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Ruby WILLSON
In loving memory of Ruby
WILLSON,
May 15, 1937 to April 30, 2003.
Ruby WILLSON, a resident of Ice Lake, died at the Mindemoya Hospital
on Wednesday, April 30, 2003 at the age of 65 years. She was born in
Kagawong, daughter of the late Nelson and Lillian
(TRUDEAU)
PIERCE.
Ruby was an "Adventuress" and enjoyed life to its fullest. She had
worked as a hostess at Harbour Island as well as being a navigator on
sail boats, and had sailed many places, including the open seas. She
enjoyed many things, such as needlework, baking, reading and
especially loved to entertain and host people. Her favourite place
was Harbour Island. A loving wife, mother and grandmother, she will
be sadly missed, but many happy memories will be cherished.
Dearly loved wife and best friend of Chuc
WILLSON.
Loving and loved
mother of Dennis
BECKETT and Deanna
BENOIT both of Kagawong, Rob
BECKETT of Pefferlaw and Juanda
GEORGE of Espanola. Proud
grandmother of James, Charles, Kevin, Crestienne, Aaron, Brandon and
Sheldon.
Also survived by Lake
WILSON and his daughter Jasmine.
Dear sister of Sandra
JAMES.
Predeceased by husbands Robert
BECKETT,
Carl REINGUETTE and John
PETRIE and brother Reynold
PIERCE.
A private family funeral service will be conducted at the Culgin
Funeral Home, followed by cremation. A public memorial service will
be conducted at Lyons Memorial United Church on Thursday, May 15,
2003 at 11: 00 a.m. with Pastor Maxine
McVEY officiating. If so
desired, donations may be made to Strawberry Point Christian Camp or
the Mindemoya Hospital Auxiliary. Culgin Funeral Home 282-2270.
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GEORGE,
Graham
Heaton
Died peacefully at the Trillium Mississauga Hospital on February
11, following cardiac arrest on February 7 and a long struggle
with the consequences of tropical sprue. What his body lacked
in strength, his soul had palpably in exceptional measure - a
powerful beacon of light for all. Architect, visionary on the
cutting edge of the technologies of intercommunication and health
care, he touched many lives.
A Memorial Service of remembrance will be held at Trinity College
Chapel, 6 Hoskin Avenue, Toronto, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, February
His sons Simon and Dylan; wife Michele, sister Dolphi (and Chris)
and brother Dan (and Karen), their children Elena, Damera and
Michael, and father Jim.
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GRACE,
Dorothy
Kathleen (née
GEORGE) 1909-2003
At Cobourg on February 20, 2003. Predeceased by her husband John
A. GRACE, Q.C, her parents Abel and Martha
(McCONNELL)
GEORGE,
her brother William, all of Ottawa. Happy memories of Dorothy
will be cherished by her daughter Patricia and her husband Bob
FENNER of Cobourg and by her granddaughters Louisa (Paul
SAWA)
of Halifax, Kate of Brooklyn, New York and Susannah (Graham
SHAW)
of Toronto. Luke
SAWA and Ethan
SHAW have missed a wonderful
great-grandmother. Friends May call at the Trull 'North Toronto'
Funeral Home and Cremation Centre 2704 Yonge Street (5 blocks south
of Lawrence) on Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial
will be celebrated at Our Lady of Assumption Church (Bathurst,
north of Eglinton) on Tuesday Morning at 10 o'clock. Cremation
to follow. If desired, remembrances may be made to the Big Sisters
association of Ontario 2750 Dufferin Street, Toronto, M6B 3R4.
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BROADHEAD,
William ''Bill'' David
Died in the early hours of the morning, on March 24, 2003 at
St. Michael's Hospital. In his 87th year, David's health had
been failing for some time. It was his greatest wish to depart
peacefully. Predeceased by his first wife
Kathleen (née
MURRAY)
and by his son Paul. David will be greatly missed by his second
wife, Hazel
LOIS and by his three children Anne (Joseph,) Nora
ANDERSON
(Robert) and
John
(Ana.) Also survived by his eight
grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Dear brother to
Marjory GEORGE of Chatham, Ontario. David, a graduate of McMaster
University, was the last of the great Dickensians, having read
most of the great classics. He had a particular fondness for
Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy. He wrote short stories and
at the age of 70, continued to take courses at U. of T. Up until
the end of his life, David took great pleasure in continuing
to write fiction. Friends may call the Rosar-Morrison Funeral
Home and Chapel, 467 Sherbourne Street (South of Wellesley Street)
on Wednesday, from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. A funeral Mass will be celebrated
on Thursday March 27, at 10: 30 a.m. at Our Lady of Lourdes Church
(Sherbourne and Earl Street). Cremation to follow. In lieu of flowers,
donations in David's name to either Covenant House or Interval
House would be greatly appreciated.
