User:Gary Wilmott

I and my wife Dianne are both ardent country music fans. I was raised on a farm east of Sault Ste Marie and went to high school in a little town of 600. The same town had Saturday night dances all through the 50's and 60's. My College training started in Toronto in 1960 and it was there that I met my wife at a Ryerson dance - a Valentines dance at that. Before going off to College I was a close family friend of Gary Buck whom you may remember for a number of things but most notably for founding the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame. While we were teenagers Gary founded a country music band and played for week-end dances and became a part time disc-jockey for a station in Sault Ste Marie. I grew up travelling with Gary and calling some square dances when required. I always loved to dance and party. My career tuned out to be a mechanical project engineer with a few years of teaching within the Ontario post secondary school system. I still love classic country music even now when I and my wife are retired and living back home in Bruce Mines, Ontario.