![]() He kept in touch with other long time HBC retirees and they had a lunch group for anyone on the island and mainland who could get to one central place to meet.ĭuring his years of John’s Place and after retirement John was an active part of the Cowichan Valley community. With his HBC contacts he and Joscelyn and family opened John’s Place Men’s Wear at 85 Station Street and built a thriving business for 20 years before retiring. This worked well for a couple of years and then John really wanted to own and operate his own business. They settled on Duncan BC as they had really enjoyed island life in Victoria and John was able to work for a friend and manage Hudson’s Hardware on Station Street. John and Joscelyn thought about where they had lived during the HBC years and where they enjoyed living the most. He ended his career with the HBC being Calgary based in 1972 as the overall national buyer of men’s wear and western buyer for children’s wear when it became obvious that regular (every couple of years) moving and a lot of travel was the way to move up in the ranks, but not the way to have a cohesive and harmonious family life. His dad was a reporter for the Toronto Star and stayed in his life as well.Īfter graduating with a certificate in Institutional Management from the University of Toronto – John joined the Hudson Bay Company in approximately 1952 and spent 20 years working his way up from the Edmonton store and then working and running the Groceteria at the HBC in Winnipeg to being transferred to many of Canada’s major cities ( Edmonton, Winnipeg, Victoria, Calgary, Victoria, Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, and Calgary) working in Men’s wear. After school and summer hours were spent canoeing competitively, vacuuming miles of carpets at the Royal York Hotel where his mom was the resident RN, and dreaming of learning to fly at the Island airport. He, his mom, and his older sister Jane stayed on the island and commuted to downtown Toronto to go to school at Jarvis Collegiate School and then university. His parents separated and divorced when he was very young. John was born in Toronto and grew up on Toronto Island. He was very lucky to be so loved by them all, and they by him. He also leaves behind Bev Campbell- his companion in travel and adventures. John leaves many friends and family to remember him, including his other two children Greg and Pam along with his son in law Doyle and 5 grandchildren: Peter, Ryan Warren, John and Jaclyn, as well as two great grandchildren: Wolf and Rex. John was predeceased by his beloved wife Joscelyn of 59 years in 2014 and his daughter Cathy in 2018. He caught a bug that he was just not able to recover from and died peacefully during a long stretch of sleeping around the clock. John Richmond – 93 (something he was continually amazed to hear when talking to anyone about age) passed away at his most recent home in the Northridge neighborhood of Sunridge Place Care Home on Monday October 2, 2023. Octorésidant dans la province Colombie britanique pour le détail des funérailles Parcourez la nécrologie de John Richmond July 2 1930
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