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Person
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Sinclair, Albert McMurda
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Dates of existence
1926-1987
History
Albert Mcurda Sinclair was a graduate of Dalhousie Medical School. He was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, in 1926. Following overseas service with the Canadian Armed Forces from 1944-1945, he studied medicine, graduating from Dalhousie 1952. He did post-graduate studies in orthopaedic surgery in Vancouver and London, England, and opened a practice in Halifax in 1960. Dr. Sinclair was appointed Orthopaedic Surgeon-in-Chief at the Halifax Children's Hospital and later helped to develop the department of orthopaedic surgery at the Izaak Walton Killam Hospital for Children. He was an active member in several professional associations, most notably, a founding member and president of the Atlantic Provinces Orthopaedic Society. He died on 19 November 1987.