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[edit] MacKay Hospital
This page previously wrongly attributed the legend that a sea captain surnamed Mackay, who was no direct relative of the missionary, was the origin of the hospital. The main English history website of the hospital described in detail about the works of Dr. MacKay . Please, put such discussion here, not into the text. In Canadian materials, such as the referenced Marian Keith book, the notation of a Detroit donor (in that time, a lot of folks from Ontario went to the US via Detroit, a major entry point, as well as settling-place)...If you have trouble with the text, make the changes; I made the 'direct" relative notation a few weeks ago (there were a lot of M'Kay's in Zorra).... Bacl-presby 19:04, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
User:Scribsott on March 11 was the first one to add the note about the hospital not being named after MacKay. Unless he can provide a source, and the hospital itself claims that it was the missionary - where is the debate? I think that the reference needs a source since it contradicts so much evidence. Even the wikipedia link to the Mackay Memorial Hospital states it that way. Brian0324 17:17, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for the revision and comments; I did not appreciate being called a vulgar name by someone whose reasoning was "my father works at the Hospital". I'll have to refer to Marian Keith's "The Black Beared Barbarian" and GLM's "From Far Formosa" this weekend. If this discussion and massive revision in wiki has caused much grief, I'll be happy to omit it. Bacl-presby 01:12, 27 January 2007 (UTC) PS--I've moved the pictures to remove a large gap in the centre of the article
FOR THE RECORD Mackay himself wrote in From Far Formosa pp 316, that the initial donation of $ 3,000 for the Mackay hospital came from the widow of a Sea Captain (quite inland in Detroit..) named Mackay...Keith's reference (The Black Bearded Barbarian) is on pp 219-220 on the funds raided in the 1880 furlough for both medical (Hospital) and educational (Oxford College). Likely someone will inform us that Mackay Hospital was memorialized after GLM's 1901 death, but this is the rationale behind the story as I've posted/revised. Bacl-presby 17:59, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- As noted, I removed two words from the article--Mackay Memorial Hospital was not founded by Mackay--the Hospital he started in 1882 from $ donated from the Widow of a Great Lakes Steamer Captain (the "Sea" quite distant from Detroit) was shifted from Tamsui to Taipei, and "Memorial" was added there in 1912 to honour George Leslie Mackay--dare I add this to the Hospital's wiki entry?
Bacl-presby 22:51, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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- Thanks for doing the research. I would definitely correct both sites.Brian0324 14:45, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Geneology Question
George Leslie Mackay is my great-great-great-grandfather :D His daughter adopted my great-grandmother (who was Taiwanese). I wonder if anybody could find some sort of geneology of his to I can try to track down his Caucasian descendants? .onion 05:04, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
- see J. Ross Mackay
Bacl-presby 19:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] China should be referenced in the article to properly define cultural context
The main body of this article deserves a reference to China. Just because Taiwan was occupied by the Japanese doesn't mean that the culture ceased to be Chinese. It is widely recognized as part of China.Brian0324 19:06, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
