Our cottage on Oborne Point was built in 1937 by the Carlyles, an English couple who called it “Kingswood”. My wife Norinne’s family, the Petties, lived in Kingston and regularly camped at Bon Echo. One particularly rainy weekend in September, 1963 they heard about a cottage on Skootamatta and one look was all it took. Norinne has been back to the lake every single summer since then. I had the good fortune (and good sense) to marry Norinne in 1976, and the cottage became ours in 1993.

Another thing I did in 1976 was join TD Bank/TD Securities, and I spent the next 35 years with TD in Toronto, Houston, Denver, London (twice), and Melbourne.  Throughout that time, the cottage was our Canadian anchor, and although our two children (and five grandchildren) now live in Calgary and Tofino they always relish coming back to the lake where they spent so much of their youth.

I consider it an honour and a pleasure to serve on the SDRA board as Treasurer, and look forward to working with the rest of the board and other association members in the years ahead.