C. Stuart Houston

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Stuart Houston
Stuart and Mary Houston
Born
Clarence Stuart Houston

(1927-09-26)September 26, 1927
Williston, North Dakota, U.S.
DiedJuly 22, 2021(2021-07-22) (aged 93)[1]
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Manitoba, Saskatoon Royal University Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital
AwardsGold Medal from the Canadian Association of Radiologists, 1997; Order of Canada, 1993.
Scientific career
FieldsMedicine, Ornithology, Historian
InstitutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan

C. Stuart Houston (September 26, 1927 – July 22, 2021) was an American-born Canadian physician, professor emeritus of medicine in radiology, award-winning ornithologist, historian, and writer.[2] He was awarded the 1990 Eisenmann Medal[3] and was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1993.[4]

Biography[edit]

Houston's parents Clarence J. Houston and Sigridur (Sigga) Christianson Houston jointly operated a general medical practice in Watford City, North Dakota. In 1928 the family moved to Yorkton, Saskatchewan, where Houston's parents started another medical practice. He was born in Williston, North Dakota and after completing his secondary education at the Yorkton Collegiate Institute, Houston earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Manitoba and graduated there with an M.D. in 1951. In 1951 he married Mary Isabel Belcher and the two moved to Yorkton, where he joined his parents' medical practice. He practised medicine from 1951 to 1955 in Yorkton, studied internal medicine and pediatrics for the academic year 1955–1956 at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital, and practiced from 1956 to 1960 again in Yorkton.[5]

In 1960, Houston moved with his family to Saskatoon where he began training in diagnostic radiology at Saskatoon's Royal University Hospital. With the support of a George Von L. Meyer Memorial Scholarship, he later studied for a year in affiliation with Harvard Medical School at Children’s Hospital Boston. He joined in 1964 the department of diagnostic radiology at the University of Saskatchewan, where he became a professor in 1969[5] and retired in 1996 as professor emeritus.[2] He was head of the department of medical imaging from July 1982 to June 1987.[5]

Houston and his wife Mary banded about 155,000 different birds from about 200 different species.[2] They made about 3,100 recoveries.[4] He also holds records for the most bandings of turkey vultures and great horned owls. Mary Houston banded 5,385 Bohemian waxwings, which in 2017 was more than the next three competitors combined. Houston and Farley Mowat once worked together banding birds and Mowat sent him a field guide.[2]

Houston is the author or coauthor of more than 250 articles in medicine or the history of medicine. He wrote three chapters for the book Pediatric Skeletal Radiology (1991). He is the author or coauthor of over 500 publications in ornithology or natural history.[4] He edited three books about the Franklin expedition, based on the diaries and paintings of midshipmen George Back[6] and Robert Hood (who died on the Coppermine expedition),[7] and naturalist John Richardson.[8] Stuart is the author or coauthor of several other books, including Birds of Saskatchewan (2020).[9] His wife Mary would often improve his prose after he wrote a first draft of the facts.[2]

Stuart received Saskatchewan's highest honour, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, in 1992, and was made an officer of the Order of Canada in 1993. In 1997, he was the fourth recipient of the Gold Medal from the Canadian Association of Radiologists.[4]

Mary Isabel Houston[edit]

Mary Isabel Belcher (November 7, 1924 - July 19, 2019) was born at her family's farm near Dilke, Saskatchewan. After graduating from the University of Saskatchewan, she taught for three years at the Yorkton Collegiate Institute. After marrying Houston in August 1951, she worked with him, until nearly the end of her life, on bird banding and on much of his writing.[10]

She banded not only thousands of Bohemian waxwings, but also thousands of mountain bluebirds, tree swallows, purple martins, ring-billed gulls, California gulls, cormorants, and pelicans. She received in 1988 the Douglas H. Pimlott Conservation Award from the Canadian Nature Federation, in 1996 the Meewasin Conservation Award from the Meewasin Valley Authority, and in 2005 the Saskatchewan Volunteer Medal and Saskatchewan Centennial Medal from the province of Saskatchewan. In 2011 she was inducted into the Saskatoon Women's Hall of Fame.[10]

She wrote up seven species for the prodigious Birds of Saskatchewan published at Christmas 2018, co-authored 1 book, 11 book chapters, and 93 scientific papers, and provided editorial criticism of uncounted other works.[10]

Stuart and Mary Houston had three sons and a daughter.[10]

Selected publications[edit]

