H. A. LESTOCK REID, M.D., C. M.
 

	Prominent in the professional circles of Prince Albert is Dr. H. A.
Lestock Reid, physician and surgeon. He was born at Gladstone, Queens-
land, Australia, in October, 1868, oldest son of John Lestock and Louisa
(Herbert) Reid, the former a native of Bowmanville, Ontario, and the
latter of London, England. For many years the father engaged in sur-
veying and at the time of his death in 1911 he was the oldest civil engi-
neering graduate of McGill University. He made his home in Australia,
Ceylon, and in fact, all over the world and for some time was engaged in
coffee and cotton planting in the Fiji Islands before the British govern-
ment took them over. Subsequently he came back to Canada and became
surveyor for the Indian department, with headquarters at Ottawa. He
came to Prince Albert in 1877, and resided there until his death. As far
back as 1878 Mr. Reid secured a homestead in the district of Colliston, and
was M. L. A. for Prince Albert, West, in 1895. At the time of his death
he was seventy years of age. Mrs. Reid died in April, 1906.
	H. A. Lestock Reid was educated in the Presbyterian Mission School
at Prince Albert and Trinity College School, Port Hope, Ontario, attend-
ing Trinity for six years. After putting his textbooks aside he learned
surveying under his father's tutelage. For some four years he followed
that line of work in summer and studied medicine at Trinity Medical Col-
lege, Toronto, during the winter. Trinity University conferred the M. D.,
C. M. degrees upon him in 1891. He obtained the Fellowship degree at
Trinity Medical College, and his Ontario Medical License.  He immedi-
ately returned to Prince Albert and began active practice the same year.
He has taken since then postgraduate work almost yearly, going to New
York, Chicago and Rochester, Minnesota, frequently. He has also taken
postgraduate work in London, Edinburgh, Paris, Berlin, Munchen, Vienna
and Rome.
	Aside from his private practice Dr. Reid is acting assistant surgeon
at the Mounted Police barracks, a position he has filled continuously since
1907. For eight years he served as health officer of Prince Albert. He
suffered, like so many other westerners, after the boom days, and became
land poor. But he still has firm hopes for future prosperity in western
Canada.
	In June, 1912, Dr. Reid was married to Miss Margaret M. McKechnie,
of Wiarton, Ontario, and they have become parents of three children:
Joan, born in September of the year 1913; Thomas, born in April, 1915;
and James, born in May of the year 1916. Dr. Reid has always practiced
along strictly professional lines.  He holds membership in the Saskat-
chewan and Prince Albert Medical Societies, is a member of the Masonic
fraternity, and is actively associated with the local Rotary Club and the
Round Lake Outing Club; the latter of which has some fifty members.
	Since attaining his majority the Doctor has given his political alle-
giance to the Liberal party. He is essentially public-spirited and no move-
ment for the benefit of the community seeks his aid in vain. The religious
faith of Dr. Reid is that of the Church of England. Dr. and Mrs. Reid
make their home at No. 157 Nineteenth street, West, and reside in the
oldest house on the hill, part of the structure being log walled, built in
1879-1880.




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