ARTHUR (ART) DAVID ROUND P. ENG.

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ARTHUR (ART) DAVID ROUND P. ENG. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Art Round. He passed away after a short battle with cancer on December 29, 2001 in Red Lake, ON, surrounded by his three loving daughters. He will be lovingly remembered and sorely missed by his brother Bill; his two nephews, Doug and Jim; his beloved Aunty Betty; many cousins (and their families) his best friend Harry Sirett (and his girls) his three daughters, Robin Round, Wendy den Ouden and Joanne Ivaniski, their spouses, Frank den Ouden and Bill Ivaniski and his two grandsons, Nicolaas and Samuel den Ouden. Art lived life to the fullest and kept us all laughing. He was born in Cobourg, ON in 1934 and graduated from Mechanical Engineering at Queens University in 1960. After living in Kingston, Vancouver and Calgary, while working for the H.G. Acres Engineering firm, Art and his family finally settled in Winnipeg where he worked for 17 years for Reid Crowther and Partners Ltd., working up to the position of assistant branch manager. He took a brief hiatus from engineering, to attend Humber College where he graduated from Ski Area Management. In more recent years, Art took great pride in work done on the Whistler freestyle jump summer practice facility and the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics snow making operation for his own firm Action 2 Consulting Engineering. He and his former wife Vivian had three girls with whom he shared his great love of the outdoors. He taught his girls how to fish and camp and downhill ski, how to appreciate a job well done and how to find humour in just about everything. He had been teaching his grandsons how to drive a boat and how to drive his new ATV around his beloved McKenzie Island. Arts grandsons catch more fish and score more goals because of his patience. Art loved to garden, encouraging his co-workers to compete in annual contests for the largest produce grown, recently producing one of the largest kohl rabi Red Lake has ever seen! Art also loved to entertain and for many years threw annual Christmas cocktail parties for friends and co-workers, removing his furniture, so guests could mingle more freely. Art became the envy of all his friends when, in 1989, while living in Vancouver and working for Grouse Mountain and the Vancouver General Hospital, he became a Whistler condo-owner and weekend ski bum. He spent every weekend skiing with friends and family and his favourite "Evert Gang". In 1997, he retired to McKenzie Island, ON where he achieved yet another dream of fishing every day off his dock, and watching the sunset out on the lake with his dog Pika. He was well loved in the many communities he lived in and he loved to get involved; he was a member of Big Brothers (Winnipeg, Vancouver), the Lions Club (Whistler, Red Lake), the Red Lake Hospital Board and the McKenzie Islands Residents Association. A memorial service has been held in Red Lake and as per Dads wishes, a celebration of his life will be held the July long weekend 2002 at Arts home on McKenzie Island, ON. Contact rjround@hotmail.com for information. The family wishes to give special thanks to many friends, to the kind and generous people of the Red Lake District, to Dr. Aniol, and to the staff at the Margaret Cochenour Memorial Hospital in Red Lake for their loving support and care. For those who may wish, donations in Arts memory may be made to the Big Brothers Association through the Stevens Funeral Home "Red Lake Chapel", P.O. Box 237, Red Lake, ON P0V 2M0. "You cant rollerskate in a buffalo herd, you cant rollerskate in a buffalo herd, you cant rollerskate in a buffalo herd, but you can be happy if youve a mind to. All you gotta do, is put your mind to it, knuckle down, buckle down, do it, do it, do it." (R. Miller) We miss you Dad. You will live in our hearts forever.

As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Jan 17, 2002