CHARLES EDWARD MCCUTCHEON, M.D.
 


	Dr. Charles Edward McCutcheon, a practicing physician and surgeon
of Regina for the past ten years, was born near Kingston, Ontario, on
the 8th of November, 1874. He is of Irish and English stock, his father,
James McCutcheon, being a native of County Tyrone, Ireland, while his
mother was born in Ontario, of English parents.  The father came to
Canada before his marriage and followed the occupations of a miller and
a farmer all of his life. He was a Presbyterian in religious faith and a
Liberal in politics. In local affairs he took an active part and served as
justice of the peace and school trustee. His widow, who bore the maiden
name of Sarah Collinson, now resides in Regina and has reached the
advanced age of eighty-one.  Dr. McCutcheon is the youngest of their
three children.  He has a sister, Laura, the widow of the Rev. John
Sinclair, one of the pioneer settlers of Regina, who died in 1905. He was
head of the Indian Industrial School.
	Charles Edward McCutcheon obtained his early education in the high
school at Gananoque, Ontario, after which he came out to Saskatchewan,
where he taught school for a year, in 1901. For the ensuing five years
he speculated in real estate in this province, with financial returns that
enabled him to enter upon the long period of preparation necessary for
the medical profession.  Entering Queen's University in the fall of 1906,
he spent the next four years in the Medical School of that institution,
graduating in the class of 1910, with the Doctor of Medicine degree. He
began the private practice of his profession in Nipigon, Ontario, in
1912, prior to which he had spent two years gaining the hospital training
that is so necessary for the young surgeon. A year later he moved to
Regina, where he has been practicing ever since. He specializes in sur-
gery and has built up a good practice along this line. He is on the staff
of the General Hospital in Regina and the Grey Nuns' Hospital, and is
frequently called into consultation by the other members of the medical
profession.  Twice since beginning his practice he has left his work
to do a year of graduate study, once in Kingston and once in Chicago.
Thus by further study and ~wide reading along professional lines Dr.
McCutcheon keeps well informed in regard to the new discoveries and
practices in the surgical world. He is aided in this by his membership in
the various Canadian and American medical societies, whose literature
and meetings prove very helpful to the members whose work is not in the
great medical centers of the country.
	Dr. McCutcheon's marriage to Miss Maude Conroy was celebrated
in 1913. Mrs. McCutcheon is a native of Montreal and the daughter of
the late Henry A. Conroy, whose death occurred in April of 1922. He
was a prominent Indian inspector in western Canada for many years and
owned a large amount of property in Edmonton.
	Before coming west Dr. McCutcheon served as councilman on the
township council of Leeds, Ontario. Since entering the medical profes-
sion, however, he has found little time for public duties, outside of the
strict path of his profession.  He is a member of the Knox Presbyterian
church and a Mason.  For recreation and diversion from the duties of
his practice he turns to horses and football. He is a director of the Regina
Rugby and Soccer Association and the Turf Club.  The Doctor is very
fond of horses. While he was engaged in the real estate business in this
province, prior to taking up his medical studies, he owned some very
good harness horses, which he drove himself in the races, and established
his reputation as a horseman by winning a number of the races in which
he entered his horses.




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