Hannah Emily Reid

Hannah Emily Reid was born near Orangeville, Ontario on January 19, 1870.{{cite book |last1=Hacker |first1=Carlotta |title=The Indomitable Lady Doctors |date=1974 |pages=119–131}} From an early age she had an interest in teaching– after completing her studies at Orangeville High School in 1891{{Cite news |last=Scrafield-Danby |first=Constance |date=12 October 2001 |title=Wonderful ladies from Dufferin's past |page=14 |work=The Midweek Banner; Orangeville, Ont. |id={{ProQuest|}} }} she received her Second-Class Teacher’s Certificate and began teaching at several schools in Toronto.{{Cite web|title=Early Female Doctors – Peggy Feltmate|date=27 March 2020 |url=https://www.peggyfeltmate.com/genealogy/early-female-doctors/|access-date=2022-01-02|language=en-US}}

She later discovered her interest in medicine and joined the Ontario Medical College for Women.{{Cite web|last1=Thompson|first1=Dorothy|last2=Kronberg|first2=Jean|title=History of the Department of Anaesthesia: Women's College Hospital|url=http://www.anesthesia.webservices.utoronto.ca/Assets/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/Anesthesia/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/history/affwch.pdf|access-date=2022-01-02|archive-date=2022-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102183956/http://www.anesthesia.webservices.utoronto.ca/Assets/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/Anesthesia/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/history/affwch.pdf|url-status=dead}} Hannah and her sister, Minerva Reid “were amongst the last women to graduate from the Ontario Medical College for Women before it closed in 1905”. While she attended the Ontario Medical College for Women in Toronto until its closure, she completed her medical degree at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine in 1905. After graduating, Reid travelled to northern Manitoba on medical assignment. Following that, she spent 1906 as an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children.{{Cite book|last=New England Hospital for Women and Children|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxfPAAAAMAAJ&q=hannah+reid|title=Annual Report|date=1922|pages=55|language=en}}

In 1912, Reid opened her own practice in Toronto, which focused on anesthesia and obstetrics. Two years later, she began working at Women’s College Hospital in the Department of Anaesthesia. She became Chief of Anaesthesia in 1926, the second woman to hold this position after Margaret McCallum-Johnston.{{Cite journal|last=Dhaliwal|first=Amreet|date=2018|title=Dr. Margaret McCallum-Johnston: Canada's first female anesthesiologist|journal=Canadian Journal of Anesthesia|language=en|volume=65|issue=9|pages=1066–1067|doi=10.1007/s12630-018-1142-y|pmid=29790119|s2cid=46894454|issn=0832-610X|doi-access=free}} According to the hospital, “[f]or over two decades, the two sisters could often be found working together in the operating rooms of Women’s College Hospital”.{{Cite book|last=Shorter|first=Edward|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amNZAgAAQBAJ&q=Reid|title=Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals|year=2013|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-6404-3|pages=565|language=en|quote=Minerva was a younger sister of anesthetist/obstetrician Hannah Reid, with whom she often worked.}} During her career at Women’s College Hospital, Hannah was also a member of the hospital’s first Board of Directors.{{cite news |date=July 29, 2010 |title=Museum Matters: The John Reid Family – II |agency=Orangeville Citizen |url=http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2010-07-29/Columns/Museum_Matters.html |access-date=January 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219193205/http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2010-07-29/Columns/Museum_Matters.html |archive-date=19 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite book|last=Townsend|first=Wayne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtNnZp-503EC&dq=hannah+reid+hospital+toronto&pg=PA218|title=Orangeville: The Heart of Dufferin County|year=2006|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-897045-18-3|pages=218|language=en|quote=...and Hannah Reid (18701955), born on Mono Township. Early Canadian female doctors they were founders of Women's College Hospital in Toronto.}}

Reid died in Toronto, Ontario on May 27, 1955.{{cite web |title=Dr Hannah Emily Reid |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174634588/hannah-emily-reid |website=Find a Grave}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=March 2022}} and her sister died in 1957.{{Cite news |date=1957-05-01 |title=Women doctors |pages=4 |work=The Windsor Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99913076/women-doctors/ |access-date=2022-04-18}}

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• [https://www.archeion.ca/womens-college-hospital-department-of-anaesthesia-fonds Department of Anesthesia Fonds at the Archives of Women’s College Hospital]

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