What I've done

In my time, I've done many things - soldier (29 years); criminal justice planner (4 years); auditor 18 years);
evaluator (20 years); museum manager (9 years); consultant (11 years); educator (all my life). Simple
arithmetic will tell you tht some of these were, as we say in the criminal justice biz, "concurrent
sentences"! In each of my careers, I have also been very active in professional associations.

All through those years I have also been a volunteer - in the Canadian Army (where we are ALL
volunteers), Thompson (Manitoba) Lions Club; St. John Ambulance (Federal District), The Guards Club of
Ottawa, Kanata Minor Hockey Association, Ontario Hockey Trainer Certification Program; three branches of
the Royal Canadian Legion; the Canadian Battlefields Foundation; the Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation; the
Upper Canada Historical Association; and, more recently, the Fort La Présentation Association
(Ogdensburg, New York), and the Canadian National Institute for the Blind (Eastern Ontario)...and there have
been others that don't come to mind at the moment. One of my new hobbies is family history, as you will
see on a later page.

And then there are all the hobbies - photography, woodworking, camping, gardening, and, in the past,
skiing, hiking, fishing and a little hunting and rugger. I also collect things - beer mugs, antique tools,
especially planes (though these have now been given to the Perth Museum in Perth ON); music (almost
1300 CDs and DVDs); films - several hundred films, including many classics, even silent films! Then there
are the books - several thousand of them, and most of them on history. History has always been my
passion, particularly military history. Most recently, I have concentrated on the English Civil War, the
American Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars (including the War of 1812-14) and the Crimean War.

There are times when I envy specialists like my brother-in-law John Berry, who enjoys international
acclaim in his field (crosscultural psychology), but I must say that, looking back on all the years of different
jobs, I have had great fun and have still made my small contributions to the betterment of others.