical Corps during World War I. He was Lecturer in Anatomy at McGill, 1921-1924, and Demonstrator in Medicine, 1925-1949, and was on the staff of the Montreal General Hospital. He also served as instructor in Clinical Medicine at McGill. MacDermot was a historian and among his published works are biographies of Maude Abbott and Sir Thomas Roddick and histories of the Montreal General Hospital, the Canadian Medical Association, the Royal Edward Institute and the Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal. In 1942, he became editor of the Canadian Medical Association Journal.
Fonds documents Dr. H.E. MacDermot’s medical-historical activities. The fonds contains newspaper clippings, manuscript notes, photographs, lectures notes, and a draft of The MGH, the Years of Change.
partial inventory list available online.
Probably donated by Dr. H.E. MacDermot in 1976. Old accession numbers 61, 205, 546 and 936.
The documents are in English.
Based on the documents in the fonds
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