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He ran O'Keefe Centre in its prime
Former accountant was an innovator: He booked a show using surtitles
and a play about an interracial romance
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, May 24,
2003 - Page F10
Late one spring night in 1963, a phone call awoke Hugh
WALKER,
the first managing director and president of Toronto's O'Keefe
Centre for the Performing Arts. A police officer wanted to know
if "we had a mad Russian called Nuri-something dancing at the
O'Keefe Centre," Mr.
WALKER wrote in his book, The O'Keefe Centre:
Thirty Years of Theatre History.
After the opening performance of Marguerite and Armand, in which
he starred with Dame Margot
FONTEYN,
Rudolph
NUREYEV had danced
up the centre of Yonge Street, attempting headstands on cars
as he went. Police intervened in the interest of Mr.
NUREYEV's
safety, but after a scuffle, the dancer landed in jail for causing
a disturbance.
Endlessly kind, courtly and patient, Mr.
WALKER notified the
Royal
Ballet with whom Mr.
NUREYEV was performing, and the dancer
was released.
Mr. WALKER, the man who smoothed the way for the stars appearing
at the O'Keefe as overseer of its operations and who had previously
supervised its construction, has died at the age of 93.
O'Keefe Centre, now named the Hummingbird Centre, opened on October
1, 1960, with the first performance of Camelot in the country's
first Broadway musical. The show starred Richard
BURTON,
Julie
ANDREWS and Robert
GOULET and played to a glittering crowd.
In The Toronto Star, Gordon
SINCLAIR wrote: "A salaam to Hugh
WALKER for bringing the O'Keefe Centre home on time after 30
months of strain on his patience, nerves and humour."
Mr. WALKER had, in fact, developed an ulcer during the centre's
construction, and the strain didn't end with its opening. Shortly
after the curtain, his wife, Shirley, smelled smoke. It turned
out to be a burning escalator motor, and after the fire was extinguished,
Mary JOLLIFFE, the centre's publicist, ran to a hotel across
the street for air freshener. The audience came out at intermission
none the wiser.
It took royalty to solve another problem. At the time, temperance
sentiment remained strong in Toronto, and teetotallers criticized
the fact the O'Keefe was funded by, and named for, a brewery.
Mr. WALKER set about to gain acceptance for the centre. Learning
that the Queen was visiting Canada in June of 1959, he convinced
her aides that she should stop briefly at the construction site
and view a model of the building.
Before an audience of arts patrons and the press, the Queen inspected
the model and showed such an interest that she overstayed her
schedule, delaying the start of the Queen's Plate, her next stop,
by half an hour.
Mr. WALKER didn't know that the Queen or the O'Keefe would be
in his future when he became executive assistant to Canadian
Breweries and Argus Corp. owner E. P.
TAILOR/TAYLOR in 1955.
It was only after his hiring that he learned that Mr.
TAILOR/TAYLOR
had responded to a challenge made by Nathan
PHILLIPS, then mayor
of Toronto, for industry to build a desperately needed performing
arts theatre in the city. For the project, Mr.
TAILOR/TAYLOR gave $12-million
and the services of his new assistant.
With the slogan "To bring the best of live entertainment to the
greatest number of people at the lowest possible prices," the
3, 211-seat multipurpose theatre, designed by modernist architect
Peter DICKINSON, quickly became a predominant Canadian venue,
predating the Place des Arts in Montreal and the National Arts
Centre in Ottawa.
Pre-Broadway shows, musicals, ballets and plays from around the
world came to the O'Keefe and it replaced Maple Leaf Gardens
as the Toronto venue for the Metropolitan Opera. International
stars such as Louis
ARMSTRONG, Paul
ANKA, Tom
JONES, Diana
ROSS
and Harry BELAFONTE performed there.
During one of Mr.
