Arthur Evans Snell

Colonel A.E. Snell CMG, OStJ, DSO (19 March 1877 - 25 September 1967) was the 10th Canadian Surgeon General.

Born in Woodbridge, Ontario, Arthur E. was educated at the University of Toronto, where he graduated with a Medical Degree.

He joined the Canadian Army Medical Corps (CAMC) in 1910 in the rank of Captain. In 1914, Snell was Taken on Strength, and posted to “No. 2 Field Ambulance.” In 1916, newly promoted to Colonel, he was posted to the CAMC Ambulance Service as Commanding Officer. At the end of the war, he returned to Canada and took up practice in Toronto, Ontario.

In 1924, Snell wrote "The C.A.M.C: With the Canadian Corps During the Last Hundred Days of the Great War". In the Introduction of the book Major-General JT Fotheringham argues that it “is the first contribution made by the Canadian Medical Service to the literature of training. It is full of the kind of experience that will make it valuable, if not exactly as a Manual, yet as a source from which Tactical and Administrative problems can be studied by coming generations of Medical Officers.”

In 1933, he was appointed Director General of Medical Services (Army) (later known as Surgeon General).

Colonel Snell died 25 September 1967 at the age of 91.