COLBOURNE
COLDWELL
COLE
COLEMAN
COLICOS
COLLA
COLLIER
COLLINS
COLOMBO
COLQUHOUN
COLTHART
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COLBOURNE,
Don
Died of a heart attack on February 19th shortly after returning
to Toronto from an extended holiday. He is survived by Marion,
his wife of over 46 years, three wonderful daughters, their great
spouses and super grandchildren: Trish and Robert (Steven and Lauren),
Jacquie and Ken (Tyler, Teri and Donald), Sandy and Larry (Greg
and Natalie). Those who will also greatly miss him are his sister
Betty ROGERS and brothers Gord and Doug and many special nephews,
nieces and Friends. Don's work has always revolved around construction,
initially subdivisions in and around Toronto and then in environmental
containment for landfills. This later work allowed him to enjoy
life in both Canada and the U.S. A memorial service will be held
at 3: 00 pm Saturday at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton
Avenue W., (2 stoplights west of Yonge St.) Toronto.
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COLDWELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-27 published
Died
This
Day -- M.J.
COLDWELL, 1974
Wednesday, August 27, 2003 - Page R5
Teacher, politician, founder of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
party, born December 1, 1888, at Seaton, England; 1910, came
to Canada as a teacher; 1924-34, led teachers' organizations
1932, elected leader of Saskatchewan provincial Farmer-Labour
Party; 1935, elected to Parliament; 1942, succeeded J.S.
WOODSWORTH
as Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation leader; led Co-Operative
Commonwealth Federation in five general elections until 1962
died in Ottawa.
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COLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-13 published
Gordon Kenneth
FLEMING/FLEMMING
By Jack FORTIN
Thursday,
February 13, 2003, Page A30
Musician, husband, father. Born August 3, 1931, in Winnipeg.
Died August 31, 2002, in Scarborough, Ontario, following a stroke,
aged 71.
Gordie FLEMING/FLEMMING was a remarkable music talent, known internationally
as a master of the accordion, especially in the jazz idiom. He
was a life member of Local 149 of the Toronto Musicians' Association.
In show-business vernacular, Gordie was "born in a trunk." He
began playing accordion when his older brother gave him lessons.
His musical ability was such that he began performing publicly
at the age of five. His schoolteachers often saw him being whisked
away in a taxi to perform at theatres and radio stations in Winnipeg.
By the age of 10, he was a working member of various bands in
that city.
In 1949, Gordie lost his accordion in a fire at a Winnipeg hotel.
With the insurance money, he headed for the bright lights of
Montreal where he soon became an important part of that city's
musical life. His accordion ability was complemented by the fact
that he was also a gifted arranger and composer.
He had a marvellous ability to improvise and could string out
complex bebop lines, leaving his listeners in awe. He often slipped
a jazz phrase into ballads or commercial tunes, confirming that
jazz was indeed his first love.
One of Montreal's busiest musicians, he wrote for local orchestras,
shows, radio and television. He had perfect pitch and often wrote
without reference to a keyboard. He was at home in every type
of music from classics to jazz. For several years, he worked
at the National Film Board as a composer and musician.
In Montreal, Gordie performed with many show business headliners:
there was a wealth of home-grown talent in Montreal, such as
Oscar PETERSON and Maynard
FERGUSON, as well as other jazz musicians
who were beginning to be noticed.
Gordie had said that when when he first heard bebop it was like
entering another world. As his career indicates, he had no trouble
in that world. He worked with many personalities including: Charlie
PARKER, Mel
TORMÉ, Hank
SNOW, Lena
HORNE, Englebert
HUMPERDINCK,
Dennis DAY, Gordon
MacRAE, Cab
CALLOWAY, Nat King
COLE, Cat
STEVENS,
Rich LITTLE, Billy
ECKSTEIN, Pee Wee
HUNT, Arthur
GODFREY and
Buddy DEFRANCO.
He also performed with Tommy
AMBROSE,
Allan
MILLS, Wally
KOSTER,
Tommy HUNTER,
Bert
NIOSI, Wayne and Shuster, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation jazz shows with Al
BACULIS, and many other Canadian
jazz musicians.
On Montreal's French music scene, Gordie performed on radio and
television with Emile
GENEST, Ti-Jean
CARIGNAN,
André
GAGNON
and Ginette
RENO. He was a featured soloist with the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra on several occasions.
Internationally, Gordie toured France in 1952 and performed with
Edith PIAF and Tino
ROSSI. He had the honour to perform for former
prime minister Pierre Elliot
TRUDEAU at a Commonwealth Conference.
He participated with other top Canadian musicians in a Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation tour to entertain Canadian and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization troops in Europe in 1952 and 1968.
For me, a memorable experience was playing in a group with Gordie
for several winters in Florida. A popular member of the Panama
City Beach family of musicians, Gordie looked forward to his
winter trek south. Many of the American musicians will miss him,
as will the many snowbirds who looked forward to hearing him
each year.
His extensive repertoire allowed Gordie to author a book called
Music of the World, in which he wrote the music to 280 songs
from more than 30 countries.
Gordie leaves his wife of 47 years, Joanne, and seven children.
Jack FORTIN is Gordie's friend.
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PEEBLES,
David,
Canadian
Forces
Decoration
Died at the Toronto General Hospital on February 27, 2003, after
a brief illness. Born in Scotland in 1906, he lived most of his
life in Montreal, where he was active in business and sports.
He served in the Canadian Army during World War 2 and retired
with the rank of Major from the Royal Montreal Regiment. He is
survived by his wife Mary, his son Ross and his daughter- in-law
Judith COLE. At his request there will be no funeral service.
If desired donations may be made to the Salvation Army.
