In 1919 a five million dollar Rockefeller Foundation gift to certain Canadian medical schools, coupled with a major donation from Sir John Craig and Lady Eaton, helped bring Canadian medical education into the twentieth century. Marianne Fedunkiw charts how this significant gift affected the universities, their instructors, and teaching. Fedunkiw focuses on three recipients - the University of Toronto (the leading Ontario medical school), McGill University ("Canada's medical school"), and Dalhousie University (the struggling Maritime school) - to demonstrate how the money made possible the...
In 1919 a five million dollar Rockefeller Foundation gift to certain Canadian medical schools, coupled with a major donation from Sir John Craig and L...