He also worked as science consultant for the Peel District Board, where he wrote science curricula and presented science and environmental workshops. His great love — other than his partner Celia and two sons, Anthony and Craig — is music. He sang many of the roles in Gilbert and Sullivan’s operettas and currently sings in several choirs. A vast collection of opera, choral music, symphonies, concertos, chamber music, jazz, pop, musicals, rock, and country and western lines multitudinous shelves throughout the Steels house and fifth wheel.