Funeral Information
Celebration of Life: Friday, July 19th, 2013
3:00 - 5:00pm
Minto Suite Hotel, 185 Lyon Street North
Born: April 10, 1938
Passed: June 20th, 2013
Surviving Family: Spouse Jeannette McDonald, Children Tamara, Todd (Andrea), Leah and Jason; grand children Kylie, Tessa and Jack
Obituary:
Obituary:
ANDERSON, Neil Munro – on June 20th, 2013 in Ottawa, Ontario at the age of 75. He is survived by his spouse Jeannette McDonald, his children Tamara, Todd (Andrea), Leah and Jason, his grandchildren Kylie, Tessa and Jack, his siblings Larry, Elaine and Ronny. Celebration of Life – Friends and family are invited to a simple gathering to celebrate Neil's life at the Minto Suite Hotel, 185 Lyon Street North, Ottawa, on Friday July 19th, 2013 from 3-5pm. Condolences may be left at www.firstmemorialfuneral.com
Biography:
Neil was a native of Turtleford, Saskatchewan. He obtained his education from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in land surveying and later earned a B.Sc. from the University of Victoria in Computer Mathematics. Neil joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1960 and spent eight years as a field hydrographer, specializing in Arctic hydrographic surveying. He headed technology development sections both in support of field hydrographic surveying and charting and in cartography for the development of interactive computer graphics systems for nautical chart production.
In 1979, Neil was appointed Director of Planning and Development for the Canadian Hydrographic Service, at its headquarters in Ottawa. In this capacity, he was responsible for co-ordinating the national R&D programs for hydrography and marine cartography. Neil was involved with many different types of technology development projects related to hydrographic surveying and nautical charts, including electronic charts, Global Positioning System, geographic information systems, multibeam sonar systems, marine robotics and data communication. Neil was a leader in the development of Geomatics as a science and engineering discipline that is emerging out of a collective impact of these technologies. Neil developed and participated in many government - industry cooperative projects, at both the national and international levels.
Neil retired on May 31, 1995 from CHS. He then joined Nautical Data International as the Vice-President, International Development where he pursued his work till 2001.
Biography:
Neil was a native of Turtleford, Saskatchewan. He obtained his education from the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology in land surveying and later earned a B.Sc. from the University of Victoria in Computer Mathematics. Neil joined the Canadian Hydrographic Service in 1960 and spent eight years as a field hydrographer, specializing in Arctic hydrographic surveying. He headed technology development sections both in support of field hydrographic surveying and charting and in cartography for the development of interactive computer graphics systems for nautical chart production.
In 1979, Neil was appointed Director of Planning and Development for the Canadian Hydrographic Service, at its headquarters in Ottawa. In this capacity, he was responsible for co-ordinating the national R&D programs for hydrography and marine cartography. Neil was involved with many different types of technology development projects related to hydrographic surveying and nautical charts, including electronic charts, Global Positioning System, geographic information systems, multibeam sonar systems, marine robotics and data communication. Neil was a leader in the development of Geomatics as a science and engineering discipline that is emerging out of a collective impact of these technologies. Neil developed and participated in many government - industry cooperative projects, at both the national and international levels.
Neil retired on May 31, 1995 from CHS. He then joined Nautical Data International as the Vice-President, International Development where he pursued his work till 2001.
RIP Neil Anderson
ReplyDeleteMy condolences to all, close family and friends.
Hugs to all !
Jacques Pinard xx
My sincere condolances to the family though I had not seen him in many years
ReplyDeleteI have many good memories of when we were kids.
Thank you Neil RIP
Gail Dickson
My condolences to you, Jeannette, and all the family. My memories of Neil are all from Coronado in Panamá where he was a model of optimism even with his challenges. Peace to him and may happy memories be his legacy for his family.
ReplyDeleteBill Cunningham
Our condoleances to Neil's family. We are now retirees from CHS but I remember the talks Neil gave about the future of hydrography. This was very motivating and this have been guiding our work for years even after he quit CHS. He was greatly missed.
ReplyDeleteMichelle Grenier and Pierre Poirier, Neuville (Québec)
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ReplyDeleteI began my career in computer science and automated cartography with Neil and the CHS in 1974. Neil and the group were awesome. We led the world in the early days of automated cartography. I will never forget those days with Neil, Hero, Murray, Sherman, Mario, Dave, Ralph, Bob, Candice, Bill and many others. "Those were the days my friend, we thought would never end, for we were young and sure to have our way."
ReplyDeleteNeil, RIP we will all remember you.
My condolences to Jeannette, Neil's children and grandchildren. I have many fond memories of meetings and discussions about the network marketing industry with Neil - from the early days of the Amway experience through the 80's, 90's and into this 21st Century.
ReplyDeleteRIP Neil and know that Neil and his legacy will be remembered and honoured for his visionary ideas for the network marketing industry.
In the mid-1990's, Neil had told me that "to leave behind the negativity that was associated with network marketing in the latter years of the 20th
Century - we should look closely at changing the language that describes the industry." It was after I heard that statement from Neil
that I focused on changing the language about network marketing by referring to it as the SDI (Self Directed Income) industry.
I authored the article below around 2000 and I made a presentation at a conference in 2002 in British Columbia using the content of the
article as the basis on the presentation. The article is now posted at my blog titled The SDI Eye Opener at this link:
Analysis, Projections, Observations & Proposals For The SDI Industry
http://sdi-usuryfree.blogspot.ca/2009/03/analysis-projections-observations.html
I wish to extend my condolences to Neil's family.
ReplyDeleteI worked in the Automated Cartography development unit at CHS for many years until my retirement in 1998. Neil's sense of humour was displayed many times during these eventful years. The following is an example. He would schedule regular meetings with his staff in order to discuss any developments that may have occurred with testing hardware and software since the previous meetings. He was quite busy, so, at times he would excuse himself and rush off before the meetings ended, after his 'new fangled' digital watch alarm went off. The group decided to retaliate, in kind. We all eventually acquired new time pieces and one day, before a meeting, we set our alarms so that they would all go off shortly after the group sat down. When we all walked out of that meeting as each alarm sounded, we explained to a be-wildered Neil that we were needed for other urgent business. We all returned shortly, and explained our poste-haste exit. He started laughing and would always chuckle when re-minded of our mutiny.
Tom Cassidy