COSBY
COSTA
COSTAIN
COSTAKIS
COSTELLO
COSTIGANE
COSBY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-07 published
COSBY--In loving memory of our dear mother and grandmother Phyllis.
We continue to remember all
the memories we made
throughout your special life,
Of the phone ringing intently,
missing your voice say "I
called just to say good day,
How are all of you?" On this
day we would like to return
all those caring calls and ring
this bell. In hope that our
true angel received her well
deserved wings.
--Always remembered: Charlie, Diane, Michael, Matthew and Alicia.
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COSBY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-14 published
COSBY
-In loving memory of a dear wife, mother and grandmother,
Phyllis, who passed away Mother's Day May 12, 2002.
A year has sadly passed
Since you left us
Always remembered for your love, caring and kindness.
Now our Guardian Angel.
--Sadly missed and loved forever by husband Willard, daughter and
family Janis, Don, Brad, Allison and Amanda.
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COSBY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-08-06 published
Margaret "Maggie"
BOND
In Ottawa, Wednesday, July 20, 2003. Maggie
BOND age 41. Beloved wife of Brian
FLEGEL.
Dear daughter of Shirley
BOND and the late Albert
BOND.
Sister of Douglas
BOND
(friend Diane) and Diane (Charles
COSBY.)
Maggie will be fondly remembered by
many nieces and nephews, family and Friends. A service of memory of Maggie
was held in the Chapel of the Kelly Funeral Home, 1255 Walkley Road (Ottawa)
Sunday, August 3rd at 11 am. Kelly Funeral Home (613) 235-6712.
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COSTA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-05 published
COSTA,
(GREGOR)
Val
The beloved wife of Tibor
GREGOR died peacefully on December
3rd, 2003 after a courageous battle with cancer. She will be
fondly remembered by her husband, daughters Tania, Stacy and
her fiancé Nelson
WHITFORD and her family in Australia. She will
be missed by Jan
GREGOR, Anne Gregor
ROSE, Fred and Martha
ROSE
and by her life-long friend Val
THOMAS and her numerous other
Friends. Val was a member of the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club, the
Art Gallery of Ontario, the Royal Ontario Museum and a ballet
enthusiast. A celebration of Val's rich life will be held at
the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. W. (2 stop
lights west of Yonge St.) on Tuesday December 9th at 1: 00 p.m.
with a reception to follow at the Toronto Lawn Tennis Club. In
lieu of flowers, donations to the Princess Margaret Hospital
would be appreciated by the family.
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COSTAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-07 published
COSTAIN,
Robert
Anthony
(Tony)
Passed away peacefully at the William Osler Health Center (Georgetown)
on Thursday, March 6, 2003. Dear husband and best friend of Jan
and much-loved father of Robert (Jennifer), Tom (Amy) and Mark.
Tony was the owner of
RAC
Nutrition and will be greatly missed
by his many Friends and colleagues. He will always be remembered
for his wonderful sense of humour and great storytelling. Friends
will be received at the J.S. Jones and son Funeral Home, 11582
Trafalgar Road, north of Maple Ave., Georgetown 905-877-3631
on Sunday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will be held
in the chapel on Monday Marchg 10th at 11: 0-0 a.m. Cremation
follows. In lieu of flowers, a donations to the Hospital for
Sick Children would be greatly appreciated.
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COSTAKIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-30 published
Diplomat shaped cultural policy
Art-loving ambassador to Moscow and Bucharest also served as
Trudeau's press secretary and as a director of the Canada Council
By Bill GLADSTONE,
Special to The Globe and Mail Tuesday, December 30, 2003 - Page R7
Peter ROBERTS, a former press secretary to Pierre Trudeau who
served as Canada's ambassador to Moscow and Bucharest and as
director of the Canada Council, is being remembered as a major
shaper of Canadian cultural policy and a late representative
of an older generation of broadly based, multitalented diplomats that has all but vanished from the scene.
A native Albertan, Mr.
ROBERTS died in Ottawa on November 21
after a varied career that stretched over four decades and included
stints in Washington, Hong Kong, Saigon and Brussels. He was 76.
As assistant undersecretary of state responsible for cultural
affairs from 1973 to 1979, he helped Ottawa develop protective
policies toward the domestic film and book-publishing industries,
and was instrumental in drafting the government's nationalistic
Bill C-58, which applied tariffs to American magazines sold on
Canadian newsstands. He also helped to establish the National Arts Centre.
"He was a superb civil servant because he had a capacity to listen
to ministers, understand their viewpoints and help them achieve
what they wanted to achieve," said John
ROBERTS (no relation,)
who was Secretary of State when Peter
ROBERTS was undersecretary.
"But at the same time, he had an extraordinary passion for the
arts and for culture. So he did have his own ideas about things
that should be done. He stimulated you to think and to adapt your thinking."
