GALBRAITH
GALIPEAU
GALLAGHER
GALLIGAN
GALLON
GALLOWAY
GALT
GALBRAITH o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-02-19 published
GRACE
E.
GALBRAITH
November 27, 1903 - February 14, 2003
Grace GALBRAITH, a resident of the Manitoulin Lodge, Gore Bay, died
at the Lodge on Friday, February 14, 2003 at the age of 99 years.
She was born in London, England, daughter of the late Edward and
Emily (RAYNER)
GRIFFIN and at the age of 8 years came to Stratford,
Ontario with her brother and sister, through the Thomas Bernardo
Child Care Organization. She later came to the Island and at the age
of 14, lived and worked for William and Mable
McDONALD at Providence
Bay, until her marriage to James
GALBRAITH on February 20, 1920. She
and James raised their family on the 12th line of Campbell Township.
In 1952, she and James moved to Espanola, and Ransford took over the
family farm. James predeceased her in 1970, but she continued to
live in Espanola until 1991, when she came to live at Manitoulin Lodge.
Grace enjoyed sewing, knitting, crocheting, tatting and canning.
Loved and loving mother of Evelyn
PATTISON (husband Warren
LEGGE,
predeceased 1972 and Jim
PATTISON, 1986,) Lorma
MIDDAUGH (husband
Bill predeceased 2002,) Mildred
McCORMICK (husband William
predeceased 1998,) Leona
SLOSS and husband Chester of Espanola and
Ransford and his wife
Lavina
GALBRAITH of Mindemoya. Proud
grandmother of 22 grandchildren, 46 great grandchildren and 35 great
great grandchildren. Predeceased by brother Edward (Ted)
GRIFFIN and
sister Lilly
GRIFFIN.
Friends called the Culgin Funeral Home from 1-2 pm on Monday,
February 17, 2003. The funeral service was conducted at 2 pm with
Reverend Frank
HANER officiating. Spring interment in Mindemoya Cemetery.
Culgin Funeral Home 282-2270.
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GALBRAITH o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-11-26 published
GALBRAITH-
MESZAROS
-In loving memory of Lois Lynn, May 18, 1967 to November 20, 2001.
To touch our lives God did send
A daughter, wife, mother, sister, aunt
They took her back when time was good,
A fact that's still misunderstood.
We miss her smile, her laugh, her ways.
The heartache stronger with passing days
But we know the promise made
For our lives a price was paid.
So when our time on earth does end
This daughter, wife, mother, sister, aunt
Will be ours to hold again.
-Love you forever, Mom, Peter and Dimitri, Cecile, Kevin and Chantale
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GALIPEAU o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-10-22 published
Patricia Joan
STERRITT
In loving memory of Patricia Joan
STERRITT (née
MORRIS) a resident of
Manitowaning, died at Laurentian Hospital, Sudbury, on Sunday, October 19, 2003 at the age of 69.
Pat was born in Brampton, daughter of the late Gilbert and Mona
(TRIMBLE)
MORRIS.
Will be dearly missed by her loving husband
Malcolm SINCLAIR
STERRITT and her children Richard (Rick)
STERRITT of
Brampton, Wendy
(GRAY/GREY) and husband Jim of Palgrave, Robert and wife
Lorie of Caledon East, Carl and wife Karen of Alton. Her six
grandchildren Mandy, Laura, Nicole, Samantha, Jake and Benjamin will miss their "Nanny"
Predeceased by brothers Robert and Brian and survived by dear sister
Virginia and husband Yvon
GALIPEAU of Milton, Gail
GRIFFITH of
Brampton, Mary
(CLARIDGE) and husband Hap of Salmon Arm, BC, Julie
(CAMPBELL) and husband Brian of Brampton, brothers John, of Brampton
and Grant and wife Pam of Chatham. Visitation was held on Monday,
October 20, 2003. Funeral service was held on Tuesday, October 21,
2003 all at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Manitowaning, Ontario. Reverend
Canon Bain
PEEVER officiating. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery.
