HOUDE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-02-19 published
Karen Louise
SHAW (née
KING)
Passed away peacefully at Gore Bay, Ontario on February 16, 2003, age 59.
Loving wife of Robert D.
SHAW for 33 years and mother of Dara
(husband Richard
BRACHMAN), Debbie (husband Kyle
BRENTNELL), and Diana (fiancé Scott
INGHAM).
Predeceased by parents Kenneth and Dorothy
KING and brother Harold
(wife Bonnie
KING). Sister to Alan
KING (Barbara), Betty Ann
HOUDE
(Garry) and Candace
INNES
(Eric.)
Sister-in-law to Norman
SHAW and
Barbara BILLMAN
(Arlo.)
Aunt, friend, and role model to many.
Karen possessed a passion for education working with Okanagan
University College in Kelowna, BC (1996-98), Cambrian College
(1982-1996), and Sudbury High School as a teacher (1967-72). She
earned a Doctor of Philosophy in Higher, Adult and Lifelong Education
from Michigan State University in 1997.
Karen served the Sudbury community in many roles as: Councillor,
Regional Municipality and City of Sudbury (1991-97), Governor,
Laurentian University (1985-96), President, Sudbury Chamber of
Commerce (1993-94), President, Sudbury Business and Professional
Women's Club (1986-88), and Trustee, Sudbury Board of Education (1976-85).
Her family greatly appreciates the loving care provided by the staff at Manitoulin Lodge.
A memorial service was held on Thursday, February 20 in Sudbury.
Karen's life will be celebrated with a memorial service at St.
Francis of Assisi in Mindemoya later in the summer.
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HOULE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-07-02 published
Florence Adeline
WITTY
In loving memory of Florence Adeline
WITTY,
April 20, 1923 to June 25, 2003.
Adeline WITTY, a resident of the Manitoulin Lodge, died at the
Mindemoya Hospital on Wednesday, June 25, 2003 at the age of 80 years.
She was born in Salter Township, daughter of the late August and Florence
{HOULE}
BURMASTER.
Adeline had a strong sense of community, always willing to help when needed.
She was a member of the Mills Women's Institute and enjoyed
knitting, sewing, quilting and will be remembered also for being a great cook.
Adeline was predeceased by her beloved husband Grant, June 1, 2002.
Loved and loving mother of Ches and his wife Donna of Hanmer, Cliff
and his wife Lorie of Thessalon, Bruce and his wife Linda of Gore Bay
and Peter of Toronto. Proud grandmother of Kevin, Craig, Derek,
Teresa, Trevor, Tom, Jim, Stephanie, Emily and Joshua and great
grandchildren Katherine and Kaleb. Dear sister of Alfred, Alvin,
Geraldine and Brenda. Predeceased by brothers Orville and Aubrey.
Friends called at the Culgin Funeral Home on Thursday, June 26, 2003.
The funeral service was held in the Wm. G. Turner Chapel of the
Culgin Funeral Home on Friday, June 27, 2003 at 2: 00 p.m. with Rev.
Frank HANER officiating. Interment in Gordon Cemetery.
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HOUSTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-23 published
Hockey coach who changed the game
'Captain Video' introduced new teaching tools in more than 25
years with the National Hockey League
By William
HOUSTON
Monday,
June 23, 2003 - Page R5
The morning after Roger
NEILSON was fired from his first of seven
head coaching jobs in the National Hockey League, he returned
to his office at Maple Leaf Gardens.
He viewed and edited the videotape of the Toronto Maple Leafs'
loss to the Montreal Canadiens the night before. When a replacement
didn't show up, he put the Leafs through a practice. Later, he
was asked by a reporter why he was still hanging around.
"Somebody had to run the practice," he said. "Whoever comes in
will have to look at the tapes."
The next day, Mr.
NEILSON was reinstated when the club could
not find a replacement, but Maple Leafs owner Harold
BALLARD,
always looking for publicity, wanted to make his return behind
the bench a surprise. Mr.
BALLARD tried to talk him into wearing
a ski mask or bag over his head, and then dramatically throwing
it off at the start of the game. Numbed by the three-day ordeal
of not knowing his status in the organization, Mr.
NEILSON almost
agreed, but ultimately declined.
"He hated that story," said Jim
GREGORY, who hired Mr.
NEILSON
to coach the Leafs in 1977 and was fired along with the coach
at the end of the 1978-79 season. "I hated that story."
The incident reflected poorly on Mr.
BALLARD, but in a smaller
way it helped create the image of Mr.
NEILSON we have today,
that of a coach who put the team ahead of his ego, who was loyal
to his players and dedicated to his job.
Mr. NEILSON, who died Saturday after a long battle with cancer,
will be remembered not just as a man who loved hockey, but also
as a skilled strategist and innovator. He stressed defensive
play and systems, and also physical fitness. In Toronto, he was
given the nickname "Captain Video," because he was among the
first to use videotape to instruct his players and prepare for
games.
When Mr. NEILSON, a soft-spoken man famous for his dry sense
of humour, was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame last year,
he was asked about the late, controversial Leafs owner.
"I'm sure he's looking up rather than down," he said, with a
smile, before saying Mr.
BALLARD did some "good things for hockey."
Mr. NEILSON was also named to the Order of Canada in January.
Roger Paul
NEILSON was born in Toronto on June 16, 1934, and
went as far as Junior B hockey as a player. While earning a degree
at McMaster University in Hamilton, he started coaching kids
baseball and hockey.
After graduating, he taught high school in Toronto and his passion
by then was coaching. In hockey, he won Toronto and provincial
titles at different levels. In 10 years, his Metro Toronto midget
baseball teams won nine championships, once defeating a team
that included pitcher Ken
DRYDEN, who would later become a Hall
of Fame goaltender with the Montreal Canadiens.
Mr. NEILSON scouted for the Peterborough Petes of the Ontario
Major Junior Hockey League before moving to Peterborough in 1966
to coach the team. During his 10 years behind the bench, the
Petes never finished below third place and won the league championship
once.
By the time Mr.
NEILSON moved to the National Hockey League to
coach the Leafs in 1977, his reputation for creativity and also
mischief was firmly established. In baseball, he used, at least
once, a routine involving a peeled apple, in which the catcher
threw what appeared to be the ball wildly over the third baseman,
prompting the runner to race home. As the apple lay in the outfield,
the catcher met the runner at home plate with the real baseball
in his glove.
Always looking for a loophole in the rules, Mr.
NEILSON's ploys
instigated rule changes in hockey. On penalty shots against his
team, he used Ron
STACKHOUSE, a big defenceman, instead of a
goalie. Mr.
STACKHOUSE would charge out of the net and cause
the shooter to flub his shot. The rule was subsequently changed
to require the goalie to stay in his crease.
Over an National Hockey League career that lasted more than 25
years, Mr.
NEILSON holds the record for most teams coached (seven.)
He also held four assistant coaching positions. But he never
won the Stanley Cup. He didn't coach great teams. He seemed to
enjoy the challenge of taking an average group of players, making
them into a solid, defensive unit, and seeing them succeed.
In his first year with the Leafs, he moulded a previously undisciplined
group of players into a strong unit that upset the New York Islanders
in the 1978 playoffs.
In 1982, Mr.
NEILSON's playoff success with the Vancouver Canucks
underscored his skill as a tactician and manipulator.
When
Canuck head coach Harry
NEALE was suspended late in the
season, Mr.
NEILSON, his assistant, took over. The Canucks weren't
expected to advance past the first round of the playoffs. But
backed by strong goaltending from Richard
BRODEUR, they defeated
the Calgary Flames and then the Los Angeles Kings to advance
to the semi-finals against Chicago.
The Canucks won the first game, but with Chicago leading 4-1
late in the second game, Mr.
NEILSON, unhappy with the officiating,
waved a white towel from the bench, as if to surrender to the
referee. He was fined for the demonstration, but the white towel
became a symbol of home-fan solidarity. In the Stanley Cup final,
the Canucks were swept by the powerhouse Islanders.
In addition to Toronto and Vancouver, Mr.
NEILSON's journey through
the National Hockey League consisted of head coaching jobs with
the Buffalo Sabres, the Kings, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers
and Philadelphia Flyers. He worked as a co-coach in Chicago,
and as an assistant coach with the Sabres, St. Louis Blues and
Ottawa Senators.
Ottawa, where he was hired in 2000, was his final destination.
In the 2001-02 season, head coach Jacques
MARTIN stepped down
for the final two games of the regular season to allow Mr.
NEILSON
to coach his 1,000th regular-season game.
Frank ORR, who covered hockey for The Toronto Star for more than
30 years, said, in 2002, "Roger is one of the few people I've
met in any line of work who never had a bad word to say about
anybody."
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HOUSTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-21 published
HOUSTON,
Neil
Ritchie
78, of North Vancouver, British Columbia, amiable entrepreneur,
avid golfer and bridge partner, long-time horse-racing fan, armed
forces veteran, one-time owner of a thoroughbred racehorse in
Toronto, a hotel in Leamington, Ontario, a fishing lodge on the
French River, a clothing store in Burlington, Ontario, an antique/collectibles
store in Waterdown, Ontario. Born in Toronto on October 11, 1924,
husband of the late Helen
HOUSTON (née
CHARLTON) and the late
Dorothy HOUSTON (née
LAKE,) brother of Archie of West Vancouver,
Bob of Toronto and the late Colin
HOUSTON, father of Gail
TERRON
of Windsor, Ontario, and John
HOUSTON of Toronto, stepfather
of Ron JOINER of Victoria, British Columbia, Lynda
JOINER of
Burlington,
Ontario,
Elizabeth
HADDOCK of Chatham, Ontario, grandfather
of six, uncle to many nieces and nephews. Died peacefully Monday,
August 18, 2003 in Lion's Gate Hospital, North Vancouver, following
a lengthy illness. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of British Columbia or a charity
of your choice. Special thanks to the doctors, nurses and staff
at Lion's Gate and St. Paul's Hospital. Arrangements will be
made for burial service in Aylmer, Ontario.
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HOUSTON 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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HOUTMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-03 published
PETERS,
George
Formerly of London, Ontario, and longtime resident of Aylmer,
Quebec, passed away on April 30th, 2003. His first wife, Patricia
BELK, passed away in 1989. His second wife, Françoise (''Toto'')
BACH-
KOLLING, died in 2000. He is survived by his sister Dorothy
McLAREN of London, Ontario, his stepdaughter Felicia
HOUTMAN,
by Gordene
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, and by his nieces and nephews. A gathering
of Friends and family will take place at the Beauchamp Funeral
Home, 47 Denise Friend Street, Aylmer, on Sunday, May 4th beginning
at 2 o'clock. For more information, please call (819) 770-1300.
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