Harry Bain

Harry William Bain (1921 – December 21 2001 [cite web|url=http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/166/10/1384|title=Deaths|accessdate=October 22|accessyear=2006] ) was a Canadian pediatrician.

He was raised in Cache Bay, Ontario and graduated from the University of Toronto in 1944. He was a paediatrician at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children from 1951 to 1985. From 1966 to 1976, he was the Paediatrician-in-Chief of the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Toronto's Department Chairman of Paediatrics. [cite web|url=http://www.paeds.utoronto.ca/Page1063.aspx|title=History of the Department of Paediatrics|work=University of Toronto|accessdate=October 22|accessyear=2006]

In 1969, he helped to start the University of Toronto Sioux Lookout Project, a health-care program which helped over 15,000 Cree and Ojibwa people in Northern Ontario. He was the Director for 17 years. [cite web|url=http://www.cma.ca/multimedia/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/advocacy/news/1998/08-18-hb.htm|title=Dr. Harry William Bain to receive CMA's highest honour|work=Canadian Medical Association|accessdate=October 22|accessyear=2006]

Honours

* In 1986, the University of Toronto awarded him a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.
* In 1987, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada for his "compassionate devotion to health care, especially to that of children and the Native people of Northern Ontario, has made him one of the most respected paediatricians in the country". [cite web|url=http://www.gg.ca/honours/search-recherche/honours-desc.asp?lang=e&TypeID=orc&id=2378|title=Order of Canada citation|accessdate=October 22|accessyear=2006]
* In 1992, he was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal.
* In 1998, he was awarded the Canadian Medical Association's highest honour, the F.N.G. Starr Award.

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