John Cade:
CLASS OF 1970
Burnaby South High SchoolClass of 1970
Burnaby, BC
Brentwood CollegeClass of 1970
Mill bay, BC
Frederickson High SchoolClass of 1940
Govan, SK
John's Story
Went to MacPherson for grade 8 then went to Brentwood College, a private boys boarding school for grades9,10 & 11 and came back to Burnaby South for grade 12 and then Burnaby Central for grade 13. Got married at 20 to Debbie Sherwin ( still married to her). Two girls and a boy all living in Victoria. Bought our first house near Queens Park at 22.
Jack ( John) of all trades. worked for Bartel & Gibson plumbing wholesale in NW, housewares wholesale in Vancouver, was hire by London Drugs as Asst. Mgr in Kingsway store. Drove a truck for Triangle Express then bought in as partner to Allstar Freight. Started a partnership that built a Raquetball Club in Langley. Bought a corner grocery store in Crescent Beach. Moved to Langley.Bought and sold ( flipped) several houses in Langley/Surrey Went bankrupt in 1979 along with a whole bunch of people when the market crashed. lol
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Computer Tech Cert from BCIT and worked for Byte Computers on Burrard as salesman until 1986. Became sales manager, then store manager then Western Regional manager of Computer Connection from Toronto until they shut down in 1989. Bought a corner store and moved to Salt Spring Island in 1990. Ran that for 2 years then started a bus company there. In 2000 I started selling real estate on Salt Spring and still am. Whew! Had houses in New West, Surrey, Langley, back to New West, Coquitlam then built several on Salt Spring. Just finishing one on 10 acres now.
After kids were in school, Deb became a legal assistant and did that for several law firms and eventually BC Rail until we moved to Salt Spring.She worked in a couple of law firms here and then went into real estate with me for 2 years. Hated it. Now works for Island Savings Credit Union. At least she will have a pension.
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