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CANDY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-04 published
Died
This
Day -- John
CANDY, 1994
Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - Page R7
Actor born in Toronto on October 31, 1950; educated and grew
up in suburb of Scarborough; in late 1970s, joined cast of Second
City comedy troupe and
SCTV show; swiched to film and won parts
in such movies as Radio Candy, 1941, Stripes, National Lampoon's
Vacation, The Three Amigos!, Summer Rental, Brewster's Millions,
The Great Outdoors, Splash, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Little
Shop of Horrors, Home Alone,
JFK, Uncle Buck, Camp Candy and
Cool Runnings; died of heart attack while on location in Mexico.
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CANDY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-11 published
Visionary performer waged war on trivial art
Her trademark was a experimental process that embraced dance,
music, text, mime, clown, ritual and mask
By Paula CITRON
Friday,
April 11, 2003 - Page R13
Canada has lost a powerful force in experimental theatre and
dance. Director, dancer, actor, writer and choreographer Elizabeth
SZATHMARY died last month in Toronto.
While she will be remembered as a dynamic figure, her artistic
life will remain a contradiction. At the beginning of her career,
Ms. SZATHMARY was one of the gilded darlings of Toronto's burgeoning
experimental theatre. At the end, she was seen by some as a marginalized,
religious eccentric who put on plays in church basements.
To her long-time Friends and loyalists, however, Ms.
SZATHMARY's
life was a spiritual journey in which art, religion and morality
were inextricably intertwined in a nobility of purpose.
Ms. SZATHMARY was born in New York on October 12, 1937, to Jewish-Hungarian
parents. Her mother was an unhappy former opera singer and vaudeville
performer and her father was a composer and arranger who wrote
the theme for the popular television show Get Smart and who abandoned
his family. Ms.
SZATHMARY attended New York's High School of
Performing Arts and later performed with the Metropolitan Opera
Ballet under choreographer Antony
TUDOR.
A ravishing beauty with masses of long, jet-black curls and compelling
light-coloured eyes, Ms.
SZATHMARY attracted followers throughout
her career. She was, says Toronto choreographer David
EARLE,
a powerful, mysterious presence and a charismatic performer.
Another admirer was Canadian Robert
SWERDLOW.
Mr.
TUDOR's piano
accompanist, he fell in love with the beautiful young dancer
and followed her to France where Ms.
SZATHMARY danced with such
companies as Les Ballets Classique de Monte Carlo and Les Ballets
Contemporains de Paris. He was the first of many artists to be
inspired by Ms.
SZATHMARY.
"Elizabeth was a theatre philosopher who wanted to save the world
through the beauty and truth of her art," Mr.
SWERDLOW said.
The couple relocated to Montreal in the mid-sixties where Mr.
SWERDLOW got a job with the National Film Board. One assignment
brought him to Toronto, and it was Ms.
SZATHMARY who persuaded
him to settle there because of the city's "happening" dance scene.
Performing under the name Elizabeth
SWERDLOW, she first worked
with Mr. EARLE and the future co-founders of Toronto Dance Theatre.
In 1969, Mr.
SWERDLOW took an unexpected windfall of $30,000
and built his wife a performing venue of her own. In this way,
Global Village Theatre emerged from a former Royal Canadian Mounted
Police stable and the couple went on to became synonymous with
a new wave of provocative, political, issue-oriented theatre.
Mr. SWERDLOW provided the words and music, and co-wrote the shows
Elizabeth co-wrote, choreographed, directed and was the featured
performer. Importantly, she was the visionary who came up with
original concepts and her trademark, multidisciplinary theatrical
process embraced dance, music, text, mime, clown, ritual and
mask.
Among their better-known collaborations was Blue.S.A., an indictment
of the "American empire," and Justine, the story of a young
girl who gains wisdom through the vicissitudes of life. A huge
hit, Justine went to New York where it won off-Broadway awards
and enjoyed a long run.
Its success meant Global Village became a stopping place for
others. Gilda
RADNER,
John
CANDY and Salome
BEY represented just
some of the talent that passed through. Later, when Ms.