BELAFONTE's many performances at the centre,
he experimented with a wireless mike. Accidentally, he tuned
into the police frequency. "The O'Keefe audience had the unusual
experience of listening in on a lot of police messages, while
the police were able to enjoy hearing
BELAFONTE sing Ma-til-da!,"
Mr. WALKER wrote.
Another O'Keefe story concerned Carol
CHANNING.
When the performer
appeared at the centre in Hello, Dolly, she needed to make a
number of quick costume changes. Since there wasn't enough time
for Ms. CHANNING to run backstage to her dressing room, the crew
put up a roofless tent in the wings.
From the fly bridge, the stagehands looked down on Ms.
CHANNING,
remaining quiet while they watched her change. After her last
performance, she looked up at them and said, "Well, boys, hope
you've enjoyed the show. 'Bye now."
Other more critical events are associated with the O'Keefe. In
1964, while awaiting her divorce from Eddie
FISHER,
Elizabeth
TAILOR/TAYLOR stayed with Richard
BURTON while he starred in Sir John
GIELGUD's production of Hamlet at the centre. One weekend between
performances, the couple stole off to Montreal and married.
And in 1974, ballet dancer Mikhail
BARYSHNIKOV arranged his defection
from the Soviet Union at the centre.
During the early 1960s, the O'Keefe became home to the National
Ballet of Canada and the Canadian Opera Company. In his book,
Mr. WALKER credits the centre with allowing the companies' artistic
growth.
Still, not everyone spoke so kindly about the O'Keefe. Many critics
denounced its acoustics and less-than-intimate size.
For that, Mr.
WALKER had a ready answer. In 1985, Herbert
WHITTAKER,
then The Globe and Mail's drama critic, wrote: "Against the fading
chorus of these ancient complaints, I hear an echo, the rather
quiet British tones of Hugh
WALKER: 'We know it [O'Keefe Centre]
is too large for legitimate theatre, Herbert, but think of all
the things Toronto would have missed if E. P.
TAILOR/TAYLOR hadn't built
it when he did?' "
Born on March 2, 1910, in Scotland to Brigadier-General James
Workman WALKER, who fought in the Middle East during the First
World War, and Jane
STEVENSON,
Hugh
Percy
WALKER was the middle
of three children. After earning a B.A. at Cambridge University,
he became a chartered accountant.
Mr. WALKER worked with firms in London, Palestine, Quebec, Scotland
and Michigan before being employed by Mr.
TAILOR/TAYLOR.
Although a great lover of theatre, upon his appointment as the
O'Keefe's managing director, Mr.
WALKER had little experience
with its business side. This led to some innocent faux pas, such
as when he booked a photo shoot with the Camelot stars at 10
in the morning, impossibly early for actors. In response, Mr.
BURTON exclaimed: "What, in the middle of the night?" Ms.
JOLLIFFE
said.
Still, director and theatre critic Mavor
MOORE said Mr.
WALKER
dealt with difficulties well. "He was very smooth," Dr.
MOORE
said. "He was very expert at handling people and situations.
He was a calm man."
Mr. WALKER trusted his staff, Ms.
JOLLIFFE said. "He was willing
to take direction from staff people who had already been in the
business, and that was unusual."
And he was gracious and courteous. "He gave great dignity to
the performing arts profession and he treated people wonderfully,"
Ms. JOLLIFFE said. "He was a perfect model of a former era
of English gentlemen."
Known for his hospitality, Mr.
WALKER always visited the stars
in their dressing rooms before opening night and entertained
them afterward at First Nighters' parties with Mrs.
WALKER.
When the
WALKERs took Leonard
BERNSTEIN to the Rosedale Country
Club, Mr. WALKER tolerated Mr.
BERNSTEIN's sending back the wine
three times, Ms.
JOLLIFFE said.
Along with bringing in commercial performances from the United
States and Britain, Mr.
WALKER showed some daring in booking
shows. In 1961, Kwamina, the story of a romantic relationship
between a white woman and a black man, played the O'Keefe.
