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Montreals McGill University and Shirley Mooney

Shirley Mooney: Alec Miller wasnt simply smart. He was brilliant, with a sharp analytical mind and an amazing memory. This exceptional combination brought him, at the age of 16, to study science at Montreals McGill University, where he met and embraced his twin loves: Shirley Mooney and the practice of medicine, two partnerships that would last a lifetime. More Related to this Story, according to Globe and Mail. After completing his fellowship in internal medicine, Alec took over the practice of a former chief of staff at Montreal General Hospital, and kept an office outside the hospital his entire career. In the 1950s, he began working at Queen Mary Veterans Hospital, eventually serving as its chief of medicine and Physician, husband, father, grandfather. Born on June 21, 1923, in Montreal; died on Jan. 31, 2014, in Peterborough, Ont., of complications from a fall, aged 90. Submit a Lives Lived column (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.