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Friends and Family

Who's who in the Hinterland? Here are some friends and family.

 

Well, I grew up in Montreal - and that was great thanks to Mum, Dad and sister Alison. To say nothing of uncle's Nick and Guy. And 100 or so relatives on my father's side.   

 

And I'm married to Kathy Brown. We have a fab daughters, Gemma and Liv.  

Kathy's dad, John Brown, lives in Kingston. Brother David is in Bracebridge.      

           

 

 

 

Gemma & Liv's web site

           
Old friends from Montreal include Cyndi Cheung (who now lives in London), and is friends with John di Gironimo, Mark Lepage, who is also a chum of Nancy Wood. After undergrad in Montreal I moved to  

Toronto, went to university with, among others, Garth Jopling, and met up with

  Kristin Peterson and Eric Fitz, Erik Sande (once in Vancouver, now back in Metro), The Boys» Dave Lockwood and Jason Cass, and Eleanor Fritz. Also in Toronto I continued my friendship with ex-Montrealers Kathy Petcher (now Londoners with Brett Carron and Lucy) & Richard Horgan, who's moved to LA with          Dawn Sinko. Since moving there they've befriended McGill mate Rod Findey.  

     

     
London: the Montreal-to-London connection expands with Kingsley Burns, who's married to Clare. A more recent arrival is Jasmin Aquan-Assee. Cyndi Cheung is here living with Fred Lucenet, and her sister Juanita is doing her architect thang, along with friend Peter Culley. Through Freddie, we befriended a neighbor, David Shem-Tov. Through Juanita we met Samantha Meah, and through Samantha, Mike With. Claude Dugas lives in Montreal, but is an honorary Londoner. Doug and Sue came from Toronto to London, but picked themselves up to Switzerland, and are now back on Toronto.  

    

   In Toronto I worked for Amex, where I became fast and furious friends with Sue Mackay (and husband John - master of the Beautiful Game), Brenda Blake, Francie MacIsaac, and Wendy Shaw, who introduced me to her bookclub, which includes David Kent and Diana Cafazzo .Tying the Toronto - Montreal thread are Ward and Deb.      
   
After Toronto I moved to London with Amex and befriended Arndt Brinkmann, Christine Kibblewhite, Captain Jose-Luis Rojas, Heinz Waelchli, Maria Humphries and Aileen McCardle.
  But I left Amex for the dotcom world, then boomeranged back to the card nest at MasterCard. Current colleagues include Kamal Boushi and Lisa Harrison ... with whom I used to work at Amex Canada.      
 

     
  Both Amex and MasterCard jobs afforded great travel opportunities, including multi-trips to Sweden which allows me to hang out with Emma Stenstrom.  

and Ton and Montse in Barcelona