SZATHMARY
founded Inner Stage Theatre, she helped propel the early careers
of Antoni CIMOLINO and Donald
CARRIER of the Stratford Festival,
Jeannette ZINGG and Marshall
PYNKOSKI of Opera Atelier and Native
American performer Raoul
TRUJILLO.
In the mid-seventies, Ms.
SZATHMARY experienced a religious conversion
and became a devout Christian.
For Mr. SWERDLOW, it was the last straw in an already turbulent
relationship. After the couple split up, Ms.
SZATHMARY founded
Inner Stage, a name that expressed her desire to produce art
that would transform and heal through spirituality. To better
strike out on her own, she also shed the
SWERDLOW name. Until
the 1990s, the main work of Inner Stage was a series of acclaimed
morality tales -- or modern fables as Ms.
SZATHMARY called them
which toured schools from coast to coast. She also explored
the storytelling power of Native American myths and turned to
such themes as the plight of street youth or to the Holocaust
from a teenager's point of view. Her final project, No Fixed
Address, attempted to air the true voice of the homeless by both
telling their stories and casting them as actors.
By all accounts, Ms.
SZATHMARY was a true eccentric who personalized
everything. Her computer, for example, was called Daisy. Her
home was a living museum dominated by a family of cats who occupied
their own stools at the dining table, held conversations and
sent out Christmas cards to the pets of Friends. Spiritual sayings,
religious art and theatre memorabilia covered every scrap of
wall and floor space. On an even more personal level, Ms.
SZATHMARY
kept a journal of religious visions and dreams written in ornate
calligraphy and illustrated in Hungarian folk-style art. What
is more, she described ecstatic events and augurisms, including
a personal affinity with bison, as if such occurrences were as
routine as the weather.
In her work, Ms.
SZATHMARY demanded perfection, which meant she
often proved impossible to work alongside. Friends and colleagues
Robert MASON,
Julia
AMES and Peter
GUGELER all talk about Ms.
SZATHMARY's middle-of-the-night phone calls -- and the fact that
she brooked no criticism or contrary opinions. All the same,
their devotion never lessened.
"She was a queen and we were her subjects," said Mr.
GUGELER.
"Elizabeth never left you once she got ahold of you."
Guerrilla theatre, grass-roots theatre, shoe-string theatre,
theatre against all odds, a "let's-make-a-show" mentality --
that was the brave, artistic world in which Ms.
SZATHMARY waged
her war against what she saw as frivolous or commercial art.
In 1989, Inner Stage lost its operating grant and from that time
on she financed her own productions. During the last year that
she was able to work, she earned a pitiful $5,000.
Ms. SZATHMARY continued to perform in all her productions, turning
more to straight acting as her dancing powers declined. Even
so, she never gave up the stage to anyone.
Elizabeth SZATHMARY died of rectal cancer in Toronto on March
28. A memorial service will be held at the Church of the Redeemer,
162 Bloor St. W., Toronto, at 3 p.m. on April 27.
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CANES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
DIMMER,
Peter
Anthony
Peacefully passed away on March 7, 2003 at Belmont House, Toronto
at age 88. Beloved husband of Shirley (née
SCHRAM) for 50 years.
Father of David, Diana, Gregory, and his wife Elaine. He will
be fondly remembered by his two grandchildren Alexandra and Michael.
Peter was born in London, England in 1915, and came to Canada
in 1950 after serving with the Royal Air Force during the Second
World War. In 1993, he was inducted into the Canadian Tennis
Hall of Fame. This was recognition of 40 years developing the
game in Ontario. Peter served as the pro-manager of the Queen's
Club for over 30 years. He brought tennis instruction to many
community clubs in southern Ontario. In 1970 Peter started his
own tennis school which ran for 15 years. The family will receive
Friends at Turner and Porter Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street West, at
Windemere, on Sunday from 2-5 p.m. Funeral Service will be held
at Kingsway Lambton United Church at the corner of Prince Edward
Drive and the Kingsway on Monday, March 10 at 3: 30 p.m. A reception
will follow at the Queen's Club, 568 Dupont Street from 5-7 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Belmont House Foundation,
55 Belmont Street, Toronto, Ontario M5R 1R1 or
CANES
Home
Support
Services, 925 Albion Road, Suite 309, Etobicoke, Ontario M9V
1A6 would be appreciated.
