Don Curry is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant and president of Curry Immigration Consulting. He was
a reporter and editor at newspapers in Vancouver, Ottawa, Kirkland Lake, Peterborough and New Liskeard before
moving to North Bay in 1978 to teach journalism at Canadore College. He taught for 10 years and was the college’s
director of public affairs for five years, before leaving the college to co-found The Canadian Centre for Social Justice
in North Bay, which later evolved into Young People’s Press. He founded the North Bay & District Multicultural
Centre, an immigrant settlement agency, in 2008 and left the agency at the end of 2015. He has a BA from Carleton
University, an MA from Central Michigan University and a certificate in immigration law, policies and procedures from
the University of British Columbia. He and his wife Mary have two sons, Bill and Chris, both graduates of St. Joseph-
Scollard Hall and Carleton University. Chris is also a Canadore graduate. Bill is the deputy bureau chief with the
Ottawa Bureau of The Globe and Mail and Chris is a psychotherapist with the St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and
Treatment Centre in Brockville, operated by the Royal Ottawa Hospital. His wife, Mary, is an RN at the same
institution. Bill’s wife Amy is a grad of Carleton and the University of Ottawa and is a school board superintendent.
Their daughter Megan is an urban planning student at Toronto Metropolitan University
