Civitan club, and he served as treasurer of the international organization. His position allowed him to meet U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to present Civitan's World Citizenship Award. He was chairman of the 60th anniversary of D-Day celebrations that took place in the presence of the Queen at Juno Beach in Normandy on 6 June 2004. As ministerial advisor to the Minister of Veterans Affairs he took part in the planning, preparation and execution of the government's celebration of the 70th Anniversary of D-Day at Juno Beach, France, on 6 June 2014, and was similarly engaged in the plans for the in-Holland Canadian celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Netherlands on 5 May 2015. He is now one of the very few surviving Canadian veterans of both of those Battles (Normandy and Holland). He co-chaired the Ontario advisory committee that created the veterans' memorial unveiled on 17 September 2006 in front of the provincial legislature at Queen's Park, was chair of the Premier's Ceremonial Advisory Committee (2006-2014), and was a ten-year member of the advisory council of the Order of Ontario. Rohmer currently holds the following honorary positions: honorary deputy commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police; honorary chief of Toronto Paramedic Services; patron of the Toronto St. John's Ambulance (1978–2007), honorary fire chief of Collingwood, Ontario, and honorary chief of the Toronto Police Service. He is also the original honorary Chief of Paramedics in Ontario, and during the period 1978-2007 was patron of the Toronto division of St. John's Ambulance. Family Rohmer lives by himself in Collingwood, Ontario. His wife of 70 years, Mary Olivia (nicknamed Mary-O), passed away in January 2020. He also practices aviation litigation with the Toronto law firm of Rohmer & Fenn. He has two daughters, Ann Rohmer, a TV personality, and Catherine, a lawyer. He is a licensed pilot. Bibliography Practice and Procedure Before the Highway Transport Board (1965) The Green North: Mid-Canada (1970) The Royal Commission on Book Publishing (Chair, 1972) The Arctic Imperative (1973) Toronto, McClelland and Stewart Ultimatum (1973) Toronto, Clarke, Irwin Exxoneration (1974) Exodus UK (1975) Toronto : McClelland and Stewart Separation (1976) McClelland and Stewart Balls! (1980) Periscope Red (1980) Poems by Arthur Henry Ward (1980) Separation two (1981) Pattons Gap (1981) New York : Beaufort Books Triad (1982) Retaliation (1982) Massacre 747 (1984) Rommel and Patton (1986) Starmageddon (1986) Hour of the Fox (1988) Red