Mary Jane HALL (Nesbitt)

May 4, 1939 - September 9, 2025

Mary Jane Hall [nee Nesbitt] (Jane Hall), left Turtle Island on September 9, 2025, to sail to heaven on Key Largo, her and Robin’s boat of many happy adventures. Her loving husband, Robin Hall, predeceased her in 2013. Jane is survived by Robin’s 3 children, Jane, Dennice and Matthew.
Jane was born on May 4, 1939, in Woodstock Ontario. The Nesbitt’s were early settlers in Oxford County when the County was being surveyed. They had an estate called Altadore, a home Jane fondly remembered where she played under the billiards table.

The family moved to Brampton Ontario when her father, Jack Nesbitt, became Vice-President of Personnel at A.V. Roe Canada Limited, which produced the Avro Arrow.

At  21 Jane left Altadore for the University of Toronto where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts.

After University, Jane traveled across the Atlantic to London. Having been a reporter for  Thomson Newspapers in Brampton, she had a letter of introduction to Baron Roy Thomson, who helped her to find freelance work in London. During this time Jane joined a local theatre group and found a favourite pastime.
After three years Jane returned to Canada to establish herself in the advertising world. While working as Senior Vice-President at McLaren Advertising a recruiter asked her if  she was interested in a job in Strategic Planning & Market Research at Metro Market Newspapers. Off Jane went to an interview with its President and CEO, Robin Hall, where she was hired on the spot and Friday lunches became Friday dinners. Robin and Jane had a glorious life together and during their 44 years of marriage, they became the proprietors of Hall & Hall Consulting. Robin and Jane traveled the world together and retired to beautiful Sidney, British Columbia where together they continued to contribute to their new community sitting on many boards, including Jane’s role as a former director of the Saanich Peninsula Hospital Foundation and their significant involvement on the Board of the University of Victoria School of Business from 1989-2013.

After Robin’s passing Jane established the Robin and Jane Hall Business Award Endowment at the University of Victoria, Peter B. Gustafson, School of Business to fund, after her death, an annual award to help students entering their first year in the Bachelor of Commerce and  MBA Program.

Donations in Robin and Jane’s memory can be made to the University of Victoria Robin and Jane Hall Business Award Endowment.