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subsequently worked for the Legal Archives of BC, Archives of Ontario, Region of Waterloo, and City of Kitchener before being appointed Western’s first University Archivist in 2001. During his time at Western Robin led a dedicated team in developing an archival program that became a model for many other universities. Throughout his career he was also active with several professional organizations, most notably the Canadian Council of Archives. His contributions were recognized with awards from the Archives Association of Ontario and the Association of Canadian Archivists. Upon his retirement from Western, he received the designation University Archivist Emeritus and The Western Award of Excellence, presented by University President Alan Shepard.
the controlling interest in George Weston Limited, which in turn operates through a number of subsidiaries food processing businesses, supermarket and pharmacy retailing businesses and real estate development and leasing businesses. These entities include Loblaw Companies, Shoppers Drug Mart, Weston Foods and Choice Properties REIT. In addition, Wittington owns a number of private companies involved in commercial real estate development activities in North America and the United Kingdom and fashion retail stores in Canada, UK, Ireland and the Netherlands. Prior to his current role, Rob held senior legal positions with George Weston and Loblaw Companies. He lives in Toronto with his wife, Shari, and their three children: Leah, Brett and Carlie.
ROBERT BALCOM (’83) graduated from the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto at the 2019 Fall Convocation with a Master of Laws specializing in international business law. He is the General Counsel of Wittington Investments, Limited, a holding company of the Weston family. The Company’s holdings include
The Class of 1988 President and Vice-President both moved back to Wolfville from the U.S. within a couple of weeks of one another, without knowing each other’s plans. Pictured here with DEBBIE SUTER, also from the Class of 1988, MARTIN SUTER (’88) and TIM PRESCOTT (’88) tell us why they each made the
MARG (MOODY) MCCOUBREY (’68), JANET (HOPPER) MOULTON (’69), DIANNA (NEWTON) LIM (’69) and PAM (WILLIAMS) LOUGHEAD (’69) still managed to get together for their annual summer reunion at Mountain Gap Inn in Nova Scotia despite the global pandemic. Acadia masks and T-shirts were proudly worn! JANETTE (SMITH) BENT (’69) was unable to attend due to travel restrictions at the time. Great photos – thanks for sharing!
1980s In November 2019, ROBIN KEIRSTEAD (’81) retired as University Archivist at Western University in London. After receiving his BA with Honours (History) from Acadia, he went on to complete Master’s degrees at Queen’s (History) and UBC (Archival Studies). He started his professional career with the BC government and
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