"I rue the day..."
A review of William Elmslie & Son by Michael Joll - Tuesday 18th of August 2009
I rue the day that I decided to end my working association with this old established firm of adjusters back in 1970. It was a wonderful place to work with great, knowledgeable people who were only to happy to pass on their experience to a new boy. I worked out of their office in the Shell Centre, SE1, reporting to Hugh Bowyer, the senior partner through my mentor, Peter Trott. Our job was to bail out the owners and lessees of a large variety of old and new, large and small oil tankers, some of which had a habit of destroying wharves, other vessels or running aground. The work was always interesting and varied, never Same Stuff, Different Day, unlike so many jobs these days. I have often wondered where my old colleagues are today, along what paths their careers may have led them and even whether STUK, SIM and CPAM are still functioning entities. I have lived in Canada since 1973 and my own career has come almost full circle, from adjuster's clerk to just retired deck hand on a car ferry travelling 20 hours a day between Millhaven, Ontario (site of one of Canada's most famous penitentiaries) and Stella, on Amherst Island, Ontario (where I now live).
Michael Joll
Employee, 1968-1970
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