13 Facts About Andrew Macphail

Andrew Macphail was born in Orwell, Prince Edward Island, on the family's newly purchased 100-acre farm.

Andrew Macphail was educated at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, and then at McGill University in Montreal, where he received his medical degree in 1891.

From 1893 until 1905 Andrew Macphail practised medicine and taught at the University of Bishop's College.

Andrew Macphail was appointed McGill's first Professor of the History of Medicine in 1907, and held that position until 1937.

Andrew Macphail enlisted in World War I at the age of 50, and served at the front with a field ambulance corps for 20 months.

Andrew Macphail wrote The Medical Services, Volume One of the Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War.

Andrew Macphail's volume was published in 1925 and included criticism of the minister of militia and the surgeon general.

Andrew Macphail wrote an essay on Canadian poet John McCrae, "An essay in character," for the 1919 edition of McCrae's In Flanders Fields And Other Poems.

Andrew Macphail published four one-act plays: The land, The last rising, Company, and The new house.

Many of Andrew Macphail's essays were taken from the University Magazine, a literary journal which he founded in 1907 and edited until its closing in 1920.

In January 1918 Andrew Macphail received a knighthood for his literary accomplishments and military service.

Andrew Macphail received the Quebec government prize for literature in 1928.

Andrew Macphail was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1910.