Phi Delta Theta Fraternity

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R. Barry Iliffe was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada in 1933. He is the second of three children of George Douglas Iliffe, Comptroller-General (provincial auditor) of the Province of Manitoba and Evelyn May Booth, teacher and community activist. He attended Kelvin High School, the University of Manitoba and articled with Price Waterhouse & Co, Chartered Accountants in Winnipeg. He was employed while a student by the Provincial Wildlife Division of Manitoba as an assistant to the US Fish and Wildlife waterfowl census group at the Delta Waterfowl Research Station at Delta, Manitoba and for ten years as Office Manager for Smith Carter Searle Architects and Engineers in Winnipeg. He married Donna Marlene Van Wyck, RN, of Roland Manitoba in 1958. In 1966 they purchased Sportsman Enterprises Limited, a retail marine and recreational supply company in the City of Winnipeg. He and his family dedicated themselves to developing that company and subsequently formed Sportsman Promotions Inc, holders and developers of real property, Iliffe Investment Inc, financial managers, and Sportsman Outfitters Inc., importers and merchants. He and Donna have three children, Lorri Dale Iliffe, professional singer, later a Radiologist Technician in Langley, British Columbia, and Thomas Andrew Iliffe of Winnipeg and Douglas James Iliffe of Cartier, Manitoba, both of whom are actively engaged as directors of the family companies.