GAIGNARD 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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GAIL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-08 published
HARLEY,
Constance
Aileen (née
MURRAY)
Born July 21, 1905, in Saint John, New Brunswick, the youngest
of nine children, died peacefully at the age of 97 on May 3,
2003, at Briar Crest Retirement Home in Toronto. Beloved wife
of the late Edward B.
HARLEY of Rothesay, New Brunswick (1894-1987.)
Loving mother of Tim (1929-1992), David and Roger and grandmother
of Sharon, Brenda, Ted, Susan
GAIL, Richard, Robert, Anne, Nicholas
and Rannoch, great-grandmother to 13 children. The family is
grateful to all those at Briar Crest who gave her loving care
over the past seven years. A memorial service will be held at
St. Paul's Anglican Church, Rothesay, New Brunswick, on Monday,
May 26, 2003, at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be
made to the Canadian Red Cross, New Brunswick Branch, or the
charity of your choice.
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GAINEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-23 published
A remarkable life, and a friend to all
By Eric DUHATSCHEK
Monday,
June 23, 2003 - Page S1
Nashville -- Roger
NEILSON's legacy in hockey will endure because
he coached 1,000 games among eight National Hockey League teams,
because he was an innovator and because he served as a mentor
and a tutor to others during a Hall of Fame career.
But the contributions of
NEILSON, who died Saturday in Peterborough,
Ontario, at 69 after a lengthy battle with cancer, contain a
vibrancy matched by few others because of the countless Friendships
he developed during his lifetime.
The proof of that came in June of last year when a dozen of his
closest Friends organized a tribute to
NEILSON. It was held in
Toronto, a day before the National Hockey League awards dinner,
to make it easier for people to attend, which they did. More
than 1,300 people were there.
NEILSON was responsible for helping several players and coaches
get to the National Hockey League, including Bob
GAINEY,
Craig
RAMSAY and Colin
CAMPBELL, players on the Peterborough Petes
junior team that
NEILSON coached in the 1970s.
Among those who benefited from
NEILSON's guidance was Florida
Panthers coach Mike
KEENAN.
Scotty
BAUMAN/BOWMAN, the Hall of Fame coach,
recalled Saturday how
NEILSON talked him into hiring
KEENAN,
who had also coached the Petes, into running the Buffalo Sabres'
minor-league affiliate in Rochester, New York in the early 1980s.
"Roger didn't have any enemies,"
KEENAN said. "He lived his life
in a principled way. He had a great deal of respect for people
and found goodness in all of them. He was very unique and all
of us were blessed to know him.
"I'm saddened by his passing, but to me, this is a life to be
celebrated, a life that was so influential to many of us."
NEILSON had an endless fascination with the rulebook that forced
the powers in whatever league he happened to be coaching in to
revise and clarify each loophole he probed. For a penalty shot,
he would put a defenceman in the crease instead of a goaltender,
instructing the defenceman to rush the shooter as soon as the
latter crossed the blueline, to hurry him into a mistake.
Once, when his team was already two players short with less than
two minutes remaining in the game,
NEILSON kept sending players
over the boards, getting penalties for delaying the game. The
strategy worked, taking time off the clock and upsetting the
other team's flow. At that stage of the game, it didn't matter
how many penalties
NEILSON's team was taking. If a coach tried
that tactic today, the opposition would be awarded a penalty
shot.
NEILSON, whose last job was as an assistant coach with the Ottawa
Senators, coached his 1,000th National Hockey League game on
the final night of the 2001-02 regular season, temporarily filling
in for Senators head coach Jacques
MARTIN.
NEILSON was involved
with a dozen National Hockey League teams in a series of different
capacities, including his eight different turns as a head coach.
In 1982, he took the Vancouver Canucks to the Stanley Cup final,
his one and only appearance in the championship series as a coach.
The Canucks were swept by the New York Islanders.
It was during that playoff run that
NEILSON placed a white towel
on the end of a stick, a mock surrender to the on-ice officials.
In 1999, NEILSON was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form
of bone cancer, and needed a bone marrow transplant. He also
developed skin cancer, the result of a lifetime of being outdoors,
in the sun, usually in raggedy old shorts and T-shirts, with
a well-worn baseball cap perched on his head.
"He put in an incredible, inspiring fight with an insidious disease,"
said KEENAN, who added that
NEILSON kept in constant contact
with his mother Thelma, after she was diagnosed with pancreatic
cancer.
"They found strength in each other. That's the type of individual
Roger was. He'd reach out and touch somebody who needed help.
He was deathly in pain the last few times we spoke, but he would
not let it influence his life."
