WR Arthurs Obituary
Bill was the creator of this website. Peacefully on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at his home in Ottawa. William Rupert Arthurs, son of John and Vera (Titus) Arthurs, was born on October 1, 1930, at Westport, Brier Island, Nova Scotia. Raised at South Bay, Saint John, New Brunswick, Bill first joined the Air Cadets, and then the RCAF as a fighter pilot flying Sabres and Starfighters. In the 1950’s while serving at the Canadian NATO air force base at Gros Tenquin, France, he met his wife, Jeanette (Rigg). She was a schoolteacher on the base, and upon returning to Canada,…