McVicar, Charles Stanley, 1880-1929 : Charles Stanley McVicar was born April 5, 1880, in MacGillivray township, Middlesex County, Ontario. He was educated in the public and high schools in Ailsa and Parkhill. At the age of nineteen he enlisted with the Canadian forces for service in South Africa, and served two years with the Strathcona Horse Regiment. On his return to Canada he entered the Western Medical College, London, Ont. where he studied for two years from 1902 to 1904. The last two years of his medical course were taken at Toronto University, where he was graduated as Silver Medalist in 1907. He served eighten months as interne at the Sick Children's Hospital, New York. On completion of his hospital training he engaged in practice in Toronto and was associated with the teaching staff of his Alma Mater. During the First World War Dr. McVicar again served with the Canadian Forces, this time in Salonika camp, Greece, where he was mentioned in dispatches for distinguished service, March 29, 1917, by General Milne. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and served as Chief of Medecine in the Orpington General Hospital, England. From here he was recalled to Toronto to take charge of the Christie Street Orthopedic Hospital which was the central orthopedic institution of the Canadian Army. Dr. McVicar visited The Mayo Clinic during autumn of 1920 at which time he was invited to join the staff of this institution. He came to Rochester with his family in January 1921 and became a member of the medical staff. His interest was largely in the field of gastro-enterology. Owing to his outstanding ability, personality and industry he was soon made head of a section in gastro-enterology and Associate Professor of Medecine, The Mayo Foundation Graduate School of the University of Minnesota. He made several contributions to our knowledge of diseases in the gastro-intestinal tract and liver, in part due to his interest in the borderline between medecine and surgery in these diseases. In 1912, he married Miss Mary Gillies of St.Marys, Ontario, who together with his son George and daughter Jeanette survives him. Dr. Charles Stanley McVicar of the staff of the Mayo Clinic died June 29, 1929 at Winona. Supplement of The Clinic Bulletin, Vol. 10, University of Minnesota, Rochester, Vol. 10, No. 285, July 2, 1929.
