Sir John Andrew Macphail, OBE, FRSC (November 24, 1864 – September 23, 1938) was a Canadian physician, author, professor of medicine, and soldier.

Macphail was educated at Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown, and then at McGill University in Montreal,[2] where he received his medical degree in 1891.

[3] While studying at McGill, Macphail wrote a number of reviews and articles for the Montreal Gazette, the Chicago Times and other newspapers.

[2] Macphail enlisted in World War I at the age of 50, and served at the front with a field ambulance corps for 20 months.

[4] Macphail wrote The Medical Services, Volume One of the Official History of the Canadian Forces in the Great War.

[citation needed] The Land, based loosely on The Taming of the Shrew, decried market speculation, class inequality, and changing family values, and promoted a return to a rural way of life.

[6] In 1929 Mcphail write a book, Three persons, consisted of detailed reviews of the memoirs written by three First World War authors, including T. E.

[citation needed] Many of Macphail's essays were taken from the University Magazine, a literary journal which he founded in 1907 and (except for the four years of World War I) edited until its closing in 1920.

Sponsored by Dalhousie, McGill and Toronto universities, its contributors included Rudyard Kipling, several cabinet ministers, and many Canadian academics and literary figures such as Stephen Leacock and Marjorie Pickthall.

[8] It is the site of the Macphail Woods Ecological Forestry Project, a joint effort of the Foundation and the Environmental Coalition of Prince Edward Island to preserve the old-growth Acadian Forest covering much of the property.