Meaningful Memories

John G. Kelly was born in the 1950s and grew up in the North End of Saint John, New Brunswick. He feels his experiences with growing up in a close-knit, Irish-Catholic parish that always took care of its own offers lessons for how we can create better communities in the future. John received his law degree from Dalhousie University and his Masters in Judicial Administration from Brock University. He has worked as a legal services consultant, taught as a law professor at Seneca College for over 30 years, and was the founder of Canada Law From Abroad, a service that helped over a thousand Canadians to pursue a law degree in the UK and then come back to practise law in Canada. He is embarking on an encore career and has developed a pathway to success for the new generation of young adults and millennials that will ignite their passion and empower them to embark on creative careers in the new economy where they can to do well, do good and make a contribution to a sustainable environment in affordable age friendly communities.John and his wife Susan embraced age friendly active community living for more than twenty-five years in the globally ranked gold standard Crombie Park in the multi-cultural St. Lawrence Neighborhood in downtown Toronto and for nine years in one of Canada's model 55+ communities in Village by the Arboretum in Guelph. They've been snowbirding for eleven years in age friendly active resort communities in Florida and Arizona with their iconic Airstream. John has come home. He and Susan are residing in the historic resort town of Saint Andrews by the Sea on the Bay of Fundy. John intends to mentor towns on how to obtain WHO age friendly accreditation status and utilize it as the foundation for model active communities in the emergent shift from urban centres to vibrant small east coast communities.