COTE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-08 published
Margaret Velma
ROWE
In loving memory of Margaret Velma
ROWE at Manitoulin Health Centre
in Little Current on Sunday, January 5, 2003 at the age of 85 years.
Predeceased by husband Frank
ROWE (WW2 Oct 27, 1944.)
Loving mother of Kenneth and Dorothy
ROWE,
Joan and Matt
COTE.
Cherished grandmother of Michael and Angela, Kim
HARRIS,
Lori
Robert, Tim and Carol, Dave Brenda. Special great grandmother of
Dylan, twins Brianna and Kierra, Brianna, Alanna, Stephen and Devin.
Will be missed by sisters Mildred
VAREY and Ivy
COWAN and brother
Cliff VAREY, predeceased by Milf and Manely. Aunt of many nieces and
nephews.
Visitation was on Tuesday, January 7, 2003. Funeral Service is at
2: 00 p.m. Wednesday January 8, 2003 both at Island Funeral Home.
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CÔTÉ o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-09-17 published
Nancy Louise
(WEMIGWANS)
SHAWANA
In loving memory of Nancy
SHAWANA,
March 7, 1936 to September 10, 2003.
Nancy SHAWANA, a resident of Wikwemikong, passed away at the
Wikwemikong Nursing Home, on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at the age
of 67 years. She was born in Wikwemikong, daughter of Esther
ANNIMIKWAAN and the late Adolphus
WEMIGWANS (predeceased January
1946). She was a member of the Catholic Church and the Homemaker's.
Nancy had many hobbies and interests including quilting, putting
puzzles together and Bingo. She was an avid outdoorswoman, who
enjoyed playing with the grandchildren, and visiting with family and
Friends. Nancy has left happy memories that will be cherished by
family, Friends and staff and residents at the nursing home where she lived and worked.
Beloved wife of the late Joe Alex
SHAWANA
(September 1999.) Loving
mother of Gordon
WEMIGWANS (wife
Julia,)
Clement
SHAWANA (friend
Irene) of Wikwemikong, Howard (friend Sheila,) James
SHAWANA (wife
Marcella) of Niagara Falls. Her son Justin predeceased her.
Dear grandmother of 13 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.
Predeceased by 2 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Loving sister
of Lawrence (wife
Agatha)
WEMIGWANS,
Beatrice
BONDY (husband David
predeceased,) Rozina
BRASS,
Ronnie (wife
Gail)
ANNIMIKWAAN, Patsy
CÔTÉ (friend Arnold,) sister-in-law Leona
WEMIGWANS and Margaret
SHAWANA (husband Lloyd predeceased.) Predeceased by Francis
WEMIGWANS and Marcella
LAPINSON.
Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called the St.Ignatius Church, Buzwah on Thursday, September
11, 2003. Funeral service was held on Saturday, September 13, 2003
from Holy Cross Mission, Wikwemikong. Father Doug McCarthy
officiated. Interment in Wikwemikong Cemetery.
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COTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-22 published
She danced on tabletops of Ottawa
Former reporter with capital connections hosted parties for the
powerful and waged a spirited campaign to save railway cabooses
By Randy RAY
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, January
22, 2003, Page R5
Most who knew her have a story to tell about Starr
SOLOMON, a
journalist and public-relations practitioner who for years hosted
glamorous parties in Ottawa that attracted a who's who of cabinet
ministers, bureaucrats and media people.
Ms. SOLOMON, the widow of Hy
SOLOMON, former Ottawa bureau chief
for The Financial Post, has died in Toronto. She was 64.
Long-time friend and colleague Walter
GRAY/GREY remembers the time
Ms. SOLOMON convinced former Prime Minister Brian
MULRONEY and
Liberal
Member of Parliament Sheila
COPPS -- for years Mr.
MULRONEY's
nemesis -- to sing together at the National Press Club in Ottawa
in the mid-1980s, following the annual Parliamentary Press Gallery
dinner.
"They sang a duet. The song was You Made Me Love You," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY, a former Globe and Mail bureau chief in Ottawa, who played
the piano while the two politicians crooned in tandem. Ms.
COPPS
is now Canada's heritage minister.
Edna HAMPTON, one of Ms.
SOLOMON's closest Friends, said acquaintances,
colleagues and politicians always looked forward to dinner parties
at the SOLOMON home in Ottawa's trendy Glebe neighbourhood. Trouble
was, you never knew when the meal would be served.
