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Albert George
WEBB
In loving memory of Albert George
WEBB,
April 9, 1921 to December 24, 2002.
Albert WEBB, a resident of Providence Bay, died at the Mindemoya
Hospital, on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 at the age of 81 years. He
was born in Durham, and had lived on Manitoulin for the past 6 years.
Previous to that, Al had lived in Elliott Lake and Armstrong. He
had a great love of the north country, which led him to his job as a
bush pilot He truly loved his work, and spent many enjoyable years
pursuing his love of the north and of flying. Al was a veteran of
WW2, having served overseas.
Survived by his beloved partner Val
TAILOR/TAYLOR of Providence Bay, and her
family. Will be sadly missed by Ruby
CANNARD, the Mike
SPRACK family,
Linda and
Al BAILEY,
Harvey and Diane
DEBASSIGE, Lloyd
JACKSON and
Marshall RICHARD of Elliott Lake, Ryan
HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON and Jim
HARASYM.
Survived by many Friends in the Armstrong, Elliott Lake and
Manitoulin area. Also survived by sons Warren and Chris, and one
brother in the Hamilton area.
At Al's request, there will be no funeral service. Cremation will take place.
Val TAILOR/TAYLOR would like to thank the doctors and nurses at Mindemoya
Hospital for the wonderful care and concern given to Al and herself,
during this time. Words cannot express the appreciation. Culgin Funeral Home
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BAILEY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-02-05 published
Elsie Dorothea
GIBBS
November 20, 1909 - January 28, 2003
Elsie GIBBS, a resident of the Manitoulin Lodge since 1996, died at
the Lodge on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 at the age of 93 years.
She was born in Gore Bay, daughter of the late John and Minnie
(TOMLINSON)
GIBBS.
Elsie had worked as a bookkeeper for James
PURVIS
and son for about 20 years. She was very active in the Lyons
Memorial United Church, having acted as treasurer for 38 years.
Elsie's home was always considered home for her sisters and brothers
and their families. She kept her home as long as she could, until
she had to move to the Lodge. She truly loved her family, and
enjoyed writing to the ones who were at a distance, and visiting and
going out with the ones who were close.
Elsie was predeceased by two sisters Olive
GIBBS and Florence
BAILEY,
and brothers Clifford, Harvey, Lyman and Arthur. She is survived by
numerous nieces and nephews, grand nieces and nephews and great grand
nieces and nephews.
Friends may called the Culgin Funeral Home after 7: 00 pm on Friday.
The funeral service was conducted in the Wm. G. Turner Chapel on
Saturday,
February 1, 2003 at 1: 30 pm with Pastor Maxine
McVEY
officiating. Spring interment in Gordon Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home, Gore Bay.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-04-16 published
Lillian Milinda
VINEY
In loving memory of Lillian Milinda
VINEY, who passed away peacefully
at Manitoulin Health Centre on Friday, April 11, 2003 at the age of 82 years.
Beloved wife of Charles
VINEY. Dear mother of Shirley
VINEY of
Little
Current,
George
VINEY of Manitowaning, Sandra and husband
Bruce POPE of Manitowaning, Lyla
VINEY of Orillia. Loved grandmother
of Stephanie and Mark
MacDONALD (fiancée Holly,) Andrew and Katherine
POPE,
Kimberley,
Laura and Marianne
MENARD. Special great
grandmother of Jonathan and Jessica
ORR,
Justin,
Destanie
(BAILEY)
and Liliana
MacDONALD.
Remembered by brother and sisters Violet
HUBBARD-
McALLISTER (predeceased,) Harry
JAGGARD (wife
Gladys
predeceased,) Bessie
LOCKYER (husband James predeceased,) Florence
LENSON (husband Walter predeceased,) Madeleine
CHARLTON (husband John
predeceased), predeceased by sisters Beulah and Iris and parents Guy and
Evalena JAGGARD.
Sister-in-law of Harry
VINEY, Ruth
McCULLIGH
(predeceased,) Lauretta
McGILLIS (predeceased,) Grace
HUNTER
(predeceased,) Joyce and husband Howard
HOLMES,
Glenn and wife
Margaret VINEY, predeceased by Joe, Bob and Edith. Will be missed by
numerous nephews and nieces. Visitation was held Sunday, April 13,
2003. Funeral service was held Monday, April 14, 2003. Both at Knox
United Church, Manitowaning. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery at a
later date. Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home.
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R.
J.
Leland
COULTIS
In loving memory of R. J. Leland
COULTIS who passed away Saturday morning, May 3rd, 2003
at the Sudbury Regional Hospital-Memorial Site at the age of 66 years.
Beloved husband of Gladys
(WALLI)
COULTIS of Sudbury. Loving father
of Richard and Philip both of Copper Cliff and Norma
BELANGER of
Sudbury. Cherished grandfather of Kaitlyn and Justin. Dear son of
Phillip and Jessie
COULTIS predeceased. Dear brother of Laureen
BAILEY (husband Arden predeceased) of Sudbury, Loretta
PYETTE
(husband Eugene) of Tehkummah, Georgina
MacKENZIE (husband Jim) of
Little Current and George predeceased. Sadly missed by many nieces and nephews.
At Leland's request there will be no visitation or service.
Cremation with interment of the cremains in the family plot at Waters Cemetery.
Donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
Arrangements entrusted to the Lougheed Funeral Home.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-24 published
Norman Harold
McCLELLAND
By Robert McCLELLAND
Friday,
January 24, 2003, Page A20
Hockey player, business entrepreneur, family man. Born June 21,
1913, in Toronto. Died January 2 in Toronto, from complications
of Alzheimer's disease, aged 89.
