Frank William Green

Frank William Green M.D., C.M., F.A.C.S.
MLA for Cranbrook
In office 1941–1949
Preceded by	Frank Mitchell MacPherson
Succeeded by	Leo Thomas Nimsick
Personal details
Born	(1876-03-15)March 15, 1876 Victoria, British Columbia
Died	December 24, 1953(1953-12-24) (aged 77) Cranbrook, British Columbia
Resting place	small
Political party	Conservative, coalition
Spouses	Lillian Barbara Staples (m. 8 Jun 1905)
Children	William Otis Green
Parent	small
Residences	Cranbrook, British Columbia
Occupation	physician, surgeon

Frank William Green (March 15, 1876 – December 24, 1953) was a Canadian physician and politician.

Green was born in Victoria, British Columbia in 1876 to Alexander Alfred Green and Theophila Turner Raines. He attended Corrig College at Victoria. After the death of his father in 1891, Green relocated to Montreal to attend McGill University where he would obtain his medical degree. Upon his graduation from McGill in 1898, Green worked as a physician on the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway Crowsnest Pass line, in the Kootenay Valley, working on horseback. During the time he operated a hospital and treated many during an epidemic of typhoid.

He later settled at Cranbrook, British Columbia, in the Kootenay Valley in 1899 to establish a medical practice. He was one of the first and only physicians, a medical pioneer at Cranbrook. A partnership with Dr. James Horace King of Cranbrook which started in 1903 was described as a "cornerstone in local medicine", with modern innovations being in use at the time, two examples being the first x-ray machine in the city being purchased for their hospital and the use of automobiles within the practice.

In the British Columbia general election, 1941, Green was elected as a Conservative to the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia for the district of Cranbrook. He was elected again in 1945 as a coalition member, serving until his retirement in 1949.

He married Lillian Barbara Staples of Stillwater, Minnesota in June 1905. One of his sons, William Otis Green also became a doctor in the Cranbrook area, with whom he later shared a practice with. Frank W. Green died in 1953 of heart problems at St. Eugene Hospital in Cranbrook, which he had established. He was later cremated in Calgary. His wife Lillian died on October 22, 1965 at Cranbrook.

The F. W. Green Medical Centre and F. W. Green Memorial Home continuing care centre at Cranbrook are both named after him.

Electoral history

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20th British Columbia election, 1941

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Oscar Albin Eliasin	1,548	33.89%		unknown
	Conservative	Frank William Green	1,615	35.35%		unknown	Liberal	Arnold Joseph McGrath	1,405	30.76%		unknown
Total valid votes			4,568	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			52
Turnout			%

21st British Columbia election, 1945

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±	Expenditures
	Labor-Progressive	William Brown	193	4.56%		unknown	Co-operative Commonwealth Fed.	Henry Gammon	1,965	46.40%		unknown
	Coalition	Frank William Green	2,077	49.04%	–	unknown
Total valid votes			4,235	100.00%
Total rejected ballots			40
Turnout			%