"I always used to eat first because the parties would zip along
and she would let dinner go. You might eat at 8, you might eat
at 11 . . . but you always knew the food would be good," said
Ms. HAMPTON, a retired journalist.
Ms. SOLOMON was born in Ottawa and moved to North Bay, Ontario,
as a child, where she attended elementary and high school. In
the late 1950s, she landed a reporting job with The North Bay
Nugget, where Ms.
HAMPTON was a senior reporter at the time.
Later, The Ottawa Citizen hired her as a reporter and she wrote
under the byline Starr
COTE, the surname of her first husband.
"She was always full of energy and fond of fun assignments,"
recalls Ms.
HAMPTON. "
She would cover anything from a royal tour
to a St. Patrick's Day event up the Ottawa Valley."
Among her plum assignments was the visit to Ottawa by U.S. president
John F. KENNEDY and his wife, Jacqueline. She also wrote restaurant
reviews for The Citizen, where she developed a reputation as
a lively writer who was quick-witted, entertaining and personal.
Ms. SOLOMON often fought it out for the big local stories with
Joyce FAIRBAIRN, a reporter with the now-defunct Ottawa Journal.
Ms. FAIRBAIRN later became a Senator.
Ms. SOLOMON left The Citizen in the mid-1960s and moved to Toronto,
where she worked with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as
a writer/producer. She married Mr.
SOLOMON on January 23, 1966.
The couple lived in Toronto until Mr.
SOLOMON was transferred
to Washington to open a bureau for The Financial Post.
When the
SOLOMONs returned to Ottawa, Ms.
SOLOMON and a partner
formed a public-relations firm. She quickly became a fixture
in the city's media and political circles, a move Mr.
GRAY/GREY calls
"networking at its best. She had a wide range of Friends and
she used these connections to her greatest advantage. I wish
I had her Rolodex."
For about 10 years in the 1980s, Ms.
SOLOMON and Mr.
GRAY/GREY worked
at the same public-relations firm, where they teamed up on a
variety of projects.
"There was the day the African chief Butelezi arrived in Ottawa
as a front for a group of Canadian businesses trying to develop
business relations with South Africa. I was assigned to shepherd
the chief around town," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY. "
Starr was to accompany
his lady, the lovely Princess Irene, whose sole interest was
to shop -- especially at Zellers. As they made their departure
laden down with Zellers bags. I think the princess gave Starr
a tip for her services."
The pair also worked together on an unsuccessful campaign to
stop the Canadian National Railway from eliminating railway cabooses.
"The cabooses disappeared, but to this day, the Save the Caboose
sweatshirt has been the most comfortable sweatshirt in our respective
wardrobes," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY.
Over the years Ms.
SOLOMON volunteered her public-relations skills
for many campaigns. She was a founding member of the Legal Education
and Action Fund, which was established to advance women's equality
rights, and served on the board of directors of the Ottawa Civic
Hospital.
As a couple, the
SOLOMONs were known in Ottawa for throwing glamorous
parties, some planned, some spontaneous, that attracted the leading
cabinet ministers, writers and journalists of the day. Ms.
SOLOMON
entertained and amused guests with her wit and political insights,
while her husband was an engaging conversationalist whose business
and political insights held the attention of politicians and
bureaucrats.
Those who attended their soirees remember Ms.
SOLOMON as a welcoming
hostess and terrific cook, whose specialty was Greek and Mediterranean
dishes. When guests arrived, she was always beautifully dressed
and "the records were on the turntable," recalls Mr.
GRAY/GREY. "
Patsy
Cline was her favourite. But also lots of jazz -- her friend
Brian Browne, Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones." Often guests would
sing and dance around the
SOLOMONs' dining-room table.
"We did have serious discussions on serious subjects, from time
to time," adds Mr.
GRAY/GREY.
Former Ottawa Citizen food editor and restaurant reviewer Kathleen
WALKER remembers Ms.
SOLOMON as "literally . . . the kind of
person who danced on tabletops. She was just wonderful and wild.
We had a ball together. Great sense of humour. A terrific lady."
She will also be remembered as a great friend "who was there
in thick and thin if you had a problem," says Mr.
GRAY/GREY.
After her husband died in 1991, Ms.
SOLOMON moved back to Toronto,
where she did volunteer consulting and public relations work
for various organizations, including Legal Education and Action
Fund and a Greek nursing home. She was also a trustee of the
Hyman SOLOMON
Award for Excellence in Public Policy Journalism,
established to honour her husband's legacy.
