About Dr. Brian J. S. Harley
The late Brian J. S. Harley, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.P.C., C.D., was born in 1924 and educated in England at Mill Hill School and St. Mary's Hospital Medical School. He migrated to Canada in 1955 and after a residency in Ottawa he moved his family to Corner Brook, Newfoundland and Labrador (NL), to practice general internal medicine. During subsequent years he developed a Medical Consultant Group which provided service for the West Coast of Newfoundland and took further training to enable the Western Regional Hospital to open a Nuclear Medicine Department. He was active in the militia and as Lieutenant Colonel commanded the 1st Medical Company R.C.A.M.C. from 1970 until its disbandment. Dr. Brian Harley was also active in medical politics and was elected as President of the Newfoundland Medical Association in 1973.
An entusiastic sportsman and outdoorsman, he was a member of the local golf and ski clubs, and was a long-time member and former President of the Corner Brook Rotary Club. In recognition, in 2009 Brian Harley was awarded the "True Rotarian Award" as the longest-serving member of the Corner Brook Rotary Club.
(Photo by Cliff Wells, 2010, The Western Star, Capt. James Cook Site, Corner Brook, NL)
Dr. Brian Harley had a keen interest in history and published The Legacy of James Cook in 1998. It was his first and last book prior to his death in 2013. (Please see the Related Links webpage for more of his articles, his stories, his audio recording, and other information regarding this multidimentional gentleman.)
His late son practiced, and one of his daugthers and granddaughters are practicing medicine in Newfoundland and Labrador.
