Background
GRANT, James Alexander was born in 1831 in Inverness.
GRANT, James Alexander was born in 1831 in Inverness.
Studied at Queen’s College Kingston, Ontario. London; Edinburgh.; Doctor of Medicine.
Member of Parliament (Canadian) for Company of Russell, 1865-1873. Ottawa, 1892-1896; introduced Pacific Railway Bill to construct the present Transcontinental Railroad, 1872. President Tuberculosis Association of Canada, 1901-1902.
President Royal Society of Canada, 1903. Ex-President Medical Council, Ontario. Honourable Member British Medical Association.
Awarded gold medal of Palermo, Sicily, for Medical Science. Also Legion of Honour of Italy. President International Congress of Hygiene for Canada, 1909. Consulting physician, Governor-General of Canada.
Club: Rideau, Ottawa, Canada.