Frank William Green

{{Short description|Canadian politician (1876–1953)}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

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| name = Frank William Green

| honorific-suffix=M.D., C.M., F.A.C.S.

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| birth_name=

| birth_date ={{birth date|1876|3|15}}

| birth_place = Victoria, British Columbia

| death_date ={{Death date and age|1953|12|24|1876|3|15}}

| death_place = Cranbrook, British Columbia

| office = MLA for Cranbrook

| term_start = 1941

| term_end = 1949

| predecessor =Arnold McGrath

| successor = Leo Thomas Nimsick

| party = Conservative, coalition

| children=William Otis Green

| residence=Cranbrook, British Columbia

| religion =

| spouse=Lillian Barbara Staples
(m. 8 Jun 1905)

| occupation = physician, surgeon

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Frank William Green (March 15, 1876 – December 24, 1953) was a Canadian physician and politician.

Green was born in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1876 to Alexander Alfred Green and Theophila Turner Raines.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FBIzAQAAIAAJ&q=Dr+Green+cranbrook+1876 |title=Who's who and why - Google Books |year=1914 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-03-21}} He attended Corrig College at Victoria. After the death of his father in 1891, Green relocated to Montreal to attend McGill University where he would obtain his medical degree.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a2i2kBqexc8C&q=%22Frank+William+Green%22+cranbrook&pg=PA63 |title=The Spencer Mansion: A House, a Home, and an Art Gallery - Robert Ratcliffe Taylor - Google Books |isbn=9781927129289 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-03-21|last1=Taylor |first1=Robert Ratcliffe |date=4 September 2012 |publisher=TouchWood Editions }}

Upon his graduation from McGill in 1898, Green worked as a physician on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway Crowsnest Pass line, in the Kootenay Valley, working on horseback. During the time he operated a hospital and treated many during an epidemic of typhoid.

He later settled at Cranbrook, British Columbia, in the Kootenay Valley in 1899 to establish a medical practice. He was one of the first and only physicians, a medical pioneer at Cranbrook.{{cite web|url=http://www.basininstitute.org/exhibit-nursing/3.html |title=The Florence Nightingales: Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History: Columbia Basin Institute of Regional History |publisher=Basininstitute.org |access-date=2013-03-21}} A partnership with Dr. James Horace King of Cranbrook which started in 1903 was described as a "cornerstone in local medicine", with modern innovations being in use at the time, two examples being the first x-ray machine in the city being purchased for their hospital and the use of automobiles within the practice.http://www.kamloopsnews.ca/article/20120127/CRANBROOK0301/301279995/0/take-care-on-the-roads {{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8boWvQLgan0C&q=%22F+W+Green%22+cranbrook&pg=PA33 |title=Triumph and Tragedy in the Crowsnest Pass - Diana Wilson - Google Books |isbn=9781926936796 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-03-21|last1=Wilson |first1=Diana |date=February 2011 |publisher=Heritage House Publishing Co }}

In the 1941 British Columbia general election, Green was elected as a Conservative to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the district of Cranbrook. He was elected again in 1945 as a coalition member, serving until his retirement in 1949.[http://www.elections.bc.ca/docs/rpt/1871-1986_ElectoralHistoryofBC.pdf An electoral history of British Columbia, 1871–1986]

He married Lillian Barbara Staples of Stillwater, Minnesota, in June 1905.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BakhAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Frank+William+Green%22+cranbrook |title=Journal of the American Medical Association - Google Books |year=1905 |via=Google Books|access-date=2013-03-21}} One of his sons, William Otis Green also became a doctor in the Cranbrook area, with whom he later shared a practice with.{{Cite web|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19360513&id=JHctAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lZgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7019,1495645|title = The Montreal Gazette - Google News Archive Search}} Frank W. Green died in 1953 of heart problems at St. Eugene Hospital in Cranbrook, which he had established. He was later cremated in Calgary.{{Cite web |url=http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/images/getimage/genealogy/screensize/efea943a-3ea6-4801-9b27-d744b8819816 |title=Death Certificate |access-date=2013-03-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223160316/http://search-collections.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/images/getimage/genealogy/screensize/efea943a-3ea6-4801-9b27-d744b8819816 |archive-date=2014-02-23 |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLRC-53J |title=Record Details — |publisher=Familysearch.org |date=1953-12-24 |access-date=2013-03-21}} His wife Lillian died on October 22, 1965, at Cranbrook.{{Cite web|url=https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FLTR-7W5|title=FamilySearch.org|website=FamilySearch |accessdate=25 June 2023}}

The F. W. Green Medical Centre and F. W. Green Memorial Home continuing care centre at Cranbrook are both named after him.