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HILL,
Alfred
Edward "
Ted" B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P.C.
Captain R.C.A.M.C. 1940 Certificate in Aviation Medicine, 1943.
Pilot Officer, R.C.A.F. Special Reserve, 1943. Flight Lieutenant,
1945. Certificate in Internal Medicine, McGill, 1949. Diploma
in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, McGill, 1950.
Ted passed away peacefully, at Lions Gate Hospital, Saturday,
February 19th 2005, with his family by his side. A Celebration
of Life will be held: March 2nd 2005, (Wednesday) 3:00 p.m. at
the West Vancouver Seniors' Activity Centre, in the Marine Room
(through the Cafeteria!) In lieu of flowers, please donate to
the charity of your choice. Ted is survived by Dearest Eleanor,
his wife of 64 happy years, brother Kenneth
HILL and sister Ruth
STANLEY; sons John (& Josephine) and Frank (& Anne,) daughter
Joyce, granddaughter Lupin
HILL, step-grandchildren Claire
CORBETT
(& Julian, with their children Sam and Sophie,) Isabel
JOHNSON
and Rakim WYNTER.
After retiring, Eleanor and Ted spent their
winters at their beach home, Beaches of Nosara, Costa Rica. Ted
learned Spanish, which came easily as he was fluent in French.
Those were happy years with many Friends there, especially Betty
and Victor
AUGUSTINI.
Eleanor and Ted travelled the World, making
Friends and enriching all our lives with their wonderful tales
of adventure. Ted was a collector by nature, as this enabled
him to study subjects of interest more closely. From the age
of nine to eighty-nine, he collected, traded, shared and studied
stamps. He also loved selling them! He belonged to many stamp
clubs, thereby making new Friends, including Dr. Richard and Sandra
OFNER,
Jack and Sibyl
FREESTONE and Andy
ANDERSON and his club.
Ted also collected artefacts, jade, books of Canadian Aviation,
Ballooning and Gliding, which he studied, and passed on to Simon
Fraser University, museums, the National Archives, and interested
collectors in those fields. Ted was a keen photographer, and
collector of photographs of Canadian aviation. He used these
in his articles, he wrote for Canadian Forces Sentinel, and The
Journal of the Canadian Aviation Historical Society He gave.
his personal collection of historically significant aviation
photographs to the National Archives, Ottawa. Ted and Eleanor
have lived most of their retirement years in West Vancouver enjoying
the views and seaside. They have been healthy and happy with
many Friends here. Ted was a volunteer at West Vancouver Memorial
Library, where he helped with the second-hand book sales, and
often worked behind the scenes. He enjoyed writing for the library
newsletter, and retired from that, weeks before he died. Ted
will be fondly remembered and sadly missed by his family and
Friends. We are indeed fortunate to have had our lives so enriched
by such an exceptional and caring man.
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