Biography
He was qualified as a medical doctor. The United Church had a medical marine mission program led by Dr. George Darby at the time, and based out of Bella Bella (also known as Waglisla). As a young medical student, this was a life–forming experience for Albert, as he was faced with a wide range of situations from surgery to tooth pulling in remote locations, and often had to work and improvise with limited equipment and supplies. In his second summer at Bella Bella, after his graduation with a medical degree, he was the assistant in charge of the R.W. Large Memorial Hospital."
Anecdotes
Ross Dobson wrote "A second Dobson family connection is that my uncle Dr. Albert Dobson (Hugh M. Dobson’s younger brother) served in the Melvin Swartout (I) as a senior medical student in the summers of 1939 and 1940.
In 1939 he was in his third year of medical school at the University of Alberta(Edmonton).
References
Dobson, Ross B. (2015) One Family, Three Mission Boats: Dobson family connections with United Church Mission Boats Nauticapedia.ca 2015. nauticapedia.ca ↗