The high regard for
NEILSON was clear during the tribute for
him last year. Former coach and Hockey Night in Canada analyst
Harry NEALE, who worked with
NEILSON in Vancouver, was the master
of ceremonies. But he was so overcome by emotion so many times
that he let his good friend Roger steal the show.
NEILSON's self-deprecating sense of humor surfaced when he scanned
the crowd and suggested that everyone he'd ever said hello to
in his lifetime had turned up for the event. He quipped that
at $125 a ticket, it must be an National Hockey League production.
What other organization would set the price so outrageously high?
NEILSON's health was deteriorating this spring, but he managed
to accompany the Senators on the road for their second-round
series against the Philadelphia Flyers. The Senators pushed the
eventual Stanley Cup champions, the New Jersey Devils, to seven
games in the Eastern Conference final before being eliminated.
NEILSON's speech to the team before Game 6, with the Senators
trailing 3-1 in the series, was cited by the players and the
coaching staff as the inspiration for their comeback against
the Devils.
"The only sad part is we weren't able to win a Stanley Cup for
him this year," Martin said.
With his health failing,
NEILSON asked
BAUMAN/BOWMAN to be the keynote
speaker at his annual coaching clinic in Windsor earlier this
month.
"I talked to him only a week ago,"
BAUMAN/BOWMAN said. "I said, 'The
coaches in the National Hockey League are getting blamed a lot
for the [defensive] style that teams are playing.' I said, 'You
should blame Roger
NEILSON because he's the one training all
these coaches.'
"Roger was a special person. The people that follow hockey know
what he went through. I truly think he battled it right to the
end and it was hockey that probably kept Roger going." eduhatschek@globeandmail.ca
Remembering Roger
NEILSON
"The coaches in the National Hockey League have been getting
blamed a lot for the style of game the teams are playing. I said,
'You should blame Roger
NEILSON because he's training all these
coaches.' "He battled right to the end. Hockey and life for Roger
were intertwined. That probably kept him going to the end. He
never got married. He was married to hockey."
Scott BAUMAN/BOWMAN
"All the awards he won this year tell you about his hockey career's
innovativeness and what kind of person he is. Some people are
going to remember Roger for nothing to do with hockey just because
of what a humanitarian he is. He put up an unbelievable battle.
From when he found out how sick he was, if had happened to most
people, they would have had their demise many months ago. He
fought hard."
Jim GREGORY
"I know I haven't met a person who could equal Roger's passion
for hockey. The honours bestowed on him in the past year, the
Hockey Hall of Fame and the Order of Canada, did not come by
accident. He has done so much for so many kids and I will always
remember that legacy."
Harry NEALE
"He's an individual we can all be inspired by, by his ability
to deal with some difficult situations in his own life. He has
such a high level of respect for human beings. "He was fortunate
in way he lived his life. It was impacted by his faith and his
religion. He observed those principles on a daily basis, things
most of us have a hard time dealing with. He saw the goodness
in everyone else."
Mike KEENAN
"He did a lot of work at the grassroots level with his hockey
camps, coaches' clinics, his baseball teams, his summer programs.
He wasn't really in it for himself very much. "It's a word you
use too often to make it special but in his case he was unique,
he really was."
Bob GAINEY
"Hockey has lost a great mind, a great spirit, a great friend.
The National Hockey League family mourns his loss but celebrates
his legacy -- the generations of players he counselled, the coaches
he moulded, the changes his imagination inspired and the millions
of fans he entertained."
Gary BETTMAN
Life and times
Born: June 16, 1934, in Toronto.
Education: Roger
NEILSON graduated from McMaster University in
Hamilton with a degree in physical education.
Nickname: Captain Video because he was the first to analyze game
videos to pick apart opponents' weaknesses.
Coaching career:
NEILSON coached hockey teams for 50 years. He
was a National Hockey League coach for Toronto, Buffalo, Vancouver,
Los Angeles, the New York Rangers, Florida, Philadelphia and
Ottawa. The Senators let him coach a game on April 13, 2002,
so he could reach 1,000 for his career. He was an National Hockey
League assistant in Buffalo, Chicago, St. Louis and Ottawa.
Major Honours: Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders
category last year. Invested into the Order of Canada in May.
Tributes: ESPN Classic Canada will air a 24-hour tribute to
NEILSON
beginning today at 6 p.m. eastern daylight time. The programming
will include a profile, footage from the famous white towel game
during the 1982 Stanley Cup playoffs and his 1,000th game behind
the bench.
Funeral:
Services for
NEILSON will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday
at North View Pentecostal Church in Peterborough, Ontario (705-748-4573).
The church is at the corner of Fairbairn Street and Tower Hill
Road.
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