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John McFaul McEachern
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Physician.
Born at Elmvale, Ontario on 26 March 1896, eldest of five children of John McEachern and Mary Benson McFaul (1870-1951), during the First World War, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force as a private and was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 43rd Cameron Highlanders. He later served in France with the 16th Canadian Scottish and 27th Battalion. After his military discharge in 1919, he studied medicine at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1923, then did further studies at Winnipeg and Baltimore, Maryland.
At the time of his death, he was a founding partner of the Manitoba Clinic (1946), a physician at the Winnipeg General Hospital, an Associate Professor at the Manitoba Medical College, and a cardiologist at the Misericordia Hospital. He was a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He was a founder and President of the Canadian Heart Association.
On 11 September 1926, he married Jean Margaret Vanstone (1903-1971) at St. Paul's Church at Wingham, Ontario. They had two daughters: Helen Beth McEachern (wife of Robert Franklin Caswell Hiscox, daughter-in-law of James Franklin “Frank” Hiscox) and Jean Margaret McEachern (?-2013, wife of James Elmhurst “Jim” Searle). The family lived at 52 Queenston Street. He was a member of the Manitoba Club.
He died at the Winnipeg General Hospital on 20 March 1954 and was buried in the St. John's Cathedral Cemetery.
“Social and personal,” Manitoba Free Press, 28 August 1926, page 8.
“McEachern - Vanstone,” Winnipeg Tribune, 18 September 1926, page 8.
“Dr. J. M. McEachern dies in hospital,” Winnipeg Tribune, 20 March 1954, page 3.
“Engagements,” Winnipeg Tribune, 10 April 1954, page 15.
Obituary [Jean Margaret McEachern], Winnipeg Free Press, 3 December 1971, page 27.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions, Manitoba Genealogical Society.
We thank Jordan Makichuk for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 27 November 2024
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