Frederick Banting began his studies at the University of Toronto with the aim of entering the ministry, but instead he switched to medicine, receiving his MD in 1916. After graduating, he joined the ...

12.1 x 15.2 cm. (4.8 x 6 in.) A.Y. Jackson and Frederick Banting spent from mid-July to September of 1927 travelling throughout the Arctic on board the "Beothic", a supply ship that served the eastern ...

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Charles Herbert Best was born in Maine, the son of a physician. He joined the Canadian artillery during World War I, and thus qualified for Canadian citizenship. Best was still a medical student at ...

21.6 x 26.7 cm. (8.5 x 10.5 in.) Born in 1891 in Alliston, Ontario, Frederick Banting studied medicine at the University of Toronto. He received his MB degree in 1916 and immediately joined the ...