- SUTHERLAND, Daniel Lawrence, (1923 - ), M.D., C.M.,
F.R.C.S.(C) . Born in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, son of Dr. Robert Hiram and Mary Gladys (Lawrence) Sutherland. He was the 66th Gold Medal winner, 1941. His father was born in River John, Pictou County, attended Dalhousie (B.A., 1904) and McGill University (M.D., CM, 1907). His mother was born in Hantsport, Nova Scotia and was also a Dalhousie graduate (BA. 1909).
Lawrence won the McClure Bursary in 1940. He was Editor-in-
Chief of the school publication - “The Academy”. He was Senior
Class President an leader of the Debating Team.
He entered Dalhousie Medical School in 1941; was President of
the Student’s Council 1944-45 and received the Council’s Gold “D” award that year. He was awarded his MD. in 1948 and was Vice-President, class of 1948, in medicine.
Dr. Sutherland practiced, for a time, in Burgeo, Nfld.; was Resident Physician, Victoria General Hospital, Halifax. He took further study at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, and at Albany, New York. He also studied at the Montreal Neurosurgical Institute, under Dr. Wilder Penfield.
From 1956 - 1969, he was Chief of Neurosurgery, St. John’s
General Hospital, Nfld. From 1969 - 1983, Dr. Sutherland was Chief of Neurosurgery, Sudbury General Hospital, Ontario.
He is presently Staff Neurosurgeon, Josephine General Hospital, Grants Pass Oregon. He married Marguerite Lane, Chance
Cove, Nfld. His family are: Jane, Janice, Dean and Angela.
Dr. Sutherland is a fourth generation of medical doctors: his
father and Dr. James Alexander Sutherland (Dal. Arts - 1888-90;
McGill - 1896), brothers; Dr. Roderick S. Sutherland (Dal. M.D.,
C.M. - 1872), a graduate of Dalhousie’s First Medical class - died
of TB. in Shelbourne, N.S. at a young age; then another Dr. Roderick S. Sutherland, who studied in Philadelphia and practiced in Red Leon, Delaware.
(Information from: Dr. Sutherland and Rev. Donald Sutherland,
Whycocomagh, N.S.)
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1923 - 2016 (93 years)