''Dad was a man of honour and integrity. His sense of humour
was a great delight to all who met him.''
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Died This Day -- Lord Byng of Vimy, 1935
Friday, June 6, 2003 - Page R11
British
Army officer and aristocrat born Julian Hedworth
GEORGE
on September 11, 1862, at Wrotham Park, England; May, 1916, appointed
to command Canadian Corps; April, 1917, directed attack on Vimy
Ridge; promoted to command British 3rd Army; April, 1921, named
Governor-General of Canada; in June, 1926, refused request for
dissolution of Parliament sought by Prime Minister Mackenzie
KING; led to King-Byng Affair; departed from Canada under a shadow,
even though constitutionally correct; 1928-31, named chief commissioner
of London Metropolitan Police.
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Died
This
Day -- Anthony Dudley
GEORGE, 1995
Saturday, September 6, 2003 - Page F11
Native activist and seasonal labourer born March 17, 1957; shot
and killed by Ontario Provincial Police Acting Sergeant Kenneth
Deane during a confrontation between police and a native group
that had occupied traditional Chippewa land at Ontario's Ipperwash
Provincial Park.
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Creator of Savage God
Theatre director was a Canadian nationalist, a fan of the avant
garde and a champion of playwright George Ryga. He was also seen
as a kook, a dilettante and a street fighter
By Tom HAWTHORN
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, October
11, 2003 - Page F9
John JULIANI was a provocateur in life as on stage. A man passionate
about the possibilities of theatre, he roused reverence in some,
antipathy in others.
His most infamous act was to challenge the Stratford Festival's
newly hired artistic director to a duel. Robin
PHILLIPS's offence
was that he is British when Mr.
JULIANI and others were certain
a land as grand as Canada was capable of producing a director
for its Shakespearean theatre.
What he called a "romantic gesture with tongue in cheek" earned
cheers from Canadian theatre directors and sneers from much of
the theatre establishment.
Mr. JULIANI, who has died at the age of 63, was an unabashed
Canadian nationalist, a dedicated fan of the avant garde, an
ardent defender of the right of actors to a decent living, a
champion of playwright George Ryga and a tireless figure so commanding
as to develop an intense loyalty among acolytes.
At the same time, he was seen as a kook, a dilettante and a street
fighter. One critic called him "the Tiger Williams of Canadian
theatre," his pugnacious approach earning him comparison to a
notorious hockey goon. In his defence, Mr.
JULIANI explained
that he was merely a "true believer" with opinions on controversial
subjects.
Mr. JULIANI's credits were long and varied, including spontaneous
Sixties street happenings such as the staging of his own wedding
as a theatrical performance and brief appearances on such 1990s
television dramas as The X-Files.
From 1982 until 1997, Mr.
JULIANI was executive producer of radio
drama for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio in Vancouver.
He helped to bring to air many celebrated productions, including
the brilliant and provocative Dim Sum Diaries by playwright Mark
LEIREN-
YOUNG.
Mr. JULIANI also possessed a head-turning beauty, with a profile
as striking as a Roman bust. Radio host Bill
RICHARDSON commented
on his handsomeness at a raucous memorial after his death, calling
him a "hunka hunka burnin' love." Some said he had the looks
and bearing of a Shakespearean king.
John Charles
JULIANI was born in Montreal on March 24, 1940.
Raised in a working-class neighbourhood, he attended Loyola College
and was an early graduate from the fledgling National Theatre
School.
He spent two seasons as an actor at Stratford before being hired
as a theatre teacher at Simon Fraser University in 1966. The
new university atop Burnaby Mountain east of Vancouver was a
hotbed of radicalism in politics and the arts. Mr.
JULIANI bristled
at an imposed curriculum and so infuriated the administration
that he was banned from the campus in 1969.
Mr. JULIANI was heavily influenced by the writing of Antonin
Artaud, a Surrealist who championed a theatre based on the imagination.
He long sought to erase the barrier between scripted text and
sensory impression, between performer and audience, to mixed
success.
After moving to the West Coast, Mr.
