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And When You Grew Up?

When you were a child, what did you want to be?  JOHN MACDONALD (left) Founder, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. and Day4 Energy Inc.? “I grew up in Prince Rupert, and when I was around 14 I had a job at a gas station. My ambition was to drive an 18-wheeler down Highway 16 – and try to stay out of the Skeena River in the process. I used to gas them up every once in a while, and I just thought it would be great to drive one.” CHRIS GAILUS (middle)

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When you were a child, what did you want to be? 

JOHN MACDONALD (left)
Founder, MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. and Day4 Energy Inc.

“I grew up in Prince Rupert, and when I was around 14 I had a job at a gas station. My ambition was to drive an 18-wheeler down Highway 16 – and try to stay out of the Skeena River in the process. I used to gas them up every once in a while, and I just thought it would be great to drive one.”

CHRIS GAILUS (middle)
Anchor, Global BC News Hour

“A race car driver! I would force my dad to pull over at every go-kart track during our family road trips. I loved the smell of gas and grease and still do. But more than anything, my size keeps me out of anything small and fast now. I’m too big and tall at 6-5 and 225 pounds to fit into most race cars.”

TRACY REDIES (right)
CEO, Coast Capital Savings

“I think when I was around five years old I wanted to be a doctor, but I found out in high school that I didn’t like cutting up little things. By the time I went to university, I was already looking at finance and economics, and it changed my philosophy: I figured out that instead of fixing bodies, I could fix people’s financial health, and I absolutely love it.”