Early Life and Career
Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but spending nearly all of his early years in Broadview, Saskatchewan where his father, Harold, was a Master mechanic with the CPR and his mother, Martha, was a housewife, he was educated at the University of New Brunswick, where he studied sociology and psychology. During his studies he was continuously employed in the Human Resources department of the RCMP. In 1961 he married Mary-Anne Morrison. They raised three children together: Leslie Anne (1965), Scott (1967) and Dana (1972).
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Famous quotes containing the words early, life and/or career:
“Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
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chairs. I want you to get up right now, and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out, and yell, ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.’”
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