FITZSIMMONS m@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-01-14 published
Annabel Jane
GRIFFITHS and Timothy Stuart
FITZSIMMONS -- Match:
By Judith TENENBAUM,
Saturday,
January 14, 2006, Page M4
While they were still just Friends, Annabel
GRIFFITHS wrote in
her diary about her affinity with Timothy
FITZSIMMONS: "
Time
we spend together is like we are building a step in a staircase.
One day we will complete the staircase, look at this world we
have created together, and kiss."
The two met in 1995 at Ryerson's theatre school, but the next
year their careers and lives took divergent paths. An English
graduate from the University of Western Ontario, Ms.
GRIFFITHS
established herself as an actor, writer and certified yoga instructor.
She co-wrote (along with Alison Lawrence and Mary-Francis Moore)
a semi-autobiographical play, bittergirl, a sassy comedy about
getting on after getting dumped. The three starred in its London,
New York and Toronto hit runs. Mr.
FITZSIMMONS, during this time,
graduated in English from McGill University and pursued a master's
in journalism at New York University.
The two exchanged perfunctory e-mail messages and phone calls,
but sustained their Friendship with a Jane Austen-like exchange
of letters, where they shared sentiments that tiptoed around
romance. "We loved the way we could express ideas and talk about
things going on in our lives," Ms.
GRIFFITHS says.
Queried as to why he was so obsessed with Ms.
GRIFFITHS by fellow
student Yon
MOTSKIN -- later his best man -- Mr.
FITZSIMMONS
admitted: "I think this is the girl I'm going to marry. I have
to go and see Annabel."
Thus, on a Labour Day visit home in 2000, he arranged a dinner
date, shifting their standard scenario from coffee to candlelight
as he resolved to "put it all on the table and tell Annabel."
Despite an enchanting evening, Mr.
FITZSIMMONS was afraid unrequited
love would jeopardize their Friendship. He abandoned his effort
and, disconsolate, trundled off to visit his parents in Kitchener.
Speaking to her friend Jen
COMISH,
Ms.
GRIFFITHS lamented: "He's
going back to New York. It will be months before I see him, and
am I always going to wonder?" Ms.
COMISH -- her future maid of
honour -- persuaded her to call him before he left Kitchener,
and she cast her fate with a message.
"I met him at the bus stop. We were grinning from ear to ear,
went for a drink, and had our first kiss," she says of their
decisive moment.
That fall, Ms.
GRIFFITHS visited Mr.
FITZSIMMONS several times.
They walked all of Manhattan, enjoying Central Park, the East
Village and Broadway.
By 2001, he was back in Toronto working as a website writer and
editor until he entered Osgoode Hall Law School the next year.
By December, 2004, they had moved "from hesitation to certainty."
So after requesting Ms.
GRIFFITHS' hand from her parents with
a written declaration of his love, he surprised her with a weekend
at Niagara-on-the-Lake's Oban Inn.
Mr. FITZSIMMONS recounted fond memories of vacations there as
they crunched past his grandparents' former home, to the lake,
where he proposed. "I said, 'Of course, but will you marry me?'
" she recalls, teary-eyed. "We put the ring on, jumped in the
snow, hugged and held hands just as the sun was setting."
On October 9, the Pillar and Post welcomed her English family
and his Scottish family to their rose garden wedding, where Rev.
Derek RYMARCHUK officiated. Their gifts to one another reflected
a Victorian sensibility: He offered a love letter and diamond
necklace in exchange for an engraved pocket watch.
Today, Mr.
FITZSIMMONS, 32, articles at Fraser Milner Casgrain,
as the new Mrs.
FITZSIMMONS, 34, who will retain her maiden name
professionally, juggles her artistic career while directing OmZone,
a yoga and wellness company. "It's almost as if our souls were
circling one another and when the time was right we came together," she says.
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FRASER m@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2006-09-20 published
Mark 70th Wedding Anniversary
On September 12, 2006 Ken and Elva
FRASER celebrated their 70th
wedding anniversary. Ken and Elva marked the special occasion
with a family gathering on September 10. Congratulations and
best wishes on reaching such a milestone and may you enjoy more
pleasant anniversaries.
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FRASER m@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2006-09-20 published
FRASER,
Ken and Elva - 70th anniversary
We wish to thank our family for birthday dinners held at Grey
Gables. We thank the staff and Friends at Grey Gables for honouring
us with a 70th anniversary cake on rodeo nite. Thank you to family,
grandchildren, and great-grandchildren for gathering together
at Annesley United Church on Sunday September 10th for dinner
in honour of our 70th anniversary. Thanks to our many Friends
and relatives for telephone calls, visits, cards, gifts, and
flowers, for the many happy memories. Thanks for the congratulations
received from Prime Minister, and Governor General Of Canada,
Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and Federal and Provincial members
of Parliament. We have been blessed. May God Bless you all.
- Ken and Elva
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FYKES m@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-09-16 published
FYKES,
Jessica
(JOHNSTON) and Darren - 1st Wedding Anniversary!
Married September 19, 2005 in Banff, Alberta.
Love and Best Wishes from Mom, Dad and Cara in Sault Saint Marie.
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