A memorial for Dan will be held on Saturday, May 27th 2017 from 1 - 4pm Venue: Trinity- St. Paul United Church Gym 427 Bloor St W., Toronto Dan was born in Rochester, New York and pre-deceased by his parents, William (Bill) and Ruth McDermott and by his life partner, Helen Rykens. Dan and Helen were the love of [...]
I have been working away in the Bob Hunter Archive at Robart's Library at the University of Toronto and it is getting really intriguing. You can catch up with what has been happening on that front by reading the Saturday Toronto Star interview and article that Marco Oved did last weekend: The Bob Hunter we never [...]
A couple of weeks ago I was invited to a seminar, organized by UofT’s School of the Environment, on the 33rd floor of the TD Tower in Toronto. Given the nature and content of the lecture I gave for the Robert Hunter Memorial lecture last April Fool's Day, I was a bit mystified as to [...]
Welcome to the first Bathrobe blog posting! The 10th Annual Robert Hunter Memorial Lecture at the University of Toronto's School of the Environment on April 1st came much faster than the two years of preparation makes apparent. And the 35 years that it took to create the feature length documentary based on Bob's life and [...]
