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Michael Callanan (March 29, 1849 – February 21, 1929) was an Irish-born physician and political figure in British Columbia. He represented Cariboo from 1909 until his retirement at the 1916 election in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Conservative.

He was born in 1849 in Clonakilty, County Cork, the son of Daniel J. Callanan, and was educated at Trinity College Dublin and in Paris. From 1875 to 1873, he practised in Kilbrittain and Rosscarbery. He came to Canada, settling in the Northwest Territories. Later, Callanan practised in Nanaimo and Victoria for eight years before moving to Quesnel in 1894 and Barkerville in 1899. Callanan was a physician for the Royal Cariboo Hospital in Barkerville. In 1885, he married Hannah Healy. He retired to New Westminster in 1922. In 1929, Callanan died at St. Mary's Hospital in New Westminster after an extended illness.

References

1. ^ Parker, C W (1916). Northern who's who; a biographical dictionary of men and women. Vol. 1. p. 113. Retrieved 2011-09-12.
2. ^ "Obituaries". Canadian Medical Association Journal. 20 (4): 450. April 1929. PMC 1710679.
3. Lee, Eldon (1997). Scalpels & buggywhips: medical pioneers of Central BC. Heritage House Publishing Co. pp. 19–20. ISBN 1-895811-43-0. Retrieved 2011-09-12.

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