Class of 1954
Bruce's family hailed from the Canadian prairies. His paternal grandfather was a pioneer in the settlement of the western provinces at the turn of the last century and served as a Justice of the Peace in Saskatchewan from 1906 to 1927. Bruce's father, Thomas (Tom), had aspired to a career in the law, but the onset of the Great Depression made higher education an unaffordable luxury. Opportunities were few in his hometown of Weyburn, Saskatchewan, which prompted Tom and his wife, Lucille, to move to Vancouver. It was there on March 3, 1931, that Ronald Bruce Harvey was born...
For more, read Profile of Bruce Harvey from The Advocate, 74 (2016).