John Hill:  

Not long after concluding his stellar career at ECI (repeated grade 11, dropped out of 13, never did get his diploma), John Duncan Travis Hill began to feel himself at a bit of a loss. He was no longer sure of what he believed, and had absolutely no idea of what to do with himself. For a long while, he was mostly (and enjoyably) unemployed; however, even he was perceptive enough to realize that a life of such indolence was not sustainable, and so eventually he got a job. Unfortunately, he absolutely loathed it, as it was the sort that could promise only decades of mind-numbing dreariness and boredom. This led to a couple of realizations: (1) if, as seemed probable, working for a living was going to be his lot in life for a good long time, he needed work that was intellectually stimulating, and (2) he was not very well-equipped to get that kind of work. Accordingly, John decided to re-enter the education stream, and, rather miraculously, was admitted to Trent University as a mature student. John received a degree in economics from Trent in 1977, followed three years later by a law degree from the University of Toronto. (An aside: John loved Trent and felt that the educational experience there was far superior to that at U. of T.) In 1982, following articles with a corporate law firm (during which articles, John and corporate law decided that they were really not meant for each other), he was called to the bar and shortly thereafter entered into the service of Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Ontario. John spent the bulk of his public service career with the Ministry of the Attorney General, assigned to ...Expand for more