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CHANDRAN,
Beverley
Anne
On Friday, March 7, 2003, in her 50th year, Beverley was called
to, once again, be one with the Creator of Creation. She went
with a blazing smile of glory in her soul, while giving her unselfish,
unstoppable gratitude in peace, tranquility, and a twinkle in
her eye. At home in Erin, Ontario with her loved ones. In their
29th year of marriage, ever beloved part of Clarence; eternally
loving mother of sons Justin (23) and his wife Jennifer; Liam
(21) and Keddy (19.) Only daughter of Ambrose and Theresa
CARROLL
and sister of Gary (Marlene), D'Arcy (Pam) and Paul (Harriet).
Only daughter-in-law of Geoff and Lena
CHANDRAN and sister-in-law
of Brinda McLAUGHLIN
(John.)
Permanent thanks to dearest and
giving Friends, old and new. And special thanks to: Dr. Alan
FRIEDMAN and staff, Dr. Henry
FRIEDMAN of Duke University Medical
Center;
Dr.
Stephen
TREMONT and staff of Rex Hospital Cancer Clinic
Dr. Julian
ROSENMAN and staff of University of North Carolina Radiation
Oncology Clinic; Dr. Lew
STOCKS and staff, Dr. Mike
DELISSIO and
staff, Dr. Robert
ALLEN and staff, Dr. Donald
BROWN, all of Raleigh
and Durham, North Carolina, U.S.A. Dr. Peter
COLE of Orangeville,
Ontario, and the nursing staff of Robertson and Brown of Kitchener,
Ontario. Visitation and a Celebration of Beverley's life will
take place at her home: #4998, 10th Sideroad of Erin, Ontario
(north of Ballinafad Road, south of 5th Sideroad). Visitation
for family and Friends will be held on Sunday, March 9, 2003,
from 2 pm to 8 pm. On Monday, March 10, 2003, there will be a
private family Funeral Mass, after which, Friends and family
are invited to participate in a Celebration of Beverley's life
from 3 pm. to 8 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family respectfully
requests donations be made to the American Cancer Society (P.O.
Box 102454, Atlanta, Georgia 303068-2454) or The Canadian Cancer
Society (Wellington County Unit, 214 Speedvale Avenue, W. Unit
4A, Guelph, Ontario N1H 1C4) Arrangements entrusted to Butcher
Family Funeral Home, 5399 Main Street, South, Erin, Ontario,
Canada. For more information call 519-833-2231.
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Deacon
David
Roland
COLEMAN
TRUDEAU
In loving memory of Deacon David Roland
COLEMAN
TRUDEAU at the age of 78 years
Thirty years of sobriety. Died peacefully surrounded by his wife and family at the
Manitoulin Health Centre on Wednesday evening December 10, 2003.
Beloved husband of Clara
(FOX)
TRUDEAU of Wikwemikong and first wife
the late Tillie
KUBUNT of Newberry, Michigan. Dear son of the late
Dominic and Angeline
(WASSEGIJIG)
TRUDEAU of Wikwemikong. Dear
step-father to Bill
TUCKER,
Sharon (husband Ray) Wynn and Bob
TUCKER
of Newberry, Michigan, Lindell
MATHEWS of Wikwemikong, Annie
KAY
(friend Eric
EADIE,)
Mathew and Linda
MATHEWS (predeceased.) Loving
grandfather to Billy, Karen, Jimmy, Linda (friend Wayne), Ronald
(friend Tracy), Maxwell, Lindsay, Michael, Darla and a few more from
Newberry, Michigan (names unknown at time of printing). Predeceased
by two grandchildren Linda Marie and Lucy Marie. One great
granddaughter Deanna
MATHEWS.
Loving brother of Stella (Jim
predeceased)
PAVLOT of Sault, Michigan, Ursula (Bob)
SCHUPP of Meza,
Arizona,
Elsie
(John predeceased)
BOWES of Shorter, Alabama.
Predeceased by brothers and sisters and in-laws Tony (Margaret)
TRUDEAU, Isadore (Marge)
WEMIGWANS, Lena (Bova)
GRENIER, and Francis
(Nestor) KARMINSKI.
Will be sadly missed by Godchildren Jonathon
DEBASSIGE,
Alison
RECOLLET, Darcy
SPANISH, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Rested at St. Ignatius Church, Buzwah. Funeral Mass was held at Holy
Cross Mission, Wikwemikong on Monday, December 15, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m.
with Father Doug McCarthy s.j. officiating. Cremation at the Sagamok
Anishnawbek First Nations Crematorium. Lougheed Funeral Home.
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Creator of Savage God
Theatre director was a Canadian nationalist, a fan of the avant
garde and a champion of playwright George Ryga. He was also seen
as a kook, a dilettante and a street fighter
By Tom HAWTHORN
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, October
11, 2003 - Page F9
John JULIANI was a provocateur in life as on stage. A man passionate
about the possibilities of theatre, he roused reverence in some,
antipathy in others.
His most infamous act was to challenge the Stratford Festival's
newly hired artistic director to a duel. Robin
PHILLIPS's offence
was that he is British when Mr.
JULIANI and others were certain
a land as grand as Canada was capable of producing a director
for its Shakespearean theatre.
What he called a "romantic gesture with tongue in cheek" earned
cheers from Canadian theatre directors and sneers from much of
the theatre establishment.
Mr. JULIANI, who has died at the age of 63, was an unabashed
Canadian nationalist, a dedicated fan of the avant garde, an
ardent defender of the right of actors to a decent living, a
champion of playwright George Ryga and a tireless figure so commanding
as to develop an intense loyalty among acolytes.
At the same time, he was seen as a kook, a dilettante and a street
fighter. One critic called him "the Tiger Williams of Canadian
theatre," his pugnacious approach earning him comparison to a
notorious hockey goon. In his defence, Mr.
