INTRO: Retired civil servant and grandfather. Mildly #ProgressivePolitics - spends too much time talking about #OnPoli. Former #Labour and union activist. Wide range of interests: #Opera, especially works of #RIchardWagner; #ClassicalMusic; sport #Fishing; #CanadianHistory, especially but not exclusively #WWI and #WWII; #Gardening both general and #Wildflower; #Genealogy:A settler interested in #Indigenous issues and #TRC. #Cottage on #Lake Manitouwabing near Parry Sound