Bruce Bolin

Bruce Campbell Bolin was born in 1946 in Detroit Michigan. He grew up in Dearborn Michigan with his mother, father and older brother. He studied physics at Kalamazoo College where he met his wife Janet. At that time he was deferred from the Vietnam War draft because he was in school, however he would no longer be exempted once he graduated. He and Janet both decided to immigrate to Canada upon graduation. They came over the Port Huron-Sarnia border settling in Toronto. Bruce worked at the University of Toronto in the physics lab for six years. Afterwards he pursued jobs with the Ontario government and several brokerage firms. He later returned to the United States for a job in New York City, working for 9 years at various positions in the financial sector until retiring and returning to his cottage in Port Burwell, Canada with his wife.