Gordon S. Fahrni

Gordon Samuel Fahrni was a Canadian physician and surgeon who lived from 13 April 1887 to 3 November 1995 and was Canada's longest lived physician, dying at the age of 108 after fifty four years in practice. Born in Gladstone, Manitoba, he graduated from the University of Manitoba in 1911 and became an expert on goitre surgery in North America. He founded the American Goitre Association and served as its president in 1928, helped organize a campaign in 1921 to rescue the debt ridden Canadian Medical Association, and led that association as president from 1941 to 1942. He was also well known as a military physician and helped establish the Medical Procurement and Assignment Board for the Royal Canadian Military. He received the Order of Canada and wrote an autobiography, Prairie Surgeon, published in 1976.