George Leslie Mackay, who died in 1901, is still being invoked in presidential election campaigns
Canadian missionary George Leslie Mackay who died at the beginning of the 20th century, is largely unknown in Canada. In Taiwan , he remains an influential Westerner.At the start of Taiwan ’s recent presidential election campaign, one of the top three candidates launched his bid by comparing himself, of all people, to a Canadian missionary from Southwestern Ontario.
Mr. Mackay, who died at the beginning of the 20th century, is largely unknown in Canada. In Taiwan, he remains an influential Westerner. It wasn’t too long ago that a local hospital featured mobile mammogram clinics with a cartoon drawing of the Canadian missionary on the side – featuring his blue eyes and flowing black beard – inviting women to get checked.
He founded the first school for girls in northern Taiwan as well as the first college: Oxford College. Mr. Mackay was popular for his frontier dentistry, too, extracting thousands of teeth over his tenure. He established the first Western hospital in the region – one that provided medical care to residents of northern Taiwan. Hobe Hospital evolved into the modern Mackay Memorial Hospital, one of the largest medical centres in Taiwan today.The dozens of churches founded by Mr.
Mr. Mackay’s reputation does not appear to have suffered from the late-20th-century global backlash over Christian missionaries, likely because he didn’t arrive in Taiwan with an invading force. Spain, the Netherlands, Japan and China all at various times colonized Taiwan but Mr. Mackay came over largely by himself.
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