JULIANI explained
that he was merely a "true believer" with opinions on controversial
subjects.
Mr. JULIANI's credits were long and varied, including spontaneous
Sixties street happenings such as the staging of his own wedding
as a theatrical performance and brief appearances on such 1990s
television dramas as The X-Files.
From 1982 until 1997, Mr.
JULIANI was executive producer of radio
drama for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio in Vancouver.
He helped to bring to air many celebrated productions, including
the brilliant and provocative Dim Sum Diaries by playwright Mark
LEIREN-
YOUNG.
Mr. JULIANI also possessed a head-turning beauty, with a profile
as striking as a Roman bust. Radio host Bill
RICHARDSON commented
on his handsomeness at a raucous memorial after his death, calling
him a "hunka hunka burnin' love." Some said he had the looks
and bearing of a Shakespearean king.
John Charles
JULIANI was born in Montreal on March 24, 1940.
Raised in a working-class neighbourhood, he attended Loyola College
and was an early graduate from the fledgling National Theatre
School.
He spent two seasons as an actor at Stratford before being hired
as a theatre teacher at Simon Fraser University in 1966. The
new university atop Burnaby Mountain east of Vancouver was a
hotbed of radicalism in politics and the arts. Mr.
JULIANI bristled
at an imposed curriculum and so infuriated the administration
that he was banned from the campus in 1969.
Mr. JULIANI was heavily influenced by the writing of Antonin
Artaud, a Surrealist who championed a theatre based on the imagination.
He long sought to erase the barrier between scripted text and
sensory impression, between performer and audience, to mixed
success.
After moving to the West Coast, Mr.
JULIANI launched a series
of experiments in theatre. He credited these productions to Savage
God, which was less a troupe in the traditional sense than a
title granted to any performance involving Mr.
JULIANI.
The name
came from William Butler Yeats's awestruck reaction to Alfred
Jarry's Ubu Roi: "After us, the Savage God?"
Savage God defied explanation, though many tried and even Mr.
JULIANI offered suggestions. Savage God was "an anthology of
question marks," he once said. (It was, after all, the 1960s.)
"Savage God is simply the Imagination," he told the Vancouver
Sun, "insatiable, unrelenting, fiercely energetic, wary of categorization,
fond of contradiction and inveterately iconoclastic."
In January, 1970, Mr.
JULIANI married dancer Donna
WONG, a ceremony
conducted as a Savage God performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
He repeated the process at the christening of his son. Ms.
WONG-
JULIANI
would be his domestic and drama partner for more than three decades.
In 1971, the streets of Vancouver were the scene of several spontaneous
and sometimes incomprehensible -- performances under the aegis
of PACET ("pilot alternative complement to existing theatre.")
The $18,000 project, funded by the federal government, incorporated
Gestalt therapy sessions in street performances.
Theatrical events took place willy-nilly across the city, including
malls, the airport, the library and Stanley Park. Admission was
not charged, nor did all spectators appreciate their role as
audience to avant-garde performance. A scene in which bicyclists
wearing gas masks pedalled along city streets left many scratching
their heads in puzzlement.
In 1974, Mr.
JULIANI moved to Toronto to set up a graduate theatre-studies
program at York University.
He called the program
PEAK ("
Performance,
Example,
Animation,
Katharsis") and perhaps should have found an acronym for
PEEK,
as the instructor and his class stripped naked to protest against
a lack of classroom space.
The challenge to the new Stratford artistic director in 1974
was written on a piece of parchment and delivered in London by
Don RUBIN, a York colleague. Alas, Mr.
RUBIN could not find a
proper gauntlet and wound up ceremoniously striking Mr.
PHILLIPS
with a red rubber glove, an absurd note to a theatrical protest.
In 1978, Mr.
JULIANI took the stage in a Toronto production of
Children of Night, portraying Janusz Korczak, a doctor and teacher
who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. The critics were appalled.
Gina MALLET of the Toronto Star said Mr.
JULIANI's performance
sullied Dr. Korczak's memory. Jay
SCOTT of The Globe and Mail,
noting "the dreadfulness" of Mr.
JULIANI's acting, said the production
robbed the dead of their dignity.
From the stage, Mr.
JULIANI challenged the Star's critic to a
public debate on the aesthetics of theatre. He also wrote a letter
to the editor, noting that Holocaust survivors in the audience
had wholeheartedly embraced the production.
Mr. JULIANI wound up in Edmonton, where he continued to condemn
the "exorbitance, elitism and museum theatre" of the establishment.
In 1982, he directed and co-wrote Latitude 55°, a feature film
with just two characters -- a slick woman from the city and a
Polish potato farmer -- set in a snowbound cabin. "It is filled
with a passionate conviction that evaporates in pretentious pronouncements,"
The
Globe's
Carole
CORBEIL wrote, "filled with truthful moments
that evaporate in the desire to use every narcissistic trick
in the book."
In a 1983 book examining the alternative theatre movement in
Canada, author Renate
USMIANI devoted most of a chapter to Mr.
JULIANI, a decision that got her a scathing rebuke from a reviewer
who considered him worthy of little more than a footnote.
"His works are curiosities; at best, they are worthy experiments
in Artaudian theory," Boyd
NEIL wrote in a Globe review. "But
they are neither popular... nor influential."
Mr. JULIANI's years at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
in Vancouver were both productive and successful. Among the many
projects he directed was a three-part adaptation of Margaret
Laurence's
The
Diviners; King Lear, starring John
COLICOS; a
13-part series titled, Disaster! Acts of God or Acts of Man?"
and, famously, Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, with Leonard
GEORGE
portraying a role once assumed on stage by his late father, Chief
Dan GEORGE.