It's fitting that Norman
McCLELLAND was born on June 21, the
summer solstice, as he lived every day as though it were the
longest of the year. Norman spent his childhood in Cache Bay,
Ontario, a tiny lumber village on Lake Nipissing. Norman was
proud of his small-town roots. It was there he developed his
respect for the outdoors and his simple, honest outlook toward
life.
Norman taught himself how to play hockey. He would wake up early
in the morning, scurry down to Lake Nipissing with his second-hand
skates and stick and clear the ice himself with a shovel. In
Grade 9, Norman left his close-knit family in Cache Bay to attend
high school in Toronto and eventually play Junior A hockey. He
met his lifelong partner, Margaret
CHOWN, soon after his arrival.
Last November, they celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary.
From 1933-1937, Norman studied science and education at the University
of Toronto. He also played for the Varsity Blues hockey team
and was the squad's captain in 1935-36. Norman managed to pull
in good grades while playing in a semi-pro league to pay for
his tuition and coach the women's hockey team. Not a big man,
(he was 5 foot 6 and, at his heaviest, 155 pounds) Norman was
known for his speed -- he once beat Montreal Canadiens star scorer
Toe BLAKE in a race for $5. During a tournament, scouts from
the Boston Bruins approached Norman's long-term friend and coach,
Ace BAILEY, asking him if his protégé wanted to turn professional.
Norman never pursued the offer as salaries back then were only
a small fraction of what they are today.
For a while after university, Norman taught high-school math
and physics. When the Second World War came, Norman joined the
navy. Margaret, by then his wife, often joked that he only enlisted
so he could play on the naval hockey team, which boasted several
National Hockey League players on its roster. Yet Norman took
his work seriously. He spent three years in a special branch
of the navy, opting to stay on after the war to help returning
soldiers find civilian jobs or attend school.
When he left the navy, Norman worked for a while with Imperial
Optical where he sold waste receptacles. Metal for the containers
was scarce following the war and Norman soon took advantage of
this niche in the market. With no engineering experience, he
started his own company, Erno Manufacturing, making metal household
and business products. With his strong work ethic and straightforward
and friendly business demeanor, Erno burgeoned from the back
of a garage to a building the size of a city block.
During this time, Norman also helped Margaret raise three boys.
He coached baseball and hockey from peewee to major-junior teams.
Among his charges were four-time Stanley Cup winner Peter
MAHOVLICH
and Mike KILKENNY, who went on to pitch for the Detroit Tigers.
In 1968, Norman bought Margaret the birthday present of her dreams:
a cottage on Lake Joseph in Muskoka. After he retired, Norman
and Margaret spent up to six months of the year there, revelling
in the lifestyle: canoeing at dusk and fishing at dawn. Norman
also took up watercolour painting and golf -- at 75, he shot
his age at a nearby 18-hole course.
Norman spent his last decade suffering from the advanced stages
of Alzheimer's. The disease stole Norman from the world, but
his spirit will never be forgotten. Within 10 minutes of meeting
someone he became a trusted and, often, a lifelong friend. He
played the piano, read extensively and enjoyed political debates
with his family over dinner and Margaret's apple pie. He loved
life, and no disease could take that memory of him away.
Robert McCLELLAND is Norman's son.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-02 published
FERGUSON,
Angus
Harold
died March 31, 2003, at Cambridge Memorial Hospital peacefully,
and surrounded by his family. He leaves his wife
Alice
(BAILEY)
of 61 years in April 2003, and five children - Ian (Connie),
Waterloo; Sharon (Horst)
WOHLGEMUT, Kingston; Hugh, Guelph
Grant (Karen), Cambridge; and Janet
BABCOCK, Toronto. He will
be sincerely missed by 11 grandchildren. Angus was born in Killean,
Puslinch Township, Ontario, on March 13, 1918, the eldest of
three boys, to Marshall and Nellie (Amy)
FERGUSON. He was predeceased
by his parents and brother Donald (1975) and is survived by his
brother, Ian (Millie) of London. He attended Killean Public School,
Galt Collegiate Institute, and farmed until 1942 when, for health
reasons, he and his wife moved to Toronto. In 1949 he returned
to Galt and shortly thereafter became operator then owner of
the Credit Bureau of Galt, later Cambridge, where he along with
his wife continued in business until the '80's when the business
was sold to his son Hugh. During those years he served as Director
of the Associated Credit Bureau of Ontario, then Canada, and
U.S.A. Associations and later as President of Ontario and Canada.
He served on several committees of the City of Galt and Cambridge
over the years. He was a member of the Galt Lions Club since
1952, as President and Director as well as bulletin editor for
over 20 years. His main interest in the Lions Club was eye-sight
conservation for which he received the Helen Keller award, and
was the first in the Galt Club to be honoured with the Melvin
Jones Award. He was also, involved in Heart and Stroke from its'
beginning in the Galt unit and was its' first Treasurer. Angus
was a member of Knox's Galt Presbyterian Church for over 50 years,
and served on the Board of Managers as secretary for 17 years,
was a longtime elder, and worked on many committees - special
among them to him was as a member of the Scout and Group committee
where he served for many years. Above all else, Angus was an
ardent fisherman and hunter, and always enjoyed being able to
say he had ''dipped his line in most areas of Canada from Coast
to Coast''. His other main interest was the Clans and Scottish
Societies of Canada and North America and most particularly -
the Ferguson Clan - serving 25 years as Regional Director of
Ontario and
as President of Clan Ferguson of Canada and North
America. He had been a Clan member in Scotland since 1948. He
was a participant in the Multicultural movement for Cambridge
from the inception and was able to get the first grant for it
through his association with a member of a Toronto member of
Clan Ferguson Society of Canada. Ill health followed him through
his lifetime. He was a very early recipient of open heart surgery
in 1959. He held a deep interest in the progress made in his
area and felt it a great honor to be asked to be a part of the
Heart and Stroke Foundation when it first started a chapter in
his area. Friends will be received at Coutts Funeral Home and Cremation
Centre, 96 St. Andrews, Street, Cambridge (www.funeralscanada.com)
on Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. and Friday at the church from 1: 30
p.m. until the service time of 2: 30 p.m. Funeral Services will
then be conducted at Knox's Galt Presbyterian Church, Queen's
Square, Cambridge on Friday, April 4, 2003, at 2: 30 p.m. with
Rev. Wayne
DAWES officiating. Interment Killean Cemetery. In
lieu of flowers, contributions to Knox's Galt Presbyterian Church
(Major Repair Fund) or the Regional Heart and Stroke Foundation
would be gratefully received.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-10 published
Toronto's musical Mr. Chips
Headmaster of private Crescent School took over a rundown building
and fixed its wiring, plumbing and even its furnace until a newer
structure could be found
By James McCREADY
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, July
10, 2003 - Page R5
He was the first Canadian-born principal of a Toronto boys' school
that for its first 50 years had hired only British headmasters.
