Michael Callanan

Michael Callanan
Michael Callanan
Member of the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
	In office; 1909–1916
Constituency	Cariboo
Personal details
Born	March 29, 1849; Clonakilty, County Cork, Ireland
Died	February 21, 1929 (aged 79); New Westminster, British Columbia
Political party	British Columbia Conservative Party
Occupation	physician

Michael Callanan (March 29, 1849 – February 21, 1929) was an Irish-born physician and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo from 1909 until his retirement at the 1916 election in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative.

He was born in 1849 in Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of Daniel J. Callanan,^[1] and was educated at Trinity College Dublin^[2] and in Paris. From 1875 to 1873, he practised in Kilbrittain and Rosscarbery.^[1] He came to Canada, settling in the Northwest Territories. Later, Callanan practised in Nanaimo and Victoria for eight years before moving to Quesnel in 1894^[2] and Barkerville in 1899.^[3] Callanan was a physician for the Royal Cariboo Hospital in Barkerville. In 1885, he married Hannah Healy.^[1] He retired to New Westminster in 1922. In 1929, Callanan died at St. Mary's Hospital in New Westminster after an extended illness.^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Parker, C W (1916). Northern who's who; a biographical dictionary of men and women. Vol. 1. p. 113. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Obituaries". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 20 (4): 450. April 1929. PMC 1710679.
^ Lee, Eldon (1997). Scalpels & buggywhips: medical pioneers of Central BC. Heritage House Publishing Co. pp. 19–20. ISBN 1-895811-43-0. Retrieved 2011-09-12.

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