Career
He was a leading figure in the Anglophone community of Quebec City, rewarded for his community service and recognized for his military service in the Second World War as prisoner of war for four years while serving as a lieutenant with the Royal Rifles of Canada in Hong Kong
Other roles in the Quebec City community included serving as president and treasurer of the Saint Brigid"s Home Foundation, treasurer of the Maurice Pollack Foundation, president of the Quebec Garrison Club, commissioner on the National Battlefields Commission, and treasurer of the Anglican Diocese of Quebec, where he kept an office in his retirement.