Bill BURRIDGE, who has died at the age of 79, remained at Toronto's
Crescent School until 1986.
The boys at the school both respected him and feared him. The
father of one former head boy remembers "Mr.
BURRIDGE" as a man
who could "cut through the BS. The boys knew they couldn't get
away with anything with him. But he was a wonderful teacher."
Mr. BURRIDGE was an unlikely Mr. Chips. If you looked back at
his early school career, no one would have picked him for the
job as a headmaster at a private school.
William BURRIDGE was a working class boy who was born in Toronto
on August 16, 1923. His father, an English immigrant, was a painter
for Imperial Oil. Young Bill went to Western Technical-Commercial
School to become an electrician.
But like many of his generation, the Second World War wrought
changes in his life.
He went into the Royal Canadian Air Force as an electrician.
One of his first postings was to Dorval Airport in Montreal,
a military field during the war, where one of his fellow electricians,
Phil JONES, remembered they worked on odd planes for the Royal
Canadian Air Force, odd because they were not the standard aircraft
flown by Bomber Command. They were American planes, twin-engined
B-25 bombers and the long range four engine B-24 Liberators.
One big B-24 was unique. It was named Commando and its bomb racks
had been stripped out to make it into a passenger plane, with
two private bunks for Winston Churchill, the wartime British
Prime Minister and his doctor. The plane was parked at Dorval
a lot of the time, from where it could easily head out to Bermuda,
West Africa or to Cairo, or across the Atlantic to Britain. The
aircraft was serviced by Royal Canadian Air Force electricians,
including Mr.
BURRIDGE.
The posting provided interesting stories
for him to tell in later life.
Mr. BURRIDGE and the other electricians were sent to different
bases, including one just outside Vancouver. While there they
used to pick up extra money on their leave by hitchhiking across
the border to Seattle to work as drivers and warehousemen at
a fruit-packing plant. The war meant a shortage of men and the
Canadian airmen were given weekend work, no questions asked.
A professional musician on the double bass since the age of 17,
through the war Mr.
BURRIDGE played in pickup bands and
an Royal
Canadian Air Force band, along with Mr. Jones and others.
When Mr. BURRIDGE came home from the war he kept playing. During
the late forties he played at dances at the Young Men's Christian
Association and at clubs such as the Rex. In the fifties he played
in the Benny Lewis Orchestra at places such as the Casa Loma
and the Palace Pier, then a dance hall, now a family of condos
on Lake Ontario. He played with the jazz great Moe
KAUFMAN and
did some session work with the jazz singers Peggy
LEE and Pearl
BAILEY.
Mr. BURRIDGE also played during the summers at resorts in the
Muskokas. To get there he had to book an extra seat on the lake
steamer Segwun for his big bass.
A short time after the war Mr.
BURRIDGE decided to take advantage
of the free education earned by his wartime service. He went
to the University of Toronto and graduated in 1950 in arts and
sciences. He worked as a salesman for General Foods for a year
and then started teaching school, first in Coppercliff in northern
Ontario and then in Scarborough near Toronto.
By the late fifties he was a principal in Whitby, just outside
Toronto. But a car accident on the way to school influenced his
view of things. His car slipped on ice and broadsided a telephone
pole. Although unhurt, the crash made him ready for a change.
One day he was on jury duty at a courtroom in downtown Toronto
and spotted an ad in the Globe and Mail for a grade 5 teacher
at Crescent School. He applied and got the job.
Crescent School was then on the old Massey estate on Dawes Road
at Victoria Park. When he started there were only nine teachers,
100 students and the school went from kindergarten to grade 8.
Mr. BURRIDGE introduced music to the curriculum and became a
popular teacher. When the headmaster was ill he took over on
a part-time basis, becoming headmaster on his predecessor's death
in 1966.
At the time, Crescent School was a mess. The building was falling
apart and the headmaster was called on to fix the electrical
work, the plumbing and even the furnace. He helped in the search
for a new building and in 1972 the school moved to the old Garfield
Weston Estate at Bayview Avenue and Post Road.
Over the years Crescent School changed and dropped the lower
grades and expanded as far as the last grade of high school.
Mr. BURRIDGE remained headmaster until 1971 and stayed on teaching
and as assistant director of the Lower School until his retirement
in 1986.
In private, Mr.
BURRIDGE was also a Mr. Fixit. He helped keep
up some family rental properties and often workered on his old
Buicks or his house in suburban Ajax, Ontario, on a lot of almost
half an acre. His other hobby was keeping bees.
