bout de papier, Volume 27, Issue No. 2, 2013
John Sheardown
John Sheardown died peacefully in Ottawa at the end of the year; he had been ill for some time. John spent his career in the Immigration Foreign Service, having joined the Immigration Department in the early 1960s before later switching to the…
John Sheardown Remembered
It was just after noon on Saturday, November 10, 1979. My wife Cora and were riding through north Tehran, suitcases on our knees, wondering about this latest move and what to expect from our new hosts. Several days earlier, Bob Anders, the…
When to Slam the Lid
While funerals are for the dead, in truth they are for the living, locking in shared memories of loved ones and those we admired to ensure their continued relevance. In that spirit this issue is dedicated to John Sheardown, a collective eulogy.
