GAGE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-17 published
John BATEMAN
McQUAY
In loving memory of John
BATEMAN
McQUAY,
October 11, 1921 to December 12, 2003.
John Bateman
McQUAY, a resident of Mindemoya, died peacefully on
Friday, December 12, 2003, in Mindemoya Hospital, at the age of 82 years.
He was born in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba,
son of the late
Doctor Russell and Gladys
(SAUNDERS)
McQUAY.
The family moved to
Mindemoya in 1934, where Russell set up a medical practice.
Following his father's footsteps, John graduated as a medical doctor
from the Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University in 1944. He
married Mary
TURNBULL in the same year, and interned in Kingston. In
1947 they moved to Mindemoya, where he joined his father's medical
practice. He quickly became known and loved as "Doctor Jack". After
his father became disabled in 1949, Doctor Jack served as the only
doctor in the area until 1970, when other doctors began to arrive.
He continued faithfully serving the community in full-time practice
until 1991, easing into retirement over the next decade.
Doctor Jack loved his vocation as family practitioner, and was dedicated
to his patients. He worked long hours, making hospital rounds in the
morning, seeing patients in the afternoon and sometimes in the
evening, and calmly handling emergencies at any hour of the day or
night. For many years he held a weekly clinic in West Bay. He often
visited patients in their homes, and in the days before ambulance
service, even brought patients to the hospital himself. He was a
skilled physician who performed many kinds of surgery, but his
greatest enjoyment was delivering babies, and he estimated he
delivered over 2000 babies in his career. He also served as coroner
for Manitoulin and the North Shore for 20 years. In 1991 the College
of Family Physicians of Canada presented him with a Special
Recognition Award for his outstanding service.
Doctor Jack will also be remembered for his dedication to his community.
As Chair of the Board of Central Manitoulin High School, he worked to
establish the Manitoulin Secondary School, serving all of the Island.
As founding member of the Manitoulin Centennial Board, he helped set
up the Manor in Little Current. He served as President of the
Mindemoya Area Chamber of Commerce in the 1960s. He was a founding
member of the Central Manitoulin Lions Club, and later received the
Lions' Melvin Jones Fellow award for dedicated humanitarian services.
He was a modest person, but he greatly appreciated this recognition.
He was also a founding member of the Mindemoya Curling Club. In
1994, the Carnarvon Township named him as Citizen of the Year, and in
September 2003, in ill health, he was particularly pleased when
Central Manitoulin Township presented him with its Senior of the Year
award. He and his wife Mary were members of St. Francis of Assisi
Anglican Church. For relaxation, Jack and Mary very much enjoyed
curling, playing bridge, and golfing. He loved playing the piano,
and his other hobbies included photography, stamp collecting,
gardening, swimming and sailing on Lake Mindemoya, and rug hooking.
Doctor Jack was devoted to his family, who will remember his
encouragement and loving support. Dearly loved and loving husband of
Mary McQUAY (predeceased.) Loved father of Marilyn (husband Martin
CHILTON) of Kingston, Paul (wife
Marion
CARROLL) of Fort McMurray,
Alta, Janice
McQUAY of Mindemoya and Betty
McQUAY of Toronto. Also
survived by Athena
McQUAY of Edmonton. Proud grandfather of Peter
McQUAY, Jane
HOEKSTRA (husband Terry), Stephen
McQUAY and Jim
CHILTON
and great grandchildren Ethan, Sydney and Liam. Dear brother of Mary
Alice THACKER of Ottawa, Ann
GAGE (husband James) of Hartford, Conn.,
Thomas McQUAY, wife
Barbara of Mindemoya. Predeceased by sister
Margaret KYDD and her husband Gordon, and brother-in-law Doug
THACKER.
Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called the St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mindemoya on
Tuesday, December 16. The funeral service will be conducted at the
church on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 2 p.m. with Reverend Canon Bain
Peever officiating. Culgin Funeral Home
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GAGE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-20 published
CRAWFORD,
Margaret (née
FREDERICKSON,) B.A. (Tor.,) M.A. (University
of British Columbia)
died in Victoria, British Columbia on June 17, 2003 at the age
of 78. Long associated in many capacities with the administrative
offices of University of British Columbia. Secretary to Walter
H. GAGE, who was then Dean of administrative and inter-faculty
affairs, 1951-1954; secretary to president, Norman A. M.
MacKENZIE,
1954-1962; briefly a programmer in University extension, programs
for women and assistant in the office of Helen
McCRAE,
Dean of
women, 1964-1975, with special interest in that office's outstanding
contribution to the mature women students who were then arriving
at University of British Columbia in increasing numbers and with
special needs. Margaret completed a M.A. at University of British
Columbia with a research thesis on mature women students in 1976.
Married in 1977 to Frank W.
CRAWFORD and moved to Edmonton where
she continued to be active in women's affairs as a founding member
of the Edmonton Women's Network. The
CRAWFORD's retired to Victoria
in 1982 where Margaret continued her interests in educational
resources for mature students and in support systems for women.
Margaret is survived by her husband, Frank
CRAWFORD; 2 step sons
and 2 step daughters and their families. Private cremation entrusted
to Royal Oak Crematorium. In lieu of flowers, donations, if so
desired, may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society or the charity
of one's choice. Hayward's of Victoria (250) 386-3505
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GAGE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-10 published
GROSSO,
Dr.