Bill BURRIDGE leaves his wife
Faith, to whom he was married for
54 years, and his three children, Reid, Rob and Hope.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-12 published
NESBITT,
Robert
Samuel
Born 26 April 1913, died peacefully 11 September 2003, of complications
following a broken hip, in his ninety-first year. Beloved husband
of Jean (née
BOOTH) and loving father of Catherine (Bob
LECKEY,)
Shelagh (Doug
WHITFIELD) and Robbie (deceased.) Proud grandfather
of Bill (Shelly,) Rob and Aaron (Lynne
DESPRES)
WHITFIELD and
of Amelia BAILEY
(Mark) and Robert
LECKEY (Josý
NAVAS) and great-grandfather
of Amy and Ashley
WHITFIELD and of Corbin
BAILEY.
Predeceased
by sisters Joyce (Clarence
LOCKWOOD,)
Patricia
(Ben
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON)
and, in childhood, Eleanor and brother George. Bob's life was
marked by his dedication to his family, Friends, neigbours, church
and community. The family will receive Friends at the Walas Funeral
Home, 130 Main Street, Brighton on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Service will be held from St. Paul's Anglican Church, Brighton
on Monday, September 15th at 1 o'clock. Interment Mount Hope
Cemetery Cemetery, Brighton. As an expression of sympathy, donations
to St. Paul's Anglican Church, Belleville Hospital or The Red
Cross, care of Box 96, Brighton, Ontario K0K 1H0, would be appreciated
by the family.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-16 published
LAMONT,
Jean
Annette
(ROBINS)
Jean died peacefully, on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 in Toronto,
with her children Doug and Anne at her side; in her 84th year.
Predeceased by her loving husband and friend of 53 years, Bruce
Maitland LAMONT, a former senior international executive with
Royal Bank of Canada. Survived by son, James Douglas and his
wife Kathy, stepchildren Melissa and August and step-great granddaughter,
Elizabeth; and daughter Anne and husband Christopher
JAMES and
their daughter, Kathleen. Cherished sister of Joan
BAILEY and
her children, Robin (Marie,) Joanne (Ken
HOLT,)
John
(Clare)
and Janet (Heino
CLAESSENS) and their families. Remembered by
sisters-in-law Pauline
FLYNN
(Hank) and Meribeth
LAMONT and their
families and the extended
LAMONT clan. Special thanks to cousin
Joanne HOLT for all her support and help over the last few years.
Thank you to the staff and Mom's new Friends at the Kingsway
Retirement Residence, Etobicoke for their Friendship and support
in making the Kingsway her home away from home. A graduate of
MacDonald Hall, Guelph University (1940) and Toronto Western
Hospital School of Nursing (1943) she was always proud of her
accomplishment as one of Canada's first female nursing flight
attendants with Trans Canada Airways. Mom was an avid bridge
player and golfer, a social dynamo who cherished her wide circle
of Friends. A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday,
October 18, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 89
Dunn Street (at Lakeshore Road), Oakville. If desired, in lieu
of flowers, donations in Jean's memory to a charity of your choice
would be appreciated.
Mom, a Grand Slam and a hole-in-one to you. Love always.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-18 published
Black pride of Canadian track and field
First Canadian-born black athlete to win an Olympic medal was
member of relay team at 1932 Los Angeles Games but could find
work only as a railway porter
By James CHRISTIE,
Tuesday,
November 18, 2003 - Page R9
Ray LEWIS's event in Olympic track and field was officially the
400-metre sprint, a flat race. His enduring place in Canadian
sport history, however, was earned for hurdling a barrier.
Mr. LEWIS, who died in his native Hamilton at age 94 on the weekend,
was the first Canadian born black athlete to stand upon the Olympic
medals podium. He won a bronze medal as a member of the Canadian
4 x 400-metre relay at the Los Angeles Games in 1932.
At a time where racial discrimination was the way of the world,
Mr. LEWIS didn't get to live a hero's life. Viewed today as a
pathfinder for talented black athletes, in the 1930s Mr.
LEWIS
had to all but quit his athletics training because of the demands
of his job as a railway porter with the Canadian Pacific Railways.
He spent 22 years on the trains making 250 trips from Toronto
to Vancouver. To try and stay fit, Mr.
LEWIS would train by running
alongside the rails when the train stopped on the prairies.
"He deserved so much more than he ever received," said Donovan
BAILEY, who won two gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
in the 100 metres and 4 x 100-metre relay. "I benefited from
his going before.
"I had the honour and good fortune of having lunch with Ray
LEWIS
and talking with him. I couldn't imagine what it was like in
his day. It was so different. Ultimately, he's one who inspired
me."
Raymond Gray
LEWIS was a Hamiltonian, cradle to grave. James
WORRALL, honorary member of the International Olympic Committee
and Canada's Olympic flag bearer in 1936, recalled the family
roots in the area went back to the 1840s when his great grandparents
escaped slavery in the United States and settled near Otterville,
Ontario
The youngest child of Cornelius
LEWIS and Emma
GREEN, Ray
LEWIS
was born October 8, 1910, at 30 Clyde St. He began running races
for fun at age 9 when he entered as contest at a local picnic.
He began formal training in track and field at Central Collegiate
where the autocratic John Richard (Cap)
CORNELIUS was his coach.
In 1929, he established a Canadian high-school track-and-field
record of four championships in one day, taking the dashes at
100, 200, and 440 yards as they were measured then, and anchoring
the one-mile relay. In 1928 and 1929, Mr.
LEWIS was part of the
Central relay team that won the United States national schoolboy
title.
He briefly attended Marquette University in Milwaukee but returned
to Canada during the Depression and joined the Canadian Pacific
Railway.
Besides his Olympic medal performance with teammates Phil
EDWARDS,
Alex WILSON and Jimmy
BALL,
Mr.
LEWIS was also a Canadian champion
several times and competed in the inaugural British Empire Games
in 1930 in Hamilton and the 1934 Empire Games in London. where
he won a silver medal in the mile relay. Mr.
