Anton Josef Eberle

Dad passed away peacefully on Easter Sunday.

He moved to Montreal and later Vancouver from Switzerland in the 1960s, where he worked as a machinist for Bennett & Emmott and later Pilkington’s Metal Marine. In his early years, he was quite the traveler. He journeyed by ship to Fiji before it was a tourist destination and he lived for a time in Sweden and Australia too.

In the 1970s he regularly drove his old Edsel car down to Mexico. On one trip he stopped at the Grand Canyon for a hike, ran out of water, and barely made it back out by night. He met and married my mom in Mexico and together they settled in the Cambie Village area.

In the 1980s my dad bought a property in Stave Falls near Rolley Lake in Mission from the Bonner family. There, he built a cabin which perhaps looks like a cross of Westcoast and a Swiss Chalet. He never missed a Saturday out there, working on the land and clearing trails through the Mission Community Forest to connect Carr Street to the powerline trail and on to Rolley Lake. If you look carefully, you might see his old hand made signs nailed up high on trees marking the Tony and Todd (dog) Trail.

Dad’s roots were in farming, and he built two big gardens to grow his own vegetables. Just last year cleared a bit of land to create his own forest garden beneath the trees. In 2025, we started to joke that one of the family made it to Hollywood when Netflix’s crime drama “Untamed” set in Yosemite National Park was filmed at the cabin. “The Old Ways” (Episode 5 of Tracker Season 3) was also filmed at the cabin the following year.

My dad was kind, compassionate, ethical, intelligent, and hardworking. He was an avid photographer with several cameras and high-resolution lens, and an old school wine maker who used a hand press and liked tasting as much as the craft. Later in life, he took great care of his son and cherished spending time with his grandson – walking in the forest and teaching him the country old ways.

He always said that people should take an interest in things.