As ambassador to the Soviet Union, Mr.
ROBERTS took a keen interest
in George COSTAKIS, a former junior employee of the Canadian
embassy who had spent a lifetime amassing an outstanding but
illegal collection of modern art, both Russian and international.
Mr. ROBERTS helped arrange a major exhibition of the collection
at the Musée des beaux-arts in Montreal and later wrote a full-length
biography, George Costakis: A Russian Life in Art, published by Carleton University Press in 1994.
Raising Eyebrows, a book of memoirs and character sketches, was
published in 2000. He also wrote a book-length profile of former
Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, whom he met often during
his posting in Bucharest from 1979 to 1983, and who was executed
in 1989. The book, Revenge on Christmas Day: Fact and Fiction in Bucharest, is slated for publication in 2004.
"Peter was a multifaceted person who bridged the cultural world,
the literary world, the academic world and the world of the foreign
service," said Allan
GOTLIEB, a former ambassador to Washington.
"If you go back to the golden age of Canadian diplomacy, you
find examples of these very broadly engaged minds. Peter joined
a little later, in the 1950s, but he still seemed a part of that era."
Peter McLaren
ROBERTS was born in Calgary on July 5, 1927, and
grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta. His father was a locally stationed
federal tax official, his mother a schoolteacher. A brilliant
student, he earned an M.A. in English literature from the University
of Alberta in 1951, as well as a Rhodes scholarship that enabled him to study for three years at Oxford.
Afterward, he went down to London with a group of Friends, including
Mr. GOTLIEB, who convinced him to write the Canadian foreign-service
exam. He did so on a whim -- and passed. He taught English literature
for a year at Bishop's University in Lennoxville, Quebec, and joined the foreign service in 1955.
Initially stationed in Ottawa, Mr.
ROBERTS began studying German
in anticipation of a posting in Bonn or Vienna. "The department
had just then begun to realize that it was an advantage for a
foreign-service officer, and for Canada, if the officer knew
the language of the country where he or she was working," he noted in Raising Eyebrows.
"I hear you're learning German," the personnel manager remarked to him one day.
"Yes."
"You must be interested in languages."
"Yes."
"How'd you like to learn Russian?"
Several months later he travelled by ship and train to Moscow,
where he served as third-in-command of the Canadian embassy from
1955 to 1958. He was posted to Hong Kong and Vietnam in the early
1960s and
to Washington for the rest of that tumultuous decade.
In 1970, the Prime Minister's Office essentially borrowed him
from the Department of External Affairs, as it was then known,
so he could serve as assistant press secretary to Prime Minister
Pierre TRUDEAU.
Returning to Canada after a nine-year absence
that had included a dreary stint working for the North Atlantic
Treaty
Organization in Brussels, Mr.
ROBERTS showed up for his
first day of work -- just as the Front de libération du Québec
hostage crisis was erupting. Marc
LALONDE,
Mr.
TRUDEAU's principal
secretary, asked him to represent him at a strategy-planning meeting with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
"I had been long enough in diplomacy to know that this was a
situation in which one did not speak without instructions," Mr.
ROBERTS would recall. "I had no instructions, and I hadn't the
faintest idea what the prime minister's views were on this abrupt
development. I promised I would listen, make notes, report, and
phone everyone. That I did, but I was glad that I had not ventured
to predict which way
TRUDEAU would jump. It was only a few days
later that the troops were in Montreal, suspects rounded up and
in jail, the War Measures Act proclaimed, and the prime minister
saying to the press, 'Just watch me.' By that time I was veteran and expert."
After that baptism by fire, Mr.
ROBERTS became full press secretary
and met daily with Mr.
TRUDEAU, often advising him on issues
that the Prime Minister may have considered unimportant, and
sometimes having the sobering thrill of hearing his words repeated
verbatim to reporters later in the day. It was Mr.
ROBERTS himself
who announced the Prime Minister's marriage to an "incredulous"
press gallery on March 4, 1971, and the birth of a son on Christmas Day.
External
Affairs reclaimed Mr.
ROBERTS in 1972 and parachuted
him into the cultural division of the Department of the Secretary
of State. The new assistant undersecretary awoke at 4 every morning
and studied for three hours before going to work, but even with
a "marvellous staff" who "filled in for me when I was stupid
or ignorant," he sometimes found the learning curve excessively steep.
"Gradually my diplomatic experience came into play," he would
write. "Diplomacy is partly a matter of faking. If you don't
know the answer, if you don't know who someone is, don't let
on. Smile enigmatically, and change the subject to the situation
in Peru. I did a lot of that at the Secretary of State."
