Mr. Peter Walton

Peter had an interesting life. He was born in 1929 in Kanpur, India. His father worked there for a time for a large English engineering firm. Peter was shipped back to England to boarding school at the tender age of three and a half. He formed many vivid impressions of India when he returned at age 7. He was eventually sent back to England to finish his education and went on to study to become a Chartered Accountant.

When doing his National Service he joined the Air Force and was sent to Canada, to Gimli, Manitoba for pilot’s training. He learned to fly, but crashed three planes in so doing, and left the Air Force as Flying Officer Walton, or F/O Walton as he liked to say; the country couldn’t afford the repair bills! However, he was so taken with the beauty and grandeur of the country that he decided to make Canada his home.

Over the course of an illustrious career as a C.A. specializing in Tax, Peter held the positions of Co-Chairman of CICA Canadian Bar Tax Committee, Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, and Senior Tax Partner at Peat Marwick. He was a member of the Board of HSBC Bank Canada for 12 years and served on the Credit Committee and chaired the Audit and Conduct Review Committees. He served as President of the Capilano Golf Club and on a number of Boards, notably as Chairman of the Lions Gate Hospital Foundation Board.

Peter will be remembered for his wicked sense of humour as well as for his kind and generous advice and help, both practical and financial, given unstintingly to so many over the course of his life. He was much loved and will be mourned by many, especially Marta.

He leaves three children, Ian (Mary), Lesley, and Sherry (Jack), six grandchildren and one great-grandson all of whom he was very proud.

Now the peacetime flying ace is winging through new horizons up to that beautiful golf course in the great beyond which surely has that elusive hole-in-one waiting for him there.

No service by request. A Celebration of Life will be held at a future date.