EDWARDS was actually
the first black athlete to win an Olympic medal for Canada in
1932, getting the 800-metre honour about a half-hour before the
relay with Mr.
LEWIS.
Mr.
EDWARDS, however, was native of British
Guyana, while Ray
LEWIS was a local.
Mr. LEWIS, who in 2001 was awarded the Order of Canada, had a
life-long attachment to the Empire Games, later renamed the Commonwealth
Games. He was an adviser to the bidders who recently sought the
2010 Games for Hamilton and vowed that if the Games were coming
back, he'd be there to greet them at the official opening at
age 100. The Hamilton bid lost out last week to one from New
Delhi, India. He lit the torch during the opening ceremonies
at the International Children's Games in Hamilton July 1, 2000.
Mr. LEWIS wrote an autobiography entitled Shadow Running in which
he detailed his life "as porter and Olympian." He was featured
in a 2002 TVOntario documentary series on racism, Journey to
Justice. "It [racism] felt worse here, because it wasn't supposed
to happen here," he recalled in the video.
Whereas white athletes had an opportunity for coaching jobs after
their careers, Mr.
LEWIS did not. His position as a porter was
one of the few jobs open to men of his race.
"The first time I met him, the Canadian team was on its way to
Fort William, Ontario, for the Canadian championships in 1933.
They travelled by Pullman and Ray was the porter. He couldn't
get the time off to compete. But he did make the 1934 Empire
Games team and was presented to the Prince of Wales, something
that was a point of honour for him. He felt it was something
to rub into all those people who had kept him off teams and out
of places because he was black," Mr.
WORRALL said.
Mr. LEWIS married Vivienne
JONES in 1941, and they adopted two
children, sons Larry and Tony.
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BAILEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-22 published
DUGGAN,
Devina
(BAILEY)
Died unexpectedly, but after a brave battle with a long illness,
on November 14, 2003 at St Joseph's Hospital, London, Ontario.
Survived by her daughter Alexa and son James, and his daughter
Alysha. Also survived by her brothers James, George, and Norman,
and their families, and the family of her late brother Fred,
all of Winnipeg. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that gifts
of remembrance be made to the estate, dispersed to charity as
per Devina's wishes. Memorial will be held at 2 pm on Sunday,
November 30, 2003 at the Parlour on King, 546 King St (at William),
London. All Welcome.
Mom, we miss you.
You were our mother,
and our good friend.
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The Globe was his church'
The editor-in-chief was mentor to journalists, defender of social
policies, respected by those criticized in print, and described
as a man with a 'warm human touch'
By Michael
VALPY
Thursday,
April 10, 2003 - Page R11
In his two decades as editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail,
former senator Richard (Dic) James
DOYLE wielded a journalistic
influence in Canadian public life matched only by that of George
BROWN, the newspaper's founder.
He died yesterday in Toronto, one month past his 80th birthday.
His wife of 50 years, Florence, passed away on March 20.
Senator DOYLE -- editor from 1963 to 1983 -- gave the newspaper
a boldly independent voice, loosening up its then lock-step support
for the Progressive Conservative Party.
Under his direction, the newspaper would praise a government
one day and lambaste it the next. He was a passionate defender
of civil liberties, intensely engaged in the development of Canada's
social policies throughout the 1960s and 1970s and as much concerned
with the powerless in Canadian society as the powerful.
"In the time I've been editor," he once said, "we've not supported
any party in office. I think we make whomever we support uncomfortable.
We're the kind of friend you could do without."
He once said he felt more intellectually comfortable with Pierre
TRUDEAU than all the prime ministers he knew, and one of his
favourite editorial cartoons was one he suggested after overhearing
his daughter Judith talking to a friend in her bedroom. It showed
two teenage girls sitting on a bed under a poster of Mr.
TRUDEAU.
One girl says to the other: "He's not 50 like your father's 50."
His views, although stamped on the editorial page, were never
imposed on his reporters. He was concerned with a story's news
value -- not the fallout -- and he expected his staff to act
with the same concern.
He wanted The Globe to be a writer's newspaper and gave his writers
autonomy, even when their views went against his own philosophies.
He had a special place in his heart for columnists who expressed
contradictory opinions.
The young writers invited to attend the buffet lunches he gave
regularly for prime ministers, premiers and cabinet ministers,
bank presidents and giants of the arts were treated to superb
tutorials in the life of their nation that left an indelible
mark on their minds.
Warm, funny, theatrical and gregarious, he was a mentor and model
for many of Canada's best-known journalists -- among them, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Michael
ENRIGHT and Don
NEWMAN,
former Globe and Maclean's managing editor Geoffrey
STEVENS,
his successor as Globe editor Norman
WEBSTER, and former foreign
correspondent, dance critic and now master of the University
of Toronto's Massey College, John
FRASER.
"He was absolutely fearless," Mr.
STEVENS said yesterday. "He
did tough stuff. He did important stuff. And he refused to bow
to pressure from business, from politicians and for that matter
from journalists. I didn't always agree with him, but I always,
always respected what he said."
Mr. FRASER said: "He was an editor who made young journalists'
dreams come true. Like many who came under his spell at The Globe
and Mail, I will go to my grave grateful for the horizons he
opened up to me."
George BAIN, for years The Globe's Ottawa columnist, recalled
the only time Senator
DOYLE actually complained about something
Mr. BAIN had written was when he filed an end-piece to a royal
tour and suggested that the institution wasn't appropriate to
the Canadian circumstances.
"Dic, as a devoted monarchist, was moved to say, 'Did you have
to?' The fact is I felt I did -- and he, despite strong feelings,
didn't say, 'You can't.' "
When
Prime
Minister Brian
MULRONEY appointed him to the Senate
in 1985, he decided to sit as a Conservative out of courtesy.