Acknowledging
Toronto's
Italian population, Mr.
WALKER arranged
for Rugantino, the biggest musical hit in Italian history, to
play at the O'Keefe in 1963. It was the first foreign-language
attraction in North America to use "surtitles," and although
plagued with technical difficulties, it played to 60-per-cent
capacity.
Things changed for Mr.
WALKER and O'Keefe Centre in the late
1960s. Initially, the centre had been a subsidiary of the O'Keefe
Brewing Co., owned by Canadian Breweries, and was never intended
to make a profit. The company wrote off its operating losses
and property taxes.
When Mr. TAILOR/TAYLOR retired in 1966, directors of Canadian Breweries
decided that they could not continue to pay the O'Keefe's high
taxes. To resolve the situation, Metropolitan Toronto was given
the centre in 1968.
A new and inexperienced board of directors brought a new way
of doing things, and the centre's losses began to mount.
Mr. WALKER wrote that after the disastrous 1971-72 season, "what
followed was not the happiest part of my 15 years at the O'Keefe
Centre, and I would like to forget some of the things that happened."
In his final working years, Mr.
WALKER dealt with both the centre's
internal changes and rising competition from the Royal Alexandra
Theatre, the St. Lawrence Centre and emerging alternative theatres.
After his retirement in 1975, he spent 10 years at the Guild
of All Arts in Scarborough, Ontario, as the director of Guildwood
Hall, curating former Guild Inn owner Spencer
CLARK's historical
architectural collection of artifacts, writing and illustrating
a booklet on them, curating Mr.
CLARK's art collection, making
a film and lecturing.
He and his wife lived on the Guild's grounds for four years in
the now-demolished Corycliff, where they hosted parties whose
guests included many stars from the O'Keefe days.
Along with writing the O'Keefe Centre history while in his 80s,
Mr. WALKER golfed.
Sue NIBLETT, who worked with him at the Guild, recalls seeing
Mr. WALKER nattily attired in golf clothing and Wellingtons standing
in two feet of snow driving balls into Lake Ontario.
"He had a love of life that I've never experienced or met in
anybody before," Ms.
NIBLETT said. "He didn't waste a day of
his life as far as I could see."
Mr. WALKER died on May 2 and leaves daughters Katrina
PARKER
and Zoë ALEXANDER and two grandchildren. Another daughter, Sarah
CHENIER/CHENÉ, and his wife, Shirley, predeceased him.
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BELANGER o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-07 published
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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BELK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-03 published
PETERS,
George
Formerly of London, Ontario, and longtime resident of Aylmer,
Quebec, passed away on April 30th, 2003. His first wife, Patricia
BELK, passed away in 1989. His second wife, Françoise (''Toto'')
BACH-
KOLLING, died in 2000. He is survived by his sister Dorothy
McLAREN of London, Ontario, his stepdaughter Felicia
HOUTMAN,
by Gordene
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, and by his nieces and nephews. A gathering
of Friends and family will take place at the Beauchamp Funeral
Home, 47 Denise Friend Street, Aylmer, on Sunday, May 4th beginning
at 2 o'clock. For more information, please call (819) 770-1300.
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BELL o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
James Athey
BECKETT
At Chelsey Park Nursing Home, London on Sunday, January 19, 2003
James Athey Beckett of London, formerly of Kitchener and born in
Sunrise Kentucky, in his 88th year. Beloved husband of Ruth
(MILLSON)
BECKETT. Dear father of Ruth Ann
BASTERT and Nancy
BELL of
Sheguiandah, Manitoulin Island, Mary Lou
BECKETT and Chuck
EBERLEY of
Ottawa,
Sandy
Lee
BECKETT of London. Dear grandfather of Peggy,
Shawn, Ian and Wendy, Matthew and Aaron. Also survived by nine
great-grandchildren. Predeceased by brothers John and Bud and a
sister Suzanna. Friends called at the C. Haskett and son Funeral
Home, 223 Main Street, Lucan on Monday, January 20 where the funeral
service was held on Tuesday, January 21 with Reverend Fred
McKINNON
officiating. Cremation with interment St. James Cemetery,
Clandeboye. Condolences may be forwarded through www.haskettfh.com
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BELL o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-06-11 published
Floyd Douglas
BELL
In loving memory of Floyd Douglas
BELL who passed away Saturday
evening, June 7, 2003 at the Extendicare York Nursing' Home Sudbury.
