Background
He was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, the son of Francis Parker and Mary Janet McNeill.
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Daniel Parker
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Parker was educated at King"s College and Horton Academy. He studied medicine with William Bruce Almon and then went on to study at the University of Edinburgh.
Career
He served in the Legislative Council of Nova Scotia from 1867 to 1901. He returned to Nova Scotia in 1845 and set up practice in Halifax. He helped found the Halifax Institution for the Deaf and Dumb and the Halifax Young Men"s Christian Association.
Parker also served on the board of governors for Acadia College.
He helped establish the Medical Society of Nova Scotia and the Canadian Medical Association and served as president for both. Parker also helped create the faculty of medicine at Dalhousie University.
In 1871, he studied antiseptic surgery in Edinburgh and Europe and returned to Nova Scotia as a consultant in those techniques. He retired from practice in 1895.
Parker died in Halifax at the age of 85.
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Religion
Christian