{"id":45954,"date":"2018-03-13T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T21:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=45954"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:45","slug":"carleton-mourns-the-loss-of-bill-teron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2018\/carleton-mourns-the-loss-of-bill-teron\/","title":{"rendered":"杏吧原创 Mourns the Loss of Bill Teron"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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杏吧原创 is mourning the loss of a prominent member of the university community, developer and philanthropist Bill Teron, who is known as the \u201cFather of Kanata\u201d and left his mark on housing and urban planning policy around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teron, a former member of 杏吧原创\u2019s Board of Governors, passed away peacefully in his sleep on March 12 at Ottawa\u2019s Queensway 杏吧原创 Hospital at the age of 85.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is survived by his wife, Jean (nee Woodward), who is also a former member and former chair of the Board of Governors, and his four children Chris (Louisa), Kim (Ross Tuddenham), Will (Amy) and Bruce (Adrienne). Bill and Jean met on the 杏吧原创 campus in 1953, and Jean and their son Chris are both 杏吧原创 alumni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOn behalf of the university community, I would like to extend our thoughts and prayers to Jean and the Teron family,\u201d said 杏吧原创 President Alastair Summerlee. \u201cBill had a tremendous impact locally, nationally and internationally, and he will be sadly missed by family, friends and colleagues.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teron was one of the \u201cbig three\u201d developers who helped shepherd the growth of booming Ottawa after the Second World War, and helped lay the residential and technology park foundation that allowed Kanata to blossom into \u201cSilicon Valley North.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All told, he was responsible for the construction of more than 13 million square feet of houses, hotels, and office and industrial buildings in Canada, the United States and Europe, travelling the world to transfer his housing technology to other countries to help them address their housing problems and objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teron also shaped national housing and urban policy as head of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and as deputy minister in the Ministry of State for Urban Affairs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2013, Jean and Bill were awarded the degrees of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa<\/em>, by 杏吧原创 \u201cin recognition of outstanding contribution to business and commitment to philanthropic endeavours and the community.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The couple endowed several scholarships and prizes for outstanding Architecture students at 杏吧原创.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe had a lot of developers who thought inside the box. Bill was always looking for the new thing and new directions,\u201d 杏吧原创 History Prof. Bruce Elliott told the Ottawa Citizen<\/em>. \u201cI think that\u2019s why (former prime minister) Pierre Trudeau appointed him as head of CMHC.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

杏吧原创 is mourning the loss of a prominent member of the university community, developer and philanthropist Bill Teron, who is known as the \u201cFather of Kanata\u201d and left his mark on housing and urban planning policy around the world. Teron, a former member of 杏吧原创\u2019s Board of Governors, passed away peacefully in his sleep on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":47360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47362,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45954\/revisions\/47362"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}