The Provincial University in Canadian Development: Address Delivered at the Inauguration of the First President of the University of Manitoba, at Winnipeg, on November 19, 1913 (Classic Reprint)
(Excerpt from The Provincial University in Canadian Develo...)
Excerpt from The Provincial University in Canadian Development: Address Delivered at the Inauguration of the First President of the University of Manitoba, at Winnipeg, on November 19, 1913
It is to be hoped that all our universi ties will bring every influence to bear to establish anew the dignity of labor. It must be confessed at the present time that Canadians, like Americans, are abandon ing manual work as fast as they can to newcomers from Europe and Asia. Either the creation of a peasant class must be squarely faced at this time or the dignity and the vital need of labor must be duly impressed on Canada's native sons. We must return to the ways of our fathers. We must all work if we would be strong, and we must be strong if we would work.
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Frank Fairchild Wesbrook was a Canadian physician, bacteriologist, academic, and University president.
Background
Frank Fairchild Wesbrook was born in Brant County, Ontario, the eldest son of Henry Shaver Wesbrook, formerly mayor of Winnipeg, and Helen Marr (Fairchild) Wesbrook. Both parents were of Loyalist lineage. Most of his youth was spent in the virile atmosphere of a pioneer community, the rapidly growing city of Winnipeg.
Education
He received the degrees of B. A. , M. A. , and M. D. C. M. from the University of Manitoba in 1887, 1888, and 1890, respectively. In 1889 he studied at the McGill University Medical School, Montreal.
Career
During 1890 he served as intern in the Winnipeg General Hospital and taught pathology to students of the University of Manitoba. His desire for wider training, however, took him abroad, where he spent a year in the laboratories of King's College, in the wards of St. Bartholomew's Hospital in London, and in the Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. He was then appointed a John Lucas Walker scholar under Roy, professor of pathology at Cambridge, with whom he spent the greater part of three years. Here his work was under inspired leadership and he was surrounded by brilliant companions who made an indelible impression on him. In 1895, the last year of his residence abroad, he spent part of his time at the University of Marburg, Germany, studying pathology under Prof. Karl Fraenkel. He helped investigate an epidemic of cholera at Hamburg and came in contact with the great personalities Virchow and Koch. In 1895 he accepted an appointment as professor of bacteriology at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and director of the laboratories of the State Board of Health. He also became a member of this board. In 1896 he became professor of pathology and bacteriology, and in 1906 he was appointed dean of the Medical School. Under his vigorous leadership scientific medicine in the University and throughout the State of Minnesota made rapid progress. In 1907 a new building was dedicated to the work in pathology and bacteriology in the Medical School and to the laboratory activities of the State Board of Health. In recognition of his renown as an expert in public health problems, he was appointed in 1904 a member of the Advisory Board of the governmental Hygienic Laboratory, and in 1905 he became president of the American Public Health Association. He was a member of most of the scientific societies in America and of many abroad. In 1912 he was appointed president of the Section on State and Municipal Hygiene at the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography held in Buffalo, N. Y. In 1913 he was chosen president of the newly established University of British Columbia, where it was apparent that his powers of organization and ability in administration would prove particularly useful. The war soon interrupted his plans for expanding the new university and he threw himself into war work, as chairman of the Provincial Committee on Food Resources, with the same earnestness that marked all of his activities. Scientifically, his world reputation began in 1900 with the publication of a paper, conjointly with L. B. Wilson and O. McDaniel, on the "Varieties of Bacillus diphtherias" in the Transactions of the Association of American Physicians. A bibliography of his writings comprises more than fifty titles. He died in Vancouver.