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The Country Doctor (detail)
by Tag Kim, Edmonton
(32.4 m2)
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Dr. Richard Macrae Oatway came west from his Ontario
birthplace as a boy. After growing up in Manitoba, and graduating
in medicine, he became a railway doctor for the building of the
Canadian National Railway. In 1908, Oatway and his wife, Grace
Gillrie, settled in Stony Plain. In his 45 years as a doctor,
Oatway often travelled by horse and buggy, Model T Ford, train,
or even a railway handcar, that he pumped himself, to reach his
patients. Pictured to his left is his wife, Grace, and in the
inset above is his assistant, Nurse Deans.
Canajun Guide thanks the Town of Stony Plain
for permission to reproduce these murals.
Web Page © 2000 Richard McGuire