So sad to say goodbye to Peter at such a young age, still very much enjoying life and lighting up other people’s lives until his rapidly moving cancer stole his health away. Peter and I have been friends since high school and became close friends while studying chemical engineering at the University of Calgary in the mid-late1970’s. After graduation in 1978, our lives were flung out into the world, in different directions, with Peter working as an engineer, first in pulp and paper for a few years. then in the Western Canada oil and gas industry, until mid-late career when he took a plum oil industry management position in Bordeaux of all places, followed by other European countries (including Turkey) with different challenges suiting his love of adventure and his adaptability. Going mostly in opposite directions for nearly thirty-five years, our paths seldom crossed, but when they did, and they often did over the last number of years, Peter always showed his kind, calm, positive, honest, outgoing, loyal, inquisitive qualities, and his love for his family, his romantic partner Ewa, his dog Lucy, the outdoors and adventure--which we always shared. Hobby ranching was one of his passions, as were exploring, canoeing (including Arctic rivers), hiking, backpacking (including an epic TGO trip across Scotland with his sons Cody and TJ), and guiding his beautifully maintained 55 ft Fleming motor yacht through the Gulf Islands and other waters and islands between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia where, as a kid, he vacationed with his family on his father’s motor yacht with the same name, SeaSider. Interestingly, on New Years Eve, just one day after reading a goodbye note, Peter's SeaSider, under its new name and now owned by somebody else, after a long absence, appeared at the same Vancouver marina where Peter berthed it for many years, as if to say goodbye to Peter.
