[1] Thomas George Roddick attended the Model and Normal Schools in Truro, Nova Scotia, and graduated from the Medical Faculty of McGill University in 1868 with the highest honours, winning the Holmes Gold Medal and Final Prize.

Earlier in 1877, Roddick traveled to Edinburgh to witness Joseph Lister's medical antiseptic system.

[4] In 1894 Roddick, with the aid of fellow specialist James Bell, created the Department of Surgery and became the first chief surgeon of the Royal Victoria Hospital.

[5] However, by 1901 Roddick found himself no longer able to practise surgery, having become allergic to the new antiseptic replacing the carbolic acid he had introduced to Montreal, iodoform.

At the outbreak of the North-West Rebellion in 1885, he was selected to take charge of medical affairs in the field, with the rank of Deputy-Surgeon General of Militia.

[12] Lady Roddick staunchly opposed his exhumation, stating her husband's final wishes had changed shortly before his death.