Roberto
Born in Rome, Italy on November 11th, 1928. Died on Tuesday,
July 8th, 2003 at home surrounded by loved ones. He is survived
by his loving wife
Caroline (née
PANCARO,) his four daughters,
Cristina GAGE, Francesca
GROSSO, Beth
GROSSO and Sylvia
RENNIE
his three sons-in-law, Brian
GAGE,
Steve
PAIKIN, and Scott
RENNIE,
and his four grandchildren, Alessandra and Robert
GAGE,
Matthew
RENNIE and Giulia
PAIKIN. Dear brother of Maria Grazia Grosso
ROSSI (husband Filippo) of Rome, Italy and Gian Carlo
GROSSO,
predeceased (wife Alessandra of Rome, Italy).
Visitation to be held at the Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home,
233 Larch Street, Sudbury, Sunday, July 13th from 2: 00 to 6:00
p.m. Prayers 3: 00 p.m. Sunday. Funeral Mass to take place at
Christ the King Church, 30 Beech Street, Sudbury on Monday, July
14th at 10: 00 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the ''Dr. Roberto Grosso Memorial
Fund'' for St. Joseph's Villa would be appreciated.
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GAGE 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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GAGNON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-07-02 published
HILLSON
-In loving memory of Maxwell Alexander "Bud" Hillson, who passed away at the
age of 77 years. Husband of the late Katherine "Kay"
(TURINECK,)
July 4, 1999.
You had a smile for everyone
You had a heart of gold
You left the sweetest memories
This world could ever hold
No one knows how much we miss you
No one knows the bitter pain
We have suffered since we lost you
Life has never been the same
Those we love don't go away
They walk beside us every day
Unseen, unheard but always near
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
A father's legacy is not riches
possessions or worldly goods
It's the way he lived,
the lives he touched, the promises he kept
It's the man he was
Your life, Dad was a job well done
and now you have left us to be with Mom.
Loving father of Bernadine, husband Phillip
HARRIS of Ottawa, Maxine,
husband Ronald
ALBERTS of London, Edward of Little Current, Roseanne
of Calgary and Kevin of Little Current. Remembered by brothers
Maxime, wife Shirley, Randolph wife Helen. By sisters Marie, husband
Gene ARMOUR,
Agnes
CARDINAL, Rita
DUNDON, Judith, husband Wifred
GUAY,
Georgina
GAGNON and Dorothy
MASSON.
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GAGNON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-13 published
Gordon Kenneth
FLEMING/FLEMMING
By Jack FORTIN
Thursday,
February 13, 2003, Page A30
Musician, husband, father. Born August 3, 1931, in Winnipeg.
Died August 31, 2002, in Scarborough, Ontario, following a stroke,
aged 71.
Gordie FLEMING/FLEMMING was a remarkable music talent, known internationally
as a master of the accordion, especially in the jazz idiom. He
was a life member of Local 149 of the Toronto Musicians' Association.
In show-business vernacular, Gordie was "born in a trunk." He
began playing accordion when his older brother gave him lessons.
His musical ability was such that he began performing publicly
at the age of five. His schoolteachers often saw him being whisked
away in a taxi to perform at theatres and radio stations in Winnipeg.
By the age of 10, he was a working member of various bands in
that city.
In 1949, Gordie lost his accordion in a fire at a Winnipeg hotel.
With the insurance money, he headed for the bright lights of
Montreal where he soon became an important part of that city's
musical life. His accordion ability was complemented by the fact
that he was also a gifted arranger and composer.
He had a marvellous ability to improvise and could string out
complex bebop lines, leaving his listeners in awe. He often slipped
a jazz phrase into ballads or commercial tunes, confirming that
jazz was indeed his first love.
One of Montreal's busiest musicians, he wrote for local orchestras,
shows, radio and television. He had perfect pitch and often wrote
without reference to a keyboard. He was at home in every type
of music from classics to jazz. For several years, he worked
at the National Film Board as a composer and musician.
In Montreal, Gordie performed with many show business headliners:
there was a wealth of home-grown talent in Montreal, such as
Oscar PETERSON and Maynard
FERGUSON, as well as other jazz musicians
who were beginning to be noticed.
Gordie had said that when when he first heard bebop it was like
entering another world. As his career indicates, he had no trouble
in that world. He worked with many personalities including: Charlie
PARKER, Mel
TORMÉ, Hank
SNOW, Lena
HORNE, Englebert
HUMPERDINCK,
Dennis DAY, Gordon
MacRAE, Cab
CALLOWAY, Nat King
COLE, Cat
STEVENS,
Rich LITTLE, Billy
ECKSTEIN, Pee Wee
HUNT, Arthur
GODFREY and
Buddy DEFRANCO.
He also performed with Tommy
AMBROSE,
Allan
MILLS, Wally
KOSTER,
Tommy HUNTER,
Bert
NIOSI, Wayne and Shuster, Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation jazz shows with Al
BACULIS, and many other Canadian
jazz musicians.
On Montreal's French music scene, Gordie performed on radio and
television with Emile
GENEST, Ti-Jean
CARIGNAN,
André
GAGNON
and Ginette
RENO. He was a featured soloist with the Montreal
Symphony Orchestra on several occasions.
Internationally, Gordie toured France in 1952 and performed with
Edith PIAF and Tino
ROSSI. He had the honour to perform for former
prime minister Pierre Elliot
TRUDEAU at a Commonwealth Conference.
He participated with other top Canadian musicians in a Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation tour to entertain Canadian and the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization troops in Europe in 1952 and 1968.
For me, a memorable experience was playing in a group with Gordie
for several winters in Florida. A popular member of the Panama
City Beach family of musicians, Gordie looked forward to his
winter trek south. Many of the American musicians will miss him,
as will the many snowbirds who looked forward to hearing him
each year.
His extensive repertoire allowed Gordie to author a book called
Music of the World, in which he wrote the music to 280 songs
from more than 30 countries.
Gordie leaves his wife of 47 years, Joanne, and seven children.
Jack FORTIN is Gordie's friend.
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