the end

He fled Romania in search of a better life in Canada. On trips to Cuba, he developed a love of underwater life.

Bookish and bright, he had read the Quran by age four. As a doctor,he ignored risks to help those in the city where he was born.

She loved the outdoors. At the family cottage, she was the first in the water in the spring and last out in the fall.

From the moment he got his first guitar, music was his life, whether performing on a stage or at the kitchen table for his kids

An aspiring cowboy who played guitar and drove a pickup truck, his ultimate dream was to be a rodeo champion

Raising four kids, she’d spend hours in the car, driving to hockey games or ski events

A race-car driver like his beloved father, he moved out west to finance his dream

After living on the streets, she wanted to make something of her life. In grad school, she studied missing Aboriginal women.

Fiercely protective and with a strong independent streak, she dedicated her life to animal rights

At age three, she started riding horses and never looked back. ‘She was poetry on a horse.’