He has lived a long and full life- longer than most.
John Boyd was born in 1913, and doesn’t remember much about the Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919; after all, he was only five years old.
He says his parents told him about the pandemic of 1918-1919- but that’s all he recalls of it at this point.
John Boyd turned 107 year-old in January, and is likely one of the oldest residents of Sunnybrook Hospital’s nearly five hundred residents at its Veterans Wing.
Due to macular degeneration, he recently gave up his presence on Facebook.