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Michael Day
Michael William Day, 70, died on July 10, 2021, of pancreatic cancer in Burlington, Vt. Born in Montréal in 1951, he was the son of Margaret (née Simpson) and William Day. After growing up in Montréal, he lived in British Columbia for more than a decade before moving to Vermont to marry his wife, Martha Lewis Trainor, in 1985. He is beloved and sorely missed by his stepmother, three sisters, a stepsister, their families in western Canada, and his wife and her extended family.
A man of simple needs, he believed strongly in the principles of recycle and reuse, having started one of the first recycling centers in northern British Columbia in the 1970s. He loved living in Vermont, calling it the “most Canadian” of the states, and he had many friends from his days working at Tristate Distributors and Conant Custom Brass. Known to his wife as Sweetness, he was always willing to help family, friends and neighbors with whatev