JULIANI launched a series
of experiments in theatre. He credited these productions to Savage
God, which was less a troupe in the traditional sense than a
title granted to any performance involving Mr.
JULIANI.
The name
came from William Butler Yeats's awestruck reaction to Alfred
Jarry's Ubu Roi: "After us, the Savage God?"
Savage God defied explanation, though many tried and even Mr.
JULIANI offered suggestions. Savage God was "an anthology of
question marks," he once said. (It was, after all, the 1960s.)
"Savage God is simply the Imagination," he told the Vancouver
Sun, "insatiable, unrelenting, fiercely energetic, wary of categorization,
fond of contradiction and inveterately iconoclastic."
In January, 1970, Mr.
JULIANI married dancer Donna
WONG, a ceremony
conducted as a Savage God performance at the Vancouver Art Gallery.
He repeated the process at the christening of his son. Ms.
WONG-
JULIANI
would be his domestic and drama partner for more than three decades.
In 1971, the streets of Vancouver were the scene of several spontaneous
and sometimes incomprehensible -- performances under the aegis
of PACET ("pilot alternative complement to existing theatre.")
The $18,000 project, funded by the federal government, incorporated
Gestalt therapy sessions in street performances.
Theatrical events took place willy-nilly across the city, including
malls, the airport, the library and Stanley Park. Admission was
not charged, nor did all spectators appreciate their role as
audience to avant-garde performance. A scene in which bicyclists
wearing gas masks pedalled along city streets left many scratching
their heads in puzzlement.
In 1974, Mr.
JULIANI moved to Toronto to set up a graduate theatre-studies
program at York University.
He called the program
PEAK ("
Performance,
Example,
Animation,
Katharsis") and perhaps should have found an acronym for
PEEK,
as the instructor and his class stripped naked to protest against
a lack of classroom space.
The challenge to the new Stratford artistic director in 1974
was written on a piece of parchment and delivered in London by
Don RUBIN, a York colleague. Alas, Mr.
RUBIN could not find a
proper gauntlet and wound up ceremoniously striking Mr.
PHILLIPS
with a red rubber glove, an absurd note to a theatrical protest.
In 1978, Mr.
JULIANI took the stage in a Toronto production of
Children of Night, portraying Janusz Korczak, a doctor and teacher
who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw ghetto. The critics were appalled.
Gina MALLET of the Toronto Star said Mr.
JULIANI's performance
sullied Dr. Korczak's memory. Jay
SCOTT of The Globe and Mail,
noting "the dreadfulness" of Mr.
JULIANI's acting, said the production
robbed the dead of their dignity.
From the stage, Mr.
JULIANI challenged the Star's critic to a
public debate on the aesthetics of theatre. He also wrote a letter
to the editor, noting that Holocaust survivors in the audience
had wholeheartedly embraced the production.
Mr. JULIANI wound up in Edmonton, where he continued to condemn
the "exorbitance, elitism and museum theatre" of the establishment.
In 1982, he directed and co-wrote Latitude 55°, a feature film
with just two characters -- a slick woman from the city and a
Polish potato farmer -- set in a snowbound cabin. "It is filled
with a passionate conviction that evaporates in pretentious pronouncements,"
The
Globe's
Carole
CORBEIL wrote, "filled with truthful moments
that evaporate in the desire to use every narcissistic trick
in the book."
In a 1983 book examining the alternative theatre movement in
Canada, author Renate
USMIANI devoted most of a chapter to Mr.
JULIANI, a decision that got her a scathing rebuke from a reviewer
who considered him worthy of little more than a footnote.
"His works are curiosities; at best, they are worthy experiments
in Artaudian theory," Boyd
NEIL wrote in a Globe review. "But
they are neither popular... nor influential."
Mr. JULIANI's years at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
in Vancouver were both productive and successful. Among the many
projects he directed was a three-part adaptation of Margaret
Laurence's
The
Diviners; King Lear, starring John
COLICOS; a
13-part series titled, Disaster! Acts of God or Acts of Man?"
and, famously, Ryga's The Ecstasy of Rita Joe, with Leonard
GEORGE
portraying a role once assumed on stage by his late father, Chief
Dan GEORGE.
The surprise selection of Mr.
GEORGE was typical
of Mr. JULIANI's often brilliant casting.
Mr. JULIANI directed a 1989 production of The Glass Menagerie
at the Vancouver Playhouse with Jennifer Phipps and Morris Panych.
