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Note: at 2Bruade street before moving to Toronto. Refer to information on <a href="http://www.canadiana.org/ECO/PageView/00470/0600?id=2d42ce55a2b9c918">THIS</a> site about Dr.William Rees. The following example aptly illustrates the hardships of becoming established as a practitioner. A former naval surgeon appointed to troop transport ships and former student of Sir Astley Cooper, the Eng- lishman William Rees, arrived at Quebec City in 1822. He was ap- pointed to the Emigrant Hospital and worked in a temporary posting as Assistant Health Officer of the port of Quebec for three years. He also engaged in private practice and had several medical apprentices. Be- lieving that there were greater opportunities in Upper Canada, Rees was licensed there in 1830 by the Medical Board. As a tory Rees ran for political office in 1834, tinkered with the notion of opening a school of medicine, and opened a vaccination clinic for the destitute. He also scrambled to find official appointments, being contracted as medical at- tendant to the York jail, surgeon to a government survey expedition, and assistant surgeon to the Queen`s Rangers regimenL6 In 1841 his for- tunes changed when he became medical superintendent of the Toronto Temporary Lunatic Asylum-Upper Canada`s first such institution.`
Note: <tpphoto><id>369183</id></tpphoto>He was Port Surgeon in Quebec City with office
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