Aerospace Executive Promotes Canada
Basile Papaevangelou, right, born Eleftheroupolis, Kavala, Greece, came to Canada with his parents at age two, landing at Pier 21, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1953. Because of the large Greek community living in Montreal, the Papaevangelou family settled in Quebec’s largest city where young Basile received all of his schooling, graduating, B.Eng., McGill University, 1973, and earning his M.B.A. from that same institution, 1982. Former President, Allied Signal Aerospace Canada, Basile, in this mid-1990s photograph, taken at the Paris Air Show, chats with James A. Lovell Jr. who commanded the unsuccessful Apollo 13 Moon Mission (1970) and returned the spacecraft to Earth following a potentially disastrous explosion on board. Since his retirement, Basile has been deeply involved in a special all-Canadian millennium project called The Canada Tree, a magnificent tree sculpture composed of woods from each province and territory telling fascinating stories of ordinary and extraordinary Canadians. A towering symbol, The Canada Tree celebrates the extended roots of the fascinating Canadian experience. [Photo, courtesy Basile Papaevangelou]