Next to a wood fire and with a beer in hand, I listened as Dr. Charles King recounted his truly remarkable career. It was a story of how our community was founded from humble beginnings by family physicians. Family physicians who manned everything from maternity, to anaesthetics to the emergency department at Peace Arch Hospital. The story of how a small single doctor practice became Crescent Beach Medical practice and of how our community started one of the first Divisions of Family Practice in BC. As the interview hit 50 minutes and I considered ending it, I was drawn in once more by his passion for his life long anti-nuclear advocacy.