FINCH
FINDLAY
FINDLEY
FINLAY
FINLAYSON
FINN
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FINCH
-In memory of Pearl L.
FINCH who passed away January 28, 1999.
To our dearest Mother:
It seems like only yesterday that you passed away. We think of you
often, and all the things that you did for us, and your understanding
and humour. Wherever we are, Maw, you are always there watching over
us. You are always in our hearts and memories. You will forever be
our special rose in our flower garden of life. We love you and miss
you so very much. With our love always.
-Cora Belle, Nelda and Roy.
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FINCH
-In loving memory of my dear wife, Maggie who passed away December 10, 1994.
Your last parting wish
We would like to have heard,
And breathed in your ear
Our last parting word.
Only those who have lost
Are able to tell
The pain in the heart
At not saying farewell.
-Sadly missed and always loved by your husband Louis and step-children.
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FINCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
LENT, Maida Mary Freda (née
SCHROEDER) M.A. Queen's University
Suddenly on March 2nd, 2003 at Sunnybrook and Women's College
Health Science Centre in her 90th year. Beloved wife of the late
Elton LENT (1998.) Left to mourn are his daughter Ellie
LEGGE
(Randy) and his son Ryck
LENT
(Barbara,) grandchildren Dallas
and Devin LEGGE and Krissa and Tiffany
LENT, great-grand_son McLeod
WILSON, nephews Tony and David (Mary
FINCH.)
Predeceased by her
sister Ilse
FINCH.
Maida taught French and German ay Galt Collegiate,
Scarborough Collegiate and Humberside C.I. in Toronto. According
to her wishes, her body has been donated for research to the
University of Toronto. A Memorial Service will be held at Eglinton
St. George's United Church, 35 Lytton Blvd. (at Duplex) on Thursday,
March 13th at 1 p.m. with a reception afterwards in the Eglinton
Room. If desired, remembrances may be made to the charity of
your choice.
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FINDLAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
FINDLAY,
Hugh
Muir
Passed away in his sleep, on March 5, 2003, in Toronto. Predeceased
by his deeply missed wife Jean. Survived by his daughter Carole
and her husband Robert
NASH, son Bill and his wife
Cathie, and
son Scott. Also survived by grandchildren Tavis, Kalen and Kira
FINDLAY. He was a leader in the field of media advertising at
an early age and was media director of Cockfield, Brown Advertising
Agency in Montreal. He joined Time Canada Ltd. in 1962 as an
advertising sales rep. and progressed rapidly to become advertising
sales director and then president. After a most successful career,
he retired in 1984. Hugh was well known and greatly respected
by those in the advertising industry. Cremation has taken place,
a private family interment will follow. Donations may be made
to the: Canadian National Institute for the Blind Library for
the Blind, 1929 Bayview Avenue, North York, Ontario M4G 3E8,
in memory of Hugh
FINDLAY.
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FINDLEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-20 published
Died
This
Day -- Timothy
FINDLEY, 2002
Friday, June 20, 2003 - Page R11
Actor, author and playwright born in Toronto on October 30, 1930
1953, performed in first Stratford Festival; 1962, took up writing
won Governor-General's Award and every other major Canadian literary
prize; novels include Last of the Crazy People (1967), The Wars
(1977), Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984) and The Piano Man's Daughter
(1995); 1996, awarded France's highest award for artistic achievement
died in France.
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FINLAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-07 published
Jack McCLURE
By Carol BERNEY
Thursday,
March 6, 2003 - Page A22
Painter, tennis player, friend, Perth County Conspirator. Born
July 26, 1936, in Troy, New York Died February 13 in Stratford,
Ontario, of heart failure, aged 66.
Jack McCLURE never made much money. He lived a simple life, say
his Friends, who describe him as a "secular monk." After serving
in the U.S. Coast Guard in Miami in the early 60s, Jack attended
the University of Miami, played tennis, and hung out at The Flick
coffee house, where he met actor/musician Cedric
SMITH. In the
late sixties Jack accompanied Cedric to Canada, and ended up
working in the kitchen of the Black Swan coffee house in Stratford
and living at "Puddlewalk, " the communal farm home of the Perth
County Conspiracy, a swirling, ever-changing family of draft
dodgers, artists, actors, musicians, and local hippies.
