Doctor Colin Scott Dafoe (21 November 1909 - 29 July 1969) was a Canadian

Canada

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 surgeon

Surgeon

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, best known for his work with Marshall Josip Broz Tito's

Josip Broz Tito

Marshal Josip Broz Tito – 4 May 1980) was a Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian, Tito was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad, viewed as a unifying symbol for the nations of the Yugoslav federation...

 Partisans

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 in Yugoslavia

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 during the Second World War.

Dafoe was born in Madoc, Ontario

Madoc, Ontario (town)

Madoc is a community in the municipality of Centre Hastings, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada. It is located at the junction of Highway 7 and Highway 62, southeast of Bancroft, halfway between Toronto and Ottawa.-History:...

, the son of a prosperous hardware merchant. The Dafoe family was well established in the area and had already produced one visibly successful son in John Wesley Dafoe

John Wesley Dafoe

John Wesley Dafoe was a Canadian journalist and Liberal. From 1901 to 1944 he was the editor of the Manitoba Free Press, later named the Winnipeg Free Press. He also wrote several books, including a biography of Wilfrid Laurier. Dafoe was one of the country's most influential and powerful...

, editor-in-chief of the Manitoba (later Winnipeg) Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press

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 from 1901 until his death in 1944. There were also at least two notable physicians in the family: an uncle, Dr William Allan Dafoe, who was to influence Colin Dafoe's decision to pursue a medical career, and his son Dr Allan Roy Dafoe

Allan Roy Dafoe

Doctor Allan Roy Dafoe OBE was a Canadian obstetrician, best known for delivering and caring for the Dionne quintuplets, the first quintuplets known to survive early infancy.-Biography:...

, who later moved to the remote northern town of Callander, Ontario

Callander, Ontario

The Municipality of Callander is a township in central Ontario, Canada, located at the southeast end of Lake Nipissing in the District of Parry Sound...

, where he would rise to international celebrity as the country doctor who delivered the Dionne Quintuplets

Dionne quintuplets

The Dionne quintuplets are the first quintuplets known to survive their infancy. The sisters were born just outside Callander, Ontario, Canada near the village of Corbeil.The Dionne girls were born two months premature...

on May 28, 1934.