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BERCOVITCH,
Patricia
(Pat) nee:
COWAN
After a 2½ year unwavering, brave and courageous battle with
colon cancer, Pat died peacefully with dignity at her home on
July 05, 2003. Beloved wife of Morley, survived by mother-in-law
Sadie CANHAM, dear sister of Mary
CHARIOT
(Larry,) brother Ted
COWAN
(Lucy,) brother Jim
COWAN (Sheila,) predeceased by sister
Barbara McGURK
(Bob.)
She will be missed by numerous loving nieces
and nephews, along with their children, many aunts, uncles, cousins
and caring Friends. Trained as a nurse and a teacher, she worked
in many capacities in her field, then came to Wasaga Beach as
the owner of the 'old'
IGA, touching the hearts of many people
along the way. Pat was most at home when boating on Georgian
Bay. She will be remembered as a loyal friend, loving sister
and a devoted wife. Thanks to Dr. James
LANE for the compassionate
care he gave Pat. Service at the Steeles Memorial Chapel, 390
Steeles Avenue West (between Bathurst and Yonge), Toronto, on
Monday, July 07, 2003 at 11 a.m. Shiva at 65 Knox Road East,
Wasaga Beach. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations to the Pat
Bercovitch Foundation at the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital
would be greatly appreciated.
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CANIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-15 published
Radio pioneer built network
He founded Ontario's first French-language radio station in 1951
when his local station denied francophones airtime.
By Randy RAY
Special to The Globe and Mail Monday, June 16, 2003
- Page R7
He started in business as a butcher, and later was a soldier
and a hotelier, but Conrad
LAVIGNE's first love was show business.
Whether he was operating the television stations in Northern
Ontario that became the largest privately owned television broadcast
system in the world, appearing at the staid proceedings of the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission,
or at conventions, Mr.
LAVIGNE often delighted those within earshot
with jokes, stories, witty comments -- even singing.
Like the time he sang grace during the annual meeting of the
Association for French Language Broadcasters in the 1970s.
"Members of the head table, including myself and Premier Bill
DAVIS, walked into the room and stood behind our chairs," recalls
Pierre JUNEAU, chairman of the Canadian Radio-television and
Telecommunications Commission from 1968 to 1975.
"Mr. LAVIGNE, who was chairman of the French-language broadcasters
group, began singing grace in French, and with his very strong
voice. People felt sort of strange with this."
When he was done, Mr.
LAVIGNE looked at Premier
DAVIS and quipped:
"Well, Mr. Premier, this is to show you that when you are chairman,
you can do whatever you like."
J. Lyman POTTS, former vice-president of Standard Broadcasting,
remembers the time in the early 1960s when Mr.
LAVIGNE appeared
before the Board of Broadcast Governors -- predecessor of the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission --
in support of a radio or television station licensing application.
At the beginning of his presentation, Mr.
LAVIGNE expressed his
regrets that Board of Broadcast Governors member Bernard
GOULET
had died at few days earlier. Then, without skipping a beat,
he looked toward the ceiling and said: "If Bernie were here today,
I think he would vote for my application."
"It broke up the room," says Mr.
POTTS. "If ever a meeting got
dull he'd liven things up. It was a joy to find him at meetings.
He was a unique personality."
Mr. LAVIGNE, who was born in the small town of Chénéville, Quebec,
on November 2, 1916, and raised in Cochrane, Ontario, died in
Timmins, Ontario on April 16 following a lengthy battle with
emphysema. He was 86.
Friends, family and business associates say Mr.
LAVIGNE had show
business in his blood in his late teens. On many evenings, the
young man who moved to Timmins from Cochrane at age 18 to open
a small grocery store and butcher shop with his uncle would act
in plays in the hall of a local church. But he didn't get into
the entertainment business in a big way until after he helped
Canada's war effort, got married and started his life as an entrepreneur
in the hotel business.
