Bruce Hamilton — Halifax

HAMILTON, Bruce - passed away on Friday, August 10 at the Victoria General Hospital where he was being treated for leukemia. He was born July 5, 1954 in Oshawa, Ontario, the son of Gerald and Pearl Hamilton of Carleton, Nova Scotia. He graduated from McLaughlin Collegiate in Oshawa and also was a sea cadet where he played in the band and also spent time with the cadets in Nanaimo, British Columbia and Sweden. He loved music and played and sang regularly with friends. He was brilliant and curious and a voracious reader. He lived in Oshawa and Edmonton before settling in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, where he was night security for Rodd Grand Hotel for 14 years, worked at Hurlburt Lumber Mill in Pleasant Valley and also, with his partner Ellen Hurlburt had a business making clay sculpture and pottery (Hermit Studio). He is survived by his partner, Ellen Hurlburt, a daughter, Melanie Hamilton-Rahner and three grandsons – Trey, Raine and Gabriel, all of Edmonton, Alberta, his mother, Pearl Hamilton of Carleton and two brothers, John (Melissa), Pickering, Ontario and Brian, Carleton, Nova Scotia, as well as by his step-daughters, Mindy and Meaghan Hurlburt and several cousins, aunts, uncles, nephews and a niece. He is pre-deceased by his father, Gerald and a grand-daughter. A small service was held at his home on Aug. 18 to say farewell. Many thanks to Pastor Stephen Bourque as well as Roy Taylor and Vanessa Wafler for helping us to say “goodbye”. His family would like to express their gratitude to everyone who so generously helped out during Bruce's illness, also the Gilles Boudreau and Friends Cancer Help Fund, Dr. Stephen Couban and the entire staff in the hematology unit of Victoria General Hospital.