“Ste. Anne’s first physician was Dr. F. X. Demers, who served the town for 54 years from 1885 to 1939. After he retired, the community was without a doctor for nine years until 1948 when Dr. Patrick Doyle, who grew up in St. Boniface and trained in Laval, moved to Ste. Anne to open a clinic in the basement of a rented house.

"In 1956, Doyle was joined by Dr. Robert Lafrenière and, in 1965, by Dr. Gerald Gobeil. In the late ‘60s, Drs. Gabriel Lemoine and Joseph Boucher joined the growing practice, still operating out of the basement. This nucleus of five physicians built the first clinic in Ste. Anne in 1971, naming it the Centre Medical Seine. The clinic is located a block away from the Ste. Anne Hospital, built in 1954.”

David Square, journalist, 2001

Source: Winnipeg Free Press, March 2001

Photograph of French-speaking physicians in Manitoba taken around 1907. The first man seated from the left is Dr. François-Xavier Demers, the first resident physician of Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes where he practiced from 1885 until his death in 1939. Archives of the St. Boniface Historical Society, St. Boniface Museum Fonds, MSB 808. Reference: Sainte-Anne-des-Chênes. Retrieved from https://shsb.mb.ca/Fran%C3%A7ois-Xavier_Demers_Sainte-Anne_MSB808

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