Tim was born in Drumheller, is an Albertan, a Canadian, a son of a Second World War veteran and a Saskatchewan maiden. He is the second of five children growing up in the hard times of Alberta. He graduated from high school, then university. Helped his Grandpa and Grandma (a blacksmithing women), in the Kirby's Blacksmith and Welding Shop. Then, like many Albertans, he held over sixty some positions, from Winnipeg to Vancouver Island. This includes cooking, road and building construction, farming, ranching, labour, equipment operator, pipe-lining, trucking, etc., started and operated several businesses, now serves as a chaplain. In other words, workin' to live.

As an avid outdoors person, he spent time in the bush and high country. (recorded in "Them Roots, Run Deep in Alberta!") He is married to his wife, and they have three grown sons, daughter-in-laws and now grand-kids tagging along. His outlook on life is, "There's nothing we can't do, but there's things we shouldn't do!" That all people are equal and capable of being and doing what they want. Right's, right, and wrong's are wrong! And the 'Truth' is paramount and vital for living life.