Sudburian Marc Mayer has been named a member of the Order of Canada for his contributions to fine art as an administrator and curator, both in Canada and worldwide.
But it is his father, Gilbert ‘Gil’ Mayer, a local actor and TV personality, who Northerners of a certain age will remember best as he was better known as CKSO-TV personality Marcel Mucker. “I failed all the maths and sciences,” because, he says, “the textbooks were in English and the teachers spoke a type of French the Northern Ontario kids didn’t understand too well.”
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