Ms. SOLOMON leaves her two sons, Adam and Ben, two grandchildren
and two brothers. A celebration of her life is to be held at
the National Press Club in Ottawa on January 29 at 5: 30 p.m.
Starr SOLOMON, journalist, public-relations specialist; born
Ottawa, February 27, 1938; died Toronto, January 3, 2003.
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CÔTÉ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-11 published
Hockey News co-founder had winning formula
By James CHRISTIE
Friday,▼
April▼ 11, 2003 - Page S10
Toronto -- No one was going to get rich from The Hockey News,
Ken McKENZIE freely admitted. The wealth he shared was in the
information it contained for fans and those in the hockey industry.
McKENZIE who died Wednesday at Trillium Hospital in Mississauga,
was co-founder 1947 -- along with Will
CÔTÉ -- of the publication
that came to be known as hockey's Bible. He was 79.
His▼ son, John
McKENZIE, said Ken died suddenly when he went into
septic shock following surgery for colon cancer.
Ken McKENZIE and
CÔTÉ birthed a magazine that was a landmark
in the Canadian periodicals industry -- a sport publication that
survived when so many failed and folded. It evolved from a house
organ for the National Hockey League --
McKENZIE was originally
an National Hockey League publicist -- into an encyclopedic,
authoritative publication. The content matured from reprints
of stories by hockey beat writers in six National Hockey League
towns to exclusive columns by The Hockey News's own editors and
writers such as Steve
DRYDEN and Bob
McKENZIE (no relation,)
who could challenge the National Hockey League and international
hockey establishment. Ken
McKENZIE was presented with the Elmer
Ferguson Award for his pioneering role on the magazine's 50th
anniversary in 1997 and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
"He loved hockey and sports of all kinds," said John
McKENZIE,
a correspondent with American Broadcasting Company News in New
York. "He had this idea when he was in the Royal Canadian Air
Force. He got up on a table in the mess hall and called his buddies
around and said 'If I started a hockey paper, would you guys
buy it?'
"They all cheered. He started with only $383 and The Hockey News
was born."
Ken McKENZIE cited the figure as precisely $383.81 in a 50th
anniversary story in The Globe and Mail. He was famed for keeping
a close eye on finances down to the penny.
Along▼ with editing associate Charlie
HALPIN,
McKENZIE operated
the paper on a shoestring with a handful of employees. Newspaper
beat writers in each team's city were paid only a few dollars.
"When I paid those guys, it was 10 bucks, later on 50 bucks,
whatever, it was the going rate,"
McKENZIE said. "It was always
cheap. You weren't going to get rich in this business.... I'd
say to a guy, 'You may be big in Calgary or Edmonton or Vancouver,
but if you write for this paper, they'll know you all across
Canada.' A lot of guys liked that."
As the National Hockey League's publicity director from the 1940s
into the late 1960s,
McKENZIE developed press and radio guides
and had access to teams' statistics and mailing lists. He and
CÔTÉ used those to convince almost 4,000 fans to send in $2 each
($3 in the United States) as advance subscription payments to
finance the first issue. The circulation was 20,000 by the end
of its first year.
The▼
Hockey▼
News▼ under
McKENZIE maintained its comfortable relationship
with the National Hockey League.
McKENZIE bought out
COTE's interest
in the mid-1960s, then eventually sold 80 per cent of the magazine
to New York's
WCC
Publishing▼ in 1973 for a reported $4-million
and the balance in the 1980s. The headquarters moved from Montreal
to Toronto and
McKENZIE stayed as publisher intil 1981.
He wanted to continue writing and working, rather than retire,
and after leaving the hockey paper, he and
HALPIN bought into
Ontario▼
Golf▼
News.▼
McKENZIE was still associated with the golf
paper at his death, said Ontario Golf advertising executive Ted
VANCE.
"I know it was first viewed as a house organ, but go through
his stuff in the early years and it wasn't strictly milquetoast,
said DRYDEN,
The▼
Hockey▼
News▼ editor from 1991 to 2002. "He
may have had favourites and protected some people. As National
Hockey League publicist, he could not be a vociferous critic.
But long before the sale of The Hockey News, it was getting an
edge to it. In the end, it was a helluva idea."
Added Bob McKENZIE: "
Whatever▼ anyone says, it's a good legacy
to have started The Hockey News and to see where it's at today."
Parent corporation Tanscontinental Publishing said The Hockey
News has a paid circulation of more than 100,000.
