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Mohawk physician Thomas Dignan was a champion of Indigenous health care


The Globe and Mail
Lisa Fitterman
Published February 15, 2021
Courtesy of the Family
When Thomas Dignan was in Grade 8, his teacher told his parents he would not amount to much and recommended he attend a trade school. Growing up on Hamilton’s working-class, rough-and-tumble east side, Dr. Dignan, a Mohawk with roots in Six Nations of the Grand River territory, spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong.
He was not an indifferent student, not a bit. Rather, he had dyslexia and once the problem was diagnosed, his ambition, energy and interests eventually led him to become a nurse, then a nursing instructor, then the first Indigenous person to graduate from McMaster University’s medical school, then a licensed pilot who pursued his practice by flying his own plane to remote communities in northern Ontario. ....

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Her Name Was Margaret: 
Life and Death on the Streets


In January 1993, Denise Davy met a woman whose brief acquaintance would shape the next two-and-a-half decades of her life. Davy, then a reporter for the
Hamilton Spectator, was spending the night at a shelter as part of her research for a story about homelessness in the city; it was a beat she’d covered before, but she felt that the statistics and studies she’d cited in previous articles needed a “face.” She found that and much more in Margaret Jacobson.
Margaret’s story forms the backbone of Davy’s new book,
Her Name Was Margaret: Life and Death on the Streets. With access to extensive medical files from the Hamilton Psychiatric Hospital, interviews with family and friends, as well as some general journalistic sleuthing, Davy is able to create a fairly substantial timeline from Margaret’s birth in 1944 to her sudden death in 1995. As she details Margaret’s early life with strict evangelical Christian parents, her many encount ....

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