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HOLLEY, Dr. Donald Alexander "Alex"

Male 1924 - 2000  (76 years)


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  • Name HOLLEY, Donald Alexander "Alex" 
    • Ancestry.com Nov 2006 online gave full name.
    Title Dr. 
    _ADDR Between 1924 and 1937  Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Lived on the wheat farm until it was too dry to raise crops, so they sold and moved to Knouff Lake, BC.
    Birth 18 Mar 1924  Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • site of L. Curtis Boyle, 2010.
    Gender Male 
    _ADDR 1938  Knouff Lake, north of Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Family moved from Saskatchewan to an old abandoned farm.
    _ADDR Between 1957 and 2000  Quesnell, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 05 Oct 2000  Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2505  Ward
    Last Modified 15 Oct 2010 

    Father HOLLEY, Robert Arthur "Bob",   b. 23 Jun 1877, Vandeleur, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Mar 1943, Quesnell, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 65 years) 
    Mother NEELY, Catherine "Kate",   b. 1879, Rocklyn, Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1958, Quesnel, British Columbia, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 1907 
    Family ID F503  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 WEPPLER, D. 
    Children 
     1. HOLLEY, A.
     2. HOLLEY, K.
     3. HOLLEY, R.
     4. HOLLEY, M.M.
    Family ID F782  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2018 

    Family 2 DOW, Judi 
    Marriage 1979 
    Family ID F520  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 19 Mar 2018 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google Maps_ADDR - Between 1924 and 1937 - Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan, Canada Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • Al Holley wrote and published in 2000 his Autobiography entitled "Don't Shoot from the Saddle,- Chronicles of a Frontier Surgeon".
    • CMAJ.[Canadian Medical Journal] 2001 February 20; 164(4): 607. : Holley, D. Alexander, Quesnel, BC; University of Alberta, 1951; general surgery; FACS, FRCSC; former chief of staff and surgery, G.R. Baker Memorial Hospital; president, BC Surgical Society. Died from stroke-related complications Oct. 5, 2000; survived by his wife, Judi, and 3 children. He started the first Intensive Care Unit in BC. Colleague Norman Hamilton commented: ?After graduation he practised in the Northwest Territories, where he quickly learned to mush a dog team for house calls. He was a keen outdoorsman, hunter and cowboy, and his pranks were legendary, including a staged train robbery. Prior to his death he completed his memoirs Don't Shoot from the Saddle ? Chronicles of a Frontier Surgeon.?


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