The surprise selection of Mr.
GEORGE was typical
of Mr. JULIANI's often brilliant casting.
Mr. JULIANI directed a 1989 production of The Glass Menagerie
at the Vancouver Playhouse with Jennifer Phipps and Morris Panych.
Globe reviewer Liam
LACEY praised a production that "opens up
the play like an old treasure chest, and lets in some fresh air
without rearranging or disturbing the work's original grandeurs
and caprices."
Four years later, Mr.
JULIANI was directing a production of the
mystery thriller Sleepwalker when actor Peter
HAWORTH took sick
shortly before opening night. The director suddenly found himself
as the male lead. "Not even the most colossal egotist would want
to do this," he said.
Dim Sum Diaries, a series of monologues written by Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG,
received protests when aired by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio in 1991. One episode, entitled The Sequoia, in which the
white vendor of a luxury home launches a tirade against the Hong
Kong immigrant who cuts down two rare and spectacular trees on
the property, was accused of being racist. The playwright's well-intentioned
exploration of stereotyping was charged with fostering those
very prejudices.
After directing Dim Sum Diaries, Mr.
JULIANI urged the playwright
to tackle an issue that was dividing his church. Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG
remembers replying: "You're talking same-sex marriage in the
Anglican church and you want a straight Jewish guy to write this?"
The resulting play, titled Articles of Faith: The Battle of St.
Alban's, was staged at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver
to great acclaim.
The collaborations between young playwright and veteran director
succeeded in achieving Mr.
JULIANI's goal of inspiring dialogue
through theatre.
Mr. JULIANI had a reputation as a demanding taskmaster for novice
and veteran actors alike. Rehearsals were jokingly called "Savage
God Boot Camp."
He maintained a breakneck pace, both in the theatre and in the
boardroom. He was artistic co-director of Opera Breve, a small
company dedicated to nurturing young singers; president of the
Union of British Columbia Performers (Alliance of Canadian Cinema,
Television and Radio Artists); and, a former national president
of the Directors Guild of Canada, among many boards on which
he served.
Feeling fatigued in early August, Mr.
JULIANI was diagnosed with
liver cancer. The end came swiftly. He died on August 21 at Lions
Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.
He leaves his wife of 33 years, Donna
WONG-
JULIANI, and a son,
Alessandro
JULIANI, an actor. He also leaves brothers Richard
and Norman.
(Wit was long a part of the
JULIANI mystique. The family pet,
a canine named Beau Beau, was referred to in the family's paid
obituary notice as a Savage Dog.)
For one who roused such passions, Mr.
JULIANI felt that he led
a conservative life. "I have always been a square," he once said.
A theatrical farewell to Mr.
JULIANI attracted hundreds to St.
Andrew's Wesley Church in Vancouver on Labour Day, a Monday and
traditionally a quiet date on the theatre calendar. Those in
attendance were encouraged to write remembrances on Post-It notes,
which were then stuck to the church's pillars.
The City of Vancouver has declared next March 24, which would
have been Mr.
JULIANI's 64th birthday, to be Savage God Day.
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Nathan Nauson
LEVINNE
By Marsha COLLA and Wilma
FREEDMAN
Wednesday,
May 7, 2003 - Page
A20
Doctor, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, friend.
Born June 30, 1917, in Toronto. Died Feb 1, 2003, in Toronto,
of cancer, aged 85.
Nathan LEVINNE was a gentle giant.
This 6-foot, 4-inch tall, handsome family doctor had retired
from Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital, following a 52-year career
of being devoted to caring for patients and their families with
incredible compassion, sensitivity and a unique sense of humour.
Nathan Nauson
LEVINNE was born on Toronto's Niagara Street. After
graduating from Oakwood Collegiate, he completed his medical
degree at the University of Toronto. (He actually later became
a professor emeritus at this same university.) Upon seeing a
beautiful blonde woman at a fraternity party and mentioning to
a friend, "That's the gal I intend to marry, Evelyn
STEIN and
Nate were wed in Toronto on December 28, 1941.
Immediately after getting married, they left for St. Louis, Missouri,
where he completed his internship.
On returning to Canada, he enlisted in the army, served as a
medical officer (attaining the rank of captain), and was decorated
by both the Dutch and Canadian governments.
After his stint in the army, Dr.
LEVINNE set up his first family-practice
office on Lakeview Ave. in Toronto. He was a very skilled diagnostician
and gave advice with great wisdom and compassion.
In 1966, the first Family Practice Unit was established at Mount
Sinai
Hospital with Dr. Nathan
LEVINNE as its chief. He also
was instrumental in organizing Ambulatory Care Services and was
the director of Occupational Health and Safety.
He was chief of staff and chairman of the Medical Advisory Committee
from 1979 to 1981. He made a tremendous contribution to health
care.
It was on his 80th birthday that he retired from active practise,
always maintaining that it was important to recognize when to
stop. However, he continued to give back to the community.
He participated in a mentoring program for young students who
were interested in pursuing medical careers, helped at the Canadian
National Institute for the Blind by walking with a non-sighted
gentleman once a week, and spent time at The Baycrest Home for
the Aged talking to the lonely elderly who had no families with
whom to visit.
And, being a very spiritual human being, he would enjoy studying
the Bible in his quiet times.
Most importantly, Nathan
LEVINNE was a real family man. A devoted,
loyal and loving life partner to his wife of 61 years, he was
happiest when surrounded by his five grandchildren, for whom
he became a great source of life experience and support. For
his new little great-grand_son, he was able to provide a big cuddly
lap in which to snuggle.
And what an extraordinary father figure he was for me and my
sister. He let us play hairdresser on his thick silvery locks,
taught us how to swallow capsule pills by likening them to toboggans
on the backs of our tongues, and he stayed home with us on Saturday
nights if we didn't have dates -- and that added up to a lot
of Saturday nights!