Jack was a passionate scholar and creative thinker. Obsessed
with Marshall
McLUHAN,
Jack thought he saw a flaw in
McLUHAN's
theory, and actually went to Toronto to meet
McLUHAN.
Unfortunately,
McLUHAN brushed him off and Jack came home crushed. For a short
while, Jack lived at the (in)famous Rochdale College in Toronto.
Jack said he lived on the 14th floor, and would look down and
see cop cars converging on the building, but the residents had
rigged the elevators to run so slowly that there was always plenty
of time to clean up before the police arrived, and people rarely
got busted. The other people on his floor were very nice, serious
artists and intellectuals, but there were some wilder characters
on some of the lower floors, and riding the elevator could be
quite an adventure.
Back in Stratford, Jack lived in a caboose on a friend's farm
for awhile, and then moved into town to share an apartment with
another friend, Harry
FINLAY.
Jack then worked at the Gentle
Rain natural foods store for, essentially, the rest of his life.
He also sold paintings to his Friends, and gave tennis lessons.
Among his patrons and students was musician Loreena
McKENNITT,
who said Jack was a very good teacher. His paintings were mostly
in a realistically impressionist style, with tiny touches of
absurdity and/or social protest. He would add a discarded Coke
can to an otherwise idyllic river scene, or paint a nuclear-waste
hazard sign on the side of a railroad car or at the back of a
cave. One of his paintings was a portrait of Albert Einstein,
while another, titled Church of the Muses, depicted Einstein
playing the violin, with James Joyce playing piano and Bertrand
Russell reciting.
In the last few years, Jack became close Friends with Michelle
DENNIS, a co-worker at the Gentle Rain. On the back of a painting
Jack gave to Michelle's family he called her two young daughters
his "surrogate grandchildren."
This past summer, Jack was diagnosed with lung cancer. He underwent
chemotherapy and radiation therapy and was in remission when
he suffered a fatal heart attack during a badminton game. Jack
left instructions to be cremated, with no service. However, as
his long-term friend and employer Eric
EBERHART remarked, that
didn't mean we couldn't have a party. So the Sunday after Jack's
death, many of his Friends and co-workers gathered at his house.
We brought food, drink, photographs, and his paintings, and we
had an impromptu showing of Jack's work to pay homage to his
life and his spirit. His paintings are being archived, and in
the spring there may be a showing at one of the Stratford galleries.
In Jack's room, on his work bench, was a quotation from Einstein:
"The years of anxious searching in the dark, the intense longing,
the alternations of confidence and exhaustion and then -- the
final emergence into the light -- only someone who has so struggled
and endured could understand." This describes the Jack we knew
and loved.
Carol BERNEY is a friend of Jack
McCLURE.
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FINLAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-07 published
Canada's
Catholic leader,
CARTER dies at 91
By Michael
VALPY
Religion And
Ethics
Reporter Monday, April 7,
2003 - Page A1
Three weeks ago, John
TURNER met Gerald Emmett
CARTER for their
annual St. Patrick's Day drink. The former prime minister held
the glass for his friend of 50 years while he sipped his Irish
whisky through a straw.
When the retired cardinal archbishop of Toronto died yesterday
morning at the age of 91, a reputation as richly coloured as
the scarlet of his soutane died with him.
Canadian Roman Catholicism will probably never see his like again:
a prince of the church who, while never unmindful of the meek
and the poor, made no bones about being comfortable rubbing elbows
with fellow princes of politics and business.
He was the close friend of prime ministers and premiers. He enjoyed
socializing in the corridors of power with people like Conrad
BLACK,
Hilary and Galen
WESTON and Fredrik
EATON. He displayed
an unabashed fondness for Progressive Conservative Party gatherings.
("I think at one Christmas party, I was the only Liberal there,"
Mr. TURNER said in an interview.)
Yet academics and religious and business leaders also spoke yesterday
of a man with an acute understanding of Canada and its history.
They described an intense, intellectual democrat who believed
he should speak out forcefully on the moral and political issues
of the day and who welcomed debate with those who disagreed with
him. And they talked of a cleric who profoundly understood the
nature of the church and who welcomed ecumenism and Canada's
emerging pluralism.
