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Dr.P mentioned in Dr. Hutchison's Birth Registry5 February 1837
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Dr. Patterson in Dr. Hutchison's Birth Registry28 July 1838
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Dr. Patterson noted in Dr. Hutchison's Birth Registry28 July 1838
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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1839 Dr. George Burnham, Sr. (born 1814)Dr. George Burnham, Sr. studied in Toronto and New York.
He received his medical license in April 1838 (same as Dr. Bird).
He moved to Peterborough in 1839 and like Dr. Hutchison had a large practice.
In 1847 he worked exhaustively at the "Fever Sheds" down by Little Lake and nearly died of typhus. Dr. Hutchison succumbed to the disease and passed away that same summer. More about the demise of Dr. Hutchison will be given in further chapters.
Dr. Burnham died June 14, 1881 and is buried at Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough.
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Dr. Dickson noted in Dr. Hutchison's Birth Registry8 April 1840
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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1838: Dr. John Robinson Dickson (born 1819)Dr. Dickson first apprenticed as an apothecary in 1829 and then transferred to Anderson College Medical School in Glasgow.
Before finishing his studies he emigrated to Canada and arrived in Peterborough in 1838. He stayed on in town in association with Dr. Hutchison as an apprentice for two years, before moving to New York and receiving an M.D.
He set up a practice in Kingston, Ontario where Sir John A. MacDonald was a patient.
In 1854 he organized a meeting at MacDonald's residence with Drs. Sampson, Stewart, Strange, and Yates. This led to the founding of the Medical School at Queen's University.
In 1866 Dr. Dickson was named the first President of the newly formed Council of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.
He obtained the charter whereby the Medical School became the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in affiliation with Queen's University.
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Dr. Hutchison's Military Pensions Appointment12 June 1840
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Page 2 of Dr. Hutchison's Military Pensions Appointment12 June 1840
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Dr. Dickson in Dr. Hutchison's Birth Registry8 April 1840
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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Dr. Hay noted in Dr. Hutchison's Birth Registry1 March 1844
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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1840 Dr. Thomas Hay (born 1804)Dr. Hay studied in Edinburgh for two years, obtaining a medical degree in 1826. Following that he was in London for two years earning a certificate from Apothecaries Hall in 1827. In 1838 he had a membership in the Royal College of Surgeons.
The doctor came to Peterborough in 1840 and worked in conjunction with Dr. Hutchison for several years. When Dr. Hutchison made a visit back to Scotland in late 1842 until the spring of 1843, Dr. Hay looked after his patients.
He married the eldest daughter of Thomas A. & Frances Stewart, Ann Marie, in 1843 and passed away in 1851.
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Dr. Hutchison as Medical Attendant to the Mississauga Indians at Rice Lake24 October 1844
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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1844 Dr. John McNabb (born 1802)Dr. McNabb came to Peterborough in 1844 and served as coroner and gaol [jail] surgeon.
He is frequently mentioned in books as consulting on different cases with Drs. Hay and Burnham, Sr.
He died in 1869 of apoplexy and is buried in Little Lake Cemetery, Peterborough.
1844 Dr. Robert Ridley
In 1844 Dr. Ridley acquired land at the southeast corner of Hunter and Rubidge Sts. and in 1845 built a stone house there.
When he died in 1851 his wife Elizabeth stayed on and ran a boarding house there.
Other doctors who show up in Dr. Hutchison's notes
Three other doctors who are referred to in Dr. Hutchison's ledgers, but about whom nothing else is known, are Dr. Easton, Dr. Erret, and Dr. Martin.
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Reputed fathers in the Birth Registry of Dr. Hutchison19th Century, Circa 1834
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
Credits:Hutchison House Museum, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
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