This article seems much more accurate than earlier ones which depicted him as inordinantly shy and who only talked about things that really interested him --- this article points out that he was the Curling Club BARTENDER -- so perhaps that glass in his hand in one of the photographs is not Pepsicola, but instead is an exotic ale.
Here his friends mention he has a great sense of humor.
Here's a few excerpts from the latest article in the Australian press:
4:59AM Tuesday Mar 02, 2010
The Vanishing Man: scientist leaves no clues
MEGAN LEVY
March 2, 2010
.......Just as baffled are his family and former colleagues in Melbourne, who described the Monash University graduate as a and sociable man with a cheeky sense of humour.
Mr Cranswick's brother Rupert, 45, spent two weeks in Canada searching for him , and is convinced he was involved in an accident.
''As soon as I got there I saw that it's a really wild remote area, you have wolves and coyotes across the river, and as the river is frozen they can come over from Quebec,'' he said.
Mr Cranswick moved to Canada seven years ago after stints working at universities in London and New York. He worked as a crystallographer, determining the arrangement of atoms in solids, at the Canadian Neutron Beam Centre located in the nuclear facility.
''He was as happy as Larry there, he didn't want to leave the joint,'' his brother said.
In his spare time, Mr Cranswick was the barman and vice-president of the Deep River Curling and Squash Club, and was praised by his fellow club members for stocking the largest selection of beer in the club's history.
......A former CSIRO colleague, Ian Madsen, said Mr Cranswick had a strong social conscience, and had used his own resources to develop and distribute CD-based software for crystallography for people in Third World nations that did not have internet access.