Clement Ligoure

Clement Courtenay Ligoure (13 October 1887 – 23 May 1922) was a Trinidadian doctor and newspaper publisher who was the first [licensed]* Black physician to practise in Nova Scotia, Canada. *[The first Black man to practise medicine in the province may have been a North Sydney, Cape Breton doctor, Adam Lloyd Bayley (1845–1913), originally from Jamaica. However, despite several documented references as to his professional standing, Dr. Bayley’s name is not listed in any of the Nova Scotia Medical Registers and, by his own admission, practiced without a licence.] Dr. Ligoure is also noted for treating hundreds of victims of the Halifax Explosion from his home clinic as well as being an editor and publisher of The Atlantic Advocate newspaper.