Beloved husband of 52 years, of Jessie
(HONESS)
BELL of Val Caron.
Loving father of Donna (husband Ches
WITTY,)
Marian (husband Bruce
ELOFSON), Jeff (wife Debbie), Joanne (husband Bob
LAPP) and Lila
(friend Glen
BATEMAN.) Cherished grandfather of Derek, Trevor,
Dylan, Evan, Leanne, Scott, Bradley and great grand_son Kaleb
"Muscles." Dear son of Sarah and Peter
BELL both predeceased. Dear
brother of Daisy, Roger, Terry and predeceased by Ervin. Sadly
missed by his faithful canine companion Trooper. Born in Burpee, he
worked as a miner at the
INCO
Stobie and
Frood
Mines for 37 years.
He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing and gardening. He had a
wonderful attitude and sense of humor, he brought sunshine into our
world. A special thank you to the staff and residence at Extendicare
York for their care and compassion. A service of remembrance will be
held at Mills Township Cemetery, Manitoulin Island, Thursday, June
12, 2003. (Time to be confirmed) Cremation at the Park Lawn
Crematorium. Arrangement entrusted to the Lougheed Funeral Home.
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BELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-16 published
Bluesman made his mark
Canadian harpist's brush with greatness was frustrated by his
battle with the bottle
By Bruce Farley
MOWAT
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday,
January 16, 2003, Page R9
He will be remembered for creating some of the high water marks
in the history of popular music in Canada. Blues harpist Richard
NEWELL, also known as King Biscuit Boy, has died. He was found
dead at his house in Hamilton on January 5.
Richard NEWELL's story is the stuff of legend, but not legendary.
The Oxford Canadian Dictionary defines legend as "a traditional
story sometimes popularly regarded as historical, but unauthenticated."
Nearly all the career anecdotes surrounding King Biscuit Boy
have been verified. Yes, he really was recruited for the Allman
Brothers in 1969, for Janis
JOPLIN's Full Tilt Boogie Band in
1970 and for a mid-seventies session with Aretha
FRANKLIN.
The
stellar Houston blues guitarist, Albert
COLLINS was recording
a version of Mr.
NEWELL's
Mean
Old
Lady, before he died in 1994.
Mr. NEWELL, though, would rarely volunteer to offer up such information,
unless you prodded him for it. He didn't think it was important.
He was born the
son of Lily and Walter (Dick)
NEWELL, an Royal
Air Force airman stationed in Canada during the Second World
War. Richard
NEWELL developed an early interest in music, from
the country of Hank
WILLIAMS
Sr. to the jump blues of Louis
JORDAN,
to the frenetic sounds of such original rock 'n' rollers as Little
Richard. At age 12, he purchased his first harmonica after discovering
the blues via late-night AM radio.
Mr. NEWELL spent seven years rehearsing his ever-expanding collection
of blues 45s, which he purchased on regular hitchhiking forays
to Buffalo. Few of his Friends at the time were even aware that
he played harmonica and guitar.
In 1963, Ronnie
COPPLE's sock-hop rock 'n' roll group, the Barons,
recruited Mr.
NEWELL as its lead singer. Mr.
NEWELL had heard
a recording of their instrumental original, Bottleneck, and came
by with an record by the prototypical American electric blues
slide guitarist, Elmore
JAMES.