"He felt the institution of religion should have a public voice
and he was not shy about exercising it," said Michael
HIGGINS,
principal of St. Jerome's University in Waterloo and co-author
of My Father's Business, the 1990 biography of Cardinal
CARTER.
"Whenever he spoke, his voice was strong, clear, public, undiluted
and welcomed by political leaders even when they disagreed with
him. It is an unfortunate circumstance that the marginalization
of religious debate occurred at the same time as he was eclipsed
by a stroke, retirement and age, at a time when his church needed
him. He embodied a certain kind of churchman we probably won't
see again."
Cardinal CARTER suffered a stroke in 1981 and retired in 1990.
Cardinal Aloysius
AMBROZIC, his successor as archbishop of Toronto,
said Cardinal
CARTER "wanted to know what the movers and shakers
were doing."
Cardinal AMBROZIC described him as a man totally engaged with
his church and with his society -- an advocate for the poor,
for immigrants and for the homeless.
"What I admired about him, what I found so instructive about
him, was his sense of responsibility for the church and for society
at large. He was very much a man of Vatican 2 [the church's 1962-65
ecumenical council] and he knew what the Catholic Church was
about."
There was also, said Cardinal
AMBROZIC, "his own personal style.
He had panache."
The priest who rose from a working-class Montreal background
to become the most powerful cleric in Canada met Mr.
TURNER when
the former prime minister was a young lawyer in Montreal doing
legal work for the church. "He was a great human being who understood
the balance between the religious and secular worlds," Mr.
TURNER
said.
"He loved tennis, and he had a wicked serve."
Former prime minister Pierre
TRUDEAU consulted him on the Constitution
in the early 1980s and became a close friend. At the celebration
of Cardinal
CARTER's 75th birthday in 1987, instructions were
given that an entire pew was to be reserved for Mr.
TRUDEAU in
Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral.
Mr. TRUDEAU delayed his arrival until just before the cardinal
entered the church. "All eyes were trained on
TRUDEAU until Cardinal
CARTER arrived," said Dr.
HIGGINS. "It was symbolic of the close
relationship they had."
Toronto's
Anglican
Archbishop, Terence
FINLAY, who first met
Cardinal CARTER when they were both bishops in London, Ontario,
in the 1970s, said the Roman Catholic Church in Canada had lost
a great leader.
"He enabled us to bring our churches closer together. I certainly
counted on him as a friend and colleague. He had an impressive
understanding of Canada's history and political situations. He
knew who we were."
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FINLAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-21 published
BLYTH,
Reverend
Patricia (née
WILLIAMS) M.A. (Oxon)
Born January 10, 1916, Reigate, England; died, after a long and
impressive life - as war bride, army wife, teacher, headmistress,
diplomatic spouse, priest, chaplain, volunteer - in Ottawa on
May 20, 2003, with her children at her side. Dearly beloved wife
of the late David Wilson
BLYTH.
Much loved and loving mother
of Susan PERREN,
Sally
BLYTH (Alan
BULL,) Carol
FINLAY (Bryan,)
Molly BLYTH
(John
MILLOY,) Jane
O'BRIAN (Geoffrey) and Sam (Rosemary
PHELAN.)
Loving grandmother to Max (Sarah,) Bianca and Henry
Emily (Brian) and Megan; Molly (Sam) and Charles; Michael-John,
Bridget, Jeremy and Clare; Patrick and Katie; Frannie and Maddie
great-grandmother to Quinn and Rachel. Mourned by her many Friends
and colleagues, including those at Rideau Place, Island Lodge
and St. Bartholomew's Church. A celebration of her life with
Holy Eucharist will take place at St. Bartholomew's Anglican
Church, 125 MacKay Street, Ottawa, Friday, May 23, 2003 at 11: 00
a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Primate's
World Relief Development Fund, 600 Jarvis Street, Toronto M4Y
2J6 (or through www.pwrdf.org). Funeral arrangements with the
Central Chapel of Hulse, Playfair and McGarry, Ottawa 613-233-1143
Condolences/donations at: mcgarryfamily.ca
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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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FINN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-15 published
CHAMANDY,
Richard 'Dick' - b.1932 d.1973
Early Saturday morning on the 15th of September 1973, Richard
'Dick' CHAMANDY died suddenly while playing tennis in Bennington
Heights. Dick was the only
son of Adele
ABRAHAM and Fred
CHAMANDY,
dear husband of Maree (née
FINN) and father of Ian, David and
Patrick. Dick attended Upper Canada College and the University
of Toronto, eventually graduating with a law degree from Osgoode
Hall.
