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After a lengthy illness, on April 23, 2002. Predeceased in May 2001 by his wife Elizabeth. Survived by his sister Jay and his children David (Ana), Peter (Jill) and Diana (Jeff). Andrew was born in London, England on June 2, 1932 to Dorothy and Hamish Macpherson. He grew up in Newfoundland, Montreal and Ottawa. Andrew's great and abiding love of the North was inspired in his late teens by his friend and mentor Tom Manning, whom he accompanied on numerous collecting expeditions for the Geological Survey and the National Museum of Canada. He studied zoology at McGill University, where he met Elizabeth; they married in 1957. After completing his PhD in 1962, he began his career as a federal civil servant with the Science Council of Canada and the Departments of the Environment and Indian & Northern Affairs, in Ottawa, Edmonton and Yellowknife. Andrew's passion for observing nature and for hunting and fishing (his authoritative Canadian Ice Anglers' Guide was published in 1985) inspired many friends and colleagues. In his later years, he devoted himself to geopolitical and environmental causes and founded the Sustainable Population Society. Throughout a long and debilitating illness, during which he suffered the loss of his beloved Elizabeth, Andrew's humorous and inquisitive nature endured. The family would like to thank his kind and compassionate caregivers at the Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital and at Laurier House Strathcona, and above all the friends whose visits brightened his days. Andrew was cremated and his ashes mingled with Elizabeth's. Donations in his memory made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be most welcome. The Ottawa Citizen, 11-05-2002