Member of the Order of Canada

• Awarded on: December 14, 1981
• Invested on: April 21, 1982

He studied music in his native Toronto and in Europe, returning as a director of plays and drama adjudicator. In 1960 he joined the Royal Conservatory of Music Opera School, and in 1961 the Stratford Festival and the Court Theatre, Toronto. In 1963 he became the first artistic director of the Neptune Theatre in Halifax, and in 1969 theatre director of the St. Lawrence Centre, Toronto. He has also directed countless productions of drama and opera elsewhere in Canada and abroad.