ROBERTSON, William Ian Died suddenly on January 13, 2013 in Penticton, BC. He was 98. Ian was born May 14, 1914 in Saskatchewan and grew up near Melfort. He met Mildred Spurway, of Calgary, in Pitt Meadows and they married in September 1937. In 1941, he joined the army and was sent to Britain. His stay overseas ended after taking part in a covert, small scale raid against the enemy, which left him with a chronic health condition. Back in Vancouver in 1942, Ian worked for the City of Vancouver Purchasing Department until 1974 and retired as the head of operations of the City's Manitoba Works Yard. During those years, he and Mildred raised Marilyn and Terry in Burnaby. Mildred died in late 1979, but Ian continued spending winters in California, something he and Mildred had done for some years. Beginning in 1986 Ian began travelling, spent a month traveling to the headwaters of the Amazon and visited the Galapagos Islands. Then in 1988, he journeyed alone to New Zealand, Australia, Fiji a
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