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Linda (Strike) Hughes -
When I left
Chateauguay High in the spring of l963, I had absolutely no idea what 
I wanted
to do with the rest of my life. I
worked for three months at Northern Electric’s head office in downtown
Montreal as a file clerk, it was the worst job experience I’d had, of course
it was the only job experience I’d ever had.
Being at the low end of the employment scale was not for me.
So I enrolled in Graham’s Business College and underwent rigorous
training in the secretarial skills. There
was no Microsoft or WordPerfect in those days, just good old Pitman shorthand
and typing as well as basic bookkeeping. That
training has paid off over the years. I
have worked for the director of a stockbrokerage, the vice president of a mining
and exploration company and the president of a real estate service and
development company. All terrific
people whom I enjoyed working for.
As
for my personal life, I have been really lucky there too.
At the stockbrokers I fell hard for a young summer student who was
working his way through university. Thirty-five
years later, we have been married for 32, we have two great kids.
Robert is 29 and a mortgage underwriter. Sandra is 26 and has been married to a computer whiz for two
years. She is also in the mortgage
industry. When we moved to
Ontario in 1978, my husband, who is an accountant by trade, became involved with
the local baseball association so we followed our kids around to all their games
and saw a lot of Ontario. I
have always enjoyed doing and making things with my hands so I joined
a craft
group of which I am now President and we hold an amazing show every year.
I enjoy going back to Scotland every year to visit my roots, as an only child married to an only child I don’t have a lot of family. I usually go by myself but this year my whole family went (all five of us). This was the first year that my four cousins, who still live in my hometown, and I have ever been together. A great time was had by all.