Mr. Glen Arthur Gibbard

Glen Gibbard was born September 15, 1935 in North Vancouver, the son of Archie Sheldon Gibbard and Hilda Mae Gunningham. He passed away peacefully in Burnaby Hospital from heart failure on October 11, 2021. He is survived by his wife Shirley(Geiger), niece and nephews, Gibbard and Gunningham cousins and relatives in Canada, USA and England, and valued friends.

Shortly after his birth, his parents relocated to Burnaby and later

settled in the Collingwood area of Vancouver. He graduated from John Oliver High School and after deciding on a career in mechanical engineering, he began his studies in the Faculty of Applied Science, at UBC. He graduated in 1958 and began his research career in the Cold Temperature Laboratory at the Nation Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa. He became part of a team of engineers who worked on the development of the heart bypass machine and then the ultrasound. After these projects, he was assigned to finding ways of controlling problems of icing on helicopter rotors and fixed wing aircraft. This work took him to Nova Scotia and he fondly remembered flying out over the Atlantic from CFB Shearawater in the winter, hanging out of open Sikorsky helicopter doors to observe instrumentation that was recording icing on the aircraft rotors. His work on this project was used as his thesis to obtain his Professional Engineer status.

Glen missed his family and home in British Columbia and he decided to leave the NRC and return to Burnaby. He obtained an

engineering position at the Fisheries Research Laboratory and began

working with engineers who were developing new refrigeration methods for the fishing industry. As fishing was one of his favorite hobbies, working on refrigeration and pumps on fishing vessels was a bonus for him. After the Federal Government closed many of the research facilities in B.C., Glen spent his final working days at Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

In his retirement years, Glen still liked to solve problems and was

always available to a friend or neighbor who needed his help. He

also used his research abilities in family history, tracing the

Gibbard family back to the 1500's, when British parish records

began. Through his work, he was able to contact many members of the Gibbard and Gunningham families and especially enjoyed traveling to visit the original homes of these families in Padbury and Hythe, England. He was still working on his family history and life-long stamp collection until his final illness. His work is now completed and he can rest in peace.

At Glen's request, there will be no service. A graveside internment of his ashes will take place at a later date at Forest Lawn Cemetery.