Bio notes

BRUCE WEBSTER

Bruce Webster was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on July 8, 1946. He and his family moved to Ottawa in 1956.

In his youth, he was an active member of the Christ Church Cathedral choir, directed by Godfrey Hewitt, and played the violin and viola in the Ottawa Youth Orchestra.

Early employment included self-employment doing landscaping and general house maintenance, working at Fines Flowers (in Bells Corners) and at the Civic Hospital as a summer student. He also worked for Pure Spring, then owned by the Mirsky family.

He completed his schooling in Alberta at Alberta College in Edmonton and worked as a rough neck in the Rainbow Oil Fields of Northern Alberta, returning to Ottawa to study Chemical Technology at the then E.O.I.T. (now Algonquin College). He worked for CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency), the then External Aid Office.

In 1969, he started his full-time career with Bell Canada as a technician and manager from where he retired in 1997. Since then he has been employed on a part-time basis by Competition Tire Canada, servicing race cars in Canada and at U.S. NASCAR events.

He has also successfully operated a tire sales and service at race events for eighteen years.

He has been manager of an Intermediate hockey team in Richmond, and from there went on to be the President of the League; has worked as Director, Vice President and President of the Richmond Village Association; Director and President of the Rural Council of Ottawa-Carleton; has been a member for six years of the City Rural Issues Advisory Committee; has been a volunteer driver for the Canadian Cancer Society for several years; has been canvasser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation for many years.

He is married and has lived in Richmond for forty years, has one son, a Computer Engineering Graduate from Carleton University.

March 2010