Ken McKENZIE is survived by his wife
Lorraine▼ of Mississauga,
four children -- John
McKENZIE and Jane Mckenzie
KOPEC of New
York, Kim McKENZIE in Oakville, Ontario, and Nancy Mckenzie
PONTURO
in Redding, Connecticut., -- and five grandchildren. His funeral
will be 11 a.m., Monday April 14, at St. Luke's Anglican Church
on Dixie Road, Mississauga.
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COTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-11 published
Hockey News co-founder had winning formula
By James CHRISTIE
Friday,▲
April▲ 11, 2003 - Page S10
Toronto -- No one was going to get rich from The Hockey News,
Ken McKENZIE freely admitted. The wealth he shared was in the
information it contained for fans and those in the hockey industry.
McKENZIE who died Wednesday at Trillium Hospital in Mississauga,
was co-founder 1947 -- along with Will
CÔTÉ -- of the publication
that came to be known as hockey's Bible. He was 79.
His▲ son, John
McKENZIE, said Ken died suddenly when he went into
septic shock following surgery for colon cancer.
Ken McKENZIE and
CÔTÉ birthed a magazine that was a landmark
in the Canadian periodicals industry -- a sport publication that
survived when so many failed and folded. It evolved from a house
organ for the National Hockey League --
McKENZIE was originally
an National Hockey League publicist -- into an encyclopedic,
authoritative publication. The content matured from reprints
of stories by hockey beat writers in six National Hockey League
towns to exclusive columns by The Hockey News's own editors and
writers such as Steve
DRYDEN and Bob
McKENZIE (no relation,)
who could challenge the National Hockey League and international
hockey establishment. Ken
McKENZIE was presented with the Elmer
Ferguson Award for his pioneering role on the magazine's 50th
anniversary in 1997 and inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
"He loved hockey and sports of all kinds," said John
McKENZIE,
a correspondent with American Broadcasting Company News in New
York. "He had this idea when he was in the Royal Canadian Air
Force. He got up on a table in the mess hall and called his buddies
around and said 'If I started a hockey paper, would you guys
buy it?'
"They all cheered. He started with only $383 and The Hockey News
was born."
Ken McKENZIE cited the figure as precisely $383.81 in a 50th
anniversary story in The Globe and Mail. He was famed for keeping
a close eye on finances down to the penny.
Along▲ with editing associate Charlie
HALPIN,
McKENZIE operated
the paper on a shoestring with a handful of employees. Newspaper
beat writers in each team's city were paid only a few dollars.
"When I paid those guys, it was 10 bucks, later on 50 bucks,
whatever, it was the going rate,"
McKENZIE said. "It was always
cheap. You weren't going to get rich in this business.... I'd
say to a guy, 'You may be big in Calgary or Edmonton or Vancouver,
but if you write for this paper, they'll know you all across
Canada.' A lot of guys liked that."
As the National Hockey League's publicity director from the 1940s
into the late 1960s,
McKENZIE developed press and radio guides
and had access to teams' statistics and mailing lists. He and
CÔTÉ used those to convince almost 4,000 fans to send in $2 each
($3 in the United States) as advance subscription payments to
finance the first issue. The circulation was 20,000 by the end
of its first year.
The▲
Hockey▲
News▲ under
McKENZIE maintained its comfortable relationship
with the National Hockey League.
McKENZIE bought out
COTE's interest
in the mid-1960s, then eventually sold 80 per cent of the magazine
to New York's
WCC
Publishing▲ in 1973 for a reported $4-million
and the balance in the 1980s. The headquarters moved from Montreal
to Toronto and
McKENZIE stayed as publisher intil 1981.
He wanted to continue writing and working, rather than retire,
and after leaving the hockey paper, he and
HALPIN bought into
Ontario▲
Golf▲
News.▲
McKENZIE was still associated with the golf
paper at his death, said Ontario Golf advertising executive Ted
VANCE.
"I know it was first viewed as a house organ, but go through
his stuff in the early years and it wasn't strictly milquetoast,
said DRYDEN,
The▲
Hockey▲
News▲ editor from 1991 to 2002. "He
may have had favourites and protected some people. As National
Hockey League publicist, he could not be a vociferous critic.
But long before the sale of The Hockey News, it was getting an
edge to it. In the end, it was a helluva idea."
Added Bob McKENZIE: "
Whatever▲ anyone says, it's a good legacy
to have started The Hockey News and to see where it's at today."
Parent corporation Tanscontinental Publishing said The Hockey
News has a paid circulation of more than 100,000.
