Ted Dewar was born in Saskatchewan in 1911. His family subsequently moved to Ontario where he received his elementary and secondary education in Orangeville. He was admitted to the University of Toronto Medical School and obtained his MD in 1936. In 1940 he joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps and saw active service as a Major at the No 1 Casualty Clearing Station. In 1947, while still serving in the Army, he obtained the Fellowship of the College and subsequently the Fellowship of the Canadian College on his return to Canada. In 1951 he was appointed surgeon-in-chief of the division of orthopaedic surgery at the Toronto General Hospital. Teaching was his major interest and the appointment allowed him to fulfil his dream of a collective group of orthopaedic services in all the teaching hospitals of Toronto, through which residents could rotate during their orthopaedic training programme. The heads of these units met regularly with Ted to assess the progress of each trainee and to arrange special programmes with lecturers coming from all around the world. This arrangement greatly widened the scope of the educational programme and Toronto became recognised, under Ted's leadership, as the leading centre for orthopaedic training in the North American continent. Dewar was very interested in the charitable activities of the "March of Dimes" and worked hard to arrange visits around Ontario Province to pick up crippled patients who were then transported to Toronto for treatment. He was a popular and inspirational teacher. Each year one of his residents was invited to join the "Dewar Orthopaedic Society", a group which met annually to discuss their work with one another and with their old teacher. Ted will be particularly remembered for his hospitality by his many visitors who came to Canada either visiting his home in Toronto or his lakeside cottage in Go Home Bay. On the national scene, Ted Dewar was a powerful force in the administration of the Canadian Orthopaedic Association and was its President in 1970. He was a member of the British, the American, the South African, the Australian, and the New Zealand Orthopaedic Associations. He died on 22 September 1990 survived by his wife, Lucille, two daughters, Heather and Deborah and seven grandchildren.