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'''Ronald Charles "Ron" Currie''' (born 5 October 1947) is a retired high school mathematics teacher from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He is [[Michael Currie]]'s father. | '''Ronald Charles "Ron" Currie''' (born 5 October 1947) is a retired high school mathematics teacher from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He is [[Michael Currie]]'s father. | ||
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Ronald Charles "Ron" Currie (born 5 October 1947) is a retired high school mathematics teacher from Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. He is Michael Currie's father.
Early life
Currie was born in Winnipeg, Ontario on 5 October 1947, to Jack Currie and Lucy Currie. His paternal grandfather was Alex Currie.
In 1954 his family moved to Port Arthur.
Currie's father Jack was employed as a heating oil salesman, but with the natural gas pipeline having recently been completed, it was clear that the added safety and lower cost of natural gas would lead to its replacing heating oil in all houses.
At some point prior to 1962 Jack jumped ship and moved to become a natural gas salesman. In the early summer of 1962, the natural gas company assigned him for some reason to North Bay, so the family sold the McKibbin Street Home that Ron grew up in, and they moved to North Bay. That summer, Ron had a great time. That summer and the following school year he spent a lot of time with Edwin Snook's son and that son's friend, and he also studied and completed his Grade 8 piano, and joined the high school band, playing flute. Ron was completing his Grade 10 school year. The following summer, in 1963, the family moved back to Port Arthur, living in a rented home 1 block south of Bay Street on Hill Street South. Ron presumably rejoined PACI in the fall for his Grade 11 school year. He didn't really ever see the Edwin Snook family again after that one year in North Bay, strangely enough.
He attended Pine Street School, Port Arthur Collegiate Institute [1], and Victoria College [2] at the University of Toronto [3].
Family
His grandparents furiously reproduced in the absence of birth control, leaving him with a family tree littered with twelve paternal cousins and thirteen maternal cousins, (including himself and his siblings in the counts).
Excluding self and siblings, whereas his son Michael has only 4 paternal and 8 maternal cousins, Ron has 9 paternal and 10 maternal cousins, 58% more.
Later life
He continues to live in Port Arthur (since amalgamated as Thunder Bay) to this day.