Within weeks of his joining, the group was transfigured into
the flat-out, deep blues band, The Chessmen Featuring son Richard.
The sound was guitar driven and harmonica-heavy, certainly not
the type of thing you'd find at the average mid-sixties Southern
Ontario teen dance. The band made it to Europe the following
summer, playing successful shows at U.S. Army bases to predominantly
black audiences.
Back in Canada, Mr.
NEWELL would go on to become the lead singer
of Richie Knight and The Mid Knights in 1966. He also made his
debut professional recording at this time, as a session harmonica
player on a recording by country singer, Dallas
HARMS, best known
for writing such hits as Paper Rosie for American country singer
Gene WATSON.
When ex-Mid Knight and future Full Tilt Boogie band member Rick
BELL was recruited for the Ronnie
HAWKINS band in 1968, Mr.
NEWELL's
name came up. After one audition, he was hired on the spot and
rechristened with the royal King Biscuit Boy moniker, a title
he was never totally comfortable with.
Back in his native Arkansas,
HAWKINS had rehearsed in the basement
of the old
KFFA radio station where blues harpist, Sonny Boy
Williamson 2nd (Rice
MILLER,) did his King Biscuit Flour Hour
broadcasts. To
HAWKINS,
Mr.
NEWELL must have sounded like a letter
from home.
When JOPLIN scooped
BELL and guitarist John
TILL from
HAWKINS's
band early in 1970, Mr.
NEWELL and drummer Larry
ATAMANUIK were
left with the task of re-assembling the band. That group would
become the first King Biscuit Boy-led outfit, Crowbar. In a fit
of pique, HAWKINS had inadvertently given the band its name in
an exchange of parting shots at the Grange Tavern in Hamilton.
"You guys are so dumb," he yelled, "you could fuck up the moving
parts of a crowbar."
As the bandleader, singer, harmonica player and guitarist on
Official
Music,
Mr.
NEWELL was responsible for building a razor-sharp
and singularly intense sound. The rehearsals for these sessions
were apparently tension-laden affairs, but the payoff came when
the album muscled its way on to the Canadian charts, (without
the benefit of Canadian-content regulations), the fastest-selling
domestic release to date.
Mr. NEWELL and the band would part ways after King Biscuit Boy
and Crowbar had scored on the singles chart with the traditional
piece, Corrina, Corrina. In 1971, Crowbar (without King Biscuit
Boy) earned a place on the bestseller charts with a song that
was to become a perennial Canuck rock anthem. Oh, What a Feeling
was the first domestic single to take advantage of the newly
legislated Canadian-content rules for broadcasting.
Fate intervened throughout the following years to rob Mr.
NEWELL
of his career momentum. The backing band he assembled to promote
Good 'Uns, the 1971 followup to Official Music, was beginning
to work on a third album, when the funding for it ran out.
With the momentum lost, that unit disintegrated, with guitarist
Earl JOHNSON leaving to form the hard-rock outfit, Moxy.
In 1974, sessions produced by Allen
TOUSSAINT, the architect
of many a New Orleans Rhythm and Blues classic, would culminate
in the Epic label release of a self-titled recording. Mr.
NEWELL
would tour the United States the following year with The Meters
(featuring future members of the Neville Brothers) as his backup
band. When the Epic label cleaned house later that year, though,
he was one of the acts dropped.
In 1972, Mr.
NEWELL wed Jacqueline
WILLETTS but found that married
life did not curb his increasingly frequent drinking binges.
The couple divorced in 1979. Alcoholism was also the source of
most of his professional woes for the better part of his life,
as key shows were either cancelled, or worse, rendered into shambles.
Musicians who worked with him tended to admire him, but found
it incredibly frustrating that such an enormous talent was being
squandered.
At several junctures in his career, Mr.
NEWELL managed to quit
drinking. Of the three albums he recorded and released in the
eighties and nineties, two were the direct dividends of his abstinence.
