Why do so few Canadians know about Henry Norman Bethune?

Because Norman Bethune was fundamentally irritating to the establishment. A bit Leninesque, isn't he? While he was a health practitioner in Montreal, he was challenging all the conventional dogmas and rules that he found arbitrary. read more

While he was a health practitioner in Montreal, he was challenging all the conventional dogmas and rules that he found arbitrary. read more

Henry Norman Bethune, surgeon, inventor, political activist (born 3 March 1890 in Gravenhurst, ON; died 12 November 1939 in Huang Shiko, China). Henry Norman Bethune, surgeon, inventor, political activist (born 3 March 1890 in Gravenhurst, ON; died 12 November 1939 in Huang Shiko, China). read more

BETHUNE, HENRY NORMAN, teacher, army officer, author, artist, doctor, surgeon, and inventor; b. 3 or 4 March 1890 in Gravenhurst, Ont., son of Malcolm Nicholson Bethune and Elizabeth Anne Goodwin; m. 13 Aug. 1923 Frances Eleanor Campbell Penney in London, England, and they divorced in October 1927; the couple remarried 11 Nov. 1929 in Montreal, but were divorced again 30 March 1933; they had no children; d. read more