DOYLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-02 published
An active life of kindness and empathy
The wife of former Globe and Mail editor and senator always reached
out to others
By Allison
LAWLOR
Wednesday,
April 2, 2003 - Page R7
In Florence
DOYLE,
Friends and family saw someone who throughout
her life actively lived her Catholic faith and embodied the qualities
of kindness and compassion.
"My mom was always very concerned about the people in her immediate
reach," said her daughter Judith
DOYLE. "
Her sense of empathy
and concern for others guided her. People felt safe near her."
Whether it was chauffeuring her family around or taking an elderly
neighbour on an outing to the horse races, Mrs.
DOYLE, wife of
former Globe and Mail editor and senator Richard (Dic)
DOYLE,
was always conscious of others. Mrs.
DOYLE died on March 20 in
a Toronto hospital after suffering a stroke. She was 78.
Known as Flo to family and Friends, Mrs.
DOYLE also earned the
affectionate nickname of "Sarge" from her family for her knack
of keeping watch over their schedules and well-being. At one
point, she was the only family member with a driver's licence
and would faithfully drive her husband to work and their children
to various places. She also kept track of the family's money
matters and would ensure at tax season that everyone filed on
time. Later, she nursed her husband through a bout with throat
cancer and with diabetes.
"Her family was the centrepiece of her life," said Colin
McCULLOUGH,
a former Globe reporter and newspaper publisher.
Sharing in her husband's professional life, Mrs.
DOYLE travelled
with him, attended functions and opened their home to Friends
and colleagues. "I didn't enjoy myself without her," Mr.
DOYLE
said.
Aside from her responsibilities at home and at church, where
she helped with various charitable works, Mrs.
DOYLE enjoyed
a good game of cards. Her bridge club met regularly for 40 years.
One▼ favourite memory was from a trip she and Mr.
DOYLE took to
China in the early 1980s, when she travelled down the Yangtze
River playing cards with their guides.
Florence Barbara
CHANDA was born on November 30, 1924 in Lynedoch,
Ontario, the youngest of six children to farmers Frank and Franis
CHANDA.
Her early ancestors had cleared the land in this southwestern
part of the province using workhorses. They grew turnips and
later tobacco. Mrs.
DOYLE was very close to her mother, who considered
her last child "a gift" because she had her later in life, Judith
DOYLE said.
After her father was killed in a car accident when she was about
eight years old, Florence was put to work in the tobacco fields
and remained on the farm until her older brother took over and
she and her mother moved to nearby Chatham. In town, she attended
a Catholic high school but soon suffered another tragedy when
her mother died. Left without parents, she moved into a local
boarding house run by a generous woman remembered as Mrs. Con
SHAY/SHEA.
After high school, she found work at Libby's Foods and rose to
the rank of office manager. Around that time, she met Dic
DOYLE,
a young reporter at The Chatham Daily News. The couple married
in Chatham in January, 1953.
Not long after they were married, Mrs.
DOYLE moved to Toronto,
where her husband was by that time at The Globe and Mail. Hired
as a copy reader on the news desk in 1951, Mr.
DOYLE became editor
and then the paper's editor-in-chief from 1963 to 1983.
Judith DOYLE remembers her parent's house as an open and welcoming
place. Late at night after Mr.
DOYLE and his colleagues left
The Globe's office, they would often venture over to the house
to talk and unwind from a busy day.
Cameron SMITH, a former editor at The Globe, said of Mrs.
DOYLE:
"She was one of the most welcoming people that I've known. She
made me feel good about whatever I was doing."
Judith will never forget the only Christmas she experienced away
from her mother. It was the early 1980s and Judith was in Nicaragua
to make a documentary. Mrs.
DOYLE managed to track her down and
sent a Christmas cake. When the cake arrived, Judith remembers
the joy of slicing it into slivers for a group of foreign journalists.
Years later when Judith made another documentary about an Ojibway
reserve in Northern Ontario, Mrs.
DOYLE befriended some of the
people from the reserve when they visited Toronto.
Mrs. DOYLE extended her kindness to animals. Working in the garden
of her Toronto home, Mrs.
DOYLE could be heard chattering away
to the birds and animals, Judith said. The family has photographs
of her feeding foxes in the backyard.
"She was the kind of person who had raccoons following her around,
" Judith said.
After Mr. DOYLE was appointed to the Senate in 1985, the couple
moved to Ottawa. Their years in the capital were among their
happiest. They made close Friends and Mrs.