Mr. MULRONEY described him yesterday as "a marvellous man, rigorous,
thoughtful, with a disciplined approach to life and a very warm
human touch to everything he did.
"When he cut people up, including me, there was no malice to
it, no ad hominem attack, he was never bitter or partisan in
any way.'The full impact of Senator
DOYLE's presence as editor
was probably first felt by The Globe's readers on March 20, 1964,
when a front-page editorial appeared under the heading, Bill
of Wrongs.
It was prompted by legislation proposed by Ontario's Conservative
attorney-general, Frederick
CASS, which empowered the Ontario
Police Commission to summon any person for questioning in secret
deprive him of legal advice; and keep him in prison indefinitely
if he refused to answer.
"For the public good," the editorial stated, the Ontario Government
"proposes to trample upon the Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, the
Canadian Bill of Rights and the Rule of Law.
"Are we in... the Canada of 1964 -- or in the Germany of 1934?
"This legislation is supposed to be directed against organized
crime. In fact, it is directed against every man and woman in
the province."
Soon after, Mr.
CASS resigned.
Senator DOYLE's skills as a writer were particularly evident
on an election night when the paper would present an editorial
on the results between editions. Alastair
LAWRIE, now retired
as an editorial writer, recalled that once the results were known,
Senator DOYLE would stand in silent thought for maybe a minute
and a half and then start to dictate. In a matter of a few minutes,
he would complete a reasoned editorial that scarcely required
the addition of a comma.
Senator DOYLE preferred to work in anonymity, only accepting
honorary degrees and later the seat in the Senate near the end
of his newspaper career.
He sat on no boards, belonged to no important clubs, almost never
appeared on television or radio, didn't sign petitions and seldom
gave speeches. When he met a politician, there were usually witnesses.
He didn't hold a driver's licence and for years arrived at the
old Globe office on King Street by streetcar. When The Globe
moved to its present office on Front Street, Senator
DOYLE took
a taxi.
Retired
Ottawa
Citizen publisher Clark
DAVEY, a former managing
editor of The Globe and a close friend of Senator
DOYLE, suspected
"he didn't trust his Irish temper [to drive] and that was probably
to the common good."
Mr. DAVEY said Senator
DOYLE's low public profile "was part of
his own protection against conflicts on his own part. The Globe
was his church. Journalism was his religion.
"I think that Dic, in the context of his time, probably had a
greater influence on Canadian journalism than any other single
individual," Mr.
DAVEY said.
"It was Dic's execution that made the Report on Business what
it became and is. He was the moving force from within The Globe
often unseen -- in the whole question of conflicts of interest
as they affected journalists.
"He was really the wellspring of that kind of thinking and, of
course, what The Globe did affected very directly what a lot
of other organizations did."
Born in Toronto on March 10, 1923, Dic
DOYLE seemed destined
to get ink on his hands. He said in 1985 that he had decided
on a newspaper career at age 7 and joined the Chatham Daily News
as a sports reporter after he graduated from Chatham Collegiate
Institute. He was promoted to sports editor, city editor and
then news editor.
During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian
Air Force and served with the 115 (Bomber) Squadron (Royal Air
Force) at Ely, near Cambridge in England. He was discharged at
the end of the war with the rank of flying officer.
He was 23 and felt that life was passing him by, so rather than
attending university, as other returning air-force officers were
doing, he returned to the Chatham paper. It was a decision he
said he later regretted.
He came to The Globe in 1951, initially as a copy editor, the
only job available. His first byline appeared in The Globe in
December of 1952 over a story about milk bottles.
In the same year, he also wrote a book called The Royal Story,
a labour of love that proved to be a standard treatment of the
monarchy, and which he was the first to acknowledge, replowed
already well-tilled soil.
(The Royal family had a special status at The Globe under Senator
DOYLE.
One former senior editor, the legendary Martin
LYNCH,
told of being taken off the front-page layout after he replaced
a picture of Princess Margaret, which appeared in early editions,
with a photograph of a prize-winning pig.
When The Globe decided to publish a weekly supplement in 1957,
Senator DOYLE became its first editor, with a staff that had
no experience in the weekly field. The paper was laid out on
the carpet of the managing editor's office after he had gone
home.
It shrunk over the years because, Mr.
DOYLE said, it was ahead
of its time. It died in 1971.
From there, in 1959, he became managing editor of the newspaper
and then editor in 1963. He stepped aside in 1983 to take on
the role of editor emeritus and to write a column -- an experience,
he said two years later, that left him chastened. "The guy [columnist]
out there has his problems."
Former
Globe publisher A. Roy
MEGARRY, said, "In my opinion,
no one -- including the seven publishers that Dic has served
with during his time at the paper -- had made a more positive
and lasting impression on The Globe than he has."
Likely among the greatest tributes paid to him as an editor came
from the Kent Commission established by the federal government
in 1980 to investigate the ownership of Canada's daily newspapers
after the Ottawa Journal and the Winnipeg Tribune folded in virtually
simultaneous moves by the Thomson and Southam chains.
In its report, the commission credited Senator
DOYLE with "adhering
to an ideal of press freedom that often tends to get lost in
the management of newspapers....
"To a great extent, the editor-in-chief of The Globe belongs
to a breed which unfortunately is on its way to extinction.
"The Globe and Mail testifies to the influence that continues
to be exerted by a newspaper with a clearly defined idea of its
role and substantial editorial resources. It is read by almost
three-quarters of the country's most important decision-makers
in all parts of Canada and at all levels of government. More
than 90 per cent of media executives read it regularly and it
tends to set the pace for other news organizations."
The Globe and Mail was bought by Thomson Newspapers in 1980.
Senator DOYLE made no secret of the fact that he would have preferred
having the newspaper bought by R. Howard Webster, who owned it
before it became part of the Financial Post chain. However, in
1985 he said that Thomson was the best alternative among the
others in the field.
