Gary Turcott, a former professor at Cambrian College in Sudbury, Ont., and sales manager for Varel Canada, has died. He was 67.
Turcott was born in Flin Flon, Man., in 1934. He later moved with his family to Ontario and, in 1956, graduated from the Haileybury School of Mines.
His first mining-related job was with Brinco in Newfoundland as a prospector in the summer of 1955 and again in 1956 after graduation.
In 1957, he moved to British Columbia to work as a surveyor on the elimination of the Ripple Rock, an underwater rock formation off the coast of Vancouver Island that, when combined with the tides, created whirlpools which claimed many vessels.
In 1963, he returned to Ontario to work at Pax International’s molybdenum mine in Matachewan.
Throughout the 1960s, Turcott lived a transient existence, working at the Adams mine in Kirkland Lake, Ont., a potash mine in Esterhazy, Sask., and for Teck in North Bay, Ont., and Lac Dufault in Rouyn-Noranda, Que.
In 1969, he began working as a salesman for Reed Drilling in New Liskeard, Ont., and later worked in sales for Varel Canada.
In 1972, he became a professor of mining and geology at Cambrian College and remained there until 1982.
He spent his last 17 years working for Varel in various positions, including national sales manager.
He is survived by his wife, Shirley, and two children, Mitch and Michelle.
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