Étienne Bouchard ( – 1676) was a French surgeon who came to
Ville-Marie (Montreal) in 1653 under the sponsorship of the
Société Notre-Dame de Montréal.
Bouchard traveled to
New France
New France (, ) was the territory colonized by Kingdom of France, France in North America, beginning with the exploration of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by Jacques Cartier in 1534 and ending with the cession of New France to Kingdom of Great Br ...
with two other surgeons, one of whom was
Louis Chartier. He was allowed to break his contract with the "Société" in 1655 and proceeded to build an impressive practice. He married in Canada and he and his wife had seven children. He was an officer in the surgeons' guild with Jean Martinet de Fonblanche
and was a doctor for the
Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal
The Hôtel-Dieu de Montréal (; founded in 1645) was the first hospital established in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
''Hôtel-Dieu'', literally translated in English as ''Hotel of God'', is an archaic French term for hospital, referring to the ori ...
.
References
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People of New France
Surgeons
1676 deaths
1620s births
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