My Story - Part 2

Met two very good friends Paul and Gill who I remain friends with to this day.

(With Paul and Malik, NS 1967)

Finished my masters degree in 1967.  My thesis was on ,An Exponential RC-Line with a Varying Propagation Factor.

 

Formed an India Canada Association with Kaushal and became secretary.  We had Social gatherings, cultural events and movies.

  

October 8, 1967,  met the love of my life, Clair Winters, a registered nurse at the infirmary hospital in Halifax (only daughter of Wilson and Freda Winters).

  

Came to Toronto in 1968 and got a job as project engineer with CR Snelgrove Co., a division of Leigh instruments.

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Toronto was very different in those days.  Indian and Pakistan's population was about 200.  No Indian culture in sight.  Clair came to Toronto and we got married on October 8, 1968.  My friends Majumdar, Kalyani, Sur and Raj got us married.  Went to Niagara falls for our honeymoon.   Received our marriage certificate from a buddist temple in Toronto.

  

I became a registered professional Engineer of Ontario in 1969.  Received my Iron Ring ( http://www.ironring.ca ) in a ceremony from Chapter one, University of Toronto.

  

On March 18, 1970, Ronok Kumar, my son was born.  My mother-in-law came to visit us from Nova Scotia.  This was a happy occasion in our lives.

During this time I was hired by our competition, Croven Ltd, in whitby as Manager, Filter Division.  

November 1973, purchased our first home situated in Oshawa, Ontario.  Our daughter, Bonita was born on November 14, 1973 and our lives couldn't be more complete. 

(Bonita's first day home with big brother Ronok)

1974 - I was invited to present a paper in the international symposium on Frequency Control and Selection devices, organized by US Army headquarters in New York.

My Paper was on "An explicit expression for the design of TCXO/RCXO".  I became quite known in the field.  I attended this symposium almost every year.  Here are the 3 presidents, CR Snelgrove, Croven and my company Crystech Company LTD.

(Presidents of Crystech, C R Snelgrove, and Croven)

1975 - Croven moved to U.S and I started my company, Crystech, with a few employees in Markham.  My products were crystal oscillators, filters, synthesizers, switch mode power supplies, transreceivers and sensor devices.

1977- Invented the automatic Swizzle stick for detecting empty containers.  Patent pending. 

 

Invented remote control security  mirror for children’s security at home.

  

1979 – Travelled to India with my wife, Ronok and Bonita.  We all enjoyed seeing the family. 

  

  

Had many correspondence with Indira Gandhi, one of India’s prime ministers.

  

1982 - Sold home in Oshawa and purchased a new home in Markham.

  

Designed, developed and manufactured a line of satellite receivers and captured a Toronto Market.  This article was published in electronic age about my design.

 

 

  

But this market was quickly moved into high tech miniaturized version of automated pizza dish type with coded channel selecting card.  This affected my company.

  

My business served customers such as Leitch Video, Scientific Atlanta, Dofasco, Xerox, Four Seasons, Ontario Hydro, CTV, and Schneider Electric.

  

I was overwhelmed with grief as my mother passed away in 1988.  I wasn’t able to make it back to India at this time, but through the support of my family, I made it through.

  

1989 – Clair, my wife, started working at Woolco , eventually purchased  by Wal-Mart.

  

  

Both Ronok and Bonita worked with Famous Players movie theatres and finished their university degrees from York University.

  

Ronok excelled in IT Management with many hobbies such as music, writing and traveling.  At present he is the Director of IT with a publishing company in Toronto. 

  

Prior to that, he was Director, Systems and Development with Famous Players Head office in Toronto.  He is married and living with wife Tammie, a computer specialist in Halifax.  They have a son,  Caiden. 

  

Bonita works with an engineering company as a data analyst.  She lives with husband Stephen, a computer specialist in Alliston, Ontario.   Their son Jaxsen was born in June 2007 and they are very happy. 

 

I’m in “Leaders in Electronics”, a who’s who of electronics in the world, published by IEEE, NY. 

  

Wrote a book on “Formulating the winning odds on investment”.

  

I celebrated my 40^th year in Canada in 2006.

  

We will be celebrating our 40^th wedding anniversary in 2008.  I am happy, proud man to have Clair as my wife.  We have a wonderful family.  

  

In 2001, I joined Direct Energy, www.directenergy.com  as field manager.  I then moved to Rogers Wireless for 1 1/2 years as corporate account executive.

In 2006, I became Vice-President of Commercial Sales with World Energy, a Direct Energy Distributor.

At Present, I am president of Energy Guru of Canada since June 2008. We are a very successful broker/distributor for DIRECT ENERGY BUSINESS SERVICES And SUPERIOR ENERGY MANAGEMENT OF CANADA.

 

  

Made a trip to India in November 2005 with my son, Ronok and his wife, Tammie.  They also went to Darjeeling and Agra after visiting my family in Calcutta and Jamshedpur.  It had been many years since I had been back home.  We are planning another trip to India in the next few years to visit my family.  

  

Very happy to be friends with Derek Lee,  One of Canada’s most experienced Parliamentarians, for over 15 years. 

  

Unfortunately, I had a car accident on my wedding anniversary, Oct 8, 2006.  My BMW was rear ended by someone.   Now have back injury as a result.

  

Extremely happy to have 3 generations of Sarkars in Canada.