MARCH 14, 1923 – JUNE 21, 2022
Passed away after a short illness in his 100th year. Bob was born in British Columbia to Ethel Macintyre and Samuel Huntington and grew up in Vancouver and Garrow Bay. Bob’s studies at the University of British Columbia were interrupted by his service as a naval officer during the Second World War. As a Lieutenant Commander he served on a number of convoy escort ships in the North Atlantic, including the HMCS Middlesex. After the war he completed his studies at UBC and pursued a further career in the Navy where we was instrumental in building the University Naval Training Division (UNTD). Following his love for science, he became an educator, teaching for many years at both North Toronto Collegiate and Northern Secondary School in Toronto and at North Park Collegiate in Brantford. He was recruited as the Education Officer at the Ontario Science Centre at the time it opened to the public in the 1960’s. Bob was a memorable storyteller, a passionate environmentalist long before it was fashionable, an animal lover, an unstoppable collector of tools and gadgets, and a mentor and favourite “uncle” to so many.
Predeceased by his wife, Dr. Beth Huntington (nee Marritt) and brother, the Hon. Ron Huntington, P.C. He is survived by his sister Kathleen Lindsay and succeeding generations of the Huntington, Lindsay, and Marritt families in Ontario, British Columbia, and the United States. The family will host an afternoon reception in his honour on Saturday July 23rd at the home of John Clare, 849 Queenston Road, Cambridge beginning at 1:00pm. Interment at Ross Bay Cemetery in Victoria will occur at a later date.
Arrangements entrusted to Coutts Funeral Home & Cremation Centre