In 1942, he sold his butcher shop and enlisted in the Canadian
infantry. He became a commando training officer while stationed
at Vernon, British Columbia, and in 1944 headed overseas. While
on a furlough from Vernon he returned to Timmins and married
Jeanne CANIE.
The couple raised seven children.
Mr. LAVIGNE returned to Canada in 1946 and bought the Prince
George Hotel in Kirkland Lake, Ontario, which at the time was
a booming gold-mining town. He sold the business in 1950.
He entered the world of media and entertainment by founding
CFCL,
the first French-language radio station in Ontario in 1951, in
what, essentially, was his way of ensuring the area's large French-speaking
population had a voice in the North.
Michelle DE
COURVILLE
NICOL of Ottawa said her father launched
the station after a group of francophones that he was part of
in Kirkland Lake was told by the manager of an English-language
radio station that they would no longer be given regular air
time to discuss issues of interest to French people.
"He was very proud of being a francophone," says Ms. DE
COURVILLE
NICOL. "
When he was told that his compatriots would no longer
be welcome on the local station he said, 'Oh, ya!' and got the
idea of starting a French-language radio station. He moved to
Timmins, applied for a licence and got it."
CFCL soon attracted a faithful audience, especially in Northwestern
Quebec, where it could be heard more clearly than French stations
in Montreal.
In a 1988 interview with Northern Ontario Business, Mr.
LAVIGNE
remembered the time he hired a relative unknown named Stompin'
Tom CONNORS to perform live on
CFCL.
The radio station was located
above a jewellery store and the pounding from Mr.
CONNORS's size-11
boots caused china to fall off the shelves in the store below.
Radio was his first love until the mid-1950s when, on a business
trip to southern Ontario, he saw his first television broadcast,
on WHAM from Rochester, New York He fell for the concept of television
and he and an engineer friend drove to Rochester and learned
everything they could about the magic medium of television.
Back in Timmins, Mr.
LAVIGNE bought a hill in the north end of
the town, named it Mont Sacré-Coeur, built a road to the foot
of his hill, and began blasting rock and working in earnest to
put a television station on the air. By 1956,
CFCL-television
was a reality.
"There was always the fear of failure because of the sparse population,"
Mr. LAVIGNE said at the time. "But we had an engineer with us
named Roch
DEMERS, who later became president of Telemedia, and
together we started putting up rebroadcasting stations between
1957 and 1962."
Kapuskasing's rebroadcasting station was the first such facility
in Canada, and it added another portion of the sparsely populated
northeastern Ontario market to the growing station's network.
Eventually, Mr.
LAVIGNE built rebroadcasting stations in Chapleau
and Moosonee, Ontario and Malartic, Quebec, and by the time expansion
was completed,
CFCL-television served 1.5 million people. Eventually,
he built the station into the world's largest privately owned
system.
For many years he appeared on a very popular
CFCL program known
as the President's Corner, during which he would sit on camera
in a comfortable chair and read and respond to letters from viewers.
Between 1962 and 1970, Mr.
LAVIGNE's television network entered
the world of high technology with its own microwave network.
Mr. LAVIGNE had the northeastern Ontario television market virtually
all to himself for about 20 years until the Canadian Television
Network (CTV) arrived on the scene. He reacted by building new
stations in North Bay and Sudbury with a rebroadcasting station
in Elliot Lake to serve Manitoulin Island. Expansion continued
in 1976 with the purchase of a bankrupt television station in
Pembroke, in the Ottawa Valley. Eventually, Mr.
LAVIGNE's private
network stretched from Moosonee to Ottawa, and from Hearst to
Mattagami, Quebec
"When we first started we had the market all to ourselves," he
told Northern Ontario Business. "We had 20 hours a week of local
programming, and it was beautiful. We gave the North a unified
voice. One time, during a forest fire near Chapleau, our messages
arranged for accommodations for 1,000 people in Timmins."
