FLAHERTY
FLANAGAN
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FLAHERTY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-08 published
Donald Arthur
CASSIDY
In loving memory of Donald Arthur
CASSIDY "
Hop" at Manitoulin Health
Centre in Little Current on Monday January 6, 2003 in his 75th year.
Beloved husband of Lillian (née
FLAHERTY.)
Predeceased by parents
Ernest and Helen
CASSIDY.
Brother of Eunice
SCOBIE of Dundas and
Beatrice WHITE/WHYTE of Columbia, South Carolina. Predeceased by brother
Leonard and sister Madeline. Cherished father of Janice
BOOKER of
Ridgeway, William (Bill) of Port Colborne, Ruth
WILSON (Bruce) of
Little Current, Beverly
CASSIDY (Scott
MURRAY) of Welland and Roger
of Little Current.
Beloved grandfather of Derek, Tammy, Scott, Gregory, Joshua, Sarah,
Valerie, Brett, and Brian. Great grandfather of three. Uncle of
many nieces and nephews. Visitation from 2: 00 until Memorial service
at 3: 30 p.m. Wednesday January 8, 2003 at Grace Bible Church.
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FLAHERTY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-10-22 published
N. Peter SMITH
August 5, 1946 to October 19, 2003.
Pete went to join he heavenly Father on Sunday morning with his wife
and best friend, Esther at his bedside in the Mindemoya Hospital.
Pete had courageously fought a lengthy battle with prostate cancer.
Pete was born in Toronto and grew up in London. He returned to
Toronto to work, and begin his family, but often dreamed of leaving
for a more rural lifestyle. During the years of living in the city,
he spent his weekends and vacations with his Friends and family,
building a cottage on the Pickerel River-Le Grou lake near Arnstein.
He was eventually able to realize his dream of farming and he moved
his family to Powassan. He later enjoyed living and working in Parry
Sound. He was able to realize another dream of entrepreneurship when
he opened his gift shop "The Pickle Jar" in Port Loring. Pete chose
Manitoulin Island as his final earthly home, and felt he had almost
found paradise at his home in Gore Bay overlooking the North Channel.
Pete loved the outdoors and always believed in being a good steward
of the land, attempting to leave the environment in a better
condition. His hobbies included golfing, hunting, fishing, all terrain vehicles,
sledding, boating, and walking, as well as woodworking, collecting
antiques and many more interests. He loved to socialize and enjoyed
spending time in conversation with people.
Pete was the younger
son of Allan and Margaret
SMITH (predeceased) of
Toronto. He will be missed by his brother David (Sylvia) of
Oakville, his children, Brian of Huntsville, Scott (wife Valerie) of
Oshawa, and Wendy (Chris) of Parry Sound. Step son Jamie (Cheryl)
and granddaughter Rebecca
TAILOR/TAYLOR of Guelph. Mother and
father-in-law, Fred and Beulah
RUSSELL of Tehkummah, sisters and
brothers-in-law, Evelyn
RUSSELL
BAEHR of Kitchener, Barbara and Keith
FLAHERTY of Southampton. Nieces and nephews, a great niece and great
nephew, and many Friends.
Pete was active in the Mindemoya Missionary Church and will be missed by his church family.
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FLANAGAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-29 published
Nick McCOMBIE
By Kathleen
FLANAGAN
Friday,
August 29, 2003 - Page A20
Workers' advocate, friend, family man. Born December 18, 1949,
in Winchester, England. Died July 31 in Toronto, of cancer, aged
If you have a friend on whom you think you can rely, you are
a lucky man./ If you have a reason to live on and not to die,
you are a lucky man.
Nick McCOMBIE was a lucky man. Many times in the last four years,
he described himself that way, in a reference to the song, O
Lucky Man, written in 1972 by Alan Price. This might seem an
odd way for a man with terminal cancer to describe himself. But
it made perfect sense: Nick was proud of his accomplishments,
he was happy with his family: wife and soul-mate, Kathy
BRADFORD,
and sons Peter and Liam (aged 23 and 14). He enjoyed playing
and coaching hockey. He knew he was loved by his many Friends.
Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1999, Nick was mindful of all of
life's blessings.
