Jeff Platt

I think we'll do it February 1st.

My parents emigrated to Canada in 1955, where my dad was a teacher in various small towns.

Because they were living in a converted bus in Birmingham...

even though we were pretty isolated in small Canadian towns. That's where his romantic love for Canada came.

If you asked me, where do you go to school? I'd say, name a year. Every year was a different school in a different town. Some years it was even a different country. My mom didn't like Canada when she was there and didn't like England when she was here. And we went several times.

He was one of those people who wanted to know how things worked.

I think he was a man who very much was trying to find a place in the world and could never really find it.