This year, the Founder’s Day weekend will be very special.

Passionately, we have trained generations of osteopaths that do excellent work for the population. Children, adults, and seniors have been able to resume the normal course of their lives thanks to osteopathy and our community. We are very proud of our students and of the professionals that we have trained, and we congratulate them for their social actions.

As Dr. Andrew Taylor Still, the founder of osteopathy said: “An osteopath is only a human engineer…”. We practice this natural medicine to restore movement and health to the functions of the organism. This is our therapeutic specificity.

This success we owe to several devoted teachers who, with all their hearts not only taught but transmitted the know-how. We thank and pay tribute to Marie Colford, who was present from the very beginning to build the college, Brad McCutcheon, who was the first principal, Tara Drew, Jane Stark for research, and Belinda Heleno, who were the soul of the Founder’s Day, Daryl Hochman, Geneviève Forget, and Robert Hufgart for the support they give students, Kevin Stocker, and all the teachers and assistants that have given the best of their knowledge.

The CCO is recognized worldwide for the quality of its training. One step was very important in our history: we had the opportunity to work for 15 years with the University of Wales, which validated our training and awarded a Bachelor with Honors in Osteopathy in Quebec to our graduates.

We were the first to give out a bachelor’s in osteopathy in Canada. Today, our programs benefit from the work that we had done with them.

We have welcomed over 249 lecturers, over the past 40 years, who shared their knowledge during Founder’s Day, our Symposiums, and our postgraduate courses that started in 1988.

Thank you also to our students who put their trust in us. We are very proud of them and especially of the new graduates that have had to deal with the pandemic over the past two and a half years. They have all graduated. Congratulations!

Founder’s Day weekend will be special as we come together to celebrate our 30 years of teaching and to share precious knowledge to relieve our patients with excellent osteopaths.

The theme of Founder’s Day will be this phrase from Rollin Becker, D.O.:

If we remove the inertia and the obstacles, we will allow life to return to the injured part, the functions to return to normality, and health to express itself. Several osteopaths, with different methods, provided osteopathic care according to this concept: Thomas G. Dummer, Fred Mitchell, Viola Frymann, Harold Magoun, Rollin and Alan Becker, Anne Wales, and a lot of others worked in this manner.

Our goal is to balance and to become an instrument at the service of the patients, answering their deepest needs. We have asked all our lecturers, in their workshops, to transmit this synergy through their training.

We will celebrate our graduates and the College’s 30-year anniversary at the same time on November 6, at the Hotel Novotel North York, 3 Park Home Avenue, North York. The cocktail will be at 6:30 pm and the dinner will be served at 7:00 pm. Come in great numbers to welcome them into our community.

Looking forward to seeing you soon and sharing all the knowledge to relieve our patients and celebrating the anniversary of the Canadian College of Osteopathy.