Nathan LEVINNE was a father, a friend and a hero. He went through
many medical challenges in his life, never allowing anyone to
see or feel his pain, protecting his family right until the end.
Dad always joked and encouraged us to ramble on for hours when
there was a captive audience but we will stop now, so that he
can rest in peace. His memory will beat on in our hearts forever.
Marsha COLLA and Wilma
FREEDMAN are Nathan
LEVINNE's daughters.
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Composer, jazz musician worked with Ellington
By Mark MILLER,
Friday,
October 24, 2003 - Page R11
Toronto -- Ron
COLLIER, a well-respected composer and teacher
in the Canadian jazz community, died in Toronto on Wednesday
of cancer. He was 73.
Mr. COLLIER, who was born in Coleman, Alberta., played trombone
during his teens with the Kitsilano Boys Band in Vancouver then
moved in 1950 to Toronto.
While working in local dance bands and studio orchestras there,
he was involved with Gordon
DELAMONT,
Norman
SYMONDS, Fred
STONE
and others in the late 1950s as a performer and composer in "third-stream"
jazz, an idiom that framed jazz improvisation in such classical
forms as fugue, sonata and concerto.
Mr. COLLIER turned exclusively to composition in 1967, the year
that he led a studio orchestra for the LP Duke Ellington North
of the Border with the noted American pianist as guest soloist.
Mr. COLLIER subsequently collaborated personally with Ellington
on a ballet, The River, in 1970, and a symphonic work, Celebration,
in 1972, although his contributions went largely unacknowledged.
He also wrote for ballet, radio, television and film and completed
arrangements for recordings by Moe Koffman and the Boss Brass
his last major work was a big-band setting of Oscar Peterson's
Canadiana Suit/, premiered in 1997.
Mr. COLLIER, a warm, direct man, taught for many years in Toronto
at Humber College, where his influence was felt by at least two
generations of musicians now active on the Canadian jazz scene.
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COLLINS
-In fond and loving memory of my grand_son
Brent COLLINS
January 20, 1989
Jane DURDLE
August 12, 1989
and John G.
EADIE
April 23, 1990.
Gone but not forgotten.
Dear loved ones:
I believe that God reaches out
in love to each and every one of us.
Heaven is invisible
But it waits nearby.
Almost as close
As a river is to its bank.
Our loved ones abide there in perfect peace
awaiting a reunion
at Journey's end.
look around your garden Lord
they won't be hard to find.
Their faces are so full of love
and hearts that are good and kind
tell them that we love them
and when they turn and smile
Place your arms around them Lord
and hold them for a while.
We talk about them often
I think about them still
they haven't been forgotten Lord
and they never, ever will.
-Forever loved and remembered by Grandma
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Justin
DURDLE and the rest of the members of the family
Doreen TAILOR/TAYLOR
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Wesley "
Wes"
Edward
HALL
In loving memory of Wesley "Wes" Edward
HALL who passed away on
Sunday, October 26, 2003 at the Sudbury Regional Hospital, St.
Joseph's Health Centre at the age of 70 years.
Beloved husband of Lucille
(FORTIER)
HALL predeceased 1995. Loving
father of Wesley (wife Valerie) of Toronto, Michael (wife Colleen) of
Ottawa,
Allison (husband Alvin
LANDRY) of Oshawa, John (wife
Marie-Anne) of Ponty Pool, Sharon (husband Danny
GIRARD) of
Arlington, Texas and Sherri-Lynn (husband Joseph
BORLAND) of Milan,
Mich. Cherished grandfather of Jennifer, Samantha, Jessica, Kaela,
Kaitlyn, Bradley, Rebecca, Nicholas and Ashley. Dear son of Harold
and Florence
HALL, both predeceased. Dear brother of Harold
predeceased (wife Valerie) of Cambridge, Kenneth (wife Eleanor) of
Grimsby,
Bruce of Toronto, Inez (husband Harold
COLLINS predeceased)
of Sarnia and Beverley predeceased (husband David
ARMSTRONG
predeceased). Funeral service was held in the RJ Barnard Chapel,
Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch St. Sudbury on Thursday, October
30, 2003. Cremation in the Parklawn Crematorium.
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COLLINS
-In loving memory of George.
We have this one thought to keep
You are with us still, you do not sleep
We do not think of you as gone
You are with us still, in each new dawn.
In our thoughts daily...
-Love Alison, Marco, Maggie and Hank.
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COLLINS
-In loving memory of a dear husband, George.
I watched you suffer,
Heard you sigh,
And all I could do
Was stand by.
But when the time came,
I suffered too.
You never deserved
What you went through.
God took your hand
We had to part.
He eased your pain
But broke my heart.
Although I smile,
And seem carefree
No one misses you
More than me.
-Always remembered and sadly missed by Rona, James, Chris, Alison, step-grandchildren and grandchildren.
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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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DALGLEISH,
Gordon
John
Peacefully in his son's arms, at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial
Hospital, on March 4, 2003. Dear husband and best friend of Suzanne
(née MORRISON) and devoted father of Cameron and Suzanne Jane.
Beloved brother-in-law of Sheila
COLLINS and dear uncle of Catherine
and Julie CIEPLY.
Best buddy to MacTavish. Gord cherished the
many Friends he made throughout his life. Gord's family deeply
appreciates the care, love and Friendship of cardiologist Dr.