Ken McKENZIE is survived by his wife
Lorraine▲ of Mississauga,
four children -- John
McKENZIE and Jane Mckenzie
KOPEC of New
York, Kim McKENZIE in Oakville, Ontario, and Nancy Mckenzie
PONTURO
in Redding, Connecticut., -- and five grandchildren. His funeral
will be 11 a.m., Monday April 14, at St. Luke's Anglican Church
on Dixie Road, Mississauga.
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CÔTÉ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-18 published
Nova Scotia's marathon man
Cape Breton boy was Boston's most surprising victor
By Kevin COX
Wednesday,
June 18, 2003 - Page R5
Halifax -- Johnny
MILES was first the determined champion, then
the gentle grandfather of Canadian distance running.
His first major running prize was a sack of flour in North Sydney,
Nova Scotia, in 1922 -- he finished third in the three-mile race
but was first to sprint by the store. After four years of training
including sprints behind his grocery cart, the humble, unknown
20-year-old Cape Breton delivery boy and Sunday-school teacher
stunned the running world by defeating its best athletes to win
the prestigious Boston Marathon.
It was a win that Mr.
MILES and his father had calmly predicted
to a policeman and a race official the day before. But even Johnny
MILES had his doubts on that chilly April Monday as he pounded
along the 26.2-mile course on his 95-cent shoes from the Co-op
store in his hometown.
At the 22-mile mark, Mr.
MILES was running stride for stride
with leader and Finnish running legend Albin
STENROOS when he
looked over and saw a blank and exhausted expression on his rival's
face.
"I knew right there that I had him and I had to make a move,"
he recalled with the gleam of a fierce competitor in his eye
in an interview 54 years later. "He was rubbing his side and
he had a stitch, so I didn't look back. I speeded up and I think
that took the heart out of him."
He is still widely hailed among running raconteurs as the most
surprising victor in the 107-year history of the event. Mr.
MILES's
time -- then a world marathon record -- was so unbelievable that
race officials measured the Boston course -- and found it 176
yards short of the classic 26-mile, 385-yard distance.
"I don't know what all the fuss is about," he said in an interview
in 1995. "I had a God-given gift and I used it."
Mr. MILES, his father and his mother arrived in Boston by train
a few days before the marathon. The day before the race, father
and son walked the course, got lost and ended up asking a burly
Irish policeman for directions and received some advice that
was not exactly a vote of confidence.
"My son needs to know the route because he's entered in tomorrow's
race." The friendly officer smiled and said, "Tell your son to
just follow the crowd."
On race day, Mr.
MILES wore a red, homemade maple leaf on a white
undershirt. His performance shattered the 1924 record held by
the other race favourite, Clarence
DEMAR, the four-time winner
of the event.
"That boy ran the best marathon since that Indian [Canadian Tom
LONGBOAT] in 1907," a stunned Mr.
DEMAR was reported to have
said.
A year later, he again challenged the gruelling course but suffered
an embarrassing setback when he had to withdraw from the race
with serious burns to his feet. His dad had taken a pair of his
95-cent sneakers and shaved down the soles with a straight razor
so they wouldn't be so heavy. His feet -- tops and bottoms --
had bled.
It was a rare retreat. Mr.
MILES, who trained on rural Cape Breton
roads, dominated Canadian distance running through the late 1920s
and early 1930s. He captured the Boston crown again in 1929 and
won a bronze medal at the British Empire Games in 1931 and also
ran the marathon in the Olympic Games in 1928 and 1932.
Born in Halifax, England, on October 30, 1905, Mr.
MILES moved
with his family to Cape Breton the following year. He worked
as a grocery delivery boy at the time of his big win. But his
first job as a young teen was in the Cape Breton coal mines.
He went to work there to help support his family when his father
went off to fight in the First World War.
Mr. MILES left the mines a few years later and entered his first
contest -- a three-mile race in Sydney, Nova Scotia -- with the
hopes of winning some fishing supplies.
He is revered in his home province of Nova Scotia even though
he moved to Hamilton, Ontario, to train and take a job with International
Harvester in 1927.
After his victories, some parents even named newborn children
after the marathon hero. One of those babies, Johnny Miles
WILLISTON,
went on to become a driving force in establishing the Johnny
Miles Marathon in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia.
The victories on the tracks and roads by a local boy who had
worked as a child coal miner at the age of 11 injected some joy
and hope into Cape Breton's coal-mining towns at a time when
the industry was going through tough times and work underground
was brutish and dangerous.
