Van Cortlandt, Edward

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Courtney C. J. Bond, “VAN CORTLANDT, EDWARD,” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 10, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/van_cortlandt_edward_10E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Physician, surgeon, and author; b. 1805 in Newfoundland, son of Major Philip Van Cortlandt, an officer in the War of the American Revolution, and United Empire Loyalist; d. 25 March 1875 in Ottawa, Ont.
    • Edward Van Cortlandt was educated in Quebec at the school run by the Reverend Daniel Wilkie, and from 1819 to 1825 he studied medicine in Quebec under Dr William Hackett. He then went to England and, in 1827, passed the examinations at the Royal College of Surgeons in London,
    • Van Cortlandt returned to Canada in 1832, and on 26 December was authorized by the provincial secretary to practise medicine in Lower Canada. The succeeding year, he went to the new frontier community of Bytown (later named Ottawa), Upper Canada, on the recommendation of Dr James Skey. There he quickly established a large and lucrative practice and in 1834 served through the cholera epidemic. He contributed his services gratuitously for a time in the lower Bytown hospital of the Grey Nuns of the Cross under Elisabeth Bruyère who had arrived from Montreal in 1845, and he was appointed physician and later consulting physician to their General Hospital which was established in 1851. He was coroner of the city of Ottawa, physician to the county gaol, and surgeon for some 20 years to the Ottawa Field Battery.
  • Son of United Empire Loyalist listed in Loyalist Directory: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=9793
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