Maurice Macdonald Seymour (July 7, 1857 – January 6, 1929), Commissioner of Public Health, was a physician and surgeon of the early North-West Territories in Canada.
[B] He founded the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League which incorporated and constructed the Fort Qu'Appelle sanitarium.
Captain Seymour was born in Ireland and his wife Maria Macdonald in Scotland.
[2] Seymour began his secondary education be studying at the Assumption College in Sandwich, Ontario, from which he graduated in 1873.
Seymour attended McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, graduating 1879 with a Doctor in Medicine and Master in Surgery.
Ena Isabella Seymour married Major M. A. Burbank who served in the First World War.
[4] While practicing medicine in Fort Qu'Appelle, Seymour lived in a large yellow house presently located south of Saskatchewan Highway 56 near the communities of Lebret, and Mission Lake in southern Saskatchewan.
The home was later donated to Scouts Canada and served as a kitchen and meeting area in Camp Gilwell.
He founded the Saskatchewan Anti-Tuberculosis League which incorporated and constructed the Fort Qu'Appelle sanitarium.
Seymour declined to serve in the political arena so he could devote his time to the medical field.