伝記
After leaving the wartime Navy he joined Canadian Pacific Airlines in 1947 and was employed at the Winnipeg Head Office.
He transferred to the Corporate Research Department in 1954 and served in a variety of transportation research positions in Winnipeg and Toronto.
In 1968 he was Appointed Director of Industrial Engineering, System Headquarters, in Montreal and then as Director Operations, CP Transport in 1973. Subsequently he was seconded to the Mackenzie Valley Pipeline project in Calgary as director of transport in 1976 and then to Foothills Alaska Highway Gas Pipeline Project in 1978.
He returned to CP Rail in 1982 as Special Assistant to the Vice-President Engineering, Rogers Pass Tunnel Project.
He retired from Canadian Pacific in 1984 to join the organizing committee of the XV Olympic Winter Games as Manger of Transportation and eventually as General Manager Transportation and the Olympic Villages. Following the games he became President of Transnova Transportation Consultants.
He worked with Canadian Pacific Railway for 38 years.
He retired 01/11/1985.
He was the General Manager Transportation and Villages for Calgary Winter Olympics 1985-1988.
He was the President Transnova Transportation Consultants 1988-1993.
軍歴
He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (CW) RCNVR (With seniority dated 01/10/1942). (He had Second World War service). (He was demobilized.) He was appointed as a Sea Cadet Lieutenant 1945-1949.
He served as Commanding Officer Winnipeg Sea Cadets 1945-1949.
He was appointed as an A/Sub-Lieutenant RCN(R) (With seniority dated 14/11/1949).
He was appointed as a HMCS Chippawa as Gunnery Officer 1949.
He served in HMCS York as Gunnery Officer 1958.
He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant RCN(R).
He was appointed as a Lieutenant RCN(R) He was appointed as a 16/01/1960).
He was appointed as an A/Lieutenant-Commander RCN(R) (With seniority dated 22/02/1963).
He was appointed as a Lieutenant-Commander RCN(R) (With seniority dated 22/02/1963).
He was appointed as a Commander (NR) (With seniority dated 01/01/1975).
He served in HMCS York as Executive Officer 1963-67.
He served in HMCS Donnacona 1968-73.
He served in HMCS York as Commanding Officer 1973-76.
He served in HMCS Tecumseh 1976-9.
He was appointed as an Honorary Captain (NR) (CF) (With seniority dated 01/01/1975).
He served in the First Canadian Submarine Sqaudron as Honorary Captain 1993.
逸話
In 2024 he celebrated his 100th birthday. (He may be the last surviving Canadian naval veteran of the Second World War.)
参考文献
- Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON
- The Navy List Volumes I, II and III (HMSO London)
- Notice of death from Calgary Naval Community.
