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MCKENZIE, JOHN BRADSHAW (1878-1945)

MCKENZIE, JOHN BRADSHAW, doctor; b. Campbellton, 1878, s/o James Bradshaw McKenzie and Harriet Galbraith; m. 1st, 1907, May Moffatt, of Tide Head, N.B., and 2nd, 1910, Myrtle Russell, d/o Robert Alexander Russell and Agnes Dickson, of Loggieville; d. Newcastle, 10 Feb 1945.

John B. McKenzie was educated at Dalhousie University (BA 1898) and trained in medicine at McGill (MD CM 1902). Between 1902 and 1938 he practiced at Loggieville and travelled east as far as Escuminac and south as far as Kouchibouguac to visit patients. For many years he used horse drawn transportation, but he later drove a car in the summertime and a car converted to a snowmobile in winter, photographs of which were a favorite of the provincial press. Families requiring medical services along his routes of travel were asked to hang a lantern on the gatepost.

When the Northumberland County Medical Society was formed in 1917 McKenzie was elected president. In 1938 he moved to Newcastle to practice. He was "a particularly capable physician and surgeon." In the 1920s he was elected a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, and the year before he died he was honored by being admitted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada.

McKenzie was president of the Highland Society from 1921 through 1923. In 1936 he was elected president of the Miramichi Baseball League. He was a Mason and an adherent of the Presbyterian-United Church. He was survived in 1945 by his second wife, Myrtle Russell, two daughters, and a son, Robert B. McKenzie, who also enjoyed a successful career as a physician in Newcastle.

Sources

[b] tombstone [m] Leader 22 Nov 1907, 1 Apr 1910 [d] Leader 16 Feb 1945 / Advance 14 Aug 1902; Advocate 4 Nov 1908; Commercial World 16 Nov 1944, 15 Feb 1945; Fraser (L); Hist. Bay du Vin; Hist. Highland Soc.; Leader 17 Jan 1995; World 23 Jun 1917


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