John Redmond

Born in PEI to an old Atlantic Canada family, John is the son of a Haligonian Regular Army officer and a Cape Breton Gael (still alive at 106). He spent his youth travelling back and forth across the Dominion of Canada, attending nine schools in twelve years, ending at Vancouver College.

After graduating from UBC with a BA in Asian Studies, John spent four years in Japan, then returned to Canada and UBC to earn his MEd in TESL. He worked first as a language instructor at his alma mater, then as a coordinator of international programmes. Having had his fill of focus groups and budget analysis sessions, he joined the faculty of Kwantlen Polytechnic University as a faculty tutor in English, retiring in 2012.

His brief military career included service with cadets in Fort Churchill, Manitoba, and Vancouver, as well as time with the Seaforth Highlanders of Canada, from which his father removed him in order that his university grades improve. Contact with the Canadian Army was renewed at UBC when, in 1991, Dr. Peter Moogk of the History Department invited him to the unveiling of a plaque honouring those who served at the Point Grey Battery in World War Two. From that time to now he has served as a volunteer, and then curator from 2021 to 2026 at the museum of the 15th Field Regiment, Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery.

John’s hobbies include military history, the folk arts of Japan, Cape Breton music, family history,and modeling (as in “plastic models”, not posing).