Friday, September 13, 2019
I did not know John well however I do have a great anecdote. There was a meeting I was asked to attend with a mutual client; a Senator from Nova Scotia named Don Oliver about a project in Saint John. At the time, I did not know what either the Senator or John looked liked. Upon arriving at the meeting, there were two men; one man with a Kilt, a little eccentric, and doing all the talking and another man who was quite tall and imposing and an African Canadian. They literally could not have looked any more different. Trying to pick up on the cues, I just assumed John was the Senator from NS based on the fact that he was wearing a kilt and doing all the talking. It was not until a little later that I actually found out who was who; i.e. that it was John who was wearing the kilt and that the Senator was African Canadian. When I later told the Senator in private that I originally thought the John was the Senator, and that he was the structural engineer, he let out a great roar of laughter, which I can still hear today 20 years later. My thoughts are with you today and I'm sorry for you loss.
