Tuesday, May 8, 2018
I have always admired Wilkie, since I met him when I started my career as a reporter at The Advocate in 1989. He was a kind and gentle man with a quick smile, a word of encouragement and stories of his personal and professional experiences that were usually far more interesting than meetings the local media covered with him. I learned more from Wilkie about Pictou County, its "movers and shakers" and its politics than any classroom or text book could ever have provided. I've never met anyone who was more respected or liked by his peers, his contemporaries and the wide circle of friends and acquaintances than Wilkie Taylor. I will be forever grateful that I had an opportunity to know him. Few could ever hope to hold a candle to him. Rest well, Wilkie, and perhaps our paths will cross again someday. With sincerest sympathy and fond remembrance. Gordon
