Sev Morin
With a lifetime of experience in the hospitality industry (SEVERIN'S and the GAI PAREE were famous Vancouver area hot spots), Sev Morin is a legendary facilitator, a “team builder”. He gets people together to get things done - people in government, people in media, people in corporations, and the general public.
Sev has served on several Boards of Directors, including Capilano College, the Pacific Rim Institute of Tourism and the Variety Club. He is currently a Member of the Foundation Board of St. Michael’s Hospice. Sev was a Member of the Senate at Simon Fraser University, Vice-Chair of the British Columbia Gaming Commission, Community Liaison Officer for the Burnaby Board of Trade and Honorary Director of the Vancouver Canuck Benevolent Association (Alumni).
In November of 2002, Sev received the Local Hero Award from the City of Burnaby, BC, and in 2003, the Queen’s Jubilee Medal. He is currently the Chair of the Burnaby 2010 Olympic Legacy Committee and does government and public relations with the movie industry in British Columbia.
Word from John Ashbridge -
Jack Cullen's long-time good friend and a man well known to many of we former NW types - Sev Morin - passed away on Friday, March 28th.
Many will remember Sev as a veteran member of Jack's "Howe Street Social Club" and - together with his late brother, Rudy - the operator(s) of The Gai Paree night club (later Severin's) on Kingsway in Burnaby. He was also well known among the show-biz 'mafia' on the Lower Mainland, at one time serving as something of a mentor to a Burnaby kid named Michael J. Fox. Personally, I'll remember Sev, especially in his later years, as a man who was never in the best of physical health, but always in the best of spirits.