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Gardner, John R.

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Title Sub-Lieutenant (RCN(R))
Official Number U-26847
 
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Biography
In 1959 he graduated from U of T (Math & Physics). He worked in the Fields Institute as Chair, is a corporate director, currently serving on the boards of RGA Canada and Angoss Software. A graduate of the University of Toronto (1959) with a bachelor's degree in mathematics and physics and the recipient of the Governor General's medal, he studied as one of the first Commonwealth Scholars philosophy, politics and economics at Merton College, Oxford, where he was granted bachelor's (1961) and master's (1965) degrees. Returning to Canada he joined Sun Life of Canada and pursued actuarial studies, earning his fellowship in the Society of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (1965). From 1967 to 1973 he taught theory of interest and life contingencies at McGill University. He concluded a thirty-five year career at Sun Life in 1996, having served for ten years as President of the company, directing its world-wide operations. During that period he was a member for nine years of the University of Toronto's Governing Council.
 
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He was appointed as a Naval Cadet (UNTD) RCN(R). He served in HMCS York for UNTD. He was appointed as a Sub-Lieutenant RCN(R). (He was released.)
 
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Government of Canada The Canadian Navy List Ottawa ON;
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