Dr. George Reginald Deacon was the official physician of the Grand Trunk Railway in Stratford

Deacon Street was named for Dr. George Reginald Deacon, who practiced medicine from 1896 to 1925. He was a leading Stratford physician and surgeon, and official doctor for the Grand Trunk Railway. Dr. Deacon had a fluoroscope in his office at 101 Brunswick St. to examine his patents by X-ray before there was any X-ray equipment in the hospital. Some of Dr. Deacon’s early medical records are in the Stratford-Perth Archives.

His father, Rev. Daniel Deacon, was the first rector of St. Paul’s Anglican Church and his mother was the first woman member of the Stratford board of education.

Dr. Deacon’s wife, Jeanette, owned the first electric car in Stratford. She was the envy of many as she drove around town in her Baker Electric, though some were unhappy because the quiet........

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