DOYLE enjoyed heading
across the river to Hull with a friend and a few rolls of quarters
to do some gambling. "She had the capacity for developing Friendships
that went on throughout her life," Mr.
DOYLE said. "She was
interested in people."
Florence DOYLE leaves her husband Richard, sister Clara
HILLIARD,
son Sean and daughter Judith.
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DOYLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-10 published
The Globe was his church'
The editor-in-chief was mentor to journalists, defender of social
policies, respected by those criticized in print, and described
as a man with a 'warm human touch'
By Michael
VALPY
Thursday,
April 10, 2003 - Page R11
In his two decades as editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail,
former senator Richard (Dic) James
DOYLE wielded a journalistic
influence in Canadian public life matched only by that of George
BROWN, the newspaper's founder.
He died yesterday in Toronto, one month past his 80th birthday.
His wife of 50 years, Florence, passed away on March 20.
Senator DOYLE -- editor from 1963 to 1983 -- gave the newspaper
a boldly independent voice, loosening up its then lock-step support
for the Progressive Conservative Party.
Under his direction, the newspaper would praise a government
one day and lambaste it the next. He was a passionate defender
of civil liberties, intensely engaged in the development of Canada's
social policies throughout the 1960s and 1970s and as much concerned
with the powerless in Canadian society as the powerful.
"In the time I've been editor," he once said, "we've not supported
any party in office. I think we make whomever we support uncomfortable.
We're the kind of friend you could do without."
He once said he felt more intellectually comfortable with Pierre
TRUDEAU than all the prime ministers he knew, and one of his
favourite editorial cartoons was one he suggested after overhearing
his daughter Judith talking to a friend in her bedroom. It showed
two teenage girls sitting on a bed under a poster of Mr.
TRUDEAU.
One girl says to the other: "He's not 50 like your father's 50."
His views, although stamped on the editorial page, were never
imposed on his reporters. He was concerned with a story's news
value -- not the fallout -- and he expected his staff to act
with the same concern.
He wanted The Globe to be a writer's newspaper and gave his writers
autonomy, even when their views went against his own philosophies.
He had a special place in his heart for columnists who expressed
contradictory opinions.
The young writers invited to attend the buffet lunches he gave
regularly for prime ministers, premiers and cabinet ministers,
bank presidents and giants of the arts were treated to superb
tutorials in the life of their nation that left an indelible
mark on their minds.
Warm, funny, theatrical and gregarious, he was a mentor and model
for many of Canada's best-known journalists -- among them, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Michael
ENRIGHT and Don
NEWMAN,
former Globe and Maclean's managing editor Geoffrey
STEVENS,
his successor as Globe editor Norman
WEBSTER, and former foreign
correspondent, dance critic and now master of the University
of Toronto's Massey College, John
FRASER.
"He was absolutely fearless," Mr.
STEVENS said yesterday. "He
did tough stuff. He did important stuff. And he refused to bow
to pressure from business, from politicians and for that matter
from journalists. I didn't always agree with him, but I always,
always respected what he said."
Mr. FRASER said: "He was an editor who made young journalists'
dreams come true. Like many who came under his spell at The Globe
and Mail, I will go to my grave grateful for the horizons he
opened up to me."
George BAIN, for years The Globe's Ottawa columnist, recalled
the only time Senator
DOYLE actually complained about something
Mr. BAIN had written was when he filed an end-piece to a royal
tour and suggested that the institution wasn't appropriate to
the Canadian circumstances.
"Dic, as a devoted monarchist, was moved to say, 'Did you have
to?' The fact is I felt I did -- and he, despite strong feelings,
didn't say, 'You can't.' "
When
Prime
Minister Brian
MULRONEY appointed him to the Senate
in 1985, he decided to sit as a Conservative out of courtesy.
Mr. MULRONEY described him yesterday as "a marvellous man, rigorous,
thoughtful, with a disciplined approach to life and a very warm
human touch to everything he did.
"When he cut people up, including me, there was no malice to
it, no ad hominem attack, he was never bitter or partisan in
any way.'The full impact of Senator
DOYLE's presence as editor
was probably first felt by The Globe's readers on March 20, 1964,
when a front-page editorial appeared under the heading, Bill
of Wrongs.
It was prompted by legislation proposed by Ontario's Conservative
attorney-general, Frederick
CASS, which empowered the Ontario
Police Commission to summon any person for questioning in secret
deprive him of legal advice; and keep him in prison indefinitely
if he refused to answer.
