O’Leary at a time when travelling rural roads was difficult because of mud in the spring and snow in the winter. Doctors of this era often hired local farmers to drive them in making their house calls, espe- cially in winter when most travelling was done in a pung or iaunting sleigh. It has been difficult to ascertain where Dr. Champion received his medical training due to the scarcity of records on Prince Edward Island for the early 1900’s but he probably graduated from Dalhousie University as many other Island-born doctors have. Dr. Champion suffered from a heart condition and died in his car on Main Street, O’Leary in 1938. He is buried in Bethel United Church Cemetery.

Dr. W.B. Champion Dr. Roy Kennedy

Between 1886 when Dr. McLaughlin first came to O’Leary and 1938 when Dr. Champion died, several other doctors had short stints of service in the O’Leary area. Information about these men in the early decades of the twentieth century is extremely scarce and diffi- cult to procure. The Prince Edward Island Directory for the year 1900 lists Dr. G.P. MacDougall as a physician in O’Leary. Dr. LG. Dewar recounted how he and his father, John A. Dewar, were once shown through the asylum at Falconwood by Dr. MacMillan, and Dr. MacMillan pointed to a silent man in the corner and said "That’s Dr. MacDougall. Brilliant man, led his class at McGill. Ruined himself through booze.” Mrs. D.S. Gorrill concurred and recounted how Dr. MacDougall spent much time at O’Leary’s one-time speak-easy which was called ”The Snake House". Dr. MacDougall was from

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