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Agnes Douglas Craine, one of the earliest women graduates of Queen's in medicine, was born in 1862 in Smith's Falls, the daughter of John Joseph Craine and Agnes Muir Craine. She entered the Women's Medical College, associated with Queen's University, in 1884 and received the degrees of M.D and C.M. in 1888. She then went to Europe for post-graduate work, studying in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna, before establishing her practice at Smith's Falls. Dr. Craine was a direct descendant of the first settlers to land at Chateauguay, Québec, and there are records of Craines in the New Haven colony as early as 1637.

Craine, Agnes

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Craine, Agnes Douglas

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Craine, Agnes Douglas

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[186-]-1937

Agnes Craine graduated from the Kingston Women's Medical College in 1888. The College was created after women were banned from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (an early incarnation of the Faculty of Medicine) in 1893. After her graduation, Ms. Craine moved back to Smiths Falls, Ontario, where she practiced as a physician for the rest of her life (d. 1937).

In 1936, she gave Queen's the largest gift it received in the 1930s - a sum of $350,000 to be used for support of the emerging field of biochemistry. These funds were used for the construction of the Craine Building and the establishment of the Craine Chair in Biochemistry.

Craine, John