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GALLAGHER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-31 published
GALLAGHER,
Paul,
Member of the Order of Canada
Aged 73 years, on March 27th, 2003. A husband, father, grandfather
and brother as well as friend of and mentor to many, he died
peacefully at home, surrounded by family, after a long battle
with cancer. Paul was a distinguished educator and enthusiastic
and dedicated volunteer. He was also a passionate Canadian who
served as a Citizenship Judge from 2000 until his death. Paul
is survived by his wife
Grace; daughter Katherine (Jeff
PARSONS)
sons Stephen (Donna), Edward (Michelle) and Peter; and grand_sons
Richard and Charles. Paul's family wishes to thank the North
Shore
Palliative
Care Team. Special thanks go to Joanne
LAPIN,
our closest family friend, for her care and devotion to Paul
and family. A Memorial Service will be held 2: 00 p.m. Tuesday,
April 1st, 2003 in the Boal Chapel of First Memorial Funeral
Services, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the North Shore Palliative Care Program
c/o Lions Gate Hospital Foundation or to Adult Learning Development
Asscociation.
First Memorial Funeral Services North Vancouver (604) 980-3451
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GALLAGHER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-13 published
WEBSTER,
Eric
Taylor
Died on Saturday, October 11, at Queensway-Carleton Hospital
in Ottawa, at the age of 87. Eric was the youngest and last surviving
of the six children of Senator Lorne
WEBSTER and Muriel Taylor
WEBSTER of Montreal. He was predeceased by brothers Colin, Stuart,
Howard and Dick, and by their sister, Marian. Born in Montreal
on March 1, 1916, he attended Selwyn House School and Lower Canada
College, then graduated from Mount Allison University in Sackville,
New Brunswick. Already a licensed pilot, in 1939 he volunteered
for the Royal Canadian Air Force, in which he served until 1945,
rising to the rank of Wing Commander. In 1940 he married Elizabeth
(Ibby) PATERSON, daughter of Senator Norman and Eleanor
PATERSON
of Fort William, Ontario. After the war, they settled in Sherbrooke,
Quebec, where he became President of J.S. Mitchell and Co. and
established Eastern Townships Warehousing Ltd. He was a leader
in a wide range of community activities including Trinity United
Church, the Sherbrooke Hospital, the Eastern Townships Protestant
School Board, Bishop's College School, Bishop's University and
Stanstead Wesleyan College. He also went into farming in North
Hatley and served a term as President of the Canadian Hereford
Association. His interests included antique and classic cars
and family motor coaches, in which he traveled widely. He could
install an oil burner, design a cottage or lead a fund- raising
campaign, but never seemed happier than when under a motor vehicle,
tinkering with its innards. When Ibby died in 1974, he married
Jane Sweny
ARMITAGE of Ottawa, where they lived until he died.
Eric leaves his widow, Jane, and children Norman
WEBSTER of Montreal
(with wife
Pat,)
William
WEBSTER of Vancouver (Diana,) and Maggie
GALLAGHER of Oakville, Ontario (Tom.) Two other children, David
and Ruth WEBSTER, died in infancy. He also leaves stepsons Mark
ARMITAGE of Montreal (Pam,) Bill
ARMITAGE of Ottawa (Jan) and
David ARMITAGE of Ottawa. There are 12 grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren. There will be a memorial service at Plymouth-Trinity
United Church, 380 Dufferin Street, Sherbrooke, on Thursday, October
16, at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
Queensway-Carleton Hospital Foundation, 3045 Baseline Rd., Nepean,
Ontario, K2H 8P4.
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GALLAGHER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-22 published
ARDIEL,
Ruth
Winnifred (née
FRANCIS) 89 years.
Died peacefully at Windsor Regional Hospital-Western Campus on
Tuesday,
October 21, 2003. Dearest wife of the late J.R.
ARDIEL
(1973.) Beloved mother of Joan
DUFF,
Karen
MEYERS and Susan and
David RUCH.
