Quest for Rotary in service of the church

Posted by Peter Roaf 
on May 03, 2016
 
Retired Anglican Church Dean John Tyrell, of the Rotary Club of Westlock, Alberta, and wife Carol have lived many years in Canada's north, where Rotary does not exist, but they found a life of more adventure and sharp contrast during and between retirements.
 
The church where John worked, while Carol served as a nurse, for five months in Cambridge Bay, Nunavut St. Paul's Anglican Cathedral in Nicosia, Cypress, where John served as Dean 2009-2014
After first retirement John worked in summer for Holland American Lines as coach driver in Dawson City, Yukon Quite a switch five years later to Dean of a cathedral in Cyprus
 
 
John and Carol Tyrell went north to Watson Lake, Yukon Territory in 1991. Then they moved to Dawson City, Yukon Territory in 1997.
 
Dawson City, Yukon, winter Dawson City, Yukon, summer for three months
The Rectory built on permafrost in Dawson City, Yukon for Bishop Stringer in 1901 John and Carol lived here when they could not drive back across the Yukon River
Remembrance Day in Dawson City John served as Chaplain to RCMP "M" Division (Yukon) 
 
In 2005 John retired for the first time. He and Carol went to Sri Lanka as paramedic and nurse to help out after the Tsunami.  Rotary is there because that is where our international president, Ravi Ravindran, comes from. Then they toured around the world on a heavy lift cargo ship for 142 days, stopping in 26 countries
Carol also worked for Holland America Line tours in the summer months in Dawson City Nurse Carol worked in Iqaluit with John who took a church posting there for eight months
 
John and Carol went to England to get warm, then to Heidelburg, Germany, over Christmas, then to Torrevieja on the Costa Blanca of Spain, and then Alhaurin el Grande inland from the Costa del Sol, where they were offered a five year position in Nicosia, Cyprus, as Dean of St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral Nicosia Cyprus 2009 - 2014
Ladner Rotarian Rev. Dr. Graham Witcher (right), with wife Valerie, visited John and Carol in Nicosia in 2010 Graham and John, with Ray Moschuk who thanked John for his interesting story of living in many places without Rotary, but now in Westlock, Alberta, north of Edmonton, where his an active Rotary member
 
 
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