The band Vector (originally) sprang out of Grant Crawford and Jeff Cairns playing Stevie Wonder tunes and the like in 1973.  At that time Grant was playing acoustic guitar and Jeff was playing the transverse flute. Around the same time, Grant and Gabe Landry started getting together to jam.  Gabe is also a guitarist.  Gabe had some sort of formal music training in college, so Vector likely formed after that.
The founding members of Vector were Grant Crawford ( gtr), Gabe Landry (gtr), Paul Sue-Ping (bass and vocal), Jeff Cairns (flute, soprano sax, vocal), and Jay Catania (drums).  Later Barry Pausey (guitar, keyboard, vocal) joined in when Gabe was traveling with work.
Vector held weekly rehearsal sessions in a converted train boxcar on some property owned by Jay’s father’s business where an album’s worth of original, fusion music was hammered out.  Though Vector played private gigs now and then, the only public gig played was a Halloween party at the Ambassador Hotel in Scarborough.
In 1981, Jeff’s first child was born which largely took away from his ability to contribute to the band regularly.  In 1986, Jeff not only left the band officially, but left Canada to take up a new life in Japan where he resides today.
It’s unclear how Vector disbanded back then, but Grant embarked on another band venture that seemed to be moving in a more-positive direction which necessitated the disbanding of Vector.
Jump forward about 42 years.  Grant and Jeff reconnected and talked about sharing music.  Both Grant and Jeff had not stopped playing music in the interim.  Nothing really fired their interests until Grant suggested trying to re-form Vector.  Sadly, Paul Sue-Ping had passed away not long before that, but Gabe, Jay, and Barry were contacted with the prospect. The five extant members of the original Vector got together for a zoom meeting and rehashed old memories.  From that meeting, Barry realized that a reformation of Vector wasn’t in the cards for him.  Consequently, Grant, Gabe, Jeff, and Jay decided to go ahead with the idea that they would try to resurrect some of the old music.  Unfortunately, Jay hadn’t kept up with drumming over the years and couldn’t manage the demands of the old music, causing him to drop out of the venture.  Grant, Gabe, and Jeff, however, were eager to give it a go.  But rather than attempting the old music, the three of them started composing and decided to rename the project Vektur; a name close enough to the original to pay homage to that time, but far enough away to suggest something new.  The arrangement that seemed to work was that Gabe, living in Ottawa, Ontario, and Grant, living in Collingwood, Ontario, would toss ideas around between the two of them online, which was further necessitated by the existence of the COVID pandemic at the time.  When they felt they had something worth working on, the idea would be passed to Jeff in Kumamoto, Japan, who would work on arrangement, adding his parts which tended to be horns, vocals, programmed drums and keyboards.  Things developed from there, and post production, mixing and mastering ensued at BigFishStudio in Kumamoto between Jeff and mix engineer Richard Gilbert.  The result to date is Vektur’s first album about to be released called Eclipse Move, containing ten original and new pieces displaying the fruits of their labors.