Around their last Christmas together, Gibson Glavin remembers tobogganing down a large steep hill and keeping close to his 8-year-old son Brendan to make sure he didn’t get hurt.

After a couple turns, a determined Brendan told him, “me do it.” Glavin said he hesitated a bit at first, but felt compelled to let his son give it a go.

Then he saw Brendan racing down that hill in Fort Saskatchewan all by himself while his other children, who were at the base of the hill, cheered and celebrated their brother’s feat.

“It’s a beautiful memory. My boy was growing up, and he was developing beautifully.”

“He struggled for a lot of things. But he was game. He was really game.”

Later in March 2002, Brendan, who had congenital heart disease, died at Edmonton’s Stollery Children’s Hospital after the

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