A true Gemini, Ian’s always looking for new challenges or exciting pastimes
but once the newness wears off, he moves on to something fresh.

At seventeen he started training to become a pilot. Receiving his private
license shortly after his nineteenth birthday, he discovered the world was
full of World War Two pilots and no work was available for rookies. Losing
interest, he left for a walk about in Europe, flying only once in the next
two years, at Biggin Hill, in an antique Tiger Moth. He said it made him
feel like the Red Baron.

Returning to Canada after eighteen months of wandering through the British
Isles, France, and Italy, he was preparing to visit Australia when he met
Sharon. Smitten, he decided she would be his wife, proposing within weeks.
She quite sensibly turned him down.

Several months of courting and a dozen more proposals finally wore her down
and she gave in. Their honeymoon was an eight thousand mile drive to
Acapulco Mexico and back in a 1963 Studebaker Lark.

Their next forty years have been filled with travel, adventure, successes,
and a few failures. Whether it’s walking on the Great Wall of China or
driving over a mountain pass in the Swiss Alps during a raging blizzard, Ian
believes you keep doing ‘till you drop. Just recently he journeyed to the
Mayan ruins at Chichen Itza to view the thousand year old Fall Equinox
sunlight and shadow show on the great pyramid. Between jaunts to the Grand Casino of Monaco, Corcavado in Brazil and the
opera house in Sydney Australia Ian has found time to father two children, get elected to Hamilton Ontario’s city council five times and write columns for local newspapers. His political interests have involved him in elections in the Caribbean and Florida, the latter earning him an

invite to the inauguration of a U.S. President.