Later Life
After leaving politics Ritchie served as chief executive officer of the Canadian Depository for Securities from 1983 until 1986 and as a member of the Atlantic Council of Canada during the 1980s. He also served as a member of the Canadian Ditchley Foundation. He remained active in the Club of Rome (he had co-founded its Canadian association in 1973 - and served as its chair from 1980 until 1983 - after a long history with the international body).
In 1990, Ritchie published Canadian Pacific's Montreal Lakeshore Commuter Service, Volume One (ISBN 0919487335), a history of commuter trains used on Montreal.
In 2002 he received the first ever Roland Lutes Memorial Award for extraordinary service to the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
He was admitted as a member of the Order of Canada on June 10, 2005.
Ronald Ritchie died August 18, 2007.
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