- CA QUA11747
- Person
- fl. 1939
G.L. Hammond was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
G.L. Hammond was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.
This collection was brought together by the University Publications of America (UPA) to provide reference material for the study of the history of the Southern United States. The strategy guiding the collecting mandate is the geographic and physical location of the records. All the material in Series A has been selected from the holdings of the South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.
Melvin Ormond Hammond was born July 17th, 1876 in Clarkson, Ontario. He got his first newspaper job at a young age with the Oakville Star. He went on to work with the Toronto globe in various editiorial positions for the remainder of his career, covering both arts and politics. He passed away in 1934.
Sgt. Ernest T. Handyside was born in Ottawa, Ontario on 27 June 1892. A carpenter by trade, Handyside enlisted the army in February 1915. He was killed in action on 29 July 1916.
Jason Albert Hannah was born 11 November, 1899 in Stittsville, Ontario. In 1903 the family moved west to Saskatchewan, then the Northwest Territories. After serving in the Canadian army from 1916 to 1919, Hannah returned to school. He attended Queen's University and received a B.A. in 1926 and an M.D. in 1928. During 1928-29 Dr. Hannah did postgraduate work in neuropathology. In 1929-30 he received the George Christian Hoffman Fellowship in Pathology and sudied in the Royal Asylum's Laboratory in Edinburgh. From 1930 to 1937 Dr. Hannah was a neuropathologist for the Ontario Department of Health and concurrently a research fellow at the Banting Institute in Toronto. During this period he won the Institute's Silver Medal for work on the cause of subdural hematoma. In 1937 Dr. Hannah left his government post to organize and preside over Associated Medical Services, Canada's first prepayment plan operating on a fee for service basis for medical and hospital care. Dr. Hannah continued with AMS until his death in 1977.