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Al passed away peacefully at St. Mary\u2019s hospital on October 30th<\/sup>, after a four long year battle with cancer.\u00a0 He burned the candle at both ends but what a glorious light.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He was predeceased by his parents, George Wilson and Mary O\u2019Brien Wilson, his sisters Georgina Wilson of Pointe Claire and Baroness Mary Von Boye-Morch of Denmark.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0His sister Roberta Swettingham of Pincourt survives him.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He is survived by his loving wife Donna Dupuis, and Nora Michel,\u00a0the mother of his\u00a0children: his son, Rob, and his children Rebecca, Adam and Vanessa of London Ontario; and his daughter, Christine, and her children Braeden and Jordyn of Pincourt. \u00a0\u00a0His stepdaughters: Tanya, and her daughters Alana and Erika, Tina, and Katrina and her sons Daniel and Anthony, as well as Kaiden, his great grandson.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Wilson family: Mom, Dad and two sisters and Al immigrated from Scotland to Canada after the Second World War and settled in Beaurepaire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Al started his career at Arcweld in the early sixties and left in the mid-seventies to pursue new ownership of a Sunoco station in Valois Bay. He then left to start Al\u2019s Garage in the early-eighties on Ashgrove and Donegani in Pointe Claire.\u00a0\u00a0He then went on to start a twenty-three year long career at Air Canada in the wheel and brake shop, from which he retired.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Al loved boating on Lake St. Louis, for many years.\u00a0\u00a0A highlight was a boating trip through the Rideau Canal, with his wife, Donna; a great experience with many wonderful memories.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our father was a thrill seeker ahead of his time and he loved all things fast: airplanes, cars, boats, and motorcycles. Fond childhood memories were going for a ride with him on his motorcycle when he got in from work. \u00a0He could always be found tinkering around in his garage and knew how to fix absolutely anything.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Loved by many, missed by all.\u00a0\u00a0A Celebration of Life will be held at a later date.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A donation in Al\u2019s name to the On Rock Food Bank Pierrefonds would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Death is more universal than life.<\/p>\n Everyone dies,<\/p>\n Not everyone lives.<\/p>\n HE LIVED.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n R\u00c9SIDENCE FUN\u00c9RAIRE J.J. CARDINAL FUNERAL HOME<\/strong><\/p>\n 560, Chemin Bord du Lac, Dorval (Qu\u00e9bec)\u00a0\u00a0H9S 2B3<\/p>\n T\u00e9l. :\u00a0514-631-1511\u00a0|\u00a0T\u00e9l\u00e9c. :\u00a0514-631-1516\u00a0|\u00a0Courriel :\u00a0info@jjcardinal.ca<\/a><\/p>\n Indications routi\u00e8res<\/a> | Driving Directions<\/a><\/p>\n Pr\u00e9visions m\u00e9t\u00e9orologiques<\/a> | The Weather Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1943-2023 Al passed away peacefully at St. Mary\u2019s hospital on October 30th, after a four long year battle with cancer.\u00a0 He burned the candle at both ends but what a glorious light. He was predeceased by his parents, George Wilson and Mary O\u2019Brien Wilson, his sisters Georgina Wilson of Pointe Claire and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":27528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27534,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27531\/revisions\/27534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}