Globe reviewer Liam
LACEY praised a production that "opens up
the play like an old treasure chest, and lets in some fresh air
without rearranging or disturbing the work's original grandeurs
and caprices."
Four years later, Mr.
JULIANI was directing a production of the
mystery thriller Sleepwalker when actor Peter
HAWORTH took sick
shortly before opening night. The director suddenly found himself
as the male lead. "Not even the most colossal egotist would want
to do this," he said.
Dim Sum Diaries, a series of monologues written by Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG,
received protests when aired by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Radio in 1991. One episode, entitled The Sequoia, in which the
white vendor of a luxury home launches a tirade against the Hong
Kong immigrant who cuts down two rare and spectacular trees on
the property, was accused of being racist. The playwright's well-intentioned
exploration of stereotyping was charged with fostering those
very prejudices.
After directing Dim Sum Diaries, Mr.
JULIANI urged the playwright
to tackle an issue that was dividing his church. Mr.
LEIREN-
YOUNG
remembers replying: "You're talking same-sex marriage in the
Anglican church and you want a straight Jewish guy to write this?"
The resulting play, titled Articles of Faith: The Battle of St.
Alban's, was staged at Christ Church Cathedral in downtown Vancouver
to great acclaim.
The collaborations between young playwright and veteran director
succeeded in achieving Mr.
JULIANI's goal of inspiring dialogue
through theatre.
Mr. JULIANI had a reputation as a demanding taskmaster for novice
and veteran actors alike. Rehearsals were jokingly called "Savage
God Boot Camp."
He maintained a breakneck pace, both in the theatre and in the
boardroom. He was artistic co-director of Opera Breve, a small
company dedicated to nurturing young singers; president of the
Union of British Columbia Performers (Alliance of Canadian Cinema,
Television and Radio Artists); and, a former national president
of the Directors Guild of Canada, among many boards on which
he served.
Feeling fatigued in early August, Mr.
JULIANI was diagnosed with
liver cancer. The end came swiftly. He died on August 21 at Lions
Gate Hospital in North Vancouver.
He leaves his wife of 33 years, Donna
WONG-
JULIANI, and a son,
Alessandro
JULIANI, an actor. He also leaves brothers Richard
and Norman.
(Wit was long a part of the
JULIANI mystique. The family pet,
a canine named Beau Beau, was referred to in the family's paid
obituary notice as a Savage Dog.)
For one who roused such passions, Mr.
JULIANI felt that he led
a conservative life. "I have always been a square," he once said.
A theatrical farewell to Mr.
JULIANI attracted hundreds to St.
Andrew's Wesley Church in Vancouver on Labour Day, a Monday and
traditionally a quiet date on the theatre calendar. Those in
attendance were encouraged to write remembrances on Post-It notes,
which were then stuck to the church's pillars.
The City of Vancouver has declared next March 24, which would
have been Mr.
JULIANI's 64th birthday, to be Savage God Day.
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Former
Canadian
Labour Congress president
McDERMOTT dies at 81
Friday, February 14, 2003, Page A7
Labour union titan Dennis
McDERMOTT has died. He was 81.
Nearly 22 years ago, Mr.
McDERMOTT led a massive rally at Parliament
Hill, said to be the largest such demonstration in Canadian history,
to protest against the oppressive burden of high interest rates
that created high unemployment and economic instability.
At the time, Mr.
McDERMOTT was president of the Canadian Labour
Congress, a post he held from 1978 to 1986.
"Dennis McDERMOTT's career was a model of effective trade-union
leadership," Canadian Labour Congress president Ken
GEORGETTI
said last night.
"All his actions were grounded in bread-and-butter issues, yet
he will be remembered for advancing human-rights issues, labour's
political action and outreach to workers and their unions around
the world."
Mr. McDERMOTT's interest in trade unionism began just after the
Second World War, when he started working as an assembler and
welder at a Massey-Ferguson plant in Toronto. In short order,
he became an activist with the United Auto Workers, now known
as the Canadian Auto Workers-Canada.
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His passion was coaching
He worked at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children for 40 years,
but his spare time was devoted to training athletes
By Allison
LAWLOR
Tuesday,
May 6, 2003 - Page R7
An era has ended in Canadian track-and-field athletics. Don
MILLS,
coach, administrator and volunteer, died in Windsor, Ontario,
last month. He was 75.
The folklore surrounding Mr.
MILLS, who was most recently an
assistant coach with the University of Toronto's track-and-field
and cross-country teams, was that he never missed a meet, often
attending more than one on a weekend.