With law school friend Fred
GRAY/GREY, he founded the law firm
of Chamandy and Gray, where he worked until his death. Dick was
second generation Lebanese and well connected to his community.
He had many close Friends and relatives whom he charmed with
his loyalty, a sharp intellect and a witty sense of humour. He
would have adored the company of his four grandchildren, Aidan,
Olivia, Eric and Leah and daughters-in-law Lori, Marie-Hélène
and Cindy. One of Dick's passions was hockey, in which he participated
as a player and as a tireless coach to his sons at North Toronto.
This was in addition to his part-time job as head armchair coach
of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Dick's flair for the unconventional,
whether it be his Neil Young sideburns, giving motorcycle rides
around Oriole Park to neighborhood kids, or playing the ukulele,
endeared him to all. Has it really been 30 years? Some things
haven't changed in that time, including our fond memories of
him and the Leafs' inability to win without him. If you happened
to have known Dick, please take a moment today to reflect with
a smile on your own fond memories of him.
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Robert Marven
SYER
Born February 19, 1912 at Thamesville, Ontario, died May 15,
2003 at Oakville, Ontario, late of Oakville (Bronte) and lastly
of Burlington Ontario; predeceased by parents Frank Morgan
SYER
(1923) and
Maud
Lillian
SYER (née) (1969,) and by brother Ralph
Evans SYER (1932;) survived by his wife of 63 years, Frances
Teresa SYER (née,) and seven children: Robert Marven (Marg
HEEMSKERK)
of Toronto, David Dirk (Mimi
CHAMPAGNE) of Shelburne Nova Scotia,
Susan
Frances
(Brian
RIKLEY) of Hudson Québec, Michael Stanley
of Oakville, Timothy William (Marilyn
MacGREGOR) of Milton Ontario,
Deborah
Anne
(Barry
BALL) of Brampton Ontario and Dani Elizabeth
(Brian FINNEY) of Orlando Florida; and by fifteen grandchildren:
Sheri Lynne
SYER
(Michael
PINNOCK) of San Jose California, Wendy
Frances SYER
(Kevin
OUGH) of Peterborough Ontario and Julia Helen
SYER
(Pat
PELLEGRINI) of Ajax Ontario; David Dirk
SYER (Doris
HOO) of Whitby Ontario and Judith Gail
SUSLA
(Joe
SUSLA) of Oakville
Brian Joseph Rikley (Eva
GJERSTAD) and Toni Lauren
RIKLEY (Dave
KRINDLE) of Hudson; Cassidy Anne
SYER
(Danny
PIETRONIRO) of Montréal,
Michael Timothy
SYER of Victoria, British Columbia and Robert
Christopher
SYER of London Ontario; Thomas William
SYER and Douglas
Donald SYER of Milton; and Hayley Elizabeth
FINNEY,
Brian
James
FINNEY and Kyle James
FINNEY of Orlando; and by nine great-grandchildren:
Skylar Syer
OUGH of Peterborough and Julian Robert Domenico
PELLEGRINI
of Ajax; Robert Marven
SYER,
James
Michael
SYER and David Dirk
SYER of Whitby and Erin Nicole
SUSLA of Oakville; and Austin
Tyler RIKLEY-
KRINDLE, David Shane
RIKLEY-
KRINDLE and Joseph Cody
RIKLEY-
KRINDLE of Hudson; also, by nephew Richard Frank
SYER
of Lake Placid Florida, grand-nephew Michael Charles
SYER of
Ann
Arbor
Michigan and by brother-in-law Dr. Patrick Gaynor
LYNES
of Brampton and his family. An Anglican graveside service was
held at St. Jude's Cemetery in Oakville on May 22, 2003. Expressions
of respect may be sent to the family at 2455 Milltower Court
Mississauga, Ontario L5N 5Z6 or by eMail to
RMS@The
RMSGroup.net
gifts may be made to a charity of choice. A child is sleeping:
An old man gone. James Joyce
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