Mr. LAVIGNE divested himself of his broadcasting holdings in
1980, primarily because he was refused permission to operate
a cable television service in the North. He remained a director
of Mid-Canada Television, the network that grew from his little
Timmins station in 1956, and was chairman of the board of Northern
Telephone Ltd. For a number of years, he served on the board
of the National Bank of Canada, and for 10 years served on the
board of ICG
Utilities (formerly Inter City Gas.)
His life after broadcasting also included 20 years as a property
developer in the Timmins area.
"He was always a physically active person," says Ms. DE
COURVILLE
NICOL. "In the years he was setting up his television stations
he would often go out with the engineers. He was not as happy
sitting behind his desk."
Mr. LAVIGNE was elected to the Canadian Broadcasting Hall of
Fame in 1990. His wife died in 1995. He leaves Ms. DE
COURVILLE
NICOL and six other children, Marc, Andrée, Nicole, Jean-Luc,
Pierre and Marie-France.
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CANNARD o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-08 published
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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CANNARD o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-15 published
CANNARD
--In loving memory of my wife Sara, who passed away on January 16, 2000.
Though her smile is gone forever,
And her hand I cannot touch.
Still I have so many memories,
Of the one I loved so much.
Her memory is my keepsake,
With which I will never part,
God has her in his keeping,
I have her in my heart.
-Lovingly remembered, D.O.
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CANNON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-21 published
RILEY,
Mickey
Born in London, England, March 13, 1940, died suddenly in Vancouver,
his home for 40 years, on Tuesday, June 17th, 2003. Predeceased
by his beloved soulmate, Karen, his parents Jessie and Danny
RILEY and his sister, Maureen
CANNON. Survived by his sisters
Megan ABBOTT and Kelly
RILEY and all the extended family members.
A Memorial Service will be held at the Kearney Funeral Chapel,
1096 West Broadway, Vancouver (near Oak and Broadway) at 7 p.m.
on Wednesday, June 25th, 2003, for family and Friends. ''Mickey,
you are in our thoughts and may you rest in peace''.
Kearney Funeral Home (604) 736-0268
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CANTOR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-07 published
MORGAN,
Margaret
Kathleen (née
DAVIS)
Died in her sleep at her home in Toronto on Thursay, June 5,
2003. Beloved wife for 56 years of the late Robert
MORGAN.
Dear
mother of Robert Davis
MORGAN
(Karen) and Lynn
CANTOR. Proud
grandma to Scott
MORGAN (Nicole), David
MORGAN, Adam
CANTOR and
Sarah Alexandra
CANTOR.
Predeceased by her older brother, Gordon
DAVIS, and her twin Frederick
DAVIS.
Best pal of Marian
CARTER
for 75 years. Margaret was born in Winnipeg in 1915. Before her
marriage she worked for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
in Winnipeg. Her marriage to Bob took her to Halifax, Saint John,
Ottawa, Edmonton, London, Ontario and finally Toronto where a
lifelong love of the ballet led her to become involved with the
newly formed National Ballet of Canada. She founded the National
Ballet's ''Paper Things'' store, and was President of the Volunteer
Committee. She was a Past-President of the Southern Ontario Unit
of the Herb Society of America, a member of the Toronto Herb
Society, and a Governor of Sunnybrook Hospital. Her joyful spirit
and sense of fun will be sadly missed by her vast network of
Friends who played bridge with her at the York Club, golfed with
her at The Toronto Hunt, marveled at her creative talents with
The Garden Club of Toronto, and partied with her at Goodwood,
Longboat Key and Muir Park. She loved life and she lived with
amazing grace.
A memorial service will be held at Lawrence Park Community Church,
2180 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, on Tuesday, June 10 at 2 o'clock
p.m. In honour of Margaret's commitment to the ballet, donations
in her memory may be made to Development, Special Gifts, The
National Ballet of Canada, 470 Queen's Quay West, Toronto, Ontario
M5V 3K4. Arrangements in the care of Trull 'North Toronto' Funeral
Home andCremation Centre, 2704 Yonge Street (5 blocks south of
Lawrence) 416-488-1101
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