User:Stephen M Christian

Stephen Michael Christian, named after his grandfather Stephen Morris Christian a Newfoundland Rangers, was born in Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador in 1966 to Denny Christian and Kelly Christian (nee Evelyn Kelly).

Stephen attended C.E. McMannis elementary school for grades K-3, and A.P. Low for grades 4 and 5. In 1975 his family moved to Sussex, New Brunswick after his younger brother, Robert, had shown a number of health issues possibility (never confirmed) related to Iron Ore dust from the mines in Labrador City. There he attend ? for grade 6 and Sussex Junior High for grades 7, 8 and most of 9.

In 1980 his family moved again to Red Deer, Alberta in a job that would allow the whole family to live together. Stephen attend grade 9 in Y and then grade 10 at Lindsy Turber Compreshive High School. In 1982, with the changes to the Canadian Oil policy Consol as part of the Conoco company (part of DuPont) closed their Canadian operations.

Stephen's father, Denny, then got a job working for the Canadian Cold Ocean Research and Engineering Company in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. Meaning Stephen attended grades 11 and 12 (first class of grade 12 in Newfoundland and Labrador) at Price of Wales Collegate in St. John's.

Stephen was accepted to Memorial University of Newfoundland (MUN) and considered a degrees in Engineering and Computer Science. After the first year, he joined the faculity of Computer Science and given success with the Math program changed this to a join Computer Science and Mathematics degree. After much success, this was upgrade to a Computer Science and Mathematics joint Honours degree, which he ultimately gratedated with in 1989.

AS graduation neared, Stephen considered a number of options - a career or more schooling. He was offered a chance to do his Masters at University of British Columbia, or a job at Marine Instituate where he would need to upgrade his skill by taking an Masters in Oceanography. Instead, after being interviewed by both IBM and DuPont he decided instead to give Toronto a try and accepted a position working for DuPont of Canada.