John H. Maloney

MALONEY, O.P.E.I., M.D..JOHN H„ physician; b. 6 February 1918 in Barachois, Quebec, son of Val Maloney and Hildred McAuley; m. 27 December 1945 Marguerite Jobe, and they had five children, Peter, Leslie, Eric, Tira, and Valerie; Roman Catholic; d. 10 May 2001, in Charlottetown. Maloney, a Liberal, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1970 for 6th Queens. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1974 and 1978. On 25 June 1970, Maloney was appointed Minister of Health and Welfare and held this Ministry until 1972. He served as Minister of Industry and Commerce from 10 November 1971 to 2 May 1974, and as Minister of Development from 10 October 1972 to 2 May 1979. He also served as Minister of Education from 1978 to 1979. In the mid-1960s, Maloney was a central figure in a citizens' lobby group seeking the establishment of a new provincial university. In 1969 the provincial government created the University of Prince Edward Island. Maloney studied at St. Francis Xavier University, and in 1942 received his medical degree from McGill University. From 1943 to 1946, he served overseas in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. Maloney was the chief of obstetrics and gynaecology at the Charlottetown Hospital and helped establish the Charlottetown Clinic. He was a physician at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and was a consultant at the Alberton and O'Leary hospitals. Maloney had a lifelong interest in archaeology and devoted years of study to the Island's original inhabitants from 7000 or 8000 BC. He served on the federal task force that preceded the introduction of Medicare in Canada. Maloney was awarded a life membership in the Prince Edward Island Medical Society in 1987. He was a member of the Charlottetown School Board, the Advisory Committee of the Prince Edward Island Nursing Association, and the Premier's Task Force on Alcoholism and Extended Care. He served as chair of the federal Task Force: Methods of Delivery of Medical Care. In 1967 Maloney was awarded the Centennial Medal and was posthumously awarded the Prince Edward Island Order of Merit Medal in June 2001. Maloney served as president of the Prince Edward Island Medical Society, the Prince Edward Island Mental Health Association, the Atlantic Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the Provincial Archaeology Board, and the Prince Edward Island Historical Society. He was honoraury treasurer of the Canadian Medical Association Committee on Economics and held a senior membership in the Canadian Medical Association. He worked and lived most of his life in Charlottetown. John Maloney died 10 May 2001. Marguerite Maloney was born 20 March 1917 in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. She was the daughter of James Lawrence Jobe and Mary Beatrice Jesso.