BILL BRUYN - VE3JBW
QCWA # 31937 (SK)
Bill reached his teenage
years in occupied Holland during WW II. To avoid recruitment into the Hitler
Youth he went to the country to work on a farm and kept out of sight of the SS
recruiters. After the war, he completed
his secondary education and studied radio to satisfy his urge to go to
sea.
Bill obtained his
International Second Class Radio Operator Certificate in 1950, and went to sea,
working in the Caribbean to South Pacific trade routes, aboard Dutch merchant
ships (mostly tankers). Bill qualified
for the First Class International Radio Operator Certificate.
Bill emigrated to Canada in
1955. His first job was in a bank, but
he applied to Department of Transport for a Radio Operator position, and was
hired and assigned to Goose Bay Marine Radio.
In 1957 he qualified for
radar training for the DOT Airport and Airways Surveillance Radar, and attended
training at Raytheon in Waterloo, Ont. in 1958. He was assigned to Quebec Airport, and later moved to Montreal
and then to Ottawa to work in the Clyde Avenue Labs of DOC.
Bill took night courses and
qualified as an Engineering Technologist. He moved to the Communications
Research Centre and worked on Space Electronics for 15 years.
Bill was trilingual, being fluent in Dutch, English
and French with a knowledge of German and Spanish.
His hobbies included
amateur radio and sailing, and he volunteered as a driver for CNIB.
Bill was a member of
Chapter 70 prior to his death.
Bill passed away on Jan 12,
2009.