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Article: McIsaac went from pets to politics--and back.(WESTERN RECORD)
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- September 11, 2006
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DIED
Former veterinarian, provincial and federal politician Dr. J. Clifford McIsaac, 75, from the complications of Alzheimer's disease, in Guelph, Ont., on July 25. Born in Mount Herbert, P.E.I., McIsaac attended Truro Agricultural College in 1950 and graduated from the Ontario Veterinary College at Guelph in 1955. He then moved to Unity, Sask., where he established a veterinary practice and several years later opened another veterinary clinic in North Battleford. In 1964, McIsaac ran successfully as a Liberal in the Saskatchewan provincial election and served in Ross Thatcher's government as MLA for The Battlefords-Meadow Lake. Re-elected in 1967 and 1971, he ...