"For the public good," the editorial stated, the Ontario Government
"proposes to trample upon the Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, the
Canadian Bill of Rights and the Rule of Law.
"Are we in... the Canada of 1964 -- or in the Germany of 1934?
"This legislation is supposed to be directed against organized
crime. In fact, it is directed against every man and woman in
the province."
Soon after, Mr.
CASS resigned.
Senator DOYLE's skills as a writer were particularly evident
on an election night when the paper would present an editorial
on the results between editions. Alastair
LAWRIE, now retired
as an editorial writer, recalled that once the results were known,
Senator DOYLE would stand in silent thought for maybe a minute
and a half and then start to dictate. In a matter of a few minutes,
he would complete a reasoned editorial that scarcely required
the addition of a comma.
Senator DOYLE preferred to work in anonymity, only accepting
honorary degrees and later the seat in the Senate near the end
of his newspaper career.
He sat on no boards, belonged to no important clubs, almost never
appeared on television or radio, didn't sign petitions and seldom
gave speeches. When he met a politician, there were usually witnesses.
He didn't hold a driver's licence and for years arrived at the
old Globe office on King Street by streetcar. When The Globe
moved to its present office on Front Street, Senator
DOYLE took
a taxi.
Retired
Ottawa
Citizen publisher Clark
DAVEY, a former managing
editor of The Globe and a close friend of Senator
DOYLE, suspected
"he didn't trust his Irish temper [to drive] and that was probably
to the common good."
Mr. DAVEY said Senator
DOYLE's low public profile "was part of
his own protection against conflicts on his own part. The Globe
was his church. Journalism was his religion.
"I think that Dic, in the context of his time, probably had a
greater influence on Canadian journalism than any other single
individual," Mr.
DAVEY said.
"It was Dic's execution that made the Report on Business what
it became and is. He was the moving force from within The Globe
often unseen -- in the whole question of conflicts of interest
as they affected journalists.
"He was really the wellspring of that kind of thinking and, of
course, what The Globe did affected very directly what a lot
of other organizations did."
Born in Toronto on March 10, 1923, Dic
DOYLE seemed destined
to get ink on his hands. He said in 1985 that he had decided
on a newspaper career at age 7 and joined the Chatham Daily News
as a sports reporter after he graduated from Chatham Collegiate
Institute. He was promoted to sports editor, city editor and
then news editor.
During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian
Air Force and served with the 115 (Bomber) Squadron (Royal Air
Force) at Ely, near Cambridge in England. He was discharged at
the end of the war with the rank of flying officer.
He was 23 and felt that life was passing him by, so rather than
attending university, as other returning air-force officers were
doing, he returned to the Chatham paper. It was a decision he
said he later regretted.
He came to The Globe in 1951, initially as a copy editor, the
only job available. His first byline appeared in The Globe in
December of 1952 over a story about milk bottles.
In the same year, he also wrote a book called The Royal Story,
a labour of love that proved to be a standard treatment of the
monarchy, and which he was the first to acknowledge, replowed
already well-tilled soil.
(The Royal family had a special status at The Globe under Senator
DOYLE.
One▲ former senior editor, the legendary Martin
LYNCH,
told of being taken off the front-page layout after he replaced
a picture of Princess Margaret, which appeared in early editions,
with a photograph of a prize-winning pig.
When The Globe decided to publish a weekly supplement in 1957,
Senator DOYLE became its first editor, with a staff that had
no experience in the weekly field. The paper was laid out on
the carpet of the managing editor's office after he had gone
home.
It shrunk over the years because, Mr.
DOYLE said, it was ahead
of its time. It died in 1971.
From there, in 1959, he became managing editor of the newspaper
and then editor in 1963. He stepped aside in 1983 to take on
the role of editor emeritus and to write a column -- an experience,
he said two years later, that left him chastened. "The guy [columnist]
out there has his problems."
Former
Globe publisher A. Roy
MEGARRY, said, "In my opinion,
no one -- including the seven publishers that Dic has served
with during his time at the paper -- had made a more positive
and lasting impression on The Globe than he has."
Likely among the greatest tributes paid to him as an editor came
from the Kent Commission established by the federal government
in 1980 to investigate the ownership of Canada's daily newspapers
after the Ottawa Journal and the Winnipeg Tribune folded in virtually
simultaneous moves by the Thomson and Southam chains.
In its report, the commission credited Senator
DOYLE with "adhering
to an ideal of press freedom that often tends to get lost in
the management of newspapers....
