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Andrew Madden, MD, was born in Dromore, County Down, Ireland, on 2 February 1782, the son of Edward Madden and Rose Brannigan. He came late to medicine, graduating at the age of thirty-five with his diploma as surgeon and physician from Glasgow University in 1817. Later that year, he sailed from Glasgow for Quebec, serving as the ship's surgeon and responsible for some 300 passengers. While passing through the Gut of Canso the ship was forced to land in Pictou, Nova Scotia, where the passengers were put ashore.
According to tradition, Madden was so taken with the Strait or Gut of Canso that he never took up his land grant in Quebec, but returned and settled at Arichat, where he practiced served as the province's health officer for 40 years. He died 30 January 1858 and was buried on his 76th birthday. He was married to Ann Jackman, born in Halifax ca. 1798 and died in Arichat, Nova Scotia, on 23 March 1868.