SASKATCHEWAN AND ITS PEOPLE
1924

           FRED A. CORBETT, M.D..         

   As a specialist in surgery, Dr. Fred A. Corbett has been accorded an
excellent practice ever since he came to Regina more than ten years
ago. He not only holds a high position among his professional colleagues
in western Canada, but he enjoys the confidence of the laity to a marked
degree. Sheer ability in his chosen line of work, the result of years of
patient study, close application to his professional dilties and the efficiency
that is born of long experience, account for his somewhat unusual degree
of success.
   Fred A. Corbett was born at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, on the 11th of
March, 1870, the son of Captain J. L. and Anna (Peppy) Corbett, the
father a native of Five Islands, Nova Scotia, and the mother of St.
John's, Newfoundland.  Captain Corbett is still living at Parrsboro, at
the venerable age of eighty-four, but Mrs. Corbett died in 1912. Captain
Corbett has followed the sea since he was eighteen years old and has been
a sea captain for many, many years. For three years during the Great
war, at an age when most men have long since been released from stren-
uous labors, the old captain took his ship back and forth across the mine-
strewn, submarine infested waters of the Atlantic with its precious car-
goes f(;r the armies of Great Britain and her allies.  Two of the four
children born to Captain and Mrs. Corbett, are still living: Fred A. Cor-
bett, of this review, the eldest of the family; and a sister, Mrs. Ralph D.
Poole of Brockton, Massachusetts, whose husband is a member of the
well known shoe manufacturing firm, the Poole & Johnston Shoe Com-
pany. The mother, Mrs. Corbett, was an active member of the Methodist
church, but her husband is a Presbyterian. He is a thirty-second degree
Mason and a Liberal in his political affiliations.
  After obtaining an early education in the high school of his home
town, Fred A. Corbett took a course in the University of Mount Allison
at Sackville, New Brunswick, graduating with the Bachelor of Arts de-
gree in the class of 1892.  Four years later he completed the medical
course at McGill University of Montreal, with the Doctor of Medicine
degree, and he had the honor of gaining a fellowship in the Royal College
of Surgeons (Edinburgh) in 1911. Dr. Corbett began to practice in his
native town of Parrsboro, where he remained for thirteen years. At the
end of that time he went abroad for two years of graduate work in
London, Edinburgh and Berlin and it was during this residence abroad
that he gained the Royal fellowship. When he returned to the Dominion,
Dr. Corbett sought a wider field of activity than his forwer home offered
and upon looking about decided to locate permanently in Regina.  He
opened an office in this city in March, 1912, for the practice of surgery,
in which he proposed to specialize to the exclusion of other branches of
his profession. Here no dreary period of probation awaited the surgeon
fresh from the famous teachers and clinics of the Old World; instead
he had a good practice from the very start and one that has now reached
very large proportions.
   In  the month of November, 1911, Dr. Corbett was married to Miss
Mabel D. McLeod, the daughter of E. A. McLeod, who was a prominent
citizen of Parrsboro.  Dr. and Mrs. Corbett have three children, a son
and two daughters: Frederick, a lad of eleven; Dorothea, aged nine; and
a little miss of two summers, Isabelle. Dr. Corbett has taken an active
part in the work of the Metropolitan Methodist church, of which he is a
member, ever since he came to Regina.  His clubs are the Assiniboia,
Regina and Wascana Country Clubs. For a diversion from the cares of
his practice and the exercise he recognizes as being essential to his physi-
cal well-being, he plays golf and is regarded as one of the most loyal
devotees of the fairway and green, in his club. Educational affairs have
always held his interest and won his support. He is one of the board
of governors of the Regina College and serves in a similar capacity on
the board of the American College of Surgeons, whose headquarters are
in Chicago. In fact, his membership in that "college" gives convincing
evidence of his high standing as a surgeon.  Dr. Corbett has always
worked for the advancement of his profession in every way, as well as
studied to improve his own skill and efficiency.  In 1915 he spent two
months studying in Chicago and took graduate work in New York city
in 1920, while at every opportunity he visits some important clinic to
keep in touch with the recent developments in the chief surgical centers
of America.
         
                                                    
         
         
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