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LOSIER, ARTHUR JOSEPH (1882-1957)

LOSIER, ARTHUR JOSEPH, doctor; b. Tracadie, N.B., 2 Sep 1882, s/o Edward Losier and Mary Vautier; m. 1906, May Clarissa Barry, sister of Edward A. Barry, John Patrick Barry, and Francis Herbert Cranney Barry; d. Chatham, 12 Jul 1957.

A son of the manager of the A. & R. Loggie Co.'s store at Inkerman, N.B., Arthur J. Losier was educated at the Chatham Grammar School and St Francis Xavier University (BA 1900) and trained in medicine at McGill (MD CM 1904). He practiced in Tracadie until 1909, during which time he assisted in the treatment of the leprosy patients at the lazaretto. He was then in practice in Chatham, except during the years 1915-19, when he served with the General Hospital Corps in England and France, and during a brief period after the war, when he assisted with a program for returned soldiers in Saint John. He was a major at the time of his discharge from the army and was subsequently promoted through the militia to lieutenant colonel.

Losier was elected president of a new branch of the St John Ambulance Society which was organized in Chatham in 1920. In 1922 he was named port physician, as successor to Dr Patrick F. Duffy, and he enjoyed a "fine reputation" in this and other branches of his work. In the late 1940s and early 50s he sat on the board of governors of St Thomas College, which conferred an honorary LLD on him in 1950. In 1952 the Canadian Medical Association honored him with a life membership.

At his death in 1957 Losier was survived by his wife, Mary C. Barry, five daughters, and two sons. One of two daughters who followed religious vocations, Carmel Losier (Sister St Michael of the Congregation of Notre Dame), held a PhD degree from Fordham University and served on the faculty at St Francis Xavier in Antigonish. Both sons, Percy J. W. Losier and E. Barry Losier, were doctors, and between them they had three sons who entered the same field. Thus there have been six physicians to date from the Losier family.

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[b] PPNB [m] World 5 Sep 1906 [d] Commercial World 18 Jul 1957 / Advocate 10 Feb 1915, 16 May 1922; Commercial World 25 May 1950, 12 Jun 1952; Fraser (C); Leader 2 Mar 1972, 12 Nov 1996 (Section C: "A Tribute to the Heritage of Chatham"); Losier Genealogy; military records


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