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About Howard McDiarmid
- Howard Richmond McDiarmid (June 3, 1927 – August 25, 2010) was a physician and political figure in British Columbia.
- He represented Alberni in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1966 to 1972 as a Social Credit member. Born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1927, he grew up in the Canadian prairies and was educated in medicine at the University of Manitoba.
- McDiarmid interned at the Vancouver General Hospital and moved to Tofino in 1955.
- He was the only physician there until 1972, delivering more than 100 babies a year.
- McDiarmid married Lynn Honeyman, a nurse he had met in Banff while he was a student.
- In the 1970s, he helped establish Pacific Rim National Park Reserve.
- With his son Charles, he opened the Wickaninnish Inn in Tofino in 1996.
- McDiarmid later practised in Vancouver and then California.
- He wrote Pacific Rim Park: a country doctor's role in preserving Long Beach and establishing the new Wickaninnish Inn (ISBN 0981320406), published in 2009.
- On August 25, 2010, McDiarmid died of cancer at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria at the age of 83.
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