Medicine, Science and Academia
Mr Horace Cooper Wrinch (1879-1879)
At 14 he travelled on his own to Quebec and qualified as a doctor and surgeon. He built the first hospital in the northern interior of Canada and over the next 36 years he became widely respected as doctor and surgeon, hospital administrator, medical missionary, Methodist minister, magistrate, farmer, community leader and progressive politician. He championed publicly funded state health insurance.