Those recordings earned him Juno nominations, in 1988 for Richard
NEWELL aka King Biscuit Boy,and in 1996 for Urban Blues Re:
NEWELL.
The latter is still in print on Holger Peterson's Stony Plain
label. Official Music, along with Good'Uns and Badly Bent, a
best-of compilation, are available on the Unidisc label (http://www.unidisc.com).
The rest of the King Biscuit Boy catalogue, including the 1980
Mouth of Steel album, is out of print.
In 2000, Mr.
NEWELL's mother died and he left regular stage work,
preferring the seclusion of his home in the central Mountain
neighbourhood of Hamilton. His last recordings include a version
of Blue Christmas, available on the Hamilton Hometown Christmas
Compact Disk compilation assembled by saxophonist and long-time
friend, Sonny
DEL
RIO. An original composition, Two Hound Blues,
along with material recorded by
DEL
RIO and Mr.
NEWELL in the late
seventies (the Biscuit With Gravy sessions) is planned for release
this year.
Mr. NEWELL, who leaves his father Dick, brother Walter (Randy,)
and son Richard James Oddie, made his last public performance
in a cameo appearance with The Little Red Blues Gang on September
12, 2002, at Mermaids Lounge in Hamilton. The 60 or so audience
members present were treated to a version of his hit, Corrina,
Corrina, which is strange, because he never particularly cared
for that song.
Richard Alfred
NEWELL, musician; born March 9, 1944, in Hamilton
died in Hamilton, January 5, 2003.
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Died
This
Day -- Charles
SISE, 1918
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 - Page R5
Business executive born at Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Sept
27, 1834; in 1880, hired by Alexander Graham
BELL to incorporate
Bell Telephone Company of Canada; from 1890 to 1915, served as
president of Bell Canada; built unified eastern service; founded
Northern Electric, forerunner of Norther Telecom,
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BELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-11 published
Reid BELL
By Harry ROSEN
Friday,
July 11, 2003 - Page A20
Art director, company founder, husband, father, handyman, gardener.
Born March 22, 1931, in Newmarket, Ontario Died Feb 26, of cancer,
aged 71.
Reid BELL was a very special person; our relationship started
in 1961 when Reid was an art director at Young and Rubicam and,
working with the creative director, came up with the "Ask Harry"
ads for my Harry Rosen store. Today, 42 years later, that campaign
still influences our advertising.
Reid studied at the Ontario College of Art and then worked with
McCann Erickson, Maclaren, and Young and Rubicam agencies. When
Doyle Dane Bernbach opened in Toronto, Reid was appointed their
first creative director. To learn their way of doing things,
he went to New York. After a year, he returned to the Doyle Dane
Bernbach Toronto office. However, Reid really wanted his own
agency where he could set his own standards, choose his own clients
and work with them personally.
In the late 1960s, Reid opened his own agency, Reid Bell Associates
Advertising. I was happy to give him space for an office in the
tailor shop of our store on Richmond Street -- sometimes ads
were created on the ironing board. A few years later, Reid moved
into his own quarters up the road.
Our business relationship lasted more than 35 years. Reid contributed
an enormous amount to the success of Harry Rosen, and to other
companies such as the Toronto Dominion Centre, Sutton Place Hotel
and its Stop 33 lounge, Daks Shoes, the Fairweather and Calderone
stores, Cambridge Clothes, Cadillac Apartments, and Millmar Magnesium
Buckets.
I was a novice when it came to marketing but Reid and his associates
were excellent teachers. The qualities that were evident in Reid
were that he was extremely ethical and would not compromise his
standards. He worked tirelessly to make certain every ad worked
hard at entertaining the reader as well as selling the product.
He was trusting, loyal and always there when needed. For example,
we had a fire at the store and
as I surveyed the mess, the first
person I thought to call was Reid. After listening to me, he
immediately went to work on an ad to replace the current one
and kept the momentum going through the whole clean-up period.
