Galway, Robert D.

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Galway, Robert D.

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  • Galway, Hugh Robert David
  • Galway, H. Robert

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1937-

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Robert D. Galway (1937- ), BA, MD, FRSC(C) is an Orthopaedic Surgeon, pilot, and historian of Ontario's early aviation and bushplane history. He born in and grew up in the Red Lake, ON gold mining district and attended Red Lake District High School. He was introduced to planes and flying at an early age; and growing up he would often hitch rides with bushplane pilots that serviced northern Ontario. He earned his BA in Political Science and Geology (Toronto, 1958) and spent several field seasons in the late 1950s working a geologist for Franc Joubin on the Missinaibi River above its junction with the Moose River, as well as in Labrador. Galway earned his MD in 1963 (Toronto) and spent time during his career working at Moose Factory, Ontario for the Department of Indian Affairs as an Orthopaedic Surgeon carrying out a locum tenens with Dr. George Wolfe, who had worked with Galway's father, Dr. Charles F. Galway (Queen's, 1934, d. 1999 November 22).

Galway has published fifteen volumes of his Places, Planes, People, and & Pilots series focusing on these subject areas and drawing on archives, government documents, and newspapers. In addition, he has located and preserved a number of archival collections relevant to Ontario's early aviation and bushplane history He has also written a history of the historic Baby Point neighbourhood in Toronto, where he lives, as part of a community effort to preserve the archaeological and architecturally significant community.

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Created 2024-06-17 by Ken Hernden

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LC control no.: no2022154141
LCCN Permalink:https://lccn.loc.gov/no2022154141
From his book Places, planes, people and pilots, 2014: volume 4 (Robert D. Galway). https://doctors.cpso.on.ca/DoctorDetails/Galway-Hugh-Robert-David/0014437-19220

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