Dr Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation - Swift Current

The year 1999 marked the start of the Dr. Noble Irwin Regional Healthcare Foundation, which is an independently-operated, community-based, regionally-focused, volunteer-led, charitable, non-profit organization.

It is named for Dr. Noble T. Irwin (1921-1998), a respected Swift Current physician who followed his family’s tradition of dedication and deep caring with regard to health care. Dr. O.M. Irwin, his father, was chairman of the district medical advisory committee (1946) that negotiated with the Swift Current Health Region towards establishing complete health insurance in one corner of the province. Their commitments to the profession of health care services and to the community of southwest Saskatchewan are well remembered.

Dr. Noble Totton Irwin

Dr. Noble Totton Irwin was born November 15, 1921 in Swift Current. He received his formal education at Central Public School and the Swift Current Collegiate Institute in this city and Ravenscourt in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Noble Irwin was married to Irene Spence on June 7, 1945. He attended the University of Saskatchewan and received his pre-medical training.

Following this he served in the army during WWII as a member of the 8th Reconnaissance, 14th Canadian Hussars Regiment. He was severely wounded at Normandy. After his discharge in 1945, he entered medical college at the University of Manitoba. Upon graduation in 1950 and following a year of internship, he returned to Swift Current to work at the Swift Current Clinic as a general practitioner.

In 1957 he began four years of training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Toronto, graduating in 1961. He returned to Swift Current Clinic where he practiced until his retirement in 1986. Noble was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion; 8th Reconnaissance, 14th Canadian Hussars Regiment Association; the Rotary Club; the Swift Current Curling Club; the Elmwood Golf Club and the Swift Current Archeology Society. In his spare time Dr. Irwin enjoyed gardening, hunting, golf and curling. Dr. Noble Totton Irwin passed away in Swift Current June 29, 1998 and, wife Irene passed November 20, 1999 both husband and wife are buried in Memory Gardens, Swift Current, SK.

The Foundation strives to do its work in the same spirit that he embodied for so many years.