Class of 2004-2005
Born in Victoria in 1968, Peter D. Whyte was a child of immigrants. His formative years were spent in a West Vancouver household which was never quite stereotypically Canadian, yet was not stereotypically anything else either. He did not learn to play hockey, but instead became a tennis ace. He was exposed early to the delights and the burdens of excruciatingly correct English grammar which, as we will discuss below, has found its way into his formal writing style. Oh, the things up with which he had to put! Does one yet detect a vestigial British lilt in his occasional word? Those who appear before him will have to decide...
For more, read the "New Judges" profile on The Honourable Judge Peter D. Whyte in The Advocate, 76 (2018).