Mr. ROBERTS learned Romanian before becoming that country's ambassador
in 1979, and found that the effort had been worthwhile because
it gave him exceptionally good access to Mr. Ceausescu, who seemed
flattered that a Canadian could speak his language; the leader
would dismiss his retinue of advisers and translators and meet
with Mr. ROBERTS alone to discuss a variety of political issues
ranging from the situation in Poland to the situation in Quebec.
Mr. ROBERTS enjoyed the meetings but understood that he was dealing
with "the most desperate dictator and tyrant in Europe" and one who was becoming increasingly unhinged.
Among the visitors to Bucharest during that time was Allan
GOTLIEB,
by then undersecretary of state for External Affairs, who recalled
being feted with Mr.
ROBERTS by their Romanian hosts at a deluxe
and crowded restaurant, where they washed down wonderful steaks
with equally wonderful wines. The next evening, seeking a place
for dinner, he suggested they return to the same establishment.
"He told me, 'It's not there any more -- it's not real,' " Mr.
GOTLIEB recalled. "He said, 'They opened it just for you.' He
took me back there and it was all boarded up. There wasn't a
soul there. It was like one of those Russian Potemkin villages you hear about."
As Soviet ambassador, Mr.
ROBERTS joined Prime Minister Brian
MULRONEY's entourage for the funeral of general secretary Konstantin
Chernenko in Moscow in 1985. Like most other world leaders present,
Mr. MULRONEY was keenly interested in meeting the incoming general
secretary, Mikhail Gorbachev, and so was "predictably enraged"
when the appointment was abruptly cancelled because an inept
bureaucrat had overfilled Mr. Gorbachev's daybook with appointments.
Persuading Mr.
MULRONEY to be patient, Mr.
ROBERTS quickly convinced
the Soviets to rectify the error, and the meeting occurred in the Kremlin as originally planned.
Six months later, Mr.
MULRONEY expressed his gratitude to Mr.
ROBERTS by summoning him back to Ottawa to head the Canada Council.
Fascinated as always by the Soviets, Mr.
ROBERTS was reluctant to go, but realized he could not refuse.
"He was sad because Gorbachev had just come to power, and things
were just beginning to show signs of change," recalls his wife, Glenna
ROBERTS.
"He left with a great deal of regret, because he was really interested in seeing those changes."
Mr. ROBERTS retired from the Canada Council in 1989 and was an
adjunct research professor of political science at Ottawa's Carleton
University from 1990. He was diagnosed about 10 years ago with
the cancer that increasingly incapacitated him over the past year.
He leaves his second wife Glenna, children Frances and Jeremy
and their families, sister Mary, stepchildren Graham, Brendan and Hannah
REID.
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COSTELLO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-16 published
MURPHY,
C.
Francis, Q.C.
Frank MURPHY died August 13, 2003 at St. Paul's Hospital from
complications following pneumonia. He is survived by his loving
wife, Jean, and his children, Caroline, Elizabeth, Adrienne (Peter
HOLMGREN,)
John
(Leslie
LEE,) Frances and Sarah, and his grandchildren,
Anna HOLMGREN,
Jacqueline
MURPHY and Robert
MURPHY. Frank and
Robert were special companions. Frank is survived as well by
his brothers Bud, Cal and Louis, his sister Josie
BENZ, and many
nephews and nieces. He was predeceased by his parents and his
sisters, Mary
COSTELLO and Pat
MURPHY.
Frank was devoted to his
family and deeply committed to his community. Frank was born
in 1929 in Calgary and lived most of his life in Vancouver. He
loved Vancouver for its beauty and the opportunities it presented.
He graduated from high school at Vancouver College in 1945, and
graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Bachelor
of Laws in 1950. He articled at and then practised with Campney,
Owen, Murphy and Owen from 1951 to 1958. He then joined Farris,
Stultz, Bull and Farris, which evolved into the firm Farris,
Vaughan, Wills and Murphy. He was the managing partner there
from 1978 until his retirement in 1992. He remained as associate
counsel until his death. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in
1984. Frank practised primarily in areas of corporate and commercial
law. He particularly enjoyed his involvement in the Greater Vancouver
Regional District. He sat on many corporate boards, including
British Columbia Gas Inc., Mitsui Company of Canada Ltd., Northwest
Life Assurance Company, Pacific Petroleum Ltd., Westcoast Transmission,
Kelly Douglas, Alberta Distillers, and Loomis (Mayne Nickless).
Frank was on the board of many non-profit organizations, including
the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canadian Red Cross Society, Convent
of the Sacred Heart, Holy Family Hospital and St. Paul's Hospital.
