Memorial Service for otolaryngologist Dr. Frederick ‘Buddy’ McIntosh
By Neil Armstrong

A memorial visitation and memorial service will be held on May 17, 10:30am to 11:15am and 11:30am respectively, for Dr. Frederick Edward Aldrick "Buddy"
McIntosh — an ear, nose and throat specialist and an alumnus of Kingston College — at Glendale Funeral Home in Etobicoke.
A public Masonic Service will be held on May 25 at 10:30am at the Richmond Masonic Temple in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
In lieu of flowers, the family is requesting that donations be made to Kingston College Old Boys Association (KCOBA), Toronto Chapter, for contribution towards Kingston College’s Centenary Legacy Project in memory of Dr. Frederick ‘Buddy’ McIntosh.
Born on February 4, 1937, he is survived by Alethia McIntosh, his wife for 64 years, his children and other relatives. In an obituary, the family notes that he passed away at age, 88, peacefully in hospital on March 28, 2025.

“I do thank everyone for your beautiful messages of condolences. They have lifted
our spirits at a time when it is so easy to let our sorrow bury us. It is good to be reminded that we are not alone, that God sends you, his angels, to lift us up and to help us feel securely surrounded by the "Everlasting Arms"

“To his patients and all who knew and loved Buddy, he was an excellent physician and surgeon, and a most wonderful and generous friend. To his family he has been a beloved husband, father, brother, uncle, cousin. He will be missed by all,” notes the obituary.
A profile of him in “The KC Times,” a monthly news magazine of the KCOBA, written by Winston Stewart, notes that Dr. McIntosh received many awards from several organizations for community service in Toronto and Jamaica.
It noted that he was the vice-president of the Caribbean Chapter of the Canadian Diabetic Association, from its inception in 1992 to 2004.

“He has also served as VP of the Daphne DaCosta Memorial Foundation from 1987 to 2000.   This Foundation delivers healthcare in Jamaica and the Caribbean. It is also instrumental in helping with the prevention of breast cancer, cervical cancer and prostate cancer, by encouraging mammograms and pap smears in women, and PSA testing in men. The Foundation has also donated mammography machines and a mobile medical van for immunization and vaccination purposes.”
A student at Kingston College from 1948 to 1955, McIntosh worked at the North Street Pathological Laboratory upon graduation. The three years he spent there were instrumental in consummating his love of the medical profession, notes “The KC Times.”
In October 1958, McIntosh enrolled at the University College of the West Indies (UCWI) to pursue a degree in medicine. He graduated from the medical faculty in April 1965.
McIntosh interned at Kingston Public Hospital from May 1965 to December 1966 and subsequently worked at the Kingston Public Hospital and the UWI Hospital until September 1968.
From 1968 to 1972, he pursued postgraduate studies in otolaryngology, ear, nose
and throat surgery at University of Toronto.  He obtained the prestigious Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Canada) (FRCS(C), and the American Diplomate of the American Board of Otolaryngology in the USA, both in 1973. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Opthalmology and Otolaryngology in 1976.
McIntosh was one of the two founding charter members of the Toronto Chapter of the Kingston College Old Boys Association (KCOBA), which was established in December 1973.
Starting in March 1974, he was a Consultant Otolaryngologist at the Humber Memorial Hospital, now known as the Humber River Regional Hospital.

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