Healthy and vibrant during most of his four-year struggle with
cancer, Nick was known for his sense of humour and his love of
life. Nick had accepted that he was dying, but, at age 53, he
did not go willingly. He would have liked a few more years to
see his sons mature, to rail against the troublesome global situation,
to listen to Bonnie Raitt, and to play guitar from the deck of
his cottage in Boutilier's Point, Nova Scotia.
An advocate for injured workers since the late 1970s, Nick felt
very fortunate with his life's work. His formal education had
been cut short in 1966, when he was expelled from high school
after Grade 10 for having long hair. By today's standards, this
was a shocking abuse of power, effectively impeding his access
to a post-secondary education. As he matured, he learned the
value of strategic compromise, but he never regretted taking
a position.
Before becoming active in workers' rights, Nick had made his
living through a variety of physical labour jobs, such as taxi-driving,
and warehouse and factory work. And he played guitar with The
Churls, a scrappy rock 'n' roll band that played in Yorkville
Village in the late 60s.
There were many things that set Nick apart from others, during
those early days. He read Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, and Voltaire.
He was strongly opposed to recreational drugs. And, despite his
long hair, he had no counter-culture affectations. Nick was decidedly
uncool. In fact, it was a point of pride with him. Another point
of pride was that he took political ideas seriously.
Nick became active in his union which eventually led him to injured
workers' issues. In 1985, he became a member of the Workplace
Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. In 1987, he co-authored
a legal textbook, Workers Compensation in Ontario. In 1991, he
was appointed vice-chair of the Appeals Tribunal, a position
he served until his death. Passionate about the rights of working
people, Nick found the area of workers' compensation intellectually
challenging and personally rewarding, extraordinarily so for
someone who had never completed high school. Two months before
he died, the Ontario Bar Association honoured Nick with the Ron
Ellis Award for Excellence in Workers' Compensation Law -- the
first time the award had been given to a non-lawyer. This recognition
pleased Nick.
Born the only child of a Scottish mother and a Canadian father,
Nick was a consummate Canadian nationalist, whose values were
perfectly aligned with the Canadian ideals of fairness, respect,
and reason. Nick understood that to change the present, it is
necessary to understand the past, concurring with Karl Marx that
"Men make their own history, but they do so under conditions
not of their own choosing." Nick believed that if history is
studied, if the rule of law is respected, and if tyranny is opposed
at every turn, a better world will be created with bread and
roses for all.
Kathleen is a friend of Nick
McCOMBIE.
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FLANAGAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-13 published
FLANAGAN,
Gerald
Joseph
Born March 15, 1925 in Montreal. Died November 11, 2003. Graduated
Loyola High School, Loyola College B.Sc., McGill University Civil
Engineering, Member of Professional Engineers Society. Beloved
son of James B.
FLANAGAN and Rachel
FLANAGAN (née
McMILLAN.)
Brother of Bernard and Catherine all deceased. A fine man with
a generous heart. A great dad and attentive grandfather who will
be sadly missed by the little ones. Well regarded in his professional
career in construction and engineering, working for Johns Manville,
St. Lawrence Systems and C.A.A. In his later years he devoted
his time and energy to his parish and many worthy causes including
Foster Parents Plan, the St. Vincent de Paul Society and the
Weston Food Bank. He is survived by his children Jim, Margot,
Kevin and Bruce and his many grandchildren Michael, Marie-Claire,
Matthew, Malcolm, Maeve, Duncan, Isabel, Jacqueline, Madeleine,
Kate, James and Joseph. Peace be with you Dad. Family and Friends
will be received at the Ward Funeral Home, 2035 Weston Road,
416-241-4618 (north of Lawrence Ave.) Weston on Thursday, November
13 from 7-9 p.m. and
on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral
Mass on Saturday, November 15, 2003 at 11: 30 a.m. at Saint John
the Evangelist Church, 49 George Street in Weston (416-241-0133).
Cremation to follow. In lieu of flowers please feel free to donate
to the above mentioned charitable organizations.
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FLANNERY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-15 published
Laszlo (Leslie)
POKOLY
By James W.
FLANNERY
Thursday,
May 15, 2003 - Page A26
Husband, father, minister. Born April 29, 1908, in Kolozsvar,
Transylvania, Hungary. Died November 4, 2002, in Toronto, of
natural causes, aged 94.
