London community mourns loss of Forest Cliff camp director killed in crash

Tiffany Mongu · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 30, 2025 1:04 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 minutes ago

Family and friends of Londoner Tyler Shaule are remembering him arsenic a loving hubby and father, man of faith and a person with a large heart.

Shaule died April 24 aft a rider conveyance collided with a transport motortruck northeast of Strathroy astir 10:40 a.m. connected Egremont Drive betwixt Hedley Drive and Ilderton Road. The second driver was taken to infirmary with superior injuries, according to Ontario Provincial Police. 

Shaule, 44, is known in the assemblage for serving successful his relation arsenic main enforcement serviceman of Forest Cliff Camps successful Lambton Shores for much than a decade — a camp he's been a portion of since his youth and the place he met his woman Janet. 

"The interaction has been devastating," said Mark Farrow, a person of Shaule's and pastor astatine Stoney Creek Baptist Church successful London, wherever his household attends. 

"I've been getting messages and e-mails, telephone calls from religion leaders from different churches from different radical that person been impacted by Tyler's life. He had a immense interaction connected truthful many," helium said. "The interaction that Tyler had is acold and wide."

His religion assemblage held a work of lament this past Sunday successful effect to the quality of Shaule's tragic death, helium said. "This has decidedly been a clip of grief and sorrow." 

Farrow said helium was a kind, generous, talented visionary and person with charisma — an unthinkable begetter to his kids, and a devoted hubby to his wife, whose religion was cardinal to his life. 

'He cared a batch astir people' 

The interaction connected the Forest Cliff Camps assemblage volition besides beryllium "enormous," said Farrow, whose religion partners with Forest Cliff to big time camps successful the summer. The campy hosts 4,000 children and younker annually done their overnight campy successful Lambton Shores and time camps crossed southwestern Ontario. 

"I can't adjacent picture the nonaccomplishment it volition beryllium without him," helium said.

With seasonal unit acceptable to get astatine the overnight campy successful the coming weeks, the camp's committee is making plans to guarantee everything is ready, said Jon Burkholder, Forest Cliff's executive manager of time camps.

"We've got large people, that was thing Tyler was truly bully at, surrounding large radical to capable successful those roles," helium said. "Forest Cliff is going to miss Tyler a batch this summer."

Shaule was a humble person with superb ideas and idiosyncratic who dreamt big, Burkholder said. "He conscionable taught america each to genuinely attraction for campy families, for people."  

His brother-in-law Devon Wagler said Shaule loved spending clip with his family. He was a large shot fan, who loved Star Wars movies and playing games with his 3 sons. 

Shaule and their other brother-in-law Mike were part of a peculiar trio who joined into the household astir the aforesaid time. They would walk clip cooking together, and having a batch of nerdy and important beingness conversations, Wagler said. 

"He wasn't acrophobic to bash the close thing, adjacent if it was hard. That's thing I ever respect astir him."

Ultimately, it's emotion that defined Shaule's life, Wagler said. 

Tyler Shaule's beingness volition beryllium celebrated by the community on Saturday and Sunday astatine Stoney Creek Baptist Church successful London.