Living in Canada
For Eric, his wife Bobbie and young son David, the first few years of adjusting to life in Canada had its share of challenges. At first, the chilly and snowy Toronto winters were difficult to get used to - an uncomfortable contrast to the grey but bearable winters of England. 
Eric's efforts to build the family house became increasingly stressful as he realized that he had to complete the project before the cold winter of 1948. Eric’s work ethic, shaped by his years growing up in a hard-scrabble English middle class family, gave him the ability to work all day at the company and all evening building his family houses, even to the point of physical exhaustion.
With his hard-working and affable nature, Eric quickly developed a network of friends and colleagues that guided him to new personal and professional opportunities. In 1950, after the company that brought him to Canada folded, Eric needed a new career and a friend helped him get a job working with as a property assessor where he developed a reputation as a hard worker with integrity and a rational approach to his work. Soon he was offered positions of increasing responsibility and authority and found himself designing a new, modern approach to property assessment instead of the antiquated models being used throughout Canada in those days. This job was the start of a lucrative and most enjoyable career that took him all over Canada and to many parts of the world.
Since first arriving in Canada in 1947, Eric made the most of the opportunities offered to him by Canada. In the 1950's, Eric found work that was professionally enjoyable and stimulating. In 1967, as their Canadian Centennial project, Eric and his family moved to Victoria, where Eric set up as a municipal consultant and eventually entered a peaceful retirement. But despite his financial success, Eric is quick to point out that hard work does not guarantee good results and he owes much to friends, bosses and mentors who gave help at key times in his career. (Even lady luck smiled her good fortune upon him when in 1965 he won a new Mercury Marauder car in a lottery!)
