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Irwin, Noble

  • SCAA-SCM-0057
  • Person
  • 1921-1998

Dr. Noble Totton Irwin was born November 15, 1921in Swift Current. He received his formal education at Central Public School and the Swift Current Collegiate Institute in this city and St. John's Ravenscourt School in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Noble Irwin was married to Irene Spence on June 7, 1945. He attended the University of Saskatchewan and received his pre-medical training.

Following this he served in the Canadian Army during World War II as a member of the 8th Reconnaissance, 14th Canadian Hussars Regiment and was severely wounded during the Allied invasion of Normandy. After his discharge in 1945, he entered medical college at the University of Manitoba. Upon graduation in 1950 and following a year of internship, he returned to Swift Current to work at the Swift Current Clinic as a general practitioner.

In 1957 he began four years of training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1961. He returned to the Swift Current Clinic where he practiced until his retirement in 1986. Dr. Noble Totton Irwin passed away in Swift Current June 29, 1998 and, wife Irene passed November 20, 1999. Both husband and wife are buried in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

Irwin, Irene

  • SCAA-SCM-0086
  • Person
  • [19--] - November 20, 1999

Irwin, Colleen

  • SCAA-SCM-0077
  • Person
  • [19--] - [20--]

Henry, Hugh

  • SCAA-SCM-0075
  • Person
  • 20th/21st cent.

Haydon, Joyce

  • SCAA-SCM-0085
  • Person
  • [19--] - [20--]

Harris, Greg

  • SCAA-SCM-0092
  • Person
  • [19--] - [20--]

Gooch, Wilfred James

  • SCN00115
  • Person
  • 1919-2003

Wilfred James Gooch was born on March 13, 1919, and married in Norwich, Norfolk, England. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force on May 21, 1937. He was in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, from November 1941 to 1944 at the Service Flight Training School (STFS No. 39). Around the base, Sgt. Gooch was a jack of all trades and did a number of tasks, including packing parachutes. After his time in Swift Current, Sgt. Gooch moved back to the UK, then to Egypt, and then back to Norfolk, UK. He became a reservist after the Second World War. Sgt. Gooch worked throughout his life in forestry and went on the Fields Studies Council in June 1951. He died in 2003 in England.

Eidsness, Ruth

  • SCAA-SCM-0148
  • Person
  • [19--] - [20--]

Ehman, El

  • SCAA-SCM-0072
  • Person
  • 20th/21st cent.
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