Douglas, Creighton, 1924-2006 : John Creighton Douglas was born 15 August 1924 in Cowansville, Quebec. He attended McGill University and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1947. After graduation he was hired as a Junior Engineer with Canadian Marconi Company, in the broadcast transmitter system design section. Only six weeks later, he left to work for Utah Electronics. The following year he married Althea Cleveland McCoy, and returned to Marconi's radio and TV receiver design unit. In 1951 he left Marconi again for CBC as Television Operations Instructor, only to return again a year later to Marconi as Engineering Manager, responsible for CFCF Radio and new TV stations in 1960.
In 1964, Douglas began work for N.J. Pappas and Associates, which collaborated with the National Film Board on the film "Labyrinthe" which was shown at Expo 67. He was contracted to the NFB to be Pavilion Manager for "Labyrinthe." He stayed with NFB, first as Technical Coordination Officer for Canadian Government Participation in Expo '70, Osaka, Japan, and eventually as Senior Technical Officer and Chief of Production Services. In 1969 he completed a Graduate Diploma in Management.
In 1971, Douglas left the NFB for Information Canada in Ottawa where he was Chief, Audio-Visual and Electronics Media, and then Director of the Expositions Branch. In 1975 was seconded as Director-General of the Host Programme at the Canadian Habitat Secretariat in Vancouver. He then returned to NFB in Montreal for three more years.
In 1981 Douglas joined IMAX Corporation as Manager of Technical Support in Toronto, and traveled widely to establish theatres in North America, Japan and Europe. He retired from IMAX ten years later and began his own consultancy, Douglas Consultants, with IMAX as his major client. He served on the Boards of the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario and the Canadian Translators and Interpreters Council. In 1994 he co-wrote, with Althea, "Canadian Railway Records: A Guide for Genealogists." Douglas died February 6, 2006.