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One of the best trained physicians of his generation

Born in Guelph, Ontario, John McCrae won a scholarship to study at the University of Toronto when he was 16. He completed his residency at the Toronto General Hospital and worked for a short period at Johns Hopkins University with Dr. William Osler. Later, Dr. McCrae completed specialist training in pathology under Dr. George Adami. He was one of the first Canadians to receive formal training in laboratory research, and invented new processes to aid his study of agglutination of several bacteria.