After he hung up his thin-soled racing shoes in 1932, Mr.
MILES
became an ambassador for fitness and clean living. He became
a manager at International Harvester and worked in many parts
of the world for the company after being told by a company executive
that he could make something of himself if he put the same effort
into his work that he exerted in running.
When running regained popularity in the 1970s, he was startled
to become a celebrity among the new set of competitors who recognized
his accomplishments. While Quebec runner Gérard
CÔTÉ would dominate
the Boston Marathon in the 1940s, winning it four times, Johnny
MILES's time of 2: 25:40 stood as the Canadian record for the
event until Jerome
DRAYTON ran 2: 14:46 in 1977.
He was taken aback in 1967 at being named to the Canadian Sports
Hall of Fame.
"That I should now be in the same illustrious company as the
great stars of hockey, football, track and field, and other Canadian
sports was a bit mind-boggling," he told author Floyd
WILLISTON
in the biography Johnny
MILES: Nova Scotia's Marathon King in
He was also caught off guard by being named to the Order of Canada
in 1983.
"It's not going to change my life -- same hat size and shirt
size," he told the New Glasgow Evening News.
Mr. MILES, who regularly attended races in the Hamilton area
as a spectator in the 1980s, wondered how well he might have
run with the technology offered to runners today.
"I think now I wouldn't eat steak before a race and I'd get these
cushioned shoes and I'd know how to train," he said in an interview
in New Glasgow at the marathon that was created and named after
him in 1975 and still bears his name.
Mr. MILES and his wife
Bess were fixtures at the Johnny Miles
Marathon, which took place this past Sunday shortly after his
death. Runners best remember him for his personal attention,
anecdotes, quiet kindness and his enthusiasm for the sport.
Jerome BRUHM, a long-time Halifax runner and historian, remembered
his first encounter with the running legend at the Johnny Miles
Marathon in 1981.
"He was there and I'm nobody -- I'm just a runner. He came over
and I said it was my first marathon and I was kind of nervous.
He took me aside and talked to me and he said, 'Do you think
you'll win the marathon'? Mr.
BRUHM recalled this week. "I
said, 'No, I'm a slow runner.' So, he said, 'Then go out there
and do that -- finish the race and enjoy it.' He came over to
me after the race and asked me how I did and how I felt. I thought
that was fantastic that he would talk to me before the race and
come over and check on me after the race."
He was a humble, personable man, Mr.
BRUHM said.
"When he was inducted into the Canadian Running Hall of Fame,
I went over to talk to him and he only wanted to talk about other
people, not about what he had done."
Nova Scotia Premier John
HAMM praised Mr.
MILES for bringing
international attention to his home province.
"We will always remember with pride his athletic accomplishments
at the Boston Marathon and numerous other competitions as well
as his success in business and accomplishments in life," the
Premier said Monday.
In 2001, Boston Marathon officials celebrated the 75th anniversary
of his startling 1926 win -- but at the age of 95, Mr.
MILES
said his health prevented him from attending the festivities.
However, he promised to try to attend the 75th anniversary of
his last Boston triumph.
Will CLONEY, long-time Boston Marathon official, had only praise
for Mr. MILES. "
There hasn't been a Johnny
MILES in Boston since
Johnny MILES."
Now there never will be.
Kevin COX is Atlantic correspondent of The Globe and Mail. He
has completed 50 marathons -- including the Johhny Miles Marathon
and the Boston Marathon.
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COTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-12 published
HILLEN,
James▼
The▼ family regrets to announce the death of James
HILLEN, formerly
of Montreal and Ottawa, in Bermuda on June 12, 2003. Born April
20, 1920, Belfast, he died peacefully after a short illness and
was buried on the 17th June, 2003. He is survived by his wife
of 57 years, Margaret
(FINLAYSON)
Bermuda.▼ A sister, Susan (J.
D. McSHANE)
Ottawa.▼
His▼ daughter Susan, (Dr. Simon
COTE) United
Arab Emirates. His son, Douglas (Allison
MAITLAND) Bermuda. His
grandchildren, Georges
COTE, Montreal. Amy
CÔTÉ (Emmanuel
DAVALOS)
Montreal. James, Christian, and Samantha
HILLEN, Bermuda. His
great-grand_son, Loic
DAVALOS,
Montreal.▼
Mr.▼
HILLEN joined the
Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment of Canada in 1936 and served
overseas from 1940-1945. He was captured at Dieppe and was detained
for over two years as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. After his
repatriation to Canada he studied at McGill University, graduating
with a C.A. degree in 1955. He was a life member of both the
Quebec and Ontario Order of Chartered Accountants as well as
the Canadian Institute. He began his career with Cunnard Steamship
Co. and then worked for a group of shipping interests and was
instrumental in their relocation to Bermuda in 1961. In Bermuda
he also worked for the Bermuda Hospitals Board and Ancon. A keen
golfer, he was also a 20 year member of the Lions Club and an
active member of Christ Church, Warwick. He will be sadly missed
by his family and Friends.