Dearest sister of June and Fred
ROEMMELE. Loving
grandmother of Melissa
MEYERS and Jim
DONOHUE,
Jay
MEYERS and
Tina ROBBINS, Allison
RUCH and Ryan
SMITH, Dave
RUCH and Anne
Marie PETTINATO,
Julie
SANDO, and John
PECARARO, Jackie and Frank
HAMILTON,
Michelle and Joe
GRECO and Natalie
DUFF. Great grandmother
of Max and Miranda
PECARARO,
Scott and Mathew
HAMILTON and Kaity
and Nicholas
GRECO. Dear Aunt to her special nieces, nephews,
great nieces and nephews. Remembered by several cousins in London
and Toronto. Born on a homestead in Marengo, Saskatchewan to
the late Anne and Alfred
FRANCIS; pre-deceased by brothers Lloyd
(1912), Bruce (Royal Canadian Air Force, 1943) and her sister
Dorothy HENDERSON (1964.) Ruth was a long-standing member of
Beach Grove Golf and Country Club, Windsor and Tamarac Golf and
Country Club, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Visiting in the Walter
D. Kelly Funeral Home and Cremation Centre, 1969 Wyandotte St.
East, Windsor, Ontario on Thursday 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. The complete
funeral service will be held in the chapel on Friday, October
24, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. Reverend William
GALLAGHER officiating. Cremation
with interment later in Greenlawn Memorial Cemetery. In kindness
memorial tributes to the charity of you choice, Heart and Stroke
Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated.
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GALLIGAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-13 published
Edward James
HOUSTON
By Jim HOUSTON,
Thursday,
November 13, 2003 - Page A28
Lawyer, judge, war veteran, "sports nut," father, friend to many.
Born September 15, 1918, in Arnprior, Ontario Died May 27 in
Ottawa, of colon cancer, aged 84.
Ed HOUSTON accomplished much in his life: He was a bomb aimer
in Lancaster bombers in the Second World War, a prominent lawyer
and judge in Ottawa for almost 50 years, and the National Hockey
League's first arbitrator. But it was his family and Friends,
not his accomplishments, which mattered most to him. Speaking
at Ed's funeral in Ottawa on a sunny Friday in late May, the
Honourable Patrick
GALLIGAN
(Ed's former law partner and long-time
friend) said there are "legions of people" whose lives have been
affected for the better by Ed
HOUSTON.
Ed was a product of his generation -- the people that came of
age in the "dirty thirties," served their country in wartime,
and then made their contributions (and let off some steam) as
civilians in a more prosperous post-war Canada. Born and raised
in modest circumstances in the Ottawa Valley town of Arnprior,
Ed left home in the Depression to find work. He ended up working
in a drug store in Schumacher, Ontario, near Timmins. There he
met a Torontonian, Joe
GREENE, who was to become his best friend
and my godfather. Like thousands of other young Canadians, Ed
volunteered for military service in the Second World War. His
air force days changed his life. In January, 1944, he was shot
down over Berlin, with five of seven aboard perishing, and became
a prisoner of war for 15 months (he escaped in April, 1945).
The veteran's benefits he earned through his wartime service
gave him the opportunity to attend the University of Toronto
and Osgoode Hall Law School, which opened the door to a successful
career and countless Friendships in the legal fraternity. While
at university, Ed met and married Mary
McKAY of Galt, Ontario,
and the first of their two sons, Bill, was born. In 1950 they
moved to Ottawa where Ed began his legal career as an assistant
Crown attorney. Later -- as a lawyer in private practice and
then as a judge -- Ed became known for helping younger lawyers
learn the ropes.
Ed was, by his own admission, a "sports nut." As a participant,
golf was his passion -- and on the course he was known as Steady
Eddie for his straight drives and sure putting. As a spectator,
he was an avid fan of almost every sport. Even in the final days
of his life, when you handed him a newspaper -- another benign
addiction of his -- he would still dive for the sports section,
and be lost in it for hours. On the day before his death, he
rejoiced in the Blue Jays having just swept the Yankees in a
four-game series.
As a judge, Ed had to make lots of tough decisions. However,
the decisions that got him the most publicity took place outside
the courtroom, in his capacity as arbitrator for the National
Hockey
League. In 1991, Brendan
SHANAHAN became a free agent
and jumped from the New Jersey Devils to the St. Louis Blues.
Under the free-agency compensation regime then in effect, Ed
had to decide which player the Blues would have to give to the
Devils as compensation for signing
SHANAHAN.
When
Ed chose defenseman
Scott STEVENS (who captained the Devils to the Stanley Cup earlier
this year), his decision was greeted with a storm of media criticism.
But Ed never second-guessed himself, and moved on.
In a letter Ed received a couple of years ago, another friend
of his, the late Ray
HNATYSHYN, former Governor-General of Canada,
summed up how he will be remembered by family, Friends and acquaintances
alike: "Ed, you have served your community, province and country
with great distinction, and I am privileged to call you my friend."
