​BERGIN, Darby, Canadian physician, b. in Toronto, 7 Sept., 1830. He was graduated in med- icine at McGill college in 1847. He entered the volunteer military service as captain of a com- pany raised by him during the " Trent " difficulty in 1861 ; became a major in 1866, and promoted in 1869 to be lieutenant-colonel of the 59th Stor- mount and Glengarry battalion. He was appoint- ed surgeon-general of the Dominion troops during the Riel rebellion of 1885. He entered parlia- ment as a conservative in 1872, and was returned for the same constituency (Cornwall) in 1878. In 1881 he was elected president of the medical coun- cil of Ontario, and in 1885 president of the college of physicians and surgeons of Ontario.