Died This Day -- Louis Hémon, 1913
Monday, July 7, 2003 - Page R5
Novelist born in Brest, France, on October 12, 1880; 1911, immigrated
to Montreal; moved to the Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec to work
on backwoods farm; used experience to write Maria Chapdelaine,
a classic account of Quebec habitant life; killed in a railway
accident in Northern Ontario; book published posthumously.
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HILLEN,
James▲
The▲ family regrets to announce the death of James
HILLEN, formerly
of Montreal and Ottawa, in Bermuda on June 12, 2003. Born April
20, 1920, Belfast, he died peacefully after a short illness and
was buried on the 17th June, 2003. He is survived by his wife
of 57 years, Margaret
(FINLAYSON)
Bermuda.▲ A sister, Susan (J.
D. McSHANE)
Ottawa.▲
His▲ daughter Susan, (Dr. Simon
COTE) United
Arab Emirates. His son, Douglas (Allison
MAITLAND) Bermuda. His
grandchildren, Georges
COTE, Montreal. Amy
CÔTÉ (Emmanuel
DAVALOS)
Montreal. James, Christian, and Samantha
HILLEN, Bermuda. His
great-grand_son, Loic
DAVALOS,
Montreal.▲
Mr.▲
HILLEN joined the
Black Watch Royal Highland Regiment of Canada in 1936 and served
overseas from 1940-1945. He was captured at Dieppe and was detained
for over two years as a prisoner-of-war in Germany. After his
repatriation to Canada he studied at McGill University, graduating
with a C.A. degree in 1955. He was a life member of both the
Quebec and Ontario Order of Chartered Accountants as well as
the Canadian Institute. He began his career with Cunnard Steamship
Co. and then worked for a group of shipping interests and was
instrumental in their relocation to Bermuda in 1961. In Bermuda
he also worked for the Bermuda Hospitals Board and Ancon. A keen
golfer, he was also a 20 year member of the Lions Club and an
active member of Christ Church, Warwick. He will be sadly missed
by his family and Friends.
Died This Day -- Louis Hémon, 1913
Monday, July 7, 2003 - Page R5
Novelist born in Brest, France, on October 12, 1880; 1911, immigrated
to Montreal; moved to the Lac-St-Jean region of Quebec to work
on backwoods farm; used experience to write Maria Chapdelaine,
a classic account of Quebec habitant life; killed in a railway
accident in Northern Ontario; book published posthumously.
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COTÉ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-10 published
RAFUSE,
Guy
Albert
Guy ''Ray''
RAFUSE died peacefully at Saint Mary's hospital on
December 8, 2003, after a brief illness, 6 days after his 94th
birthday. Ray was born and spent his early years in Conqueral
Bank, Nova Scotia. At the age of 16, he moved to New York City
and worked at the Bell Labs. During the depression, he returned
to Bridgewater, Nova Scotia where he ran his own Photographic
studio. At the beginning of the war, he moved to Montreal to
work with Northern Electric, where he met Fernande
(COTÉ,) who
was to become his beloved wife, his constant companion, and his
closest friend. He and Fern were married after the war, and enjoyed
over 57 years of happiness together. Together they raised a son,
Robert, to whom they gave all the opportunities they never had.
Ray retired from the Northern in 1970, enjoyed a long and active
retirement, and only recently moved into a retirement home with
Fern. He is survived by his loving wife, his son Robert, and
his daughter-in-law Judy. The family would like to thank the
staff of the Griffith-McConnell Residence, as well as the nurses
and doctors at Saint Mary's who comforted him in his final days.
At Ray's own request, there will be no service of visitation.
For all those who knew Ray, please take time to remember him
as he was: strong, quiet, private, determined; a great father,
and a loving husband.
