I`m deeply saddened to hear of this loss.
David Burman

At 09:20 AM 5/1/98 -0400, Rick Wilson wrote:
>It is with great sadness and regret that I inform you of the recent death
of Dr.
>Mike Nelson in Nanaimo B.C. Mike had a distinguished career in Health
Promotion over
>the last 20 years as a private consultant , federal employee and on the
Board of
>Directors for the Canadian and B. C. public health associations.
>
> Most of his Canadian colleagues will remember Mike's vision and sense of
humor.
>Mike was always there with a new idea and a humorous perspective at
conferences and
>meetings . I have lost a close friend and will miss him terribly.
>
> His family have asked that friends and colleagues write notes of
remembrances of
>Mike to celebrate his life and to be included in a ‘gathering" on May
31st. I would
>be happy to receive these notes and present them to the family.
>
>The following notice appeared in the local press
>
>Nelson, Dr. Michael Davidson, age 51, passed away April 23, 1998, in
>Nanaimo, B.C.  Mike was a loving and devoted husband and father, and he was
>deeply committed to friends and the communities in which he resided.  As an
>applied sociologist, and as a creative thinker with a passionate social
>conscience, Mike worked to make the world around him a better place in
>which to live.   In the 1980s, he worked for four federal government
>departments, holding senior positions in policy, evaluation and research,
>and program development.  After moving to British Columbia in 1991, Mike
>combined consulting and occasional university teaching with a high level of
>volunteer work in national and local organizations.  At the time of his
>death, Mike headed NHN Consulting Group, was Vice-President of the Public
>Health Association of British Columbia, a director of the Mid-Island Public
>Participation Society, and Clinical Assistant Professor in the Institute
>for Health Promotion Research, University of British Columbia.  He formerly
>served as a director of the Canadian Public Health Association (Chair of
>the Environmental and Occupational Health Division), Co-Chair of the City
>of Nanaimo's Social Planning Advisory Committee, and President of Manotick
>(Ontario) Project Ploughshares.
>
>He will be terribly missed by his wife, Dr. Susan Hess Nelson, son, Chad,
>daughter, Janet, parents, Dr. Charles and Dorothea Nelson, brothers William
>(Jacki) and James (Dr. Mary D), aunt, Berniece Brown (Donald), in-laws (the
>Hess family), and many cousins, nephews and nieces.  All who knew Mike are
>invited to share memories of his wisdom, passion, wit, sense of humor and
>enjoyment of life.  A celebration of his life will be held at the family
>residence (6961 Saxon Cross Road, Lantzville, BC, V0R 2H0), Sunday, May 31,
>1998 at 2 p.m., followed by a reception.
>
>Rick Wilson
>