Comments on: Jim Munro (1929-2016)

By: Karen Barclay

Karen Barclay — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 00:13:54 +0000

Jim Munro could not have been such a good man to send his 9 year old child back to a man he knew was assaulting his daughter

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:29:39 +0000

I’ve never met Jim, but my mom was an avid reader and librarian who often took me there when I was little. So Jim definitely contributed to my love of books and magazines in an indirect but positive way, God speed.

By: Raymond Parker

Raymond Parker — Fri, 02 Dec 2016 21:39:01 +0000

He will, indeed, be missed. Hopefully, my favourite book store will endure.

By: Michael Kluckner

Michael Kluckner — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 17:28:28 +0000

Did Jim talk to you about arriving in Victoria? If my memory serves me well, he told me he first set foot in the city as a merchant mariner in the (late?) 1950s. He wandered through derelict Bastion Square and past the fine old buildings along Government Street, then decided it was a place where he might like to settle. People like him and Carole, and their house, defined a distinctive Victoria – something with no parallel in Vancouver, where people tend to move around a lot more and the atmosphere is rootless and cosmopolitan.

I’m trying to think of any Vancouverite who is defined by the long-term occupation of a single property, and can’t think of any, especially as the old Shaughnessy families have dispersed.

By: Rob Cardinal

Rob Cardinal — Sun, 27 Nov 2016 01:05:05 +0000

A true gentleman and a class act……RIP, Sir…