He was 104.
In addition to emerging mostly unharmed from the wartime munitions blast that devastated Halifax, Snair walked away from one of the worst train accidents Canadian history: the 1942 Almonte train wreck that killed 39 people.
In his 50s, he survived a bout with cancer; in his 60s, a highway crash; and as a centenarian, most of his second pandemic.
He once told an interviewer he didn’t believe God played any role in his repeated acts of survival.
“No, it’s just something that happened and I happened to be there,” Snair explained. “I’ve just been in the right place at the wrong time.”