Model Airplanes: McMaster University

McMaster University: But Barkwell, who died Feb. 9 at 58, was a man of varied passions a guitarist, photographer, voracious reader, builder of model airplanes and lover of backcountry canoe trips with his wife and four children. , according to Hamilton Spectator. Barkwell had a biochemistry degree from McMaster University and earned his law degree at Queen's University. He was called to the bar in 1984 and began to work for the city in 1988, after practicing in Chatham and Hamilton. As the face of the City of Hamilton's legal department for almost a decade, city solicitor Peter Barkwell appeared to be a traditional, buttoned-down lawyer. Born in Chapleau in northern Ontario, Barkwell was the son of a United Church minister. The family eventually ended up in Sarnia where his father became an economics teacher at Lambton College. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.