Frank was for many years on the board of the Catholic Children's
Aid Society, serving as president from 1973 until 1980. It was
an association of which he was particularly proud. Frank was
active in the Canadian Bar Association and was president of the
Commercial Law Section for two years. He was heavily involved
in the International Bar Association and from 1972 to 1982 he
was the Canadian representative to its Council. Frank's work
with this organization gave Jean and him great opportunities
to travel. Frank was a student of the world, interested and knowledgeable
about history and world affairs. Each of his children has fond
memories of trips, both at home and abroad, taken with their
father. From 1995 to 2000, Frank served on the International
Joint Commission, a binational Canada-United States organization.
This experience gave him further opportunity to travel, including
to many smaller communities in both the United States and Canada,
which were experiences he enjoyed just as he did his trips to
those destinations that are more traditionally favoured. In keeping
with his great interest in his community, Frank was involved
in politics and government affairs. He was of a liberal mind
and was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada. He participated
at all levels of the political process side by side with Jean
and Friends, more frequently at the federal level and in particular
in the riding of Vancouver-Quadra. Frank's greatest love was
his family. He was a loyal and supportive son, brother, husband,
father and grandfather. Frank's house at Point Roberts, certainly
his favourite place on this earth, is a site of especially treasured
memories. Frank was keenly involved with his children's activities.
He inspired his children and others with his curiosity, his physical
and intellectual energy and his commitment to principle. He lived
life fully and fearlessly. He met his final illnesses and challenges
in the same manner. He died within the rites of his church and
with the love of his family. He is greatly missed. The
MURPHY
family is greatly appreciative of the care and support Frank
and his family received from the staff at the I.C.U., in particular
from his final nurse, David
BOOTH.
The
Mass of Christian Burial
for Frank will take place at 11: 00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 19,
2003 at Sts. Peter and Paul's Church, 1430 West 38th Avenue,
with a reception to follow at noon at Shaughnessy Golf and Country
Club, 4300 Southwest Marine Drive. The interment will follow
the reception. Prayers will take place at Sts. Peter and Paul
on Monday, August 18, 2003 at 7: 00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, please
make donations to the St. Paul's Hospital Foundation at Ste 164,
1081 Burrard Street, Vancouver British Columbia, V6Z 1Y6, Charitable
Registration No. 11925 7939 RR0001.
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COSTELLO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-07 published
COSTELLO, Mary Paula Christine (née
CASTONGUAY)
Born October 15, 1919, died November 6, 2003 at Formosa, Ontario.
Lovingly remembered by her three children Michael
COSTELLO,
Mary
KNOX and her husband Brian, Bob
COSTELLO and his wife
Brenda
sadly missed by her grandchildren Riley and Jessie
KNOX;
Allie,
Darryl and Dru
COSTELLO.
Predeceased by her husband Robert E.
E. COSTELLO and infant son Patrick William Gerard. Visitation
at Cameron Funeral Home, Walkerton, Ontario. Funeral mass 11
am Saturday, November 8, 2003 at Immaculate Conception Church,
Formosa, Ontario. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to
the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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COSTIGANE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-31 published
Henry Roger
JOWETT
Born Melbourne, Australia, on July 2, 1926. Died 10: 15 a.m.,
May 25, 2003. It is with great sadness that his family announces
his passing. Educated at Shaftesbury Grammar School in London,
England, Roger served as an officer with the British Army from
1945 to 1947, until being transferred to British Intelligence.
After living in Egypt, Sweden, Hong Kong and Singapore, he moved
to Canada and joined the Canadian Army where he was stationed
at Camp Borden from 1954 to 1957, and was promoted Captain Staff
Quarter Master. In 1969, Roger became a professor of Photography
and later the Chair of Visual Arts at Sheridan College, Oakville,
until retiring in 1991. A proud and devoted father, brilliant
photographer, and wonderfully eccentric man. Roger was an avid
sailor and sportsman who was still winning on the tennis court
at the age of 73. He will be missed by many of his close Friends
and colleagues, and forever by his beloved children Nicola, Alexander
and Andrew and his sisters Diana and Cynthia. Roger was predeceased
by his brother Anthony. With the help of family and Friends he
was able to spend his last days at home in comfort. Nicola, Alexander
and Andrew would like to express sincere thanks to Dr. Karen
PAPE, Brian
MAGEE Sr., Steve
JOHNSON, Bill
COSTIGANE, Sandy and
John DUNN, Dr. Matthew
DISTEFANO, Gillian, Sylvie and Kate
HAND
and to his caregiver Eric
NOFTLE. In keeping with Roger's spirit
a 'Pimm's Party' will be held to celebrate his life at The Oakville
Club, 56 Water Street, on July 2nd from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. In
lieu of flowers, gifts may be made to a memorial charitable trust
established in his memory to assist palliative care patients
in their wishes to die at home in dignity. Donations can be sent
to 'The Roger Jowett Charitable Trust', 45-1534 Lancaster Drive,
Oakville, On L6H 2Z3. The trust is currently applying for registered
status with the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency.
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