 He created the roles of Ford in the first professional performance of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ "Sir John in Love" (April 1946), Joseph Lavatte in Sir Arthur Bliss's opera "The Olympians" (1949), and in Canada, the Hon William McDougall in Harry Somers’ opera "Louis Riel" (1967).He appeared as the Ghost in the first performance in English of Humphrey Searle's opera "Hamlet", in Toronto in February 1969.His students included Stafford Dean.