Donor Story:
Established under the terms of the Will of Dr. Fred Allan Vokes. Fred felt that he owed a great deal to Queen's for his successful career as a family physician.
Fred Vokes was born in 1907 to a poor farming family in Nanticoke. His parents were determined that he and his 3 sisters receive a university education.
Fred graduated from Queen's in 1929 and was an intern at St. Joseph's hospital in Hamilton for 6 months and then worked with the family physician in Brechen for 6 months before starting on his own Cayuga in the spring of 1930.
Throughout the years Fred operated his practice out of his house and his wife Maude (Lindsey) Vokes, who was a graduate from the University of Toronto, was his secretary. Fred was the only doctor in the area for over 10 years. During the depression he often received chicken or produce as payment.
Fred's one diversion was golf and so when he retired in 1962, he moved to a home that backed on to the Burlington Golf Course. He survived his wife and died in 1989 at his sister Ruth's home.
Fred Vokes was a proud, hard working, determined, conscientious, dedicated physician who knew life had been good to him and wanted to help others who wanted to be family physicians.
