Diane Leslie WALLACE

1951 - 2022

DIANE LESLIE WALLACE September 25, 1951 - February 4, 2022 Diane died suddenly and unexpectedly of heart failure at age 70. Diane leaves her mother, Joan, still thriving at age 94, and her brother, James (Susan Delaval). Diane was predeceased by her father, Daniel, in 2019. Diane's first love was theatre, which she studied at the University of British Columbia and York University in Toronto. Her first acting experience was in a student production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible, in which she played the youngest daughter. She then went on to work in the costume department at the Banff School of Fine Arts, and travelled with the Shaw Festival on a tour from Niagara-on-the-Lake to the north-eastern United States. Diane soon realized that theatre was an uncertain way of life, and decided instead to use her keen intellect and prodigious memory as a court reporter (Verbatim Method). As such, Diane travelled across Canada reporting on human rights hearings held by the Canadian Human Rights Commission. One of her more interesting assignments was to cover the first sitting of the newly elected territorial government of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife. After many years of travel for work she settled into her Toronto apartment full time, and reported on hearings of the Toronto City Council. On retirement, she was back in her Tsawwassen family home near Vancouver, where she became an active member of the University Women's Club of South Delta.