Bill Noble, emerit Heritage Interpreter

Officially, I have only been working in Tourism since the summer of 2019 when I started with the Wheatland Express as an Excursion Guide aboard their excursion train.

In truth, I have been in tourism since the early 1970s when I began to volunteer at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Ottawa.

As a member of the Bytown Railway Society, I helped out at the museum restoring, operating and demonstrating equipment and talking to people.

After I retired from my career in the RCAF and as a research and development engineer, we moved to Wakaw and I began to volunteer at the Saskatchewan Railway Museum, once again restoring, demonstrating and talking.

After the 2019 season at Wheatland, my boss, Ashlyn Weninger, suggested that I look into the profession of Heritage Interpreter.

Under Re-Open Saskatchewan Training Subsidy, and with the help and encouragement of Tourism Saskatchewan I have been able to be certified as a Heritage Interpreter.

A whole world of tourism professionalism has been revealed.

More recently I have studied as a Food and Beverage Server and a Workplace Trainer to be able to help as Wheatland expands into dining and sleeping car experiences.

As we prepare for our post-COVID re-beginning, I look around and am still a bit amazed to find myself a tourism professional.

It's exciting and fun but my favourite part is still meeting and talking to people.

When I have a story in me I have to let it out.