Harry Bain

{{short description|Canadian pediatrician}}

{{for|the Canadian politician|Harry Bains}}

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|name = Harry William Bain

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|birth_date = 1921

|birth_place = Cache Bay, Ontario

|death_date = December 21, 2001 (aged 80)

|death_place = North Bay, Ontario

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|occupation = pediatrician

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|awards = Order of Canada

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Harry William Bain, {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (1921 – December 21, 2001 {{cite journal|url=http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/166/10/1384|title=Deaths|journal=CMAJ |date=14 May 2002 |volume=166 |issue=10 |pages=1384 |accessdate=October 22, 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, 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, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306151112/https://www.cma.ca/multimedia/staticContent/HTML/N0/l2/advocacy/news/1998/08-18-hb.htm|archive-date=March 6, 2016|url-status=dead}}