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Gary Derry - I believe I was from the class of 65 and when I left I worked for a few years in Montreal for Northern Electric,
Rolls Royce and a short time at the Expo site during the summer of 67.
In 1970 I married a lovely young lady from Toronto, who had been living in Montreal for several years, before
we met. A few months later our first daughter was born. In 71 I was laid off from Northern but had a
promised position in Kingston to start in about a month. My wife and I decided to visit some of her old
friends in the Toronto area, for that month, so we headed west. While in Toronto we decided to look for jobs
and within a few days we were both employed. We decided to stay and live here. Since then a second
daughter was born and we moved from Richmond Hill, to Aurora, to Newmarket, and finally to Keswick on
the shores of Lake Simcoe.
I have worked at Canada Wire in the factory, then to a chocolate warehouse as a stock
keeper/shipper/receiver and eventually to driving tractor-trailers. I left there for a short stint at driving cement
mixers then off to Steelcase Canada in 1974. I worked at several positions there and today work in the
Engineering department as a furniture designer. Both girls have grown up and left the home. One is married
and living in Waterdown, the other is a Registered Nurse doing home care in the Keswick area.
I recently became obsessed with Genealogy and currently am very busy tracing my wife’s and my family
tree. I am currently enrolled in an online course in Genealogy with the National Institute for Genealogy in
conjunction with the University of Toronto. I am a member of the Toronto Genealogy Society, The Quebec
Family History Society, and The York Region Genealogy Society of which I am also on the executive in
charge of publicity. In high school I could not stand the History classes and was quick to drop the course
but today I go out of my way to find History to read primarily on Quebec and Ontario. I'm always in search of
that little tidbit of information add. Names and dates were a good start but the history is more interesting.
Who knows I may even write a short family history one day?