Farewell to Ed

This will be the last blog entry of "As I Was Saying". Ed passed away peacefully on December 26, 2019 in his 95th year. Followers of this blog have read about his eventful life and it gave him much pleasure to relate his perspectives of the times he felt fortunate to have lived in.

Ed's final blog entry was a humorous saga of his first days on the Toronto Police Force and this entry contains articles about his last years, focusing on his retirement after 35 years.

Here are just a few articles chronicling his work as Chief of the Toronto Metro Police ethnic squad where he made a lasting impression and received many accolades and civic awards.

Upon retirement, Ed, and his devoted wife, Betty, traveled extensively and heartily participated in golf, curling and lawn bowling activities.

A lifelong writer, for many years Ed was a syndicated columnist for many community newspapers and had a cable television program in his retirement town of Penetanguishene, Ontario, geared towards the interests of seniors. 

Ed was well known for his humour and love of an entertaining story. He was glad to live in a technical age where he had the opportunity at an advanced age to blog about his life, particularly his time in the RAF and early days on the "London Met", leaving a valuable record of times gone by.  

Ed was one of a kind and will be missed.