Monday, November 4, 2019
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My Dad left this Earth early Thursday morning around 3:45 am from SAH where he was hospitalized for the past 9 months. This was his favorite photo he displayed above his computer for years taken mid to the late 1940s era. It epitomized the passion of his youth and the ambitious spirit for adventure. His passion at this time was searching for gold and other precious minerals across Northern Ontario from Red Lake where I was born to Elliot Lake. He worked the gold mines in Red Lake but eventually him and his brother my uncle Joe started a Diamond Drilling Company where prospecting and clearing trails for staking claims in this brutal enviroment brought them very close to nature. My uncle Joe died in a boating accident in very cold water and my dad bought a gas station in downtown Bruce Mines [the Sentinel building] and called it Pauls B/A eventually becoming Pauls Gulf when the business moved to Sault Saint Marie at Truck & Dacey Roads. This was a very successful location as it claimed to be 'the last gas station leaving the city going east' except for the Husky which was more of a truck stop and did not honor most credit cards. My dad was a very sociable person and was the life at any party and loved to "shoot the breeze" with any stranger and just chat about anything. But he also loved to be alone in his makeshift workshops and tinker with anything mechanical and figure out how it worked. Deep down he was a frustrated inventor looking to produce an energy free motor. He knew it was possible but his lack of knowledge in the maths and physics kept his dreams pinned to the drawing board. Dad have a great journey and keep on searching. Your son Don with a lot of Love and Admiration for what you did manage to accomplish here.