My sentiments exactly.
Jim HOUSTON is Ed's son.
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GALLON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-09 published
Activist established blue box program
Radical became known for putting pressure on government, corporations
By Martin MITTELSTAEDT
Wednesday,
July 9, 2003 - Page R7
Toronto -- One of Canada's most influential environmental activists,
Gary GALLON, died Thursday in Montreal after a long battle with
cancer.
Although Mr.
GALLON may not have been a household name, Canadians
almost everywhere will recognize one of his major achievements,
the setting up of the country's first blue box recycling program
in Ontario during the late 1980s.
He also had a hand during the 1970s in establishing Greenpeace,
and maintained a lifelong passion for environmental causes evident
in his series of twice-monthly newsletters, called the
GALLON
Environmental Letter.
"I've always been bothered by excess consumption and wanton destruction
of habitat. Human ethics must allow space for other creatures,"
he said recently.
Born in the United States in 1945, Mr.
GALLON moved to Canada
in the late 1960s to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war.
He settled in Vancouver and began working by writing newsletters
promoting mining stocks listed on the Vancouver Stock Exchange.
After work, he turned to his true passion, the environment, joining
the nighttime meetings of the Society for the Promotion of Environmental
Conservation, a group that at the time opposed the use of the
British Columbia coast for supertanker routes.
"He became concerned that what he was doing [by selling stocks]
was causing environmental damage," said David
OVED, a Toronto
environmental consultant who worked with him in the Ontario government.
Mr. GALLON's biggest impact on the country's conservation movement
occurred when he was senior policy adviser for Jim
BRADLEY,
Ontario's
Liberal environment minister from 1985-90, one of Mr.
BRADLEY's
surprise hires.
It was a risky move for the new Liberal government to employ
one of Canada's leading environmental radicals for such a post.
Mr. GALLON instantly became known as one of "
BRADLEY's brats,"
the moniker given the group of dedicated environmentalists assembled
by Mr. BRADLEY within the Ontario government who helped originate
such programs as the blue box and the province's acid rain reduction
program.
In the mid-1980s, municipal recycling had been an experimental
effort in a few communities.
Mr. GALLON worked to establish the blue box across the province.
Mr. OVED said Mr.
GALLON could often influence opponents within
the government through his use of the inventive turn of phase
or image.
In one particularly bitter debate, cabinet was discussing preservation
of Ontario's Temagami forest region, an area containing some
of Canada's last remaining stands of towering old growth red
and white pines.
Mr. OVED said some politicians were questioning why environmentalists
in Toronto and elsewhere in Southern Ontario were arguing to
preserve a forest in the north that they might never see.
Mr. GALLON said forest preservation was part of the ideal that
Canadians held of the society they would like to be part of.
"Gary's comment was 'People here may never see those forests,
but they value green spaces in their minds,' Mr.
OVED said.
Mr. OVED said the turn of phase impressed then-premier David
PETERSON, who began to affectionately call Mr.
GALLON and Mr.
BRADLEY's other environmental activists "space cadets."
Some of the biggest run-ins that Mr.
GALLON had during the 1980s
were with Inco, one of Ontario's major emitter of chemicals that
cause acid rain.
At one testy meeting, Mr.
GALLON, dressed in a pink shirt, had
exchanges with Inco's former chairman, Chuck
BAIRD, who was later
so annoyed at being pressed on the company's pollutants, that
an Inco official called Mr.
BRADLEY to complain.
"I got a call the next day asking who where those young radicals
in pink polo shirts asking those impertinent questions," Mr.
BRADLEY said.
Television broadcaster and Greenpeace founder Robert
HUNTER said
that Mr. GALLON related to him that the Inco chairman "had never
run into such serious sass from mere political minions."
Of his experience in government, Mr.
GALLON once said "you have
less room to rail but more power to get things done."
Mr. GALLON suffered from colon cancer, which had spread to his
lungs and liver.
Despite the pain of the disease and its treatments, he kept up
his hobby of competitive swimming, winning in his age group in
a Quebec swim meet last year, according to Mr.
OVED.
Last month, the Royal Canadian Geographic Society's magazine
gave Mr. GALLON its national environmental award for lifetime
achievement.
