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== Early life and education ==
Sutherland was born on July 17, 1935, at the [[Saint John General Hospital]] in [[Saint John, New Brunswick]],<ref name="CTVAtlantic">{{cite news |title=Donald Sutherland honoured in his hometown of Saint John |url=https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/donald-sutherland-honoured-in-his-hometown-of-saint-john-1.3689650 |access-date=November 28, 2023 |work=[[CTV Atlantic]] |date=November 22, 2017 |language=en |archive-date=February 4, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180204090620/https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/donald-sutherland-honoured-in-his-hometown-of-saint-john-1.3689650 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="google">{{cite book|title=Chase's Annual Events|author1=Chase, W.D.R.|author2=Chase, H.M.|date=1994|publisher=Contemporary Books|isbn=9780809237326|issn=0740-5286|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|access-date=December 6, 2014|archive-date=September 1, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230901100002/https://books.google.com/books?id=WA3vAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> the son of Dorothy Isobel ([[née]] McNichol; 1892–1956) and Frederick McLea Sutherland (1894–1983), who worked in sales and ran the local gas, electricity and bus company.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800010767/bio|title=Donald Sutherland Biography|publisher=Movies.yahoo.com|access-date=March 2, 2011|archive-date=June 3, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235357/http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800010767/bio|url-status=live}}</ref> He was of Scottish, German and English ancestry.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0911FE345511728DDDAE0994D8415B8084F1D3|work=The New York Times|first=Tom|last=Buckley|title=At the Movies|date=October 17, 1980|access-date=February 7, 2017|archive-date=December 3, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203191816/http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FA0911FE345511728DDDAE0994D8415B8084F1D3|url-status=live}}</ref> As a child, he had [[rheumatic fever]], [[hepatitis]], and [[poliomyelitis]].<ref name="Gainesville">{{cite news|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9FgzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6752,4746901&dq=donald-sutherland+scotia|first= Bob|last= Thomas|work= Gainesville Sun|agency= Associated Press|date= October 14, 1989|title= Sutherland gets a 'kick-start' for his soul|access-date= June 17, 2012|archive-date= December 7, 2022|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221207040725/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=9FgzAAAAIBAJ&pg=6752,4746901&dq=donald-sutherland+scotia|url-status= live}}</ref> Sutherland and his family lived in a farmhouse in [[Lakeside, New Brunswick]], before moving to [[Bridgewater, Nova Scotia]] at the age of 12,<ref name="CTVAtlantic"/> where he spent his teenage years.<ref name="Gainesville"/> He obtained his first part-time job, at the age of 14, as a news correspondent for [[Independent Local Radio|local radio]] station [[CKBW-FM|CKBW]].<ref name="sutherland-interview">{{cite magazine |last1=Schulman |first1=Michael |title=Road Trip with Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/happy-campers |access-date=June 20, 2024 |magazine=The New Yorker |publisher=Condé Nast |date=February 5, 2018 |archive-date=June 6, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606074140/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/happy-campers |url-status=live }}</ref>
Sutherland graduated from [[Bridgewater Junior Senior High School|Bridgewater High School]]. He then studied at [[Victoria University, Toronto|Victoria University]], an affiliated college of the [[University of Toronto]], where he met his first wife Lois May Hardwick (not to be confused with the child star Lois Ann Hardwick), and graduated with a [[Double degree|double major]] in [[engineering]] and drama. He had at one point been a member of the "UC Follies" comedy troupe in [[Toronto]]. He changed his mind about becoming an engineer, and left Canada for [[United Kingdom|Britain]] in 1957,<ref name="DVDinterview">Sutherland in TV interview during the shooting of ''[[The Eagle Has Landed (film)|The Eagle Has Landed]]'' (on the DVD): "I was in England from 1957 until 1968." [Checked June 17, 2012.]</ref> studying at the [[London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art]].<ref name="bbc-obit">{{cite news |title=Obituary: Donald Sutherland |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52070783 |access-date=June 20, 2024 |work=BBC |date=June 20, 2024 |archive-date=June 20, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240620184822/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52070783 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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