About Us
Greenbelt Veterinary Services Ltd. is a farm animal practice that has provided reliable veterinary care to the Fraser Valley since 1973. We started as McFee Veterinary Clinic, a single veterinarian practice run by Ron McFee, before forming Greenbelt Veterinary Services in 1982.
We have grown from that single doctor to our current team of eight veterinarians, offering health services in dairy production and embryo transfer, swine production, and to an extensive list of farm animals including horses, beef cattle, sheep, goats, alpacas, and llamas.
Our mission is to provide the food production/equine/hobby animal community with exceptional preventative and emergency health care. Through co-operative and professional leadership, we strive to offer innovative animal health education, and production and research services at competitive prices.
Meet Our Veterinary Team
His prime interests are dairy production and preventative medicine. Special veterinary interests include calf raising, pharmacology, Salmonella Dublin in BC herds, and preventative vaccine protocols. John is a member of the American Association of Bovine Practitioners and frequently attends continuing education conferences, and in recent years has been invited as a presenter. He is husband to fellow Greenbelt veterinary surgeon, Anne, and father of two nearly grown boys – Matthew and Andrew.
He is still actively involved with the family farm, Brooknook Holsteins, run by his brother Mark and his father John. Jason’s love of farming and the Holstein breed translates well into his everyday work as a veterinarian. His wife Carli is a well-known small animal veterinary practice in the Fraser Valley.
They have 4 beautiful children: Isaac, Desmond and a set of twins, Alistair and Juliet, who keep Jason running when he’s not busy at work or on the farm.
They fell in love with the community, scenery and bountiful options of year-round outdoor activities, and lost any desire to move back east. Phil is enthusiastic about working with all types of farm animals from large dairy herds to performance horses to backyard goats and pigs. He served on the Board of Directors for the Western Canadian Association of Bovine Practitioners for three years, and has sat on the Advisory Committee on Certified Technicians for the College of Veterinarians of BC.
The Chris family is well established now with growing children, Aveline and Oliver, busy with summer and winter sports, as well as Chantal working as a palliative care family physician in the Fraser Valley.
After weathering six Saskatchewan winters, she was excited to be moving back to the Fraser Valley to join Greenbelt Veterinary Services. Bev has become our main Embryo Transfer vet along with her regular dairy and other large animal medicine work. Bev and her husband Craig now have a young family and two dogs, and spend lots of time outdoors, hiking, camping, and fishing.
In the late 1990’s Josh and his family took an extended sabbatical from veterinary profession to explore some of this world via sailboat. At the beginning of 2000, after some fantastic travel experiences, he returned to work at GVS, balancing the week with a contract veterinary position with the Food Safety and Quality Branch of the provincial Ministry of Agriculture, which he continued to blend until 2008. Since that time Josh has focused his attention on production areas integral to animal welfare, food safety, and ultimately farm profitability. In 2017 Josh stopped working on dairy cattle to focus his veterinary time solely on swine production.
Josh is married to Leslie, his wife of 29 years, and they share 3 adult children and their own growing families. Josh’s passion and enthusiasm for veterinary medicine has obviously rubbed off on his children, as 2 of them have chosen to pursue careers in the veterinary profession.
Anne and John have been a longtime Greenbelt couple, and Anne has raised two sweet sons – Matthew and Andrew – into wonderful young men who are both currently pursuing university-level education.
Christina is currently working on her PhD through the University of Guelph while continuing part-time work as an associate veterinarian at Greenbelt. She, along with her husband Jackson and her dogs and acreage cattle, enjoy their home in the Fraser Valley and all it has to offer in sports and friendships.
In 2020, Kiri started at the Western College of Veterinary Medicine in Saskatoon, and during summers worked at Greenbelt as a summer veterinary student gaining experience as a large animal practitioner while meeting many of Greenbelt’s clients. In 2023, Kiri went to Cornell University to participate in the Summer Dairy Institute – an advanced training program for soon-to-be and newly graduated dairy vets. She graduated in 2024 with her Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and has moved to Chilliwack with her long-term partner, Ben – originally from North Vancouver – and their young German Shepherd-Husky dog, Indi.
When Kiri is not working, she can be found doing lots of outdoor activities with Ben, Indi, and friends around the Fraser Valley and settling in permanently to beautiful British Columbia!
Meet Our Office Team
Starting as a receptionist, Mieka has since become one of the critical staff members in our office supporting the vets’ work on farm, as well as wrangling calves with her awesome strength on a weekly basis. She has single-handedly provided early preventative care to over 10,000 calves at Greenbelt regular dairy herds over the past multiple years. She has always enjoyed living an active lifestyle outside of work, and continues to play soccer throughout the Fraser Valley year-round and enjoy always having at least one dog in her home.
Taylor enjoys an active lifestyle with her husband Levi, and their three Labradors: Sadie, Ruby, and Rosie. When she’s not surrounded by her dogs or cows, Taylor likes to go hiking, take walks at the river, and enjoy a hot cup of coffee with a good book in her hand.
Retired Vets
Upon graduation, Ron spent a year and a half with Dr. Gordon McKenzie in Williams Lake, BC, before he was given the opportunity to take over Dr. Harry Brewster’s full spectrum veterinary practice in his hometown of Chilliwack.
As the practice grew and became very busy, the focus was increasingly on farm animals and dairy practice, and Ron let the other veterinary clinics in town take over the small animal work. Dr. Chris Byra joined Ron in 1981, and one year later they formed Greenbelt Veterinary Services Ltd. working out of the first office on the corner of Chilliwack Central and Young Rd. Ron stepped away from veterinary practice in 2008, and fully retired about a year later.
Ron and Jackie have been happily married since 1968, and spending time with their three children and numerous grandchildren joyfully occupies much of their retirement time.
Primarily involved in dairy medicine, he also has experience with horses, goats and sheep. Dick has a special interest in strategies to reduce dairy cattle lameness. Dick also has an avid interest in raptors and the preservation of the local barn owl population, and holds a master banding license. He sets up and monitors owl boxes around the upper valley.
His community involvement also includes counseling first time youth offenders in the Restorative Justice Program. Dick enjoys working with wood, and prefers the wilderness over pavement. Dick and his wife, Daphne, have three sons: Dan, Steve and Eric. The family hobby farm boasts a variety of colorful pet cows and critters.
Dr. Darrow earned both his Masters of Science and Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degrees from the University of California, Davis, and his work in embryo transfer over the past 35 years has carried him around the globe both teaching the technology and carrying out programs.
Returning to North America in 1998 he introduced embryo sexing to the region and has sexed over 20,000 embryos. He served 6 years on the board of the local Multiple Sclerosis Society, five of which as Chairman, enjoys training dogs in agility and now enjoys his time on Vancouver Island.