Mr. MILLS was at the Canadian Interuniversity Sport championships
assisting with the university's Varsity Blues team when he died
peacefully in his sleep.
"For Don, track-and-field coaching and working with young people
was his passion, said Carl
GEORGEVSKI, head coach of Varsity
Blues track and field.
Mr. MILLS's involvement in track and field began in 1963 when
he co-founded the Toronto Striders Track Club. He went on to
form Track West, in the city's west end, in the 1970s and was
a club coach there until the end of the 2002 season. One of his
highlights as a coach was the 1978 World Cross Country Championships.
Three of the six Canadian junior men there were from Track West.
They took home a silver medal.
"If [a runner] didn't have a coach and needed one they would
saddle over to Don, said Ian
ANDERSON, a friend and fellow
coach at Track West and at the University of Toronto.
Known for devoting hours of his spare time to typing out the
results of athletes' workouts, giving nutritional advice, supervising
workouts and attending what seemed like every track-and-field
and cross-country race in the country, Mr.
MILLS made each of
the athletes feel they were the most important.
"You thought you were his only athlete, said Paul
KEMP, a runner
who trained with Mr.
MILLS at both Track West and at the University
of Toronto. But Mr.
KEMP soon realized that the same time and
individual attention Mr.
MILLS gave to him, he also gave to 20
other athletes.
Jerry KOOYMANS, who ran with Track West in the late 1970s and
early 1980s, remembers Mr.
MILLS dropping by his hotel room the
night before a big race to discuss race strategy. Mr.
MILLS would
pull out the list of opponents and discuss their strengths and
weaknesses and how to beat them.
"By the time I got to the starting line, I felt like I was the
best-prepared runner in the race, Mr.
KOOYMANS said in a written
tribute to his old coach.
When he wasn't busy coaching, Mr.
MILLS, who lived in Oakville,
Ontario, west of Toronto, was volunteering with the Ontario Track
and Field Association as an official or meet director. His meticulous
administrative skills and painstaking attention to detail are
widely remembered. It was not uncommon for Mr.
MILLS to travel
across the city on a Sunday night to drop off race results to
an athlete or fellow coach. He received the government of Ontario's
special achievement award for his work as a volunteer administrator.
Mr. MILLS joined the Varsity Blues staff in 1999, where he focused
on men's middle-distance running. But his connections with the
University of Toronto go back to the early 1960s, when he spent
time coaching the men's boxing team. One of the young men he
is reported to have coached was former Ontario premier David
PETERSON.
Outside of coaching, Mr.
MILLS worked at Toronto's Hospital for
Sick Children for 40 years. He started out in biochemistry research
in 1954 and later transferred to occupational health and safety
where he was involved in purchasing radioactive materials. He
routinely ate breakfast at the hospital cafeteria and, even after
he retired, continued to visit the hospital daily and spend time
in its library.
Don MILLS was born on August 29, 1927, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.
He lived a quiet life, never marrying or having children of his
own. He acted as a father figure to many athletes and maintained
connections with them. Over the holidays, he would often spend
time with the families of former athletes. Not one to talk about
himself, his athletes and colleagues knew little about him. Not
much is known about his own athletic achievements except that
he is said to have played hockey in his younger years. Mr.
MILLS,
however, remained fit throughout his life.
"He was very quiet, Mr.
ANDERSON said. "He was never the centre
of attention."
While his workouts could be tough, Mr.
MILLS knew when an athlete
had endured enough, Mr.
KEMP said. He was not one to yell or
scream.
"He was patient, he was dedicated. He was committed, Mr.
GEORGEVSKI
said.
Renowned for never owning a car, Mr.
MILLS mastered bus and train
routes from coast to coast. Being without a vehicle didn't deter
him from getting to a track meet or practice session, no matter
where it was held. He became legendary for his uncanny ability
to get to meets without driving.
In recent years he refused to fly. Even so, that didn't stop
him from attending a National Cross Country Championship in British
Columbia.
In order to be with his team, Mr.
MILLS left Ontario a week ahead
of schedule to travel across the country by train. Two years
ago, Mr. KEMP flew to Edmonton to attend a tournament only to
be met by Mr.
MILLS, who had arrived earlier by bus.
"He was an individual who cared deeply about all his athletes,
" whether it was a young, struggling runner or one who was performing
among the top at the national level, Mr.
GEORGEVSKI.
A track scholarship has been established in Mr.
MILLS's name
at the University of Toronto. He died on March 16.
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