"To a great extent, the editor-in-chief of The Globe belongs
to a breed which unfortunately is on its way to extinction.
"The Globe and Mail testifies to the influence that continues
to be exerted by a newspaper with a clearly defined idea of its
role and substantial editorial resources. It is read by almost
three-quarters of the country's most important decision-makers
in all parts of Canada and at all levels of government. More
than 90 per cent of media executives read it regularly and it
tends to set the pace for other news organizations."
The Globe and Mail was bought by Thomson Newspapers in 1980.
Senator DOYLE made no secret of the fact that he would have preferred
having the newspaper bought by R. Howard Webster, who owned it
before it became part of the Financial Post chain. However, in
1985 he said that Thomson was the best alternative among the
others in the field.
When
Prime
Minister
MULRONEY named him to the Senate, he became
the first active Globe journalist to receive such an appointment
since George
BROWN in 1873. As an editor and a columnist, Senator
DOYLE had often preached Senate reform and had opposed patronage
appointments.
His acceptance prompted a flow of letters to the editor that
favoured and disapproved of the appointment in about equal measure.Senator
DOYLE is survived by his children Judith and Sean and his granddaughter
Kaelan MYERSCOUGH.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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DOYLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-12 published
DOYLE, The Honourable Richard James, O.C. Died peacefully on
April 8, 2003 in the Toronto Hospital in his 80th year. Dic
DOYLE
was born on March 10th, 1923 in Toronto and moved with his parents,
Lillian and James
DOYLE, to Chatham, Ontario where he attended
McKeough Public School and the Chatham Collegiate Institute with
his brothers William and Francis and his sister, Ruby Louise
KEIL, all of whom predeceased him. He would want us to mention
that he was the grand_son of Fan Gibson
HILTS who taught him when
he was ten to draw parallel columns on brown wrapping paper and
to write stories to fill them. In January 1940, he joined the
reporting staff of the Chatham Daily News where he remained until
1942 when he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force. After training
in Vancouver and Nova Scotia, he joined 115 Squadron Royal Air
Force Bomber Command. He was engaged in operations in the European
Theatre until the war's end when his crew was assigned to the
movement of Canadian Prisoners of War from liberated camps to
the United Kingdom. He retired from the Royal Canadian Air Force
with the rank of flying officer. In the summer of 1945,
DOYLE
returned to the Chatham Daily News as city editor. Apart from
a one-year stint at a public relations job at the Canada and
Dominion Sugar Company, he remained at the Chatham News until
1951 when he was hired as a copy reader at The Globe and Mail
in Toronto. He married the lovely Florence
CHANDA in Chatham
in 1953, and they moved together to Toronto, taking a small apartment
on Harbord Street where the University of Toronto Robarts Library
now stands. They moved to the Beaches before their children Judith
and Sean arrived in the late 1950's. Subsequent jobs at The Globe
and Mail included Night City Editor, Editor of the newly-launched
Weekly Globe and Mail. When he was called to the Senate of Canada
in 1985, he had been editor of the paper for 20 years - a longer
period than that served by any editor other than the paper's
founder. In the course of that service he received honourary
doctorates from St. Francis Xavier and King's College Universities,
and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. In his years
in the Senate,
DOYLE was active in a number of committees, in
particular the Internal Economy and Legal and Constitutional
Committees. When Prime Minister Brian
MULRONEY asked
DOYLE to
come to Ottawa, he was aware of his record in print as a Senate
critic. He invited the editor to share with others in an on-going
campaign to enhance the effectiveness of the Upper Chamber in
the Parliamentary process. When
DOYLE left the Senate, he recalled
the challenge and insisted the goal was within sight. Richard
DOYLE was the author of two books, The Royal Story and Hurly
Burly: A Time at the Globe. He was named to the Canadian Newspaper
Hall of Fame. Richard
DOYLE is survived by his children Judith
and Sean, and his granddaughter Kaelan
MYERSCOUGH.
After celebrating
their 50th anniversary in January of this year, Dic's beloved
wife Flo passed away suddenly and peacefully on March 20. They
were parted for less than three weeks. Funeral service will be
held at Trinity College Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue, on Wednesday,
April 16 at 2: 30 p.m. A reception will follow. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society, 20 Holly
Street, Suite 101, Toronto M4S 3B1.
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DOYLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-07 published
Bureaucrat 'invaluable' to ministers
Analyst was a key negotiator in talks that led to the formation
of the World Trade Organization in 1995
By Bill GLADSTONE
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, June
7, 2003 - Page F11
Gerry SHANNON could have been a professional hockey player like
his father, but decided instead to play in a much bigger arena.
