Meet the father of 911 in Ottawa

The 911 emergency call service has been around so long that it’s difficult to remember a time when it wasn’t. But Dr. Justin Maloney certainly can — he was one of its first proponents in Ottawa, and, with a handful of others, fought for years to get it here.
Maloney was, and still is, an emergency doctor at The Ottawa Hospital — then the General — in the early 1980s. He was interested in improving Ottawa’s pre-hospital care, which he says wasn’t good the