Gail and I became fast friends during our first year of UBC Medical School in 1966. We were both from small towns, from out of the province, she from Saskatchewan and I from New Brunswick. The... Read More

With great sadness, we announce the passing of Dr Archie Young on 13 November 2021, in Chilliwack. Archie was born on a farm in Keir Village, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, in 1926, the sixth of... Read More

Dr Barrie Humphrey was best known locally as a stalwart of the Gabriola Historical and Museum Society (board member 1994–2004 and a frequent contributor to the Shale). Barrie was... Read More

With great sadness, we share the news of Dr Peter Michael Rees’s recent death. Peter had accepted his devastating diagnosis with courage and was determined to continue to enjoy as much of life as... Read More

Dr John O’Brien-Bell’s first exposure to medicine was as a young child making house calls with his family physician father, whose practice was based in a working-class area of Birmingham, England... Read More