Richard was a wonderful friend and long-time neighbour. Mel and I will miss him greatly but we also take comfort in all the memories, going back nearly 40 years to when we moved into Lotus Co-op in Toronto and discovered Richard and Anita as our new next-door neighbours! Cooking meals and drinking wine together, road trips, fishing for bass and pike and perch in southern Ontario, visits in Victoria after he moved, and of course so many classic stories which always began with "I'll never forget ..." Although born in the US Richard would often say about Canada, for example when free public transit for a disable person arrived for one of our neighbours, "It's an f...... good country".