Education
University of Toronto. Trinity College.
University of Toronto. Trinity College.
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick and raised in Bermuda, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the Trinity College, Toronto in 1961 and a Bachelor of Law from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1965. During his final year at the University of Toronto, he was elected president of the Kappa Alpha Literary Society. A Bermuda citizen as well, he was elected a Rhodes Scholar in Bermuda in 1963 but resigned.
A philanthropist, he has worked with the Ontario College of Art and Design as the chairperson of its capital campaign which raised forty million dollars.
The OCAD presented him an honorary doctorate in 2007. He was also involved with Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association Canada, Canadian Paraplegic Association, and the World Wildlife Fund Canada.