Can you imagine a small-town doctor with an airplane, visiting patients all around southern Alberta 100 years ago?
For almost 40 years, Bassano’s Dr. Alexander Gladstone Scott worked around the clock, tending to the well-being of the surrounding frontier communities. With patients spread across many miles, he took to the roads, and then to the skies, going “Above and Beyond” to care for prairie people in the days before public health care.
In belated celebration of Canada History Week 2019, we are proud to celebrate the living legacy of Dr. A.G. Scott: An innovator, pioneer, and prairie trailblazer in this video produced by Jonathan F. Koch and the Forgotten Alberta Project (www.forgottenalberta.com), with the cooperation of Bassano Medical Clinic, the Town of Bassano, and the Rural Health Professions Action Plan (RhPAP).