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HUMBER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-07 published
Scott NOBLE
By Bill HUMBER
Thursday,
August 7, 2003 - Page A18
Publisher, old-time pugilism fan, jazz pianist, father. Born
March 9, 1954, in Toronto. Died April 5 in Toronto, of cancer,
aged 49.
During a visit to the rare books section of the Metro Reference
Library about 10 years ago, Scott
NOBLE discovered an original
volume one of Pierce Egan's Boxiana. Scott dedicated the last
several years of his life to publishing this long out-of-print
series of boxing compilations written by Egan during the first
several decades of the 19th century.
EGAN had popularized the sport of pugilism, or prize-fighting,
writing in a highly vernacular fashion meant to be read aloud
in coffee houses and taverns. Many have credited his vibrant
and lively style not only with influencing the young Charles
Dickens but also with helping invent the genre of sports writing.
Scott was enamoured with this world. He often noted that in the
age before the telegraph, word of Tom Cribb's victory over his
rival Molineaux travelled faster to the City of London than news
of the Battle of Waterloo. Not surprising, given that there was
more money riding on the former.
As a teenager, Scott had rebelled against the strictures of a
schooling system out-of-step with the 1960s. He was a bright
star of Etobicoke's alternative high-schools, travelled to India
as a 19-year-old, learned to speak Hindi, spent a year in Humber
College's music program, and was a largely self-taught jazz pianist.
In the late 1970s, when he couldn't find his favourite music,
he opened his own used-record store across from Sam the Record
Man (where he had once worked). British Airways stewards with
the latest English extended plays were his preferred customers.
He worked for Carswell's, the legal publisher, and eventually
left them to produce Noble's International Guide to the Law Reports
in 1995. His publishing-house imprint, Nicol Island Publishing,
took its name from his mother's cottage on the family's beloved
Nicol Island, a three-hour drive northeast of Toronto. A great
uncle had originally bought the 26-acre property. The island
was a favourite retreat for Scott and eventually his two young
daughters, Anna and Roslyn.
Having decided to reprint Egan's full oeuvre, Scott quickly discovered
that the library copy was brittle and words had bleached through
onto other pages. Photocopying was impossible and so, daily,
he lugged his 29-pound Toshiba portable to the library to begin
the task of transcribing every word. Librarians warmed to this
daunting (if unusual) project and provided a storage space. Working
doggedly. he completed and published three volumes, discovering
in the process that the University of Western Ontario not only
had a full set but also kept it on their open stacks. Scott alerted
that library to the need for a more secure location.
He proofread every edition four times and was working on volume
four when in December, 2002, he was diagnosed with the cancer
that would claim his life. A friend in Ottawa said his only concern
was his girls. "He seemed truly surprised when I explained that
other people would miss him, too."
Scott was a renaissance rebel and will be remembered for his
contribution to legal publishing and his quirky desire to return
Pierce Egan to circulation.
In a final note to boxing publisher Don Cogswell, he said simply:
"Thanks for everything, went out reading Ring Magazine! P.S.
Molineaux was robbed."
Bill HUMBER is a friend of Scott
NOBLE.
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HUME o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-29 published
WRIGHT,
W.
J.
Chaplin ''Bud''
Died of heart failure in Naples, Florida on March 25th, 2003,
in his 81st year. He was the
son of Alma
CHAPLIN and Edward E.
H. WRIGHT of St. Catharines. He was born and raised in St. Catharines,
with summers spent at their cottage in Niagara-on-the-Lake. He
attended Ridley College and graduated in Chemical Engineering
from U. of T. Bud served with the submarine chasers, the corvette
arm of the navy in World War 2.
As a chemical engineer, he worked for Stelco, Dupont and Galtex.
Then he worked for over 25 years with Merrill Lynch as a financial
advisor, a career that became his real love.
He was dearly loved and will be greatly missed by his wife of
53 years, Jane
MURRAY, their four children: son Ken and wife
Jill; three daughters, Marsha and Don
SADOWAY,
Ellen and Paul
EDWARDS, and Leah Ann; by his sister Briar
SMITH, wife of the
late Larry
SMITH, as well as three young grandchildren, Sam,
Nathan and Caaryn. Bud is predeceased by his sister, Mary Elizabeth
HUME.
Next to his family was his love for a good competitive game of
squash, tennis and bridge. Many happy family holidays were spent
at the cottage in Southampton, and that is where his final resting
place will be.
Bud led his family by example with uncompromising integrity,
loyalty, humour, a zest for life, and love.
Cremation took place in Naples. A Memorial Service will be announced
at a later date, to be held at Saint Mark's Church, Niagara-on-the-lake.
Donations to Historic Saint Mark's Anglican Church (est. 1792)
Niagara-on-the-Lake or Arthritis Society.
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HUMENIUK,
Mary▼
Died suddenly, at her home in Penetang, on Friday, July 25, 2003.
Beloved wife of the late Peter (Prokip)
HUMENIUK.
Loving▼ mother
of Lucille
HUME,
Myron▼ and his wife
Abha.▼ Dear grandmother of
Michael. Resting at Cardinal Funeral Home, 366 Bathurst St. (near
Dundas), on Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral
service on Thursday at 10 a.m. Interment