‘Our bedrock:’ Jim Prentice remembered at memorial as devoted family man
CALGARY — Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice was remembered Friday as a principled public servant, a humble leader and a champion of indigenous and environmental causes.
But much of a public state memorial focused on his devotion to family.
“My father was so much to so many and he was absolutely everything to our family,” daughter Cassia Prentice told 1,500 politicians, business colleagues, friends and members of the public gathered at Calgary’s Jubilee Auditorium.
Prentice, 60, was killed in a plane crash in British Columbia earlier this month with optometrist Ken Gellatly, businessman Sheldon Reid and retired RCMP officer Jim Kruk. Gellatly was Cassia Prentice’s father-in-law.