The Nicol Family Foundation has committed $1 million to Kincardine Hospital.
The family is donating the money in memory of Dr. Donald Arthur Douglas Milne.
The money will go towards the Dr. D.A.D. Milne Laboratory, which will be build as part of the hospital’s redevelopment.
Dr. Milne moved to Kincardine in 1955, and practiced in the town until 1981.
President of the Nicol Family Foundation, and grandson of Dr & Mrs Milne, Neil Nicol, says that his grandparents loved and valued their time in the community, and the family felt it was important to show support toward the hospital’s fundraising campaign.
Milne graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1951, then worked as a family physician in Paisley before moving to Kincardine with his wife Doris and their growing family.
With this latest commitment, the campaign to redevelop the Kincardine hospital has now reached $9.8 million.
In recognition of the gift, as well as naming the new laboratory the “Dr. D.A.D. Milne Laboratory”, the old physician “on call” box, which features Dr. Milne and many other well-known physicians, will be moved from near the emergency Department and preserved in the new laboratory space.