For many years, Laszlo
POKOLY was a well-loved leader of the
Hungarian community of Toronto, particularly for his heroic service
to the thousands of refugees who came to Canada after the 1956
Hungarian Revolution. A minister of the United Church of Canada,
he was also instrumental in creating the Metropolitan Toronto
Interfaith Immigration Committee, an organization known for its
work in building bridges among the various ethnic peoples who
transformed the character of the city during this period. In
recognition of his tireless devotion to helping others, Leslie
POKOLY was made a member of the Order of Saint John.
The life of "Lacibaci," as his relatives called him, mirrored
in many ways the tumultuous and tragic events of the 20th century.
After he graduated from Debrecen University, one of the premier
Protestant academic institutions in Central Europe, he began
his professional career by serving as legal counsel for the Royal
Postal System of Hungary. With the outbreak of the Second World
War, Leslie
POKOLY was conscripted as an officer in the Hungarian
Army. A man who combined tremendous foresight with practical
ingenuity, in the closing days of the war he led his company
of soldiers and their families westward to surrender to the American
rather than the Russian Army. He and his family then followed
the precarious existence of refugees in Germany, but in 1948
his life took a cruel turn when his 34-year-old wife died suddenly
of an aneurysm, leaving two young daughters in his care.
In 1950, the
POKOLYs emigrated to Canada to begin a new life.
Scarcely knowing a word of English, Lacibaci at first found work
shovelling snow and as a house painter in Hamilton. Within six
months, however, he was enrolled as a minister in training at
United College, Winnipeg. Ordained to the ministry in 1954 he
served several Hungarian communities in Manitoba and Saskatchewan
until, just prior to the '56 Revolution, he was called to Toronto.
As the pastor of the Hungarian congregation at the Church of
all Nations, his enlightened spirit reached out to embrace people
of all religious faiths.
Liberal as he was in the exercise of his beliefs, Lacibaci was
a man who lived according to a strict code of honour. By Hungarian
law he was required to bring up his daughters in the Catholic
faith of their mother. In Canada, even after he had become a
United Church minister, he continued to oversee the Catholic
instruction of his daughters. When Enik was about to be married
in the Catholic Church, Lacibaci became greatly annoyed because
the parish priest refused to allow him to play an official role
in the service. "If that is the case," said Lacibaci, "then
my daughter will be married by the Cardinal!" And so she was.
Laszlo POKOLY was a man of the cloth with his feet firmly planted
in the realities of the world. Clear in his principles, his strategies
and his allegiance to the many causes he espoused, his wry sense
of humour made him a delightful companion and eased the pressure
of many difficult situations.
For the last 10 years of his life, Lacibaci lived in a nursing
home, primarily because he wished to be close to his second wife,
Margit, who died of Alzheimer's Disease in 1998. Although he
suffered from a variety of afflictions, no one heard a word of
complaint. "All things considered, it could be worse," was his
mantra.
Devoted to his native Hungary, his adopted country Canada, his
church, his city and his family, now all of us are the worse
for his loss, but strengthened by the example of his dedicated
life.
James is son-in-law to Laszlo
POKOLY.
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FLAVELLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-30 published
Making the world a better place
Toronto textbook publisher was a tireless community activist,
environmentalist and philanthropist
By Randy RAY,
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, October
30, 2003 - Page R9
From the moment he arose in the morning until it was time to
lie down at night, Gage
LOVE's goal as a textbook publisher,
community activist and philanthropist was to make the world a
better place.
"He felt his job on this planet was to make bloody well sure
that the Earth was better when he left than when he found it,"
says son David
LOVE of King City, north of Toronto.
To that end, Mr.
LOVE gave a piece of himself to so many causes
that he was often chided by his wife and accountant for trying
to do too much.
"He was a $100 donor to between 100 and 200 charities every year.
It used to drive mom crazy," says David
LOVE. "
His accountant
used to say, 'You're giving away too much.' To which dad would
reply, 'It's no big deal.' Mr.
LOVE, a successful businessman
and a relentless and passionate philanthropist, with a broad
scope of interests including health care, education and the environment,
died at his home in King City on September 5. He was 85.
Born in Toronto on September 17, 1917, Mr.
LOVE graduated from
the University of Toronto in 1939 with a bachelor's degree in
history. While a student he worked at W.J. Gage Publishing, a
Toronto company operated since 1880 by his maternal grandfather,
Sir William
GAGE, and later run by his father Harry
LOVE.
