History of the Colonel Edward Jessup Branch
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John M. Robinson, Maynard, president, left; Lt.-Col. Sterling LeRoy Spicer, Maynard, Co-founder of the Branch with E.J. Chard, Immediate past President of the Dominion Council, inspect the new charter. Behind them is the George 111 or the Loyalist flag. |
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Lt. Col. Sterling LeRoy Spicer M.D.
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Lt. Col. Sterling LeRoy Spicer
Sterling Spicer was born at Maynard, ON, Feb.15th, 1886, the son of Chester A. and Mary (Hodges) Spicer. He received his primary and secondary education in the Maynard and Prescott area and attended the School of Medicine art the University of Western Ontario, where he graduated with the highest standing in toxicology on May 2, 1911. He then joined the staff of the university as professor of toxicology where he remained until the outbreak of World War 1, when he joined the army and served as a captain in the Medical Corps. Following the war he joined the staff of a renovated orphanage, later to become known as St. Joseph's Hospital, Toronto. He admitted the first patient, delivered the first baby and performed the first minor and major operations.
At the outbreak of World 11, he re-enlisted in the army as a Lt. Col. and examined the first Canadian recruit for the war.
Leaving the army in 1946, he received a letter of appreciation from the Earl of Athlone, then Canada's Governor-General and from the Duke of Gloucester, the Queen's uncle. Following his retirement, King George V1 made him Officer Brother of the Grand Priory in the British Realm of the Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, the oldest order in the British Empire.
In 1936 he served as President of the United Empire Loyalists' Association, Toronto Branch, the parent and charter branch. He was the founder of the Col. Edward Jessup Branch of the UEL, Maynard, ON.
Col. Spider retired to U.E. Lodge, Maynard, where he enjoyed hobbies as reading, writing poetry and tracing geneological histories of area families. He was referred to as the "County's Poet Laureate"
Lt. Col. Sterling LeRoy Spicer, UEL, died in Mississauga Hospital, Mississauga, ON, March 21st ,1981, in his 96th year.
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