Articles on history of medicine[edit]

  • Houston, C. S. (1978). "The early years of the Saskatchewan Medical Quarterly". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 118 (9): 1122–1128. PMC 1818698. PMID 348291.
  • Houston, C. J.; Houston, C. S. (1978). "Pioneer of vision: The medical and political memoirs of T. A. Patrick, MD". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 119 (8): 964–967. PMC 1819130. PMID 367556.
  • Houston, C. S. (1984). "New light on Dr. John Richardson". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 131 (6): 653–660. PMC 1483632. PMID 6383590.
  • Houston, C. S.; Fedoruk, S. O. (1985). "Saskatchewan's role in radiotherapy research". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 132 (7): 854–864. PMC 1345880. PMID 3884123.
  • Houston, C. S. (1989). "Life in Yorkton before medicare came along". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 140 (10): 1199–1202. PMC 1269079.
  • Houston, C. S. (1990). "Dare Saskatchewan close its one-doctor hospitals?". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 142 (5): 467–468. PMC 1451657.
  • Houston, C. Stuart (1990). "Scurvy and Canadian exploration". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 7 (2): 161–167. doi:10.3138/cbmh.7.2.161. PMID 11622549.
  • McIntyre, John W.R.; Houston, C. Stuart (1999). "Smallpox and its control in Canada". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 161 (12): 1543–1547. PMC 1230874. PMID 10624414.

Articles on medicine[edit]

Articles on ornithology[edit]

Books[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "C. Stuart HOUSTON (Obituary)". Saskatoon Star Phoenix. July 31, 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e Trembath, Sean (June 23, 2017). "A history of success: Stuart Houston stands out in Saskatchewan". Saskatoon StarPhoenix.
  3. ^ "Our past Eisenmann medalists". Linnean Society of New York.
  4. ^ a b c d "Dr. C. Stuart Houston fonds, Biographical history". Manitoba Archival Information Network.
  5. ^ a b c "Houston, Dr. C. Stuart". The Book of Life Project, New Iceland Heritage Museum, Canada.
  6. ^ Houston, C. Stuart, ed. (1994). Arctic Artist: The Journal and Paintings of George Back, Midshipman with Franklin, 1819-1822. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1181-4; commentary by I.S. McLaren{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  7. ^ Houston, C. Stuart, ed. (1974). To the Arctic by Canoe 1819-1821: The Journal and Paintings of Robert Hood, Midshipman with Franklin. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 0-7735-1222-5.
  8. ^ Houston, C. Stuart, ed. (1984). Arctic Ordeal: The Journal of John Richardson, Surgeon-Naturalist with Franklin, 1820-1822. McGill-Queens University Press. ISBN 0-7735-0418-4; 349 pages; hard cover; illustrated by H. Albert Hochbaum ; appendixes by John W. Thomson (lichenology) & Walter O. Kupsch (geology); foreword by W. Gillies Ross{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  9. ^ a b Martin, Ashley (February 15, 2020). "Awards for Writers". Regina Leader-Post.
  10. ^ a b c d "Obituary. Houston, Mary Isabel, SVM, BA, BEd". Saskatoon StarPhoenix. July 27, 2019.
  11. ^ Shephard, David A.E. (1985). "Review of Pioneer of vision: The reminiscences of T.A. Patrick, M.D. by C.J. Houston and C. Stuart Houston MD". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 2 (1–2): 290–292. doi:10.3138/cbmh.2.2.290.
  12. ^ Headland, R. K. (1986). "Review of Arctic Ordeal, edited by C. Stuart Houston". Polar Record. 23 (143): 209. doi:10.1017/S003224740002845X.
  13. ^ Ehman, Amy Jo (2003). "Review of Steps on the road to medicare". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 169 (1): 50. PMC 164948; vii+163 pages{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  14. ^ McKellar, Shelley (2004). "Review of Steps on the Road to Medicare". University of Toronto Quarterly. 74 (1): 465–466. doi:10.1353/utq.2005.0153. ISSN 1712-5278. S2CID 162231504.
  15. ^ Macdougall, Heather (2006). "Review of Steps on the Road to Medicare". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 23 (1): 275–276. doi:10.3138/cbmh.23.1.275. ISSN 0823-2105.
  16. ^ Warren, Peter (2011). "Review of Tommy's team". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. 28 (2): 415–416. doi:10.3138/cbmh.28.2.415.
  17. ^ Summary of Tommy's team. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
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