Mr. GALLON was picked in 1977 to be executive director of the
Nairobi-based Environment Liaison Centre International, where
he met his wife-to-be, another prominent Canadian environmental
activist, Janine
FERRETTI.
Ms. FERRETTI was executive director of the North American Free
Trade Agreement Commission for Environmental Cooperation and
now holds a senior position with the Inter-American Development
Bank in Washington. Mr.
GALLON is survived by his two children,
Kalifi and Jenika.
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GALLOWAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-04 published
First World War veteran dies in Toronto at age 105
By Gloria GALLOWAY
Tuesday,
February 4, 2003, Page A4
The sparse ranks of Canada's living First World War veterans
have been further diminished by the death of Iden Herbert
BALDWIN,
who emerged from the conflict with a medal for his heroic capture
of a German machine-gun post.
Mr. BALDWIN died Friday in Toronto at the age of 105.
When interviewed by a reporter just before Remembrance Day last
year as part of The Globe and Mail's tribute to Canada's oldest
veterans, he recalled the day an enemy shell blew him into the
air.
The blast threw him into the newly formed crater, and a mound
of earth buried him alive. Fortunately, his helmet had fallen
over his nose, creating a small air pocket that kept him conscious
until "some fellow's fingers moved some dirt away from my mouth
and I was able to breathe."
His death reduces to 12 the number of living First World War
veterans located by The Globe. When stories about their lives
ran in mid-November, there were 16.
Until the end, the war remained a major event in his life, Michael
BARRACK, his step-grand_son, said after the funeral yesterday.
"It would bring back vivid, vivid memories, you could tell, right
until the day he died."
In recent days, fatigue often confined Mr.
BALDWIN to a hospital
bed set up in the dining room of the midtown home he shared with
his second wife, Anna, but he remained lucid and full of humour.
"On his 105th birthday last November, I said to him 'You look
great today, Uncle Herb,' Mr.
BARRACK said. "And he looked
at me and said: 'I look great every day.' "
In 1999, France honoured Mr.
BALDWIN and 110 other survivors
as Knights of the Order of the Legion of Honour, "and he was
counting heads then," Mr.
BARRACK said.
Mr. BALDWIN was born in Kent, in southern England, in November
of 1897 and emigrated to Canada in 1911. He settled in Prince
Albert, Saskatchewan, where he found work as a plumber's helper.
At 17, he enlisted in the army and was quickly sent to France.
He asked to be sent to the front lines in place of a friend who
was a family man. He saw action in several battles, including
the infamous Vimy Ridge, where he was injured.
When the war ended in 1918, he served another two years, in Germany,
then returned to Prince Albert to be a plumber.
Mr. BALDWIN moved to Toronto in 1922, and got a job distributing
essential oils. He remained single until 1954, when he was 57.
After the death of his first wife, Elaine, he married Anna, a
family friend.
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GALLOWAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-10 published
Acting up helped PoW survive camp
But working in the salt mines took its toll on Canadian soldier
in First World War
By Gloria GALLOWAY,
Monday,
November 10, 2003 - Page A3
First World War soldiers were rarely taken prisoner.
Most of the Allied casualties died in the mud with a German sniper's
bullet in their head, or riddled with shrapnel, or drowned in
their own mucus after poison gas filled their lungs. Of the more
than 600,000 Canadians who fought in the War To End All Wars,
only 4,000 were captured.
Private William
McLEISH was among the unfortunate few. He was
captured in France in April of 1915 and spent the last 2½ years
of the war at Rennbahn PoW camp near Munster, Germany.
Pte. McLEISH survived, while nearly 60,000 other Canadians perished,
but it would be wrong to say he was lucky. The hardships he endured
took away his ability to function in a postwar world. He could
not provide for his family or enjoy the life he had fought to
protect.
In Rennbahn, at the age of 22, Pte.
McLEISH was put to work in
the salt mines, a gruelling task overseen by civilian bosses
who treated the PoWs like slaves.
But camp life was a world of bizarre contrasts and the unfortunate
souls who found themselves the unwilling guests of the Germans
did what they could to alleviate the cycle of toil and tedium.
Thus the Rennbahn Empire, a stage troupe of prisoners, was formed.
