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Howard John Alexander was born on April 14, 1894, in Langton,
Ontario, to William Craig Alexander and Catherine Hagan. Graduating from Simcoe Secondary School in 1912, Dr. Alexander enrolled in Hamilton Normal School and from 1913-17 taught in a public school and farmed in Norfolk County. In 1919, Dr. Alexander started his medical study in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto and graduated in 1925 with a M.B. degree. Following his graduation, he interned at Toronto General Hospital from 1925-26 and then joined a clinic in Welland for one year in general practice. On June 15, 1927, Dr. Alexander came to Tillsonburg, where he joined a group practice for about 55 years until 1981 when he retired from practicing medicine. After retirement, Dr. Alexander published a book, 56 Years in Medical Practice, looking back over his 56 years as a practicing physician in Tillsonburg.
Dr. Alexander married Florence Evelyn Cowan (born in Langton, Ontario on February 6, 1897) on September 2, 1926. Together they had two children: daughter Mary (born March 29, 1928) and son John (September 14, 1934). In 1986, at the age of 93, Dr. Alexander passed away at Tillsonburg District Memorial Hospital.
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File consists of a transcript and an audio cassette of an oral history interview with Howard John Alexander conducted by Dr. Charles Roland on 19 November 1980 and 11 December 1980 in Brampton. Topics cover: early life and educational experience; impressive professors in the University of Toronto Medical School; life in the medical school; experience of interning at Toronto General Hospital from 1925-26; reminiscence of married life with Florence Evelyn Cowan and their Children; experience in the Welland clinic and recollection of the doctors there; experience of practicing medicine in Tillsonburg (partners he’d been working with, interesting or challenging cases he had seen, the drugs that were available to use in the 1925’s and 1930’s, treating of patients before the age of antibiotics, stories about other practitioners).
The transcript is followed by pages that were sent to Dr. Charles Roland by Dr. Alexander when he returned the edited copy of the transcript for the interview, later in January 1982. They represent suggestions of his as to additional material that might be of interest, and also material that he is preparing with a view to a possible autobiography.