Donald PEAT, Dr. Bruce
MERRICK, Dr. Tom
STANTON and nurses Nancy
DAHMER and Patti
FRANKLIN gave him so generously. For many years
Gord was an enthusiastic member of the Canadian Ski Patrol, Canadian
Ski Instructors Alliance and he was a ski instructor at Mansfield
Skiways. Friends will be received at Saint John's United Church,
262 Randall Street, Oakville, (905) 845-0551, on Saturday, March
8, 2003 at 11 a.m. until the time of the funeral service at 12
p.m. Reception to follow the funeral service. Burial to take
place at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery, Oakville. If desired, remembrances
may be made to the Heart Function Clinic at the Oakville Trafalgar
Memorial Hospital.
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COLLINS,
Betty (née Margaret Elizabeth
MacMINN)
Born in Truro, Nova Scotia on 26 November 1923, died at home
in Victoria on 7 March, 2003 after bravely fighting two strokes.
Beloved of husband Alan, son David (Jacquie), grand_son Nicholas,
brother George
MacMINN
(Louise,) sister Gene
McMORRIS (George,)
and predeceased by her grand_son, Alan. Betty will be greatly
missed by all who knew and loved her. The family would like to
thank Hospice P.R.T., her caregivers and the Home Care Service
of the Vancouver Island Health Authority for their professional
and abundant care. The funeral service will be held at St. Mathias
Church, corner of Richardson and Richmond, in Victoria, on Thursday,
13 March at 2 p.m.
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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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Died
This
Day -- Dorothy
COLLINS, 1994
Thursday, July 24, 2003 - Page R7
Singer and actor born Marjorie
CHANDLER in Windsor, Ontario,
on November 18, 1926; in 1950s, performed on television's Your
Hit Parade; sang trademark Be Happy, Go Lucky for sponsor Lucky
Strike cigarettes; later performed weekly top hits; in the 1960s,
demonstrated flair for comedy in helping set up gags on unwitting
victims for Allen Funt's Candid Camera; married to bandleader/composer
Raymond SCOTT, with whom she ran a record label; starred in original
Broadway cast of Stephen Sondheim's Follies; regarded as one
of finest vocalists of her era; died of heart attack in New York.
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HOPE,
Ann
Leslie (née
McCULLOCH)
In Charlottetown on Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 aged 77 years.
Daughter of Hugh Leslie and Barbara
McCULLOCH of Galt, Ontario.
Ann died peacefully after a brief illness. Predeceased by her
husband Frank. Survived by her three children, Robin (Robert
PATERSON), William (Amanda
PARFITT) and Barclay (Lindsay
COLLINS)
and seven grandchildren.
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COLLINS, Joyce Amanda (formerly
WHITING, née
JOHNSON)
Died October 21, 2003 at St. Joseph's Villa, Dundas in her 83rd
year. She was born on February 1, 1921 in Maidstone, Saskatchewan
to Frank and Amanda
JOHNSON, the youngest of 6 children. She
is predeceased by her brothers Fred and Enos, sisters Ruth, Elma
and Hilda. Joyce is also predeceased by her first husband Frank
WHITING. Survived by her husband William and her sons Robert
WHITING (Lan Wei), Kenneth
WHITING (Jane), Douglas
WHITING (Darlene)
and daughters Margaret (Fraser
FLETCHER,)
Susan
WHITING (Alan
DESCHNER) and step-daughter Patti (Randy
SKINNER.)
Also survived
by 11 grandchildren and a great-grand_son. Special thanks to Bonnie
Bon for her special care and love during the past few years.
Joyce was a graduate from the College of Household Sciences (1941),
University of Saskatchewan and practiced as a hospital dietitian
in Ottawa and Fredericton. Cremation. A Celebration of Joyce's
Life will be held on Saturday, October 25 at Binkley United Church,
1570 Main Street West, Hamilton at 2 o'clock. Private inurnment
White Chapel Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be sent to Joyce Collins Bursary c/o University of Saskatchewan,
Sasktoon S7N 5C9.
catteleatonandchambers.ca
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FOGELL,
David 1923-2003
Born December 22, 1923 in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Died October 27,
2003 at home with his family in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He was predeceased by his parents Melach and Surka, brother,
Ben and sisters Dora and Netty. Dave is mourned by his wife,
Estelle, children, Melanie and her husband Ken
GOLDSTEIN,
Wayne
and Mark. He will be greatly missed by his grandchildren Carie
and her husband Stuart, Daniel, Sarah, Kylie; Sammy, Benji and
their mother Dorothy
ULLMAN as well as great-grand_son, Kade.
He will never be forgotten by his many relatives and Friends.
Dave was an incredibly charismatic and an intensely joyful human
being. He felt deeply and loved unquestioningly. Those who were
fortunate enough to be part of his life will be forever enriched
by having known him. Dave approached everything in his life with
meticulous attention. He had very humble beginnings yet he always
remembered those who helped him throughout his life. He had a
rare passion for living extending to everything and everyone.
His seemingly endless energy led to numerous accomplishments
and successes. He will be remembered most for his ability to
make those around him feel loved. The funeral is Wednesday, October
29, 2003 at the Beth Israel Cemetary, 1721 Willingdon, Burnaby,
at 12 noon. The pallbearers are Sammy and Benji
FOGELL,
Daniel
GOLDSTEIN, Lanny
GOULD, Howard
DINER and Joel
ALTMAN. Honourary
pallbearers are Zivey
FELDMAN and Harry
GELFANT.
The family would
like to thank caregivers Denyse
TREPANIER and Bryan
WALKER as
well as Dr. Larry
COLLINS and Dr. Victoria
BERNSTEIN. If desired,
donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Fund or the Jewish
Family Service Agency.