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COTTIER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-05 published
COTTIER,
Roy
Thomas
At home in London, Ontario, on November 29, 2003, Roy Thomas
COTTIER, aged 82. He is survived by two daughters, Candyce Bebensee
COTTIER and Sherris Cottier
SHANK, one son, Derek Lee
COTTIER,
and five grandchildren. He was the beloved husband of Jean Bebensee
COTTIER, who died December 29, 1998 at the age of 79. Mr.
COTTIER
held senior executive positions with a number of prominent North
American companies, including W.R. Grace and Co., Molson Companies
Limited and Massey-Ferguson Ltd. From 1973 until his retirement
in 1985, Mr.
COTTIER served as a senior executive of Northern
Telecom Limited, now known as Nortel Networks Corp., retiring
as Senior Vice President - Corporate Relations. In that position,
he had global responsibility for the direction of all corporate
and financial communications, investor relations, government
relations and public affairs. He was also a member of the corporation's
executive council, the senior management body which established
corporate policies, objectives and strategies. Upon his retirement,
Mr. COTTIER served as a consultant to the Department of International
Trade of the Government of Canada and director of the International
Trade
Advisory
Committee. Mr.
COTTIER was also a director of
the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the International Business
Council of Canada, the Institute for Political Involvement and
the Ontario Association of Art Galleries, as well as a member
of the advisory boards of the University of Toronto Business
School and the Canadian Music Centre. Mr.
COTTIER was born in
Portsmouth, England, and educated in English private schools.
He joined the army of the United Kingdom in 1939, serving as
a Commando and attaining the rank of Lieutenant. After surviving
four years as a prisoner of war, he was demobilized in 1946 and
immigrated to Canada. Interment will be at Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
London, Ontario; family only. No flowers please, but memorial
contributions to the Parkwood Hospital Foundation for the Jean
Bebensee Cottier and Roy Cottier Award for Rehabilitation Staff
Development are welcomed and encouraged. Contributions may be
forwarded to the Parkwood Hospital Foundation, 801 Commissioners
Road, E., London, Ontario N6C 5J1. For further information concerning
the Foundation or the Award, please contact Michelle
CAMPBELL,
Executive Director of the Foundation, at (519) 685-4030.
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COTTREAU o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-13 published
Weekend plane crashes kill four
Canadian Press, Monday, October 13, 2003 - Page A7
Airplane crashes claimed four lives in Quebec and Ontario over
the weekend, including two people killed yesterday after an ultralight
plane crashed in fog.
The ultralight-crash victims, a man and a woman, were taken to
hospital with serious injuries after the aircraft plunged into
a field yesterday morning in St-Felix-De-Valois, a town 60 kilometres
northeast of Montreal, Quebec provincial police said. The victims
died later in the day.
"There was thick fog," police spokeswoman Manon
GAIGNARD said.
"A witness heard a noise around 10 a.m. but couldn't tell where
the noise came from because of the fog."
The witness called police later in the morning after she saw
the aircraft's wing poking through the fog, Ms.
GAIGNARD said.
The victims' identities were not released.
Investigators will try to discover whether the fog contributed
to the crash, Ms.
GAIGNARD said.
Nearly 23,000 Hydro-Quebec customers lost power on Saturday after
a single-engine Cessna aircraft crashed into a power line in
Repentigny, east of Montreal.
The passenger suffered broken arms and legs when the aircraft
plunged into a ditch next to a highway. The pilot was slightly
injured. The aircraft, on a night training flight, reported a
loss of power before it lost altitude in smog. As of Sunday afternoon,
service had not been restored to about 6,800 Hydro-Quebec customers.
In Ontario, Gerard
RIDDLE, 66, and his wife, Patricia, 61, of
Brantford, Ontario, died Saturday after crashing shortly after
taking off in a single-engine Piper Comanche from a small airport
near the town of Delhi.
About 10 minutes after takeoff, the plane was returning to the
airport, flying low. It made a turn but crashed into a field
short of the runway. The two were the only ones in the plane.
Ontario Provincial Police and an official from the Transportation
Safety Board investigated the crash.
"The aircraft has been examined and we do have the data that
we need," said Transportation Safety Board spokesman John
COTTREAU
on Saturday. He said it is too early to know whether a more detailed
investigation is necessary.
On Thursday, two small airplanes crashed in Toronto. All on board
each aircraft were relatively unscathed. The engine of a Piper
Cherokee 140 sputtered as the pilot flew toward Toronto's City
Centre airport, but the pilot brought the craft down onto the
water. Two hours later, on the city's northern limits, a Cessna
172 crashed shortly after taking off from Buttonvile Airport.
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