The
company published a variety of textbooks for schools and was
also involved in the envelope and stationary business.
"He started out as a stock boy and did most jobs, all part of
a plan put in place by his dad to teach his son the ropes," Mr.
LOVE says.
In 1941, he married Clara Elizabeth (Betty)
FLAVELLE, whom he'd
first met when he was four years old and had begun dating in
his teens. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1942 and
served on Canada's West Coast, ending the war as an officer on
a mine sweeper.
After the Second World War he became president of W.J. Gage.
When he took over the company, it was a small shop on Spadina
Avenue in Toronto; during his presidency, the company in the
late 1950s moved to larger and more modern quarters in the Toronto
suburb of Scarborough. By the time Mr.
LOVE had left, it had
become one of Canada's foremost educational book publishers.
With Mr. LOVE at the helm, W.J. Gage, in the mid-1940s, acquired
the rights to Dick and Jane, a popular American educational book
designed to make reading fun for children, and began publishing
it in Canada. But his greatest legacy by far, and one of his
proudest achievements, says David
LOVE, was A Dictionary of Canadianisms
on Historical Principles, which W.J. Gage published as its centennial
project in 1967.
It was the first dictionary to publish distinct Canadian words
such as "inspectioneer," a whaling word, "suicide squad," from
the Canadian Football League, "cradle-hole," a cradle-shaped
hole left in the ground when a large tree is overturned by a
gale and "keg angel," a whisky trader.
"The introduction to the book made the case that Canadians have
quite a vibrant language," said David
LOVE, whose first summer
job was proofreading the dictionary. "The book contained words
from coast to coast that no one else knew about." Faced with
stiff American competition, Mr.
LOVE in 1971 made the controversial
decision to sell 80 per cent of the publishing company's shares,
a move that made him unhappy, says his son.
"He was offered government money, but a handout was out of the
question because as an old-school businessman, he did not believe
the taxpayers of Canada should be made to pay for his company.
He felt it should rise or fall on it own merits as a successful
business." Six years later, a Canadian company bought it back,
much to Mr.
LOVE's delight.
After leaving publishing, Mr.
LOVE turned his attention to philanthropy,
a path also taken by his grandfather, Sir William
GAGE, who had
endowed many hospitals and charities, and for this work was given
a knighthood in 1918.
"Dad used the fruits of what he earned at the publishing company
to give back to the community," says David
LOVE. "He wanted to
make Toronto a better place to live for everybody." Over the
years, he served as chair of the Gage Research Institute, which
researches tuberculosis, the Ina Grafton Gage Home, an old-age
home, and West Park Healthcare Centre, all in Toronto, and was
president of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Toronto. In 1981,
he co-founded the Toronto Metropolitan Community Foundation,
now the Toronto Community Foundation, which connects potential
philanthropists with community needs.
Among his largest donations was $250,000 in June, 2001, to the
West Park Healthcare Centre, which was founded by Sir William
GAGE in 1904. He was also a regular donor to Pollution Probe
and the World Wildlife Fund.
"Seven months after founding Pollution Probe in 1969, we needed
advice and help, so we went looking for it from people in the
establishment," says Monte
HUMMEL, one of the founders of Pollution
Probe and now president of World Wildlife Fund. "Gage was one
of those. He said, 'You [Pollution Probe] have got something
to say and some of us in the business community need a kick in
the pants.' He supported us with money, he sat on our board and
he appealed to his peers to support Pollution Probe. In those
days, that was a really courageous thing for him to do."
Mr. LOVE's sons are carrying on their father's philanthropy and
his work in community and environmental affairs. David
LOVE has
been involved in the not-for-profit sector for 30 years, including
24 years with World Wildlife Fund; Geoff
LOVE is a waste-recycling
expert who played a significant role in developing Ontario's
blue-box recycling program and Peter
LOVE is a green-energy expert.
A fourth son, Gage, is a teacher.
In addition to his wife and sons, Mr.
LOVE leaves grandchildren
Austin, Bryce, Melanie, Jennifer, Adrian, Charmian, Colin, Gage,
Gaelan, Allie, Kate, Jesse, and great-grandchildren Ava, Makayla
and Olivia.
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