O'Leary Pharmacy - Guardian Drugs.

In 1966, Stanley married Adrienne Webb of Woodstock and they have three daughters - Heidi, Bethany and Jill. For nine years their home had been an apartment over the Pharmacy and in 1975 they moved to their present home which had been built by Dr. A.S. Palmer, Adrienne's grandfather. Stanley’s uncle, ”Little" Harry Williams, was the carpenter. The house had passed from Dr. Palmer to Jim Tuplin, Harold Jelley and Dr. MacMurdo.

MEDICAL DOCTORS

In the one hundred and six year span between 1886 and 1992, the village of O’Leary, Prince Edward Island, had the services of nine- teen different doctors. These medical men were, for the most part, rural practitioners and constituted a varied and colourful group indeed. That the early doctors struggled through difficult situations is certain, when one remembers that for years the nearest hospital was in Charlottetown, which is almost one hundred miles from O’Leary. Travel, too, was difficult and this added to the degree of dif- ficulty a doctor faced in his practise. Wild winter storms and deep Island mud posed gigantic problems for the early practitioners in their struggles to visit their patients in time to render medical assis- tance.

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