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He founded Readers' Club of Canada
Nationalist visionary struggled financially to publish Canadian
writers
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Tuesday, April
22, 2003 - Page R7
In the early 1960s, when writers asked Peter and Carol
MARTIN
where to publish their manuscripts on Canada, the couple realized
how few choices there were. Inspired, the Martins, both voracious
readers, staunch nationalists and founders of the Readers' Club
of Canada, decided to start their own press. In 1965, Peter Martin
Associates came into being. Last month, Peter
MARTIN died of
lung cancer in Ottawa.
In an industry overshadowed by American companies, Peter
MARTIN
Associates was among the first in a wave of independent publishing
houses to open during a time of rising Canadian nationalism.
Launched in a downtown Toronto basement on a shoestring budget,
skeleton staff, idealism and enthusiasm, the company flew by
the seat of its pants. Its employees were often young and new
to the business. But many, including Peter
CARVER,
Michael
SOLOMON
and Valerie
WYATT, went on to become Canadian mainstays.
"It really was a time of Canadian nationalism and those of us
who believed in that cause could see what Peter and Carol were
doing," said Ms.
WYATT, a children's editor who spent four years
with the company in the seventies.
During the 16 years before its sale in 1981, Peter Martin Associates
published approximately 170 works, mainly non-fiction. Its presses
put out I, Nuligak, the autobiography of an Inuit man; The Boyd
Gang by Marjorie
LAMB and Barry
PEARSON;
Trapping is My Life
by John TETSO; and the Handbook of Canadian Film by Eleanor
BEATTIE.
Others who came through their doors included Hugh
HOOD,
Robert
FULFORD, John Robert
COLOMBO, Douglas
FETHERLING and Mary Alice
DOWNIE -- all to have their works published.
Started with small amounts of seed money from private investors
and no government funding, Peter Martin Associates constantly
struggled financially. At one point, for a bit of extra cash,
the office became the designated nuclear-fallout shelter for
the street. Pat
DACEY, once the firm's book designer, lugged
suitcases of books up the street to sell at Britnell's bookstore
with summer employee Bronwyn
DRAINIE.
Working at Peter Martin Associates was always fun, Ms.
WYATT
said. "You went in to work happy and you stayed happy all day."
Still, in a time when Canadian works received little recognition,
she remembers finding it difficult to get media interviews for
the author of Martin-published book.
Yet another title caused trouble with its subject. The company
was putting out a collection of previously published sayings
of former prime minister John
DIEFENBAKER, called I Never Say
Anything Provocative, edited by Margaret
WENTE. Mr.
DIEFENBAKER
heard about the project, called Mr.
MARTIN and threatened to
sue. Mr. MARTIN stood firm.
"He handled it with such élan," said writer Tim
WYNNE-
JONES,
then in the art department. "He was suitably dutiful, but not
in awe. Mr.
DIEFENBAKER was just over the top, as was his wont."
The book went to press and Mr.
DIEFENBAKER did not go to court.
Once listed along with Peter
GZOWSKI in a Maclean's magazine
article on "Young Men to Watch," Mr.
MARTIN was born on April
26, 1934 in Ottawa to a dentist father and a mother who drove
an ambulance in the First World War. The younger of two sons,
he attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario and
the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in philosophy.
During a year in Ottawa as the president of the National Federation
of University Students, Mr.
MARTIN met his first wife
Carol.
They married in 1956 and moved to Toronto. Three years later,
they founded the Readers' Club in Featuring one Canadian book
a month, it distributed works by Mordecai
RICHLER,
Irving
LAYTON,
Morley CALLAGHAN and Brian
MOORE among others, and supplied its
members with coupons. While continuing to run the Readers' Club
(sold in 1978 to Saturday Night Magazine and closed in 1981),
the MARTINs started Peter Martin Associates.
Throughout his career, Mr.
MARTIN spoke out for Canadian publishing.
Alarmed by the sale of Ryerson Press and Gage Educational Press
in 1970 to American firms, he called a meeting of publishers
to discuss problems in the industry. Named the Independent Publishers
Association, the group started in 1971 with 16 members and with
Mr. MARTIN as its first president. In 1976, it was renamed the
Association of Canadian Publishers and continues today with 140
members. As a result of the group's efforts, Canadian publishing
began to receive federal and provincial funding.
In the late 1970s, the
MARTINs went their separate ways. Afterward,
Mr. MARTIN published a small newspaper, The Downtowner, and owned
a cookbook store with his second wife, Maggie
NIEMI. In 1983,
they moved near Sudbury, Ontario, where Mr.
MARTIN did freelance
book and theatre reviews, then moved to Ottawa in 1985 to work
as president for Balmuir Books, publisher of the magazine International
Perspectives and consulting editor for the University of Ottawa
Press.
After a spinal-cord injury in 1997, Mr.
MARTIN was left a quadriplegic,
except for limited use of his left arm. Even so, he remained
active, maintained a heavy e-mail correspondence and spent time
in the park reading while seated in a bright-yellow wheelchair.
Mr. MARTIN leaves his children Pamela, Christopher and Jeremy
and his wife
Maggie
NIEMI. He died on March 15.
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COLQUHOUN,
Stephen
Murray
It is with great sadness that we announce that Stephen Murray
COLQUHOUN died suddenly on Wednesday, June 18th, 2003 in Thunder
Bay, Ontario. Steve will be sorely missed and always cherished
by his wife
Maria (née
SALATINO,) sons Stevie and Jamie, his
sisters Liz (Mike
EVANS), Marg (Brian
WEBSTER), Mary Louise (Paul
RADDEN,) and brother Bob (Judy
COLQUHOUN.) He died too young.
First and foremost in Stevie's life was always Maria and his
boys. He will also be missed by his in-laws Maria and Giacomo
SALATINO, his wife's sisters Rosa (Cheslan
CHOMYCZ,)
Anna
(Chris
KELOS), Gina (Dan
CHAMPAGNE), Aunt and Uncle Jim and Cappy
COLQUHOUN.
