{{short description|Canadian doctor (1970–1955)}} {{Infobox person | name = Hannah Emily Reid | birth_date = January 19, 1870 | birth_place = Orangeville, Ontario, Canada | death_date = May 27, 1955 | education = Attended Ontario Medical College for Women but graduated from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine (1905) | occupation = Physician | employer = New England Hospital for Women and Children, Women’s College Hospital }}

'''Hannah Emily Reid''' (January 19, 1870 – May 27, 1955) was a Canadian physician.<ref name = "Sisterhood">{{cite web |title=Dr. Hannah Reid & Dr. Minerva Reid – Sisterhood |url=https://www.womenscollegehospitalfoundation.com/News-Media/Blog/October-2018/Dr-Hannah-Reid-Dr-Minerva-Reid-Sisterhood.aspx |website=Women’s College Hospital Foundation |access-date=2021-03-01 |archive-date=2019-05-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190507200338/http://womenscollegehospitalfoundation.com/News-Media/Blog/October-2018/Dr-Hannah-Reid-Dr-Minerva-Reid-Sisterhood.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was the Chief of Anaesthesia at Toronto's Women's College Hospital from 1926 to 1931.<ref name= "Notes">{{cite journal |title=Notes: Reid, Hannah Emily (1870–1955) |journal=Archives of Women's College Hospital}}</ref>

== Early life and education == Hannah Emily Reid was born near Orangeville, Ontario on January 19, 1870.<ref name= "The Indomitable Lady Doctors">{{cite book |last1=Hacker |first1=Carlotta |title=The Indomitable Lady Doctors |date=1974 |pages=119–131}}</ref> From an early age she had an interest in teaching– after completing her studies at Orangeville High School in 1891<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Scrafield-Danby |first=Constance |date=12 October 2001 |title=Wonderful ladies from Dufferin's past |page=14 |work=The Midweek Banner; Orangeville, Ont. |id={{ProQuest|<!-- insert ProQuest data here -->}} }}</ref> she received her Second-Class Teacher's Certificate and began teaching at several schools in Toronto.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Early Female Doctors – Peggy Feltmate|date=27 March 2020 |url=https://www.peggyfeltmate.com/genealogy/early-female-doctors/|access-date=2022-01-02|language=en-US}}</ref><ref name= "The Indomitable Lady Doctors" />

She later discovered her interest in medicine and joined the Ontario Medical College for Women.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last1=Thompson|first1=Dorothy|last2=Kronberg|first2=Jean|title=History of the Department of Anaesthesia: Women's College Hospital|url=http://www.anesthesia.webservices.utoronto.ca/Assets/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/Anesthesia/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/history/affwch.pdf|access-date=2022-01-02|archive-date=2022-01-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220102183956/http://www.anesthesia.webservices.utoronto.ca/Assets/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/Anesthesia/Anesthesia+Digital+Assets/history/affwch.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name = "Sisterhood" /> Hannah and her sister, Minerva Reid “were amongst the last women to graduate from the Ontario Medical College for Women before it closed in 1905”.<ref name = "Sisterhood" /> While she attended the Ontario Medical College for Women in Toronto until its closure, she completed her medical degree at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine in 1905.<ref name = "Sisterhood" /><ref name= "The Indomitable Lady Doctors" /> After graduating, Reid travelled to northern Manitoba on medical assignment.<ref name= "The Indomitable Lady Doctors" /><ref name=":1" /> Following that, she spent 1906 as an intern at the New England Hospital for Women and Children.<ref name = "Sisterhood" /><ref>{{Cite book|last=New England Hospital for Women and Children|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UxfPAAAAMAAJ&q=hannah+reid|title=Annual Report|date=1922|pages=55|language=en}}</ref>

== Career == In 1912, Reid opened her own practice in Toronto, which focused on anesthesia and obstetrics.<ref name = "Sisterhood" /><ref name=":1" /> Two years later, she began working at Women’s College Hospital in the Department of Anaesthesia.<ref name = "Sisterhood" /><ref name = "Notes" /> She became Chief of Anaesthesia in 1926,<ref name=":0"/> the second woman to hold this position after Margaret McCallum-Johnston.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dhaliwal|first=Amreet|date=2018|title=Dr. Margaret McCallum-Johnston: Canada's first female anesthesiologist|journal=Canadian Journal of Anesthesia|language=en|volume=65|issue=9|pages=1066–1067|doi=10.1007/s12630-018-1142-y|pmid=29790119|s2cid=46894454|issn=0832-610X|doi-access=free}}</ref> According to the hospital, “[f]or over two decades, the two sisters could often be found working together in the operating rooms of Women's College Hospital”.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Shorter|first=Edward|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=amNZAgAAQBAJ&q=Reid|title=Partnership for Excellence: Medicine at the University of Toronto and Academic Hospitals|year=2013|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-6404-3|pages=565|language=en|quote=Minerva was a younger sister of anesthetist/obstetrician Hannah Reid, with whom she often worked.}}</ref> During her career at Women's College Hospital, Hannah was also a member of the hospital's first Board of Directors.<ref>{{cite news |date=July 29, 2010 |title=Museum Matters: The John Reid Family – II |agency=Orangeville Citizen |url=http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2010-07-29/Columns/Museum_Matters.html |access-date=January 2, 2022 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130219193205/http://www.citizen.on.ca/news/2010-07-29/Columns/Museum_Matters.html |archive-date=19 February 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Townsend|first=Wayne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wtNnZp-503EC&dq=hannah+reid+hospital+toronto&pg=PA218|title=Orangeville: The Heart of Dufferin County|year=2006|publisher=Dundurn|isbn=978-1-897045-18-3|pages=218|language=en|quote=...and Hannah Reid (18701955), born on Mono Township. Early Canadian female doctors they were founders of Women's College Hospital in Toronto.}}</ref>

Reid died in Toronto, Ontario on May 27, 1955.<ref name="Find a Grave">{{cite web |title=Dr Hannah Emily Reid |url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174634588/hannah-emily-reid |website=Find a Grave}}</ref>{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=March 2022}} and her sister died in 1957.<ref>{{Cite news |date=1957-05-01 |title=Women doctors |pages=4 |work=The Windsor Star |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/99913076/women-doctors/ |access-date=2022-04-18}}</ref>

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == * [https://www.archeion.ca/womens-college-hospital-department-of-anaesthesia-fonds Department of Anesthesia Fonds at the Archives of Women’s College Hospital]

{{Authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Reid, Hannah Emily}} Category:Canadian anesthesiologists Category:1870 births Category:1955 deaths Category:Women anesthesiologists Category:20th-century Canadian medical doctors Category:20th-century Canadian women medical doctors