BILL BRUYN - VE3JBW
QCWA # 31937 (SK)
Bill
reached his teenage years in occupied Holland during WW II. To avoid
recruitment into the Hitler Youth he went to the country to work on a farm and
kept out of sight of the SS recruiters.
After the war, he completed his secondary education and studied radio to
satisfy his urge to go to sea.
Bill
obtained his International Second Class Radio Operator Certificate in 1950, and
went to sea, working in the Caribbean to South Pacific trade routes, aboard
Dutch merchant ships (mostly tankers).
Bill qualified for the First Class International Radio Operator
Certificate.
Bill
emigrated to Canada in 1955. His first
job was in a bank, but he applied to Department of Transport for a Radio
Operator position, and was hired and assigned to Goose Bay Marine Radio.
In
1957 he qualified for radar training for the DOT Airport and Airways
Surveillance Radar, and attended training at Raytheon in Waterloo, Ont. in
1958. He was assigned to Quebec
Airport, and later moved to Montreal and then to Ottawa to work in the Clyde
Avenue Labs of DOC.
Bill
took night courses and qualified as an Engineering Technologist. He moved to
the Communications Research Centre and worked on Space Electronics for 15
years.
Bill was trilingual, being fluent in Dutch, English
and French with a knowledge of German and Spanish.
His
hobbies included amateur radio and sailing, and he volunteered as a driver for
CNIB.
Bill
was a member of Chapter 70 prior to his death.
Bill
passed away on Jan 12, 2009.