Paul Jones

Paul Harris Jones passed away peacefully at home on February 28th, 2026 at age 97. …He emigrated to Canada in 1948. He attended UBC in Vancouver, completing a BSc in Forestry and meeting Mavis Ruth Jones of Cranberry Lake, who he married. They subsequently went to live in England where Paul completed a Graduate Diploma in Forestry Economics at Oxford. …In 1967, Paul left work in the Canadian Forestry sector and accepted an overseas posting with the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations. He lived with his family in Turkey for five years and completed an assignment as assistant director, then opened his own consulting firm and worked around the globe as a forestry economist until his retirement in 1989.