Mr. SHANNON went on to become a top career public servant who
helped to formulate the federal government's policies on international
trade. At one time, he held the No. 2 posting in the Canadian
embassy in Washington and was a key negotiator in the talks known
as the Uruguay Round, which led to the formation of the World
Trade Organization in 1995.
Mr. SHANNON, who died recently in Vancouver at the age of 67,
is remembered as a fair, tough and passionate trade-policy analyst
who was a trusted adviser to ministers in the successive cabinets
of Pierre TRUDEAU and Brian
MULRONEY in the 1980s.
"Gerry was a larger-than-life character," said Peter
SUTHERLAND,
a former director-general of the World Trade Organization. "He
played a crucial role in the conclusion of the Uruguay Round.
He had a belief in the multilateral system that he combined with
an intense Canadian patriotism. His personality was also a factor
in bringing peaceful resolution to difficult negotiations."
"He was a straightforward guy -- you always knew where you stood
with him," said Marc Lalonde, a former Liberal finance minister.
"He was a man with a very solid judgment. He was a good team
player in that regard, the kind of guy you would want to have
as a senior public servant."
Born in Ottawa in 1935, Mr.
SHANNON received an early lesson
from his father -- hockey player Jerry
SHANNON, who played for
the Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins and other National Hockey
League teams -- on the necessity of appearing strong, no matter
what. Once, after a puck knocked out the boy's two front teeth,
his father shouted, "Get up, son, shake it off!" Young Gerry
did so and stayed in the game.
The same spirit of toughness also probably helped him cope with
the death of his mother when he was 10.
Despite an offer to try out for the Bruins, Mr.
SHANNON took
his father's advice and went to university. Graduating from Carleton
University's school of journalism, he worked as a reporter for
the Sudbury Star for several years before lifting his sights
once again. He wrote a foreign-service exam and was accepted
as a diplomat in 1963. "He realized that being a small-town reporter
was great and he enjoyed it, but he wanted to be involved in
the big world," said his wife, Anne Park
SHANNON.
His first posting was in Washington, where, despite any formal
training as an economist, he handled matters of trade and economic
policy. "He was good at pursuing Canadian interests with the
Americans.
They liked him," Ms. Park
SHANNON said. "He was very
affable and very good at just getting to the essence of things."
He also served as Canada's senior foreign affairs representative
in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, and as ambassador to Korea,
one of Canada's youngest ambassadors at the time.
In the mid-1970s, at the height of the Trudeau era, he became
director of commercial policy for the department of external
affairs. After several years, he returned to Washington as the
embassy's second-in-command at a time when Canada's national
energy program generated heated discussions.
Recalled to Ottawa about 1982, he became the assistant deputy
minister of finance for the Liberals, then deputy minister of
international trade for the Progressive Conservatives. In these
capacities, he advised Mr.
LALONDE and Tory ministers Michael
WILSON and Barbara
McDOUGALL.
"He was a very professional public servant, he had a sense of
professionalism, he had a very good mind, he was tough, and he
understood very well the role of the senior public servant, "
Ms. McDOUGALL said. "He never tried to be the minister and he
was a straight shooter, which many of us appreciated when we
realized that this was the exception and not the rule.
"I worked with a lot of great public servants, but he was certainly
right up at the top," she said.
Anne Marie
DOYLE, who worked extensively with Mr.
SHANNON in
various government departments, recalls that he would go out
on a limb for employees when he thought that they were in the
right, and he possessed "iron in his spine" that made his superiors
respect him as steadfast and trustworthy.
"He had this phenomenal gift -- the ability to take a very complex
problem, see to its core and express it in just two or three
very articulate sentences so that someone like a minister or
prime minister would have found him just invaluable," she said.
"They would have his complex briefing and he would say, 'Well,
Minister, what it boils down to is just this, ' and it would
be just brilliant."
Mr. SHANNON was "one of the giants of Canadian trade policy of
the '80s and '90s," said Bill
DYMOND, executive director of
the Centre for Trade Policy and Law at Carleton University. "The
politicians trusted him because he was blunt, honest and loyal
to the government."
Known for his enthusiasm and for being indefatigable on the job,
Mr. SHANNON performed an astonishing array of official duties
while in Geneva from 1989 to 1995. As Canada's chief negotiator
for the Uruguay Round, he developed a binding dispute-settlement
system that was hailed as a major breakthrough. He was Canada's
first ambassador to the World Trade Organization as he had been
to its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
As an occasional ambassador to the United Nations, he gave to
its committee on disarmament the "
SHANNON mandate," a significant
negotiating protocol still in use today.
