Medical Pioneers
This section recognizes Canadian whoes discoveries and/or inventions had a significant impact on military medicine
Frederick Banting “Aviation Medicine”
Major Sir Frederick Grant Banting, MC, was born on November 14, 1891, at Alliston, ON. Educated at the Public and High Schools at Alliston, he later went to the University of Toronto to study divinity, but soon transferred to the study of medicine. In 1916 he took his...
Wilber Franks “Anti-Gravity Flying Suit”
Dr. Wilbur Franks has been credited with saving the lives of thousands of fighter pilots. His G-suit, developed in 1942, has been worn by every air force pilot in the world, as well as the astronauts and cosmonauts. After the death of his mentor Frederick Banting in...
Cluny MacPherson “Gas Mask”
Dr Cluny MacPherson, a Newfoundlander and Newfoundland Regiment Medical Officer, was the inventor of the gas mask which was the most important protective device of the First World War, protecting countless soldiers from blindness, disfigurement or injury to their throats and lungs. For his services, Dr MacPherson was made a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in 1918.