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===In Canada=== [[File:Place Norman Bethune Montreal 09.JPG|thumb|left|200px|A statue of Bethune in Montreal's [[Norman Bethune Square]].]] In 1973, following the visit of Prime Minister [[Pierre Trudeau]] to China, the Government of Canada purchased the manse of Presbyterian Church in Gravenhurst, in which Bethune was born. The previous year, Dr. Bethune had been declared a [[Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada)|Person of National Historic Significance]]. In 1976, the restored building was opened to the public as [[Bethune Memorial House]]. In 2012, the Government of Canada opened a new visitor centre, to enhance the experience of visitors to the site.<ref>{{cite press release |title=New Visitor Centre at Bethune Memorial House Receives a Hero's Welcome |url=http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=685699 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115093809/http://news.gc.ca/web/article-eng.do?nid=685699 |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 15, 2013 |publisher=Government of Canada |date=July 11, 2012 |access-date=August 6, 2015 }}</ref> The house is operated as a [[National Historic Site of Canada]] by [[Parks Canada]]. In 1979, [[Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute]] was founded in Scarborough. In 1998, Bethune was inducted into the [[Canadian Medical Hall of Fame]] located in [[London, Ontario]]. In 2000, the University of Toronto inaugurated the annual Bethune Round Table on International Surgery, an annual surgical conference named in his honour. [[File:BMH Visitor Centre.JPG|thumb|right|200px|Bethune Memorial House Visitor Centre in Gravenhurst, opened in May 2013.]] In August 2000, then-[[Governor General of Canada|Governor General]] [[Adrienne Clarkson]], who is of Chinese descent, visited Gravenhurst and unveiled a bronze statue of him erected by the town. It stands in front of the Opera House on the town's main street, Muskoka Road. The city of Montreal, Quebec, has created a [[Norman Bethune Square|public square]] and erected a [[Norman Bethune Memorial (Montreal)|statue of him]] in his honour, located near the [[Guy-Concordia (Montreal Metro)|Guy-Concordia Metro station]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Allan |last=Hustak |title=Statue of Bethune getting new home |work=The Gazette (Montreal) |date=December 3, 2007 |url=http://www.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=0fdbe6ad-0cd1-4c38-be5c-b67cb2780514 |access-date=August 6, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904092116/http://www2.canada.com/components/print.aspx?id=0fdbe6ad-0cd1-4c38-be5c-b67cb2780514 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 }}</ref> His archives are held at [[McGill University]] in the [[Osler Library of the History of Medicine]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archivalcollections.library.mcgill.ca/index.php/norman-bethune-collection|title=Norman Bethune Collection|access-date=December 10, 2018}}</ref> <!-- Unsourced image removed: [[File:1964_Chinese_Movie_Bethune.jpg|thumb|right|200px|1964 Chinese movie ''Dr Bethune'']] --> In March 1990, to commemorate the centenary of his birth, Canada and China each issued two postage stamps of the same design in his honour.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tan |first1=SY |last2=Pettigrew |first2=K |title=Henry Norman Bethune (1890β1939): Surgeon, communist, humanitarian |journal=Singapore Medical Journal |date=October 2016 |volume=57 |issue=10 |pages=526β527 |doi=10.11622/smedj.2016162|pmid=27779274 |pmc=5075949 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Banners with a stylized photo of him titled Local Heroes, hang in the River District of [[Owen Sound]] with his birthdate and death and listing his accomplishments as "Surgeon, Inventor, Political Activist, Artist, Writer, Poet".
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