Terence Richard Bragg

The family of Terence Richard Bragg would like to announce his passing.

Terry slipped away quietly in his sleep on June 25th at age 94. To know Terry was to love him. A humble gentleman who led a full life. Upon receiving his demob papers from the English Army he married Maureen Kyne. Eighteen months later they boarded the immigrant ship Empress of England on its maiden voyage to Montreal in the year 1957, with a box of tools, a sewing machine, very little money and a lot of hope for a new life in Canada.

The day after off-boarding in Montreal they made their way to Toronto. Terry a talented machinist and fitter by trade worked at many jobs loading scrap materials on trucks, selling bone China, working on an assembly line. Later, he landed work with A.V.Roe Canada Ltd. who were building the CF-105 Avro Arrow Supersonic Interceptor airplane. Terry was working with fine tools in the cockpit of the plane. Steady work at last. One day in February 1959 a dramatic announcement came over the loudspeakers, telling everyone to down their tools and go home. Prime Minister John Deifenbaker had cancelled the Avro Arrow project.

Out of work once more Terry landed a job with Eastman Kodak as a service member. In 1960 Terry and Maureen were transferred and travelled across Canada in a Volkswagen Beatle (before the Trans Canada was built) to start a new life in North Vancouver.

Now on the west coast, Terry was actively playing his favorite sport, rugby and established lifelong friends through the Vancouver Rowing Club. In 1961 Vanessa was born and in 1963 Ursula was born and they settled into raising their family and enjoying their home in Lynn Valley. In 1967, after seven years in North Vancouver, they were transferred by Eastman Kodak to Calgary.

Having loved fishing from when he was a small boy in England, Terry's love affair with fly fishing rekindled in Calgary where he joined a Fly-Fishing Club and fished the Bow River for trout. In 1976 Terry and Maureen were transferred back to North Vancouver where he was promoted from service member to sales, selling microfilm and microfiche. Terry remained in North Vancouver for the rest of his career.

Terry always found time to fish and was often travelling to remote fishing spots in his Volkswagen Wesfalia Vanagon. He received several awards due to his constant efforts at the preservation and conservation of our wild salmon stock. He was presented with the Hugh Monahan coveted memorial award by the North Shore Fish and Game Club in 1987. In 2003 he was given the Coho Society of the North Shore Watershed Steward Award, for his years of outstanding contribution to enhance Salmon Habitat on McKay Creek. The City of North Vancouver presented Terry with the Living City Award in 2014.

Terry loved children and participated in a program teaching children how to release small fry hatched in the McKay Creek Fish Hatchery into the Creek to begin their annual journey into the wild. He was a talented Fly Fisher and tied his own flies. He was also awarded for his dedication to teaching children how to tie flies. Terry spent countless hours teaching his grandchildren how to fish and love the outdoors.

When it was time for Terry and Maureen to downsize to one vehicle, they chose a bright habanero orange Volkswagen Beatle Sport (with a spoiler) and were frequently seen cruising around the North Shore. It was a full-circle moment for them.

Terry was devoted to his wife Maureen, married just weeks shy of 70 years. He adored “his girls,” Vanessa and Ursula and extending that love to his grandchildren Matthew, Ethan and Sarah, son-in-law’s Mike and Hart, niece and nephew Andrea and Stephen Bragg, his cousin Morene and daughter Sue Flemming, the entire Kyne and King families, his fishing and rugby buddies and many good friends. Terry had an infectious laugh and loved to watch Rugby. He loved good food and family dinners.

He will be missed but always remembered.