Mr. McLEISH died in 1966 after spending his last decades in and
out of mental hospitals, a victim of what is now called post-traumatic
stress disorder. He left a box of mementos that his daughter,
Glen FAYET, submitted to the Memory Project organized by The
Globe and Mail and the Dominion Institute.
They include cast photos of the plays her father and other prisoners
performed. The men took all parts, slipping into dresses, wigs
and hats as required by the script. In the yellowing photos they
pose with faces contorted into character.
Jonathan VANCE, a history professor at the University of Western
Ontario and a leading expert on the lives of prisoners of war,
says it wasn't uncommon for First World War PoWs to be permitted
to put on plays.
"It kept them out of trouble, for one thing," he said. "For another
thing, international laws provided for prisoners to take advantage
of recreation opportunities, including intellectual opportunities.
So most camps had not only theatres, but libraries and art classes
and occupational therapy classes... orchestras in some cases."
A book of remembrance created by prisoners of Rennbahn thanks
family and Friends for sending props, costumes and even grease
paint into the camps.
"In the First World War, you could get in pretty well anything.
You could get food hampers sent in from major London department
stores," Dr.
VANCE said.
The theatrical paraphernalia made it possible to stage performances
at Rennbahn every Wednesday. The shows had titles like Roll on
Blighty! and
Le Danseur Inconnu. Listed on the playbills is one
W. McLEISH.
"We didn't think that he had that type of outgoing personality,"
Pte. McLEISH's daughter, Ms.
FAYET, said with a quiet laugh.
Her father had immigrated to Montreal from Scotland in 1911 when
he was 18 and joined the army reserve soon after his arrival.
He signed up when war was declared and was quickly shipped overseas.
While on leave in Britain, Pte.
McLEISH visited an aunt in Edinburgh,
where he met Margaret
WATSON.
Love quickly followed, and the
Canadian in uniform remained in Ms.
WATSON's thoughts after he
returned to the front.
Then came word of his capture. Ms.
WATSON wrote to the Red Cross,
asking his whereabouts. He was in the camp near Munster, she
heard. But "this man does not write very often," said the official
response.
Many soldiers emerged from captivity "with job-related injuries
that would prevent them from earning a living for the rest of
their lives," Dr.
VANCE said. "You have all kinds of stories
about people losing hands and feet, getting arms mangled in machinery,
getting bit of their bodies blown off in mine explosions."
This was William
McLEISH's life for nearly three years. It must
have been a very strange existence, Dr.
VANCE said, to be working
in such trying conditions for 12 to 14 hours then return to camp
to take part in a music hall or a play.
Certainly the men would have derived some comfort from the performances.
But the evening diversions weren't enough to keep Pte.
McLEISH
whole.
When he was freed after Germany surrendered, he found the Scottish
lass and they wed. They settled in Canada and had a son and a
daughter.
"He was quite well to begin with," Ms.
FAYET said, "but then
he had problems dealing with everyday life and eventually he
could no longer go into the office to work."
He quit his job at the Grand Trunk Railway and his wife became
the family's breadwinner.
"She took any job that she could in order to supplement the income.
As I understand it, they received $25 a month for four people
to live on from the government," Ms.
FAYET said.
Her father's nerves were shot and he became a regular patient
at the veterans' hospital in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. "People knew
that there was such a thing as shell shock, but, in a lot of
minds, that was a moral failing rather than a physical or psychological
failing," Dr.
VANCE said. "It wasn't really appreciated, the
degree to which prolonged stress has physiological impacts on
the brain."
But Mr. McLEISH's family knew the toll it had taken. Ms.
FAYET
said he never talked about the war, except occasionally to mention
a practical joke someone had played or an amusing anecdote.
The horror of the war remained buried inside Mr.
McLEISH until
he died. Perhaps it was softened by a box of photographs and
fading playbills that bear his name.
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GALT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-11 published
Died
This
Day -- John
GALT, 1839
Friday, April 11, 2003 - Page R13
Author and land agent born on May 2, 1779, at Irvine, Ayrshire,
Scotland, in 1779; wrote Scottish novels The Ayrshire Legatees
and Lawrie Todd; appointed agent of claimants of Upper Canada
for losses incurred during War of 1812; founded Canada Company
and town of Guelph, Ontario; returned to Britain, bankrupt; father
of Alexander Tilloch
GALT, a father of Confederation; died in
Greenock, Renfrewshire.
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