Dr. Michael Davidson Nelson, age 51, passed away April 23, 1998. Mike was a loving and devoted husband and father, and he was deeply committed to friends and the communities in which he resided. As an applied sociologist, and as a creative thinker with a passionate social conscience, Mike worked to make the world around him a better place in which to live. In the 1980s, he worked for four federal government departments, holding senior positions in policy, evaluation and research, and program development. After moving to British Columbia in 1991, Mike combined consulting and occasional university teaching with a high level of volunteer work in national and local organizations. At the time of his death, Mike headed NHN Consulting Group, was Vice-President of the Public Health Association of British Columbia, a director of the Mid-Island Public Participation Society, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Institute for Health Promotion Research, University of British Columbia. He formerly served as a director of the Canadian Public Health Association (Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Health Division), Co-Chair of the City of Nanaimo’s Social Planning Advisory Committee, and President of Manotick (Ontario) Project Ploughshares. He will be terribly missed by his wife, Dr. Susan Hess Nelson, son, Chad, daughter, Janet, parents, Dr. Charles and Dorothea Nelson, brothers William (Jacki) and James (Dr. Mary D), aunt, Berniece Brown (Donald), in- laws (the Hess family), and many cousins, nephews and nieces. All who knew Mike are invited to share memories of his wisdom, passion, wit, sense of humor and enjoyment of life. A celebration of his life will be held at the family residence (6961 Saxon Cross Road, Lantzville, BC, V0R 2H0), Sunday May 31, 1998 at 2 p.m., followed by a reception.
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