First Doctor in Our Area

Dr. Will Sager intended to be a medical missionary but his wife Hettie could not bear to take her children to China where he was to work. He worked as the Public Health Officer for Burnaby from 19311943, and after that at Wallace's Shipyards as the doctor then a short po.sting at Pender Harbour as they had no doctor.
He retired in 1945 to his Crescent Beach home which was built a few years earlier (the family had been renting summer homes each year since 1927). He still needed an income so opened a practice in White Rock to become the first doctor there. He also had a dispensary in his Crescent Beach home. He became a private physician and surgeon as well as district coroner, until more doctors moved out to the area. Dr. Sager died in 1953 of a stroke at the age of 66 years.
Shirley Morrison (nee Sager) was Dr. Sager's daughter and became a nurse and married Jack Morrison. She and the children travelled widely to be with Jack wherever his career took him, but they had moved back to Sunnyside just before her father unexpectedly died. They were able to take care of her mother, and later an aunt. Jack Morrison became a well-known local realtor. Shirley still lives in Ocean Park.
Source: The Sager Saga: A Family History by Arthur Sager (1998)
from Bruce Morrison, grandson. - Research by Shirley Stonier