Glioma

David Gibson stated (Email to Nauticapedia 18/04/2022) that "My Dad, Dr. William C. Gibson, founded the Kinsmen Laboratory of Neurological Research at UBC in the 1950s in an old Army hut. One of his first steps was to recruit Patrick and Edith McGeer from their American university. Together, they had become leading neurological researchers, and their arrival at the UBC Lab was something of a coup. Patrick, of course, was part of the large Vancouver family, and nephew of the colourful Mayor Gerry McGeer. Pat and Edie bought the old BC Forestry Service patrol boat (FG ARBUTUS 1921).

They renamed ARBUTUS as GLIOMA (a type of brain cell) after the sailboat of Dr. Wilder Penfield of the Montreal Neurological Institute at McGill University in Montreal. I can remember cruising Howe Sound with them in about 1958. In about 1960, they took my parents, Barbara and Dr. William Gibson, on a cruise up the coast, exploring Jervis Inlet and Desolation Sound.

They talked about having eaten "oysters the size of dinner plates” from Waddington Channel." In October 1961 this vessel was broken up at New Westminster BC Canada.