[1] The Medicare plan was announced by Premier of Saskatchewan Tommy Douglas in 1959 at a speech he made during the Birch Hills by-election campaign.
[6] The government brought in doctors from Britain, the United States, and other provinces to staff community clinics that were set up to meet demand for health services.
A July 11 rally in support of the doctors in front of the Saskatchewan legislature in Regina attracted about 4,000 people, one tenth the number hoped for by the organizers.
Lord Taylor, a British physician who had helped implement the National Health Service in the United Kingdom, was brought in as a mediator and the "Saskatoon Agreement" ending the strike was signed on July 23, 1962.
[4] The political divisions within the province aggravated by the strike contributed to the Lloyd's government defeat in the 1964 provincial election.