Doctor W. G. Anderson: Serving Others Through His Medical Practice

• Doctor Winfred G. Anderson was the second doctor in Brooks to be named Dr. Anderson in the area at the same time.  

• Dr. W. G. Anderson was born in Ontario in 1881. He settled in Granum once he had graduated from medical school. He met and married his wife there, a young schoolteacher also from Ontario. 

• His reputation grew to be so large that he couldn’t handle it all. He heard that there was homesteading land near the Red Deer River, so he decided to move his practice to Brooks.  

• He built his house and was joined by his family in 1911.  

• For the next forty-five years, Dr. W. G. Anderson worked on his farm, working as a doctor while he grew sheep and even foxes for a time.  

• He was generous with his patients, often allowing them to forgo payment if times were too hard.  

• He was adamant in the preservation of the Badlands, being later credited for the partial responsibility for the creation of Dinosaur Provincial Park. 

• Dr. W. G. Anderson died in 1966, and at his previous request, his ashes were tossed from an airplane over the prairies he’d lived on for so many years. 

Bibliography 

Mile 723: Brooks - A Prairie Railstop Turns 100. Nesbitt, James. Brooks, Alberta, 2010. Print.