Early Life & Education

-Dr. Gerald Bull was born into a well to do family in North Bay, Ontario in 1928. The family ran into hard times during the Great Depression and had to relocate to Toronto, Ontario. Shortly after arriving in Toronto Gerald’s mother passed away, his father remarried, and Gerald along with all his brothers and sisters were given to different relatives. Gerald ended up with his aunt Bernice, and later with another set of relatives, the LaBrosses – who had won the sweepstakes years before and were quite well off financially. Gerald was sent to an all-boys school – even though much too young he was aloud admittance from a large donation from his wealthy relatives – at this school is where he picked up the hobby of designing balsa wood airplanes, which would later shape his professional career aspirations, and start him on the road to becoming the world's greatest artillery expert. At the age of 16 he was allowed into the brand new aeuronautical engineering course at the University of Toronto. Recollections from classmates and professors note that Gerald was not a brilliant student and received strictly average marks. Later that year the institute of Aerodynamics was opened on campus, it would allow in three students per year, Gerald was selected not for his academic achievements but for his tremendous energy towards the subject matter. For Gerald’s master thesis he set to building a supersonic wind tunnel – at that time a relatively rare device. He also used the device for his PhD thesis. This device also led him to a period of work with the Canadian Armament and Research Development Establishment, or CARDE, now known as the Defence Research and Development Canada, or DRDC Valcartier, which is a major Canadian military research station in Quebec. 
Rough time frame of events: 1928-1950