Ottawa
Our Family
Ray and Jeanne Mexico Oct 2018
Hiking in the Gatineau Hills
Skating on the Rideau Canal
For more information on our fair city, see
www.ottawa.com
Ottawa, the capital of
Canada, has been our home since November 1992. Ray was an engineer with
Bell Canada and Jeanne worked in the IT world. We are both now retired
and have time to pursue our other interests and travel the world. Ottawa
is a great place for us to bicycle and hike in the Gatineau hills and
easy access to the Adirondacks,
New Hampshire, Vermont and Virginia. In the winter of 1999-2000 we combined a trip to Nepal
with backpacking through South East Asia. This
was so successful we have been spending up to 5 months each year
exploring more countries. We added another dimension to our travels in
December 2007 and January 2009 by volunteering for a month as part of
our trip.
In the past few years, we have spent
most of the winter in Mexico. We still enjoy travelling to new countries every
year, several with our friends from my alma mater, Bishop’s.
All in all, we don’t have time to work anymore. Life is too
short.
Click
Gatherings of
Friends to see photos and writeups to remember some of our good times
together.
(see the
Travels
section for photos and writeups).
Our son, Ross and his wife Sherri, live in Barrie, Ontario with his wife
Sherri. They have three active boys, Tyler (26), Ryan (24
on Dec 23 2022)
and Gavin (20) on Jan 6 2023). This has been a successful year for the
boys. Tyler graduated from University of Ottawa at the end of April 2021 in
Mechanical Engineering and is now working at Prodomax Automation Ltd, in Barrie. Ryan
studied in Business Administration at Laurier in Waterloo and is now working for
Mogulz-Media selling e-commerce business software. Ryan and his girlfriend,
Kaitlyn Owens, have moved into their first apartment together in Toronto, while
Kaitlyn finishes her studies in Homeopathy and Ryan continues to work online. Gavin in now in first year Computer Science at University of Toronto,
after working the previous year with Pickard Construction in Barrie.
August 2021 Ross and Sherri
Ross works in the parts department of Currie Trucks in
Bradford. This is an ideal job for him as he has had a life long fascination for
18 wheeler trucks. Sherri operates an office cleaning business in Barrie.
After 2 years in Jakarta, Indonesia, our daughter, Erica, and her husband Andrew Auerbach and their two boys,
Atticus (18 on Dec 25 2022) and Roman (16 on Jan 6 2023) are pleased to
be back in Paris, as of July 2021. Andrew is back at work in the Paris Headquarters of OECD (Organization of Economic Cooperation
and Development). Erica spent the fall waiting for their furniture to arrive
from Indonesia and deciding what her next employment would be. Atticus completed
his high school in Paris and Roman is continuing
his schooling in the
French Lycée
system.
(see the
Paris section for photos and writeups
of the Auerbachs first 16 years in Paris)
August 2021 Roman, Andrew, Erica, Atticus
We were fortunate that the Auerbach family were able to
visit Canada for two weeks last August and we celebrated with Ross and family
for a weekend in Kingston, Ontario. It was great to get together again catch up
on all we missed over the previous two years. We discovered that our
grandchildren are now over 6 ft tall delightful young men!
Click
Kingston
August 2021 to see an album of photos
August 2021 The grandsons: Roman, Atticus, Gavin, Ryan,
Tyler
We are fortunate to have a close relationship with our
families. Click
Family Gatherings to read and see photos of some of our events.
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