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“He always said there are two types of motorcycle riders: ones that have been in a crash and ones that are going to be in a crash,” Rick Ellas’s daughter Madison says.
“It’s unbelievably ironic for him to die in one.”
Ellas, 59, died at 11: 30 Sunday night, succumbing to extensive brain trauma suffered when his motorcycle and a car collided six hours earlier, less than two kilometres from his Kanata home.
Ellas was riding his Honda motorcycle south on Eagleson Road, to put it into storage, with his wife, Christine, following in their SUV. Christine said a female driver merged in front of her approaching Fernbank, which shielding her view of the collision with a Hyundai Accent driven by a 47-year-old man.
“I didn’t see the impact. That was a blessing.”
Ellas’s family said the community mourns the loss of an incredibly caring father and husband, friend and volunteer who was known for his smile, compassionate heart, engineering talents and his decades-old moustache. He played hockey four times a week on two different seniors’ teams and volunteered for the Canadian Alliance for Disabled Skiing.
Rick Ellas, with wife, Christine.
“Taking those kids out, he wasn’t happy unless they were howling,” Madison said, a volunteer herself. “He was so good with them.”
Madison said her father enjoyed travelling with his family: together they have seen the Golden Gate Bridge and parts of Europe, took annual ski trips to Whistler, and in recent years vacations to Jamaica. Christine said the jerk chicken and Appleton rum always enticed her husband to go back.
Around the house, and for friends and clients, if something needed repairing or renovating, he tackled the project with enthusiasm — and if he didn’t know how to do it, he learned.
Rick Ellas with daughter Madison.
“I would see strange objects in my driveway or in my garage and I would say, ‘Where did this come from?’ ” Christine said, “and (Ellas’s response) always started off with, ‘I have this client who needs … ’”
“He was everybody’s guy for everything,” Madison said. “He did so much to help everybody in his life.”
Family friend Terry McKinnon said Ellas considered clients of his financial planning business to be friends.
Ottawa police were still appealing for any witnesses to the crash to come forward, but Ellas’s wife and daughter said they were focusing on exercising compassion, as Ellas would have done.
“As for the driver, I think it’s tragic in its own sense … it was an accident which ended in my father’s death but it was still a mistake,” Madison said. “I think my dad would have had compassion.”
Over the years, Ellas shared many other pieces of wisdom with his daughter. Christine said she sees in her Ellas’s legacy: “He taught her a lot.”
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“It’s unbelievably ironic for him to die in one.”
Ellas, 59, died at 11: 30 Sunday night, succumbing to extensive brain trauma suffered when his motorcycle and a car collided six hours earlier, less than two kilometres from his Kanata home.
Ellas was riding his Honda motorcycle south on Eagleson Road, to put it into storage, with his wife, Christine, following in their SUV. Christine said a female driver merged in front of her approaching Fernbank, which shielding her view of the collision with a Hyundai Accent driven by a 47-year-old man.
“I didn’t see the impact. That was a blessing.”
Ellas’s family said the community mourns the loss of an incredibly caring father and husband, friend and volunteer who was known for his smile, compassionate heart, engineering talents and his decades-old moustache. He played hockey four times a week on two different seniors’ teams and volunteered for the Canadian Alliance for Disabled Skiing.
Rick Ellas, with wife, Christine.
“Taking those kids out, he wasn’t happy unless they were howling,” Madison said, a volunteer herself. “He was so good with them.”
Madison said her father enjoyed travelling with his family: together they have seen the Golden Gate Bridge and parts of Europe, took annual ski trips to Whistler, and in recent years vacations to Jamaica. Christine said the jerk chicken and Appleton rum always enticed her husband to go back.
Around the house, and for friends and clients, if something needed repairing or renovating, he tackled the project with enthusiasm — and if he didn’t know how to do it, he learned.
Rick Ellas with daughter Madison.
“I would see strange objects in my driveway or in my garage and I would say, ‘Where did this come from?’ ” Christine said, “and (Ellas’s response) always started off with, ‘I have this client who needs … ’”
“He was everybody’s guy for everything,” Madison said. “He did so much to help everybody in his life.”
Family friend Terry McKinnon said Ellas considered clients of his financial planning business to be friends.
Ottawa police were still appealing for any witnesses to the crash to come forward, but Ellas’s wife and daughter said they were focusing on exercising compassion, as Ellas would have done.
“As for the driver, I think it’s tragic in its own sense … it was an accident which ended in my father’s death but it was still a mistake,” Madison said. “I think my dad would have had compassion.”
Over the years, Ellas shared many other pieces of wisdom with his daughter. Christine said she sees in her Ellas’s legacy: “He taught her a lot.”
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