Riverboat operator.
Born at Malartic, Quebec on 9 May 1938, he moved with his family as an infant and settled on a farm at St. Peters. In 1969, he and his half-brother Joe Slogan bought the Red River cruise ships Paddlewheel Queen and Paddlewheel Princess and he operated them until retirement in 2013. In 2022, he published a memoir entitled Welcome Aboard: My 44 Year Journey on the Red that was ghostwritten by Bill Redekop. He was married twice, first in 1975 to Helga Harder (1950-2011) with whom he had a daughter and a son. He remarried Esther and adopted her two children. He died at Winnipeg on 4 July 2025.
Obituary [Helga Hawchuk], Winnipeg Free Press, 18 March 2011.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 5 July 2025.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 5 July 2025
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