(died 17 March 1934, aged 69), physician. (Dr R. A. Westley) Born in southern Lancaster Township, GC. Parents: Charles Westley and Catherine Ross. He attended school “near Lancaster,” then Williamstown High School and McGill University, graduating in medicine from McGill in 1888. After beginning the practice of medicine at Williamstown, with Dr Henry Hunt, he had a medical practice on his own at Alexandria from a date not later than 1892, and then moved in the fall of 1895 from Alexandria to Montreal. (Vankleek Hill Review 18 Oct. 1895) In the 1890s, he was a lecturer at McGill University. An obituary called him “one of Montreal’s oldest practising physicians.” (Standard Freeholder) He had been house physician at the Windsor Hotel in Montreal for the last 30 years of his life, but he also maintained a family practice. It was at the Windsor Hotel that he died. He appears to have been unmarried.
Standard Freeholder 21 March 1934, Glengarry News 23 March 1934 * Fraser, Gravestones, II, 201 * Harkness 461 * Ross, Lancaster, 212 * graduates, Cornwall Freeholder 6 April 1888, cited CF 3 April 1908 * mentioned: DTL SFH 27 Feb. 1943 based on Cornwall Standard 4 March 1892; GN 31 Jan. 1896