Background

 

 

I was born in Manchester, England and came to came to Canada with my mother where I attended elementary and secondary school.

I graduate with a BSc from the University of British Columbia. I studied theology for two years at the Union College of British Columbia and I worked in geological exploration  in B.C., Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and Quebec.

I taught secondary school in Botwood, Newfoundland.  There, I purchased a printing press and started a magazine, This Magazine is About Schools. I was Study Secretary and then General Secretary of the Student Christian Movement of Canada, organizing conferences and work projects for university students from across Canada.

I was a teacher at Conestoga College of Applied Arts and Technology. I also taught secondary school in North York, Toronto and Peel County.

I established an alternative school, The Everdale Place, for young people of elementary and secondary levels at Hillsburgh Ontario.  I also opened a Co-operative Nursery School for local, rural children.  This became known as The Station Road Nursery School and continues to function in Erin, Ontario over thirty years later.

I established The Local Paper, a monthly newspaper in Erin Township.

I was a book reviewer for the Globe and Mail newspaper in Toronto.

I worked as a maintenance supervisor for a long established private club in Montreal while seeking to improve my French.

I was Head Teacher at a children’s mental health centre in Waterloo,  and  I also worked as a teacher with the Waterloo County Board of Education.

I was a Beekeeper,  and taught young people the craft as a possible vocation for themselves.

I produced  The Free Press, an occasional newspaper dealing with important international affairs.

I wrote: How My Sister Won the War and Pacified the Middle East, a homage to his sister and other women for their role in the armed forces during WW2.