John, I had the great pleasure of meeting your dad back in the late 1960's. The Simard family of Montreal owned a Cessna 185, CF-SZU, on floats that they used to travel to their salmon fishing club on the Washacoutai River, and you dad would fly them in there with it. He'd pick the family up in either Sept-Iles or Havre St. Pierre, which is where I met him. That Cessna had to be the best equipped and maintained 185 around, fully IFR equipped, including an ILS! The family sold it to Northern Wings about 1970, and I picked the airplane up at their private dock on Ile Bizard and ferried it back to Sept-Iles.