Biography
Trevor Greene was born in 1965 to Richard and Elizabeth Greene in Sydney, Nova Scotia. He attended King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he completed a bachelor degree of journalism with honours in 1988. Greene moved to Japan soon after, to work for Bloomberg News and the Yomiuri Shimbun.
Greene joined the Canadian Navy in 1995, where he sailed on the HMCS Oriole, the Navy's tall sail-training ship and the oldest commissioned ship of the Canadian Forces. He then settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, and transferred to the Canadian Army's reserve, as an officer in a reserve infantry unit, the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada. He also joined Bloomburg News Vancouver bureau and began researching and writing about the Downtown Eastside, an area encompassing five neighborhoods, an area noted for a high incidence of poverty, drug use and sex trade.
In 2001, Trevor Greene met his future wife, Debbie Lepore, a chartered accountant. In 2005, their daughter Grace was born. On July 24, 2010, Lepore and Greene were married.
Captain Trevor Greene is the honorary patron of the Honour House Society, an organization dedicated to help the families of wounded Canadian soldiers in the New-Westminster-Vancouver area.Honour House is located in New Westminster. He was also awarded with an Honorary Doctor of Civil Laws in May 2009.
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