In fact, we never claimed business interruption insurance because
we never closed the doors - we actually made money.
At his memorial service a long-time associate said: "Reid was
an important person in the ad business and the only reason his
name was not famous is that he wouldn't play the big-agency,
big-egos, award-grabbing game. But he was among the select few
of real greats."
Another associate put it this way: "Stubborn. Collector of old
toys. Lover of good food. Hater of Awards. Adviser. Loather of
stuffed shirts. Serious commuter. Incomparable ethics. Fan of
old movies. Driven. Painstaking horticulturalist. Very poor sufferer
of fools. Mentor. Proud father. Loving, loyal husband."
When he retired in 1999, we kept in close touch. So did other
clients who valued his input so much they insisted on having
lunch with him every month.
More than being a remarkable advertising and business counsellor,
Reid was a Mr. Fixit perfectionist at home, a keen gardener and
loving husband for Barbara, caring father for Sandra, Jennifer
and Jeffrey and a most valued friend to me and countless others.
He was born in Newmarket and lived there all his life. He never
wanted to move and disliked travelling -- apart from 50 years
of commuting to Toronto.
Through his recent illness (fighting a remorseless cancer for
more than a year), he demonstrated an indomitable spirit that
was the essence of Reid.
Harry ROSEN is a close friend of Reid
BELL.
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FOSTER,
Douglas
Mortimer
Died peacefully at the South Muskoka Memorial Hospital in Bracebridge,
on Saturday, November 22nd, 2003 at the age of 88. Beloved husband
of Mary Jean (née
LYALL.)
Predeceased by his first wife
Marnie
(née KERR.)
Lovingly remembered by his children Lynn
ARMSTRONG
(Brock,) Wendy
SHELLEY
(Steven,)
Doug
FOSTER (Nancy,) Lesley
FOSTER (Leslie
HENDY), his stepchildren Susan
BELL, Sharon
JONES,
Donald BELL and Lyall
BELL.
Loving grandfather of Craig, Carolyn,
Stuart, Adam, Katelynn, Samantha, Marcella, Natalie, Alexandra,
Sachi and Hunter. A private memorial service was held at the
Reynolds Funeral Home ''Turner Chapel'' in Bracebridge 877-806-2257.
Donations in memory of Doug to the South Muskoka Hospital Foundation
would be gratefully appreciated by the family.
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BELLAMY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-03 published
BELLAMY,
Aline
Marie
Blanche (née
BUCKLEY)
After a very brief illness, died on March 29, 2003, in Rouyn-Noranda,
Quebec. Born May 27, 1927 in Trois-Rivières. After her marriage
in 1947, Aline and her former husband, Arthur
BELLAMY, settled
in Rouyn-Noranda where they raised their two children, The Honourable
Madam Justice Denise
BELLAMY (Ian
CUMMINGS) now resident in Toronto,
Ontario, and Raymond
BELLAMY
(Suzan) now living in Cumberland,
Ontario.
She is survived by her granddaughter, Jennifer
BELLAMY
and by her sisters, Jeannine
McDONNELL
(Bill) of Revelstoke,
British Columbia, and Brigitte
BUCKLEY of Trois-Rivières. Her
sister, Claire, predeceased her in 1998. She is also survived
by her brother-in-law, Léo-Paul
PELLERIN, her nephews, Paul,
Pierre (Nicole) and Jean
PELLERIN (Trois-Rivières and Cap-de-la-Madeleine)
and by her niece, Linda
NOËL (Trois-Rivières.) As was her wish,
no service will be held and flowers are gratefully declined.
Alternatively, a donation to The Osteoporosis Society of Canada
(1-800-463-6842) 33 Laird Drive, Toronto, Ontario M4G 3S9 would
have been greatly appreciated by Aline and is welcomed by her
family.