A funeral was held at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on Monday,
June 23, 2003. In lieu of flowers, a donation to a trust fund
for his children, c/o any branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia,
account #006870000485 would be greatly appreciated.
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COLTHART,
John
Marshall M.D.
Born March 31, 1916 in Rodney, Ontario, died April 24, 2003 in
Uxbridge, Ontario. Graduate University of Western Ontario Medicine
'42, Major in Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp World War 2 overseas,
family physician in East York 1946-1954, industrial physician
with Bell Canada in Toronto 1954-1965, Western Electric/American
Telephone and Telegraph in Chicago 1965-1969, Xerox in Rochester,
New York 1969-1980 before retiring to Beaverton, Ontario and
Clearwater, Florida. John was predeceased by his parents, James
and Jeanie
(THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON)
COLTHART, and his wife, Shirley Mae
(FITCH)
M.D., University of Western Ontario Medicine '42. Father (father-in-law)
of Jim of San Diego, California, Doctors Carol (Bob)
BROCK in North
York,
Ontario,
Peggy (Bob)
McCALLA in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Alice
(Rick) DANIEL in Calgary, Alberta and Joan (Dave)
ROBERTSON in
Shortsville, New York; grandfather of Christie
COLTHART, Lisa
(Andrew) SCHNEPPENHEIM, John Michael
COLTHART, Mike
BROCK, Heather
(Tom) WHEELER, Catherine
BROCK, Andy
McCALLA, Matt (Jen)
McCALLA,
Jen (Dan) BEDETTE,
James
ROBERTSON, Shirley and Sarah
DANIEL
and great-grandfather of Christie's son, Kyle
BURGESS. He was
loved, respected and treasured by family, Friends and patients
alike. A celebration of his life will be held at Markham Bible
Chapel, 50 Cairns Drive, Markham, Ontario, west of McGowan Road,
south from 16th Avenue, on Monday, May 5, 2003 at 2: 00 p.m. In
remembrance, donations can be made to the Shirley M. Colthart
Fund (c/o John P. Robarts Research Institute, P.O. Box 5015,
London, Ontario N6A 5K8), or the Trans-Canada Trail Foundation
or a charity of your choice. Arrangements by Mangan Funeral Home,
Beaverton, Ontario (705) 426-5777.
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John Marshall
COLTHART
By Alice DANIEL
Tuesday,
July 8, 2003 - Page A18
Doctor, golfer, storyteller, husband, father. Born March 31,
1916, in Rodney, Ontario Died April 24, in Uxbridge, Ontario,
of cancer complications, aged 87.
son of James and Jeanie
(THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON)
COLTHART, both devoted parents,
John always had fond memories of his youth. Growing up in such
a close-knit community also generated great stories involving:
classmates and teachers at Rodney/Dutton schools, baseball, music,
Boy Scouts, learning how to drive on the country roads with his
Dad's model T Ford, and helping his Dad construct homes and other
buildings, including raising a barn in one day. He proceeded
to medical school at the University of Western Ontario in London,
Ontario, where he met Shirley Mae
FITCH.
One can only imagine
the upheaval in their lives during 1942 as both graduated from
University of Western Ontario Medicine, were married April 4,
and interned together at Toronto East General Hospital. In the
same year, John joined the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
and Shirley began working at a major psychiatric hospital in
Toronto.
After some training at Camp Borden and a brief leave with Shirley
in Nova Scotia, John sailed overseas in a convoy. He witnessed
many demoralizing traumas during the Second World War, which
he rarely talked about. However, John recognized and shared how
much the experience furthered his medical education, enhancing
both his surgical skills and bedside manner; he was honoured
to serve as a Major in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corp until
months after the official armistice. As an only child, he appreciated
the intense camaraderie of his army buddies, just as he enjoyed
a broad spectrum of classmates, colleagues and neighbours throughout
his life.
He returned to Shirley in Toronto in 1946 and saw his son Jim,
by then aged 22 months, for the first time. As the family expanded
with the addition of four daughters (Carol, Peggy, Alice and
Joan) to his flock, he established himself as a family physician
in East York, a practice he continued until 1954.
John then served as an industrial physician with Bell Canada
in Toronto 1954-65, Western Electric/American Telephone and Telegraph
in Chicago 1965-69, Xerox in Rochester, New York 1969-80 before
he retired to Beaverton, Ontario, Clearwater, Florida, and Shortsville,
N.Y.
Both John and Shirley enjoyed travelling to visit Friends and
family near and far, or keeping in touch by telephone. They also
remained active supporters of their medical societies, Denison
University, University of Western Ontario and the Robarts Research
Foundation; John established the Shirley M. Colthart fund at
Robarts after Shirley died on September 26, 1995. On his own
the past seven years, John got around still (and not just around
the golf course). His travels took him as far as Australia. His
mobility was particularly remarkable since he started struggling
with cancer in 2000.
It is unfortunate that this physician, who was so respected by
his patients for his healing ways, his clinical acumen, his encouragement
and his generosity, would have had his own cancer diagnosis and
treatment delayed a year by apparent misdiagnosis. He then benefited
from the masterly care of a number of doctors, volunteers, and
many others.
John considered it a miracle that he survived the first year
of treatment. He was relatively well for nearly two years, but
ended up in the Markham-Stouffville Hospital with an infection
in mid-March. He did not have severe acute respiratory syndrome,
but was in quarantine there and moved to the Uxbridge Hospital,
extending his quarantine for a total of 19 days. His 87th birthday
passed with the family unable to see him.
Once the quarantine was lifted, his family members took turns
staying at his side, but it was clear it would be tough for him
to turn things around.
Alice DANIEL is John's daughter.
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