Mr. SHANNON was known as a loyal defender of Canadian interests.
Soon after leaving government in 1995 to work as an international
trade policy consultant, he wrote an article for The Globe and
Mail on Canada's seemingly never-ending softwood-lumber dispute
with the United States.
"We always get roughed up in dealing alone with the Americans
on issues they deem to be critical to them," he observed. "They
simply have too many guns and they persevere until they win."
Mr. SHANNON enjoyed hiking, gardening, opera, travelling, dogs,
crossword puzzles and playing hockey.
He and his wife moved from Ottawa to Victoria about a year ago
with the intent of retiring there. He was sick only a few weeks
before he died on April 26.
He leaves his wife, Anne Park
SHANNON, and sons Michael and Steven
from a previous marriage. He also leaves a sister, Carol
SCHWARZ,
of Ottawa.
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DOYLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-14 published
SMITH,
Ian▼
Wilson▼
(October▼ 5, 1935 - June 8, 2003)
Ian died with great dignity, after a valiant struggle with cancer
ending in the caring environment of Lisaard House, Cambridge,
surrounded by loving Friends and family. Deepest thanks to the
staff at Lisaard House and Hopesprings who provided a beacon
of compassion during his struggle. Ian had an extensive career
in marketing after graduating from McGill University. In later
years, he had his own marketing consulting business. We will
remember his great love of the outdoors with a deep affection
for Caledon and the Grand River. His enthusiasm for the people
and things he loved, his wonderful command of the English language
combined with strong opinions and a dry sense of humour made
him a colourful conversationalist. Ian was deeply moved by the
caring Friendship of Beth
SALHANY,
Chaplin▼
Ken▼
BEAL, Joe and
Getta DOYLE, Jim
PUTT, Diane
SIROIS, Desmay
SMITH and many other
special Friends who helped him on his journey. Ian,
son of the
late Sydney
SMITH, will be greatly missed by his daughter Megan
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON (daughter of Daphne
SMITH) son-in-law Mike
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON
and granddaughters Kendra and Kristen. He is survived by his
daughter Jennifer
FOX, granddaughter Chaelene, mother Dorothy,
sister Diane
COVINGTON, niece and nephew Tara and Tom
McMURTY.
Donations can be sent to Lisaard House, Cambridge (519) 650-1121
in Ian's memory.
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DOYLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-17 published
SMITH,
Ian▲
Wilson▲
(October▲ 5, 1935 - June 8, 2003)
Ian died with great dignity, after a valiant struggle with cancer
ending in the caring environment of Lisaard House, Cambridge,
surrounded by loving Friends and family. Deepest thanks to the
staff at Lisaard House and Hopesprings who provided a beacon
of compassion during his struggle. Ian had an extensive career
in marketing after graduating from McGill University. In later
years, he had his own marketing consulting business. We will
remember his great love of the outdoors with a deep affection
for Caledon and the Grand River. His enthusiasm for the people
and things he loved, his wonderful command of the English language
combined with strong opinions and a dry sense of humour made
him a colourful conversationalist. Ian was deeply moved by the
caring Friendship of Beth
SALHANY,
Chaplin▲
Ken▲
BEAL, Joe and
Getta DOYLE, Jim
PUTT, Diane
SIROIS, Desmay
SMITH and many other
special Friends who helped him on his journey. Ian,
son of the
late Sydney
SMITH, will be greatly missed by his daughter Megan
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON (daughter of Daphne
SMITH) son-in-law Mike
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON
and granddaughters Kendra and Kristen. He is survived by his
daughter Jennifer
FOX, granddaughter Chaelene, mother Dorothy,
sister Diane
COVINGTON, niece and nephew Tara and Tom
McMURTRY.
Donations can be sent to Lisaard House, Cambridge (519) 650-1121
in Ian's memory.
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DOYLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-08 published
Man dies of injuries from plunge over Bluffs
Monday, September 8, 2003 - Page A12
Peter CHENEY -- A man whose car plunged more than 20 metres over
Scarborough Bluffs has died of his injuries.
Kelly DOYLE of Scarborough died at St. Michael's Hospital yesterday,
four days after the crash.
Mr. DOYLE, 40, suffered serious chest and leg injuries after
his 1989 Lincoln Town Car went through a guard rail at the foot
of a dead-end street.
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