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BELLEHUMEUR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-18 published
Crash kills promising teen
By Jonathan
FOWLIE,
Thursday,
December 18, 2003 - Page A18
An 18-year-old man was killed and another seriously injured when
their white Toyota Celica slammed into a hydro pole yesterday
afternoon on Kingston Road near Danforth Avenue.
Allen BELLEHUMEUR died immediately, and was identified by his
distraught parents who arrived at the scene shortly after the
crash.
His close friend, Chris
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON, was in the passenger seat and
was rushed to intensive care at St. Michael's Hospital. He was
in critical condition last night after suffering internal head
injuries.
Mr. BELLEHUMEUR graduated from nearby Birchmount Park Collegiate
last year, where Mr.
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON was still attending classes.
Darryl MOREY, a physical-education teacher at the school, described
Mr. BELLEHUMEUR as a driven student who was always pushing to
improve himself. "I know academically he did very well. He fought
for everything he could get. He hated getting a 70 [per cent]."
Mr. MOREY, who has been teaching for 16 years, said Mr.
BELLEHUMEUR
also loved hockey and was a "huge Leaf fan" who often wore the
team's jersey.
Mr. BELLEHUMEUR was engaged to his long-time girl friend, the
daughter of a teacher at Birchmount Park and a student at the
school, Mr.
MOREY said. The young man's parents run a variety
store on Danforth Avenue, Mr.
MOREY said, where the teenager
used to work.
The school held an emergency staff meeting yesterday at which
a crisis counsellor delivered the news of the crash, the teacher
said. Students will be given the news today.
Police said yesterday afternoon that Mr.
BELLEHUMEUR had been
"changing lanes erratically" when his car jumped a small median
on the ramp where Danforth Avenue feeds onto Kingston Road.
After the car cleared the median, it swerved across two lanes
before knocking over a hydro pole, Sergeant Rob
GREGORY of traffic
services said last night.
Skid marks showed the path the car took over the median and directly
into the hydro post, which broke in many places as a result of
the collision. After hitting the post, the car bounced back onto
the road and came to rest on its roof.
No one else was hurt and no other cars were involved in the collision.
Sgt. GREGORY said that the teens had definitely not been drinking
but that "speed certainly will be a factor we will be looking
at."
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BELLEROSE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-17 published
Marilyn
Joanne
(Mandy)
BELLEROSE
In loving memory Marilyn Joanne (Mandy)
BELLEROSE,
September 30, 1941 to December 15, 2003.
Mandy BELLEROSE, a resident of Providence Bay, died at the Mindemoya
Hospital on Monday, December 15, 2003 at the age of 62 years.
She was born in Carnarvon Township, daughter of the late Albert and Anne
(McFARLANE)
DAVIS.
Mandy had worked with the developmentally
handicapped for over 15 years. She enjoyed bingo, going to the
casinos, crosswords and knitting. Her greatest love and the most
pleasure she had in her life was her family. Although she will be
sadly missed, many fond memories will be cherished by her entire family and Friends.
Dearly loved wife of Donald
BELLEROSE, loving and loved mother of
Kelly SMITH and his wife
Marie of Hensall, Debbie
WHITE/WHYTE and her
husband David of Brampton and Ray
SMITH of Providence Bay and
step-children Dawn of Sault Ste. Marie, Michael and his wife Terry of
Sudbury and Darrin and partner Shawna of Sault Ste Marie. Proud
grandmother of Kasaundra, Tiffany, Kristi, Melissa and Bryan. Dear
sister of John
DAVIS, and his wife
Cindy of Spring Bay. Fondly
remembered by several nieces and nephews, and many cousins and
Friends.
Predeceased by infant daughter Mary Ann
HEBERT and brother Joseph Morlyn
DAVIS.
Friends may call at the Lady of Canada Catholic Church, Mindemoya
after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 17, 2003. The funeral service
will be conducted at the church on Thursday, December 18, at 3: 00
p.m. with Father Robert Foliot officiating. Interment in Providence
Bay Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home.
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