Canadian College Of Osteopathy

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The osteopathic college in Ontario, founded in 1991, is The Canadian College of Osteopathy. This college was modelled after the Collège d'Études Ostéopathiques (1981), both of which were founded by Philippe Druelle. The lineage of Traditional Osteopaths can be traced directly to the faculty of the Canadian College of Osteopathy. In particular, renowned Osteopaths such as Thomas Schooley, DO (deceased), Anne Wales, DO, (who was still actively treating in her 97th year), Viola Frymann, DO, and Denis Brooks, DO (deceased), have all either been instructors of the college's experienced faculty, or were guest lecturers at symposiums offered by the Association of Traditional Osteopathic Colleges of Canada (ATOCC) over the last twenty years. These Osteopaths were all students of Dr. William Garner Sutherland who was a student of A.T. Still's 1900 graduating class.

Although, The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario recognizes Osteopathic Physicians, the manual practice of Osteopathy is not regulated in Ontario. Fortunately there is an organization – the Ontario Association of Osteopathic Manual Practitioners (OAO) – that was founded in 1999, by the students and graduates of the CCO. The OAO is actively working on a submission to the Ontario government to have manual Osteopathy become regulated in Ontario. This process will take a significant amount of planning and time.

The profession of Osteopathy was founded in 1874 single-handedly by an American doctor, with a mechanical background, named Andrew Taylor Still (1828-1917). Still was the third son of a pioneer doctor, under whom he apprenticed at the culmination of the Jacksonian era (1829-1837). It was a time that encouraged independent thought and the development of new disciplines to improve the lot of mankind.

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