Gail Johnston:
CLASS OF 1966
Bishop Whelan High SchoolClass of 1966
Lachine, QC
Gail's Story
Life
BioÂ
..hmmmm  how do you put 41 years into a Ânut shellÂ. Well, hereÂs my stab at it: I grew up in DelsonÂ
.immediately after High School, I got a job in Â66, bought a horse in Â68 and my life was work, friends, parties and living in the horse-world of rodeos, etc until I got married in Â72 and had to sell my horse! Divorced in Â83Â
should have chosen to keep the horse!! In '77, we moved to an old 165 year-old house in New Brunswick as we wanted to "homestead"Â
.I cooked on a old kitchen wood stove, baked bread, and renovated the house room by room...learned a lot of carpentry skills and loved it. Oh yeah, house came with a ghostÂ
not a scary one thoughÂ
. And I have had a lot of Âthose types (ghosts, etc) of experiences in my life.
Moved to Holland Landing, Ontario, in Â83 and now live in Newmarket, Ontario. I have 3 beautiful daughters who are now aged 27, 29, and 32Â
.I raised them as a sole-support parent from the time they were 3, 5 and 8 years old. Quite an accomplishmentÂ
.especially surviving those teenage years!! I, also, now have a beautiful grand daughter, Ella (Gabriella Grace), who just turned 2 and who (or is it whom) I adore!
I love to go to Cuba whenever I can and my favorite thing to do is Qi Gong/Tai ChiÂ
..both Cuba and Qi Gong feed my soul. I am not religious, but definitely am a very spir...Expand for more
itual person.
School
Graduated from Bishop Whelan Highschool in 1966. Went back to school from 1984 Â 1985 at Seneca College in North York, Ontario, to update by business and computer skills. My favorite teacher was Mrs. Dann, who was my English teacher throughout Highschool and home room teacher in my graduating year.
College
1984 Â 1985, to Seneca College in North York, Ontario.
Workplace
Worked as a secretary at the Head Office of The Bank of Nova Scotia in Montreal (across from Place Victoria) from 1966 to 1976. Then as Admin Assistant to Comptroller and as Payroll/HR rep for a freight forwarding company called Panalpina....that was in Old Montreal. In New Brunswick, I worked for a neighbor who owned a business producing organic jams - Sorrel Ridge Farms - he sold the company, but I believe that the jams are still sold in Health Food Stores in the U.S. - not as good now though as they were "back in the day"! In Ontario, from 1986 to 1989, I worked as Office Manager for Addiction Services for York Region (3 years) and, for the last 17 years, have been working as Payroll/HR Administrator and Assistant to VP, at the Head Office of what is now called Veolia Water Canada (name keeps changing as we are constantly being bought and sold by Americans). VWCanada operates and maintains Water and Wastewater Treatment Systems.
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