I remember Bill as the senior assistant on the first geological field party I ran for the then Ontario Department of Mines in 1967. We worked west of Armstrong in northwestern Ontario. Bill was a very capable geologist even at the beginning of his career and he kept me, his very slightly older boss, on an even keel. He taught me how to make a sauna in the bush and we quite enjoyed those saunas after a hard day's work. I later encountered  Bill as the Resident Geologist in Timmins when we dealt with the search for an assistant from another field crew that was lost in the bush in the late 70's.