When
Prime
Minister
MULRONEY named him to the Senate, he became
the first active Globe journalist to receive such an appointment
since George
BROWN in 1873. As an editor and a columnist, Senator
DOYLE had often preached Senate reform and had opposed patronage
appointments.
His acceptance prompted a flow of letters to the editor that
favoured and disapproved of the appointment in about equal measure.Senator
DOYLE is survived by his children Judith and Sean and his granddaughter
Kaelan MYERSCOUGH.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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BABICK
MacDONALD,
Mary
Passed away on March 6, 2003, at the age of 67 at Saint Mary's
Hospital. Beloved wife of Lee Wm.
MacDONALD.
Sister of Donald
BABICK
(Jacqueline.)
Aunt of Nancy (Mark
BRENNAN) and Todd (Erin
DYER.)
She will also be sadly missed by Brad-Lee
MacDONALD, Lee
(3rd) MacDONALD and David
MacDONALD and their families as well
as by her sister-in-law Ruth
BAIRD and her great-nephews Joshua
and Isaac. Visitation at the Mount Royal Funeral Complex, 1297
Chemin de la Foret, Outremont (514) 279-6540 on Saturday, March
8, 2003, and Sunday, March 9, 2003, from 2 to 5 pm and 7 to 9
pm and two hours prior to service on Monday, March 10, 2003.
Funeral service to be held in the chapel of the complex at 1
pm. Donations in her memory may be made to Saint Mary's Hospital
Centre, 3830 Lacombe, Montreal, H3T 1M5 in care of Dr. J.F.
PRCHAL,
Chief of Oncology. Your condolences to the family may be forwarded
to www.everlastinglifestories.com
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Kenneth Fawcett
COLLINS
By Alan RAYBURN
Thursday,
May 29, 2003 - Page A26
Husband, father, grandfather, veteran, volunteer, family historian.
Born November 23, 1916, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Died February
19, in Ottawa, of cancer, aged 86.
Ken COLLINS was born close to the New Hampshire border, into
a family with very deep New England roots. His father Bernard
(Bern) traced his roots back to the 1600s in that area, while
his mother, Eleanor (Elly)
McPHERSON, came from Grand Valley
in Dufferin County, Ontario Elly's mother, Elizabeth Adaline
FAWCETT, was the source of Ken's second name. Bern and Elly emigrated
from the United States to Montreal in 1926, and then, in 1930,
moved to North Bay, Ontario
In 1941, Ken graduated from Queen's University in Kingston with
a degree in chemical engineering and worked in the Welland Chemical
Works in Niagara Falls for two years. He then joined the Canadian
army's Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and
rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Ken's pride as a commandant
of "Reemee" was revealed in his car licence plate:
CREME.
Ken served overseas from 1943 to 1946, and was a Normandy veteran.
After the war, he held various staff and regimental appointments,
mostly in Ottawa. Upon retiring from the army in 1967, Ken was
engaged by Carleton University to administer the department of
planning and construction until 1982.
During his Queen's graduation week, Ken married Evalyn
ROBLIN,
who had been raised west of Kingston in Adolphustown Township,
Lennox and Addington County. After he discovered that local historians
had been mistaken about which of two ancestral Roblin roots were
Evalyn's, he vigorously launched into a search of his own family
roots. Over a period of some 60 years he accumulated 24 thick
binders on family connections. He was able to trace back 18 generations,
with King Edward 4th among his ancestors in the 1400s.
Ken and Evalyn had three children, Marianne, Bruce (a fireman
who was killed in a fire in 1972), and Elizabeth; also, four
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Family was very important
to Ken; he was very proud of his offspring.
For almost a quarter of a century, Ken was a Friday evening volunteer
at the Family History Centre of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints on Ottawa's Prince of Wales Drive. There he
guided both experienced and novice family historians to find
their ancestral records.
Recognizing the value of working with others involved in genealogy
(right up there in North American hobby popularity, right after
stamp collecting), Ken joined the Ontario Genealogical Society
and its Ottawa Branch in 1972. After serving as the chair of
the branch in the mid-1970s, he rose through the ranks to become
the president of the Ontario Genealogical Society from 1977 to
Ken was a prime mover of recording gravestone inscriptions in
Ontario's cemeteries. As the Ontario Genealogical Society cemetery
inscription coordinator from 1974 to 1992, he saw the number
of recorded cemeteries rise from 1,800 to more than 5,000. A
spinoff from the cemetery recordings is the much-used Ontario
Cemetery Finding Aid on the Internet, which publishes the indexes
of the cemetery recordings.
Ken was a member of Rideau Park United Church in the Alta Vista
area of Ottawa, and had worked there for 36 years with the Boy
Scouts.
When his grand_son, John
BAIRD (now an Ontario cabinet
minister) became a teenager, he guided him to become a Queen's
Scout.
Ken COLLINS was a great mentor, friend and gentleman: his contributions
to family history studies, cemetery recordings and Scouting will
long serve many Ottawa and Ontario generations to come.
Alan RAYBURN is a friend of Ken
COLLINS;
Edward
KIPP contributed
to the article.
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DIMM,
Joan
B.
Of Jupiter, Florida and Short Hills, New Jersey, age 75, died
Monday, June 2, 2003 in Jupiter.
Mrs. DIMM, the daughter of Jean
BAIRD and
G. Roper GOUINLOCK,
was born in Toronto, Canada. She graduated from Bishop Strachan
School in Toronto, and attended the University of Toronto. Following
her marriage to Ross L.
DIMM,
Jr., she settled in New Jersey.
Surviving are sons, Robert of Atlanta, Georgia, T. Edward of
Blue
Bell,
Pennsylvania, a daughter, Patricia
DIMM of Chicago,
Illinois and five grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at Christ Church in Short Hills,
New Jersey at 11 a.m. on July 12, 2003. In lieu of flowers, contributions
may be sent to the American Heart Association.
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Activist established blue box program
Radical became known for putting pressure on government, corporations
By Martin MITTELSTAEDT
Wednesday,
July 9, 2003 - Page R7
Toronto -- One of Canada's most influential environmental activists,
Gary GALLON, died Thursday in Montreal after a long battle with
cancer.
Although Mr.
GALLON may not have been a household name, Canadians
almost everywhere will recognize one of his major achievements,
the setting up of the country's first blue box recycling program
in Ontario during the late 1980s.
He also had a hand during the 1970s in establishing Greenpeace,
and maintained a lifelong passion for environmental causes evident
in his series of twice-monthly newsletters, called the
GALLON
Environmental Letter.
"I've always been bothered by excess consumption and wanton destruction
of habitat. Human ethics must allow space for other creatures,"
he said recently.
Born in the United States in 1945, Mr.
GALLON moved to Canada
in the late 1960s to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war.
He settled in Vancouver and began working by writing newsletters
promoting mining stocks listed on the Vancouver Stock Exchange.
After work, he turned to his true passion, the environment, joining
the nighttime meetings of the Society for the Promotion of Environmental
Conservation, a group that at the time opposed the use of the
British Columbia coast for supertanker routes.
"He became concerned that what he was doing [by selling stocks]
was causing environmental damage," said David
OVED, a Toronto
environmental consultant who worked with him in the Ontario government.
Mr. GALLON's biggest impact on the country's conservation movement
occurred when he was senior policy adviser for Jim
BRADLEY,
Ontario's
Liberal environment minister from 1985-90, one of Mr.
BRADLEY's
surprise hires.
It was a risky move for the new Liberal government to employ
one of Canada's leading environmental radicals for such a post.
Mr. GALLON instantly became known as one of "
BRADLEY's brats,"
the moniker given the group of dedicated environmentalists assembled
by Mr. BRADLEY within the Ontario government who helped originate
such programs as the blue box and the province's acid rain reduction
program.
In the mid-1980s, municipal recycling had been an experimental
effort in a few communities.
Mr. GALLON worked to establish the blue box across the province.
Mr. OVED said Mr.
GALLON could often influence opponents within
the government through his use of the inventive turn of phase
or image.
In one particularly bitter debate, cabinet was discussing preservation
of Ontario's Temagami forest region, an area containing some
of Canada's last remaining stands of towering old growth red
and white pines.
Mr. OVED said some politicians were questioning why environmentalists
in Toronto and elsewhere in Southern Ontario were arguing to
preserve a forest in the north that they might never see.
Mr. GALLON said forest preservation was part of the ideal that
Canadians held of the society they would like to be part of.
"Gary's comment was 'People here may never see those forests,
but they value green spaces in their minds,' Mr.
OVED said.
Mr. OVED said the turn of phase impressed then-premier David
PETERSON, who began to affectionately call Mr.
GALLON and Mr.
BRADLEY's other environmental activists "space cadets."
Some of the biggest run-ins that Mr.
GALLON had during the 1980s
were with Inco, one of Ontario's major emitter of chemicals that
cause acid rain.
At one testy meeting, Mr.
GALLON, dressed in a pink shirt, had
exchanges with Inco's former chairman, Chuck
BAIRD, who was later
so annoyed at being pressed on the company's pollutants, that
an Inco official called Mr.
BRADLEY to complain.
"I got a call the next day asking who where those young radicals
in pink polo shirts asking those impertinent questions," Mr.
BRADLEY said.
Television broadcaster and Greenpeace founder Robert
HUNTER said
that Mr. GALLON related to him that the Inco chairman "had never
run into such serious sass from mere political minions."
Of his experience in government, Mr.
GALLON once said "you have
less room to rail but more power to get things done."
Mr. GALLON suffered from colon cancer, which had spread to his
lungs and liver.
Despite the pain of the disease and its treatments, he kept up
his hobby of competitive swimming, winning in his age group in
a Quebec swim meet last year, according to Mr.
OVED.
Last month, the Royal Canadian Geographic Society's magazine
gave Mr. GALLON its national environmental award for lifetime
achievement.
Mr. GALLON was picked in 1977 to be executive director of the
Nairobi-based Environment Liaison Centre International, where
he met his wife-to-be, another prominent Canadian environmental
activist, Janine
FERRETTI.
Ms. FERRETTI was executive director of the North American Free
Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperation and
now holds a senior position with the Inter-American Development
Bank in Washington. Mr.
GALLON is survived by his two children,
Kalifi and Jenika.
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WHITEHOUSE,
Gladys
Yolande
Laviolette
Died peacefully at Toronto Western Hospital on Tuesday, July
29, 2003, in her 100th year, one of eight daughters of the late
Joseph B. LAVIOLETTE and May Emma
SMITH, predeceased in 1961
by her husband, Robert Victor
WHITEHOUSE, beloved sister of Dorothy
BAIRD of Norwood, Ontario, and Gwyneth
NEHER of Peace River,
Alberta, and brother-in-law, George
NEHER of Newmarket, Ontario,
loving aunt of Debbie
NEHER,
Ginnie
NEHER, Gwendy
NEHER and Charles
NEHER.
Longtime member of the congregation and, with her late
husband, a most generous benefactor of the Church of the Transfiguration
(Anglican), 111 Manor Road East, Toronto. Funeral at the church
on Friday, August 1, 2003 at eleven o'clock. Visitation at the
church for one hour prior to the service. Cremation. Ashes to
be interred beside her husband in the Laviolette family plot
in Notre Dame du Neige Cemetery, Montreal. Arrangements entrusted
to Murray E. Newbigging Funeral Home.
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