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Clifford Armitage Was born on December 2, 1903, in Armstrong, British Columbia to Alfred Emerson Armitage and Jean Beattie. Moving to London, Ontario with his family at an early age, he received his early education at Rectory Street School. In 1911 his father moved west, working as an agent-telegrapher with the Canadian Northern Railway, and following that, Armitage went to Saskatchewan and lived in Blaine Lake from 1912 to 1920, until he finished his high school. Graduating from the University of Saskatchewan in 1925 with a B.A. degree, Armitage worked at different jobs before enrolling at the University of Toronto’s Medical School in 1927. After graduating in 1931, he interned at the Toronto General Hospital as a resident physician and then worked briefly as a locum tenens for Dr. McDonald in Kilbride, Ontario and as a camp doctor at the summer camp run by St. Andrew's College. Following that Dr. Armitage interned at the psychiatric hospital in Toronto, H.P. and later went to England, working as a house physician at the Radcliffe infirmary in Oxford for six months. In 1934, Dr. Armitage come back to Canada and settled in practice in Schumacher, a Timmins suburb, where he got involved in the set up of the prepaid medical plans for the Hollinger mine.
During the Word War Two, Dr. Armitage served in the reserve army as a medical officer for a time and on that basis, he moved to Toronto with his family. After getting discharged from the army, he went back to Timmins and became associated with Dr. Jack Stiles, a classmate of his, and they practiced together for six years. In 1951, Dr. Armitage left Timmins and come to Brampton, where he went into an association with Dr. Bartlet before getting on his own as a single, solo family practitioner doing anesthesia as a sideline.
Dr. Armitage married Ethel Elizabeth Pears, a girl that he knew as a child out west in 1937. Their first child, Donald, born in 1939, is a practising specialist in Brampton; their second child, Kathleen, born in 1941, is a specialist in Physical Medicine in Brampton. Dr. Armitage passed away in 1991.