Arthur Traviss Corry

Early on Saturday morning, Arthur Traviss Corry was finally at peace, after an 8 month battle with cancer. Blessed with his Grandfather Art's serenity and optimism, he faced the disease as he had faced life - with creativity, courage, and gallantry.
Arthur Traviss Corry was born February 10, 1974, in Merritt, BC. He died on October 10, 2015. In his 41 years, he lived enough to fill many lives.
Traviss was an eccentric child with 23 aquariums, a huge Lego city, and a fishing pole and bike always ready. At age 16, his parents dragged him from Surrey to Victoria, and he soon fell in love with Vancouver Island. He went to Esquimalt High School and Camosun College, Love of Art and Graphic design gave way to the more practical Horticultural Sciences, but he enjoyed painting for most of his life. He and his employees, with their blue and yellow bicycles and signs advertising the Cycling Horticulturist and Co., were a spectacle around town, During a winter down-time, he taught himself web design and built several websites. He married his high school sweetheart, who had helped him build up his business, and they travelled to Thailand to spend a year working and playing on the internet.
Back in Vancouver, his marriage faded but he continued a successful artistic career at the same time as he became more interested in tech start-ups, and other things his parents didn't understand - incubators, debt financing, angel investors, venture capital, cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Blockchain and more. Toronto beckoned, and promised better business opportunities. Arthur Traviss stayed for 6 years, transitioning from Traviss to Arthur, working in businesses, running marathons, swimming, learning to sail, and studying at a Zurich University. He bought and restored a yacht. In his last winter in Toronto, he "found paradise in an igloo", living aboard his yacht and enjoying the challenge of winter on Lake Ontario. But he wanted to get back to the West Coast, to his true love, the Pacific Ocean. He returned to Victoria in the summer of 2014 and built himself a refuge next to his parents' garden, the garden he had landscaped so passionately in his youth. He looked for work to suit his entrepreneurial talents. After a few false starts, he was excited to find a position in Vancouver that he considered to be the culmination of his career. But cancer had invaded his body, and he wasn't able to continue. He fought the battle, and we all thought he was victorious. But a return to Vancouver, complete with life on a new yacht to restore, was not to last. The cancer he thought he had beaten recurred and he died where he wanted to die, at home, in the room he built, wrapped in his parents' love. He will be forever missed.
During the last weeks of his life, Arthur made an inspiring video on his life and impending death. He posted it for his friends on Facebook, but you do not have to be a member of Facebook to see it. He tells us that even in this surreal situation, he is not depressed, but grateful for the time he has had here. We are trying to feel the same, but are grieving not only our personal loss, but the loss of his potential. https://www.facebook.com/ArthurTCorry/videos/10153575885976271/
I MUST go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel's kick and the wind's song and the white sail's shaking, And a gray mist on the sea's face, and a gray dawn breaking. John Masefield
Arthur Traviss was guided so well through his illness by the perfect Dr. Ryan Liebscher and many caring doctors and nurses with Home Care, the BC Cancer Agency, and Victoria Hospice.
A Sail-Away to honour Arthur Traviss will be held on the beach at the Fisgard Lighthouse, on perhaps his favourite holiday, Hallowe'en, at 3:30 p.m. Come dressed appropriately! After a brief gathering, we will retire to the Six Mile Pub, according to his wishes.
If you would like to send a donation, please send it to the BC Cancer Agency or Victoria Hospice, both of which are so appreciated. You might prefer to send a bottle of wine for Des or Scotch for Monica.

BC Cancer Foundation