I, too, have been saddened by this news.

When I travel afar, it is as a single within a tour group that consists mostly of couples. Often some couples take me under their wings, asking me to join them at their dinner table when we are seated at small tables instead of in large groups. One such couple was from Ottowa: he a retired Mountie, she a retired librarian. We corresponded for a while after that trip, but as time passes the correspondence dwindled. However, they have been in my thoughts as have all the people of Canada.