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Duncan McEachran in Retirement.

Pictured here is Duncan McEachran (1841-1924) in retirement at Ormstown, Quebec, after an active and controversial career as veterinary educator and practitioner. Born in Scotland, he was trained at the Royal Dick Veterinary College, graduating in 1862. He then emigrated to Upper Canada, briefly practicing in Woodstock and teaching at the Ontario Veterinary College before moving to Montreal in 1866 to practice and found the Montreal Veterinary College. He was Dean throughout its years as an independent college (1866-1889) and when it was McGill University's Faculty of Comparative Medicine and Veterinary Science (1890-1903). He was many things besides a practitioner and educator, among them Chief Inspector of Livestock for the Dominion, a stockman for the Cochrane and Waldron ranches in Alberta, and veterinary surgeon for the 3rd Montreal Field Artillery. But it is as a veterinary educator that McEachran's greatest historical importance lies. He, Andrew Smith of the Toronto Veterinary College, Charles P. Lyman of the Harvard Veterinary School, James Law of Cornell, Alexander Laiutard of New York, and Henry J. Detmers of Ohio State pioneered North American veterinary education. They defined issues and set standards, definitively shaping nineteenthand twentieth-century veterinary education. This was the case even though the model of veterinary education proposed by McEachran, Liautard, and Lyman, one closely allied with education for practitioners of human medicine, lost to a more strictly veterinary model undertaken with or in close proximity to agricultural colleges. After retiring as Chief Inspector of Livestock in 1902 and from McGill in 1903, McEachran moved to Ormstown, built a farm (Ormstown Grange, whose buildings still stand), raised prize-winning horses and cattle, and still found time to organize and operate the Ormstown Exhibition. He died there in October 1924 and is now buried in Mount Royal Cemetery in Montreal.