P.E.I. victim of Fort McMurray crash identified

The P.E.I. victim of a deadly crash north of Fort McMurray Thursday has been identified as 56-year old Steven Frederick Hardy of Montrose, P.E.I., west of Alberton.

According to RCMP apick-up truck driven by a 40-year-old Nova Scotia man struck the tractor-trailer Hardy was driving head-on Thursday afternoon on Highway 63. Both drivers were declared dead at the scene.

Hardy had worked for Clean Harbors Canada for the past decade, a company that provides waste management and other services.

He was hauling two large water tanks at the time of the collision according toa release from Teamsters Canada, the union of which Hardy was a member.

"The man we lost was the salt of the earth," Teamsters Canada president Francois Laporte said in a written release Sunday. "He worked hard to support his family, and he was really well liked by his colleagues."

Hardy leaves behind a wife, two children, three step-children and several grandchildren as well as four siblings.

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