This guy was more heart and soul Canadian than most people who have
obits in the globe.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071229.OBWRIGHT29/TPStory/?query...
"In 1971, he purchased his own boat, a seiner named the Invercan III,
and began a career as an independent fisherman who commanded top
prices for his product. With justification, he renamed the boat
Prosperity. (Two subsequent vessels bore the same name.)
"I've had a couple of million-dollar days," Mr. Wright told Ms.
Armitage. "One day in Barkley Sound we had 525 tons of herring in the
net. It took us two days to pump the fish out. My other boat netted
160 tons. I sold them all at the average price of over $3,000 a ton. I
made over $2-million that day."
In the mid-1970s, he married Linda Pickton, the daughter of a farmer
in Coquitlam, B.C., and had two sons, Brendan and Kevan."
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"One morning they were having breakfast with a group of his boyhood
friends that included three sisters.