Sir Frederick Banting homestead sold to developer, family outraged

摘要

The incongruities seem startling, primarily because it's a tale involving the honour and memory of Canadian icon Sir Frederick Banting, who unselfishly gave diabetes sufferers the gift of insulin for the princely sum of dollari. In fact, the altruism and generosity of spirit that lay behind the Nobel laureate's decision to sell the rights to his discovery to the University of Toronto for a song seem entirely absent in an embittered and complex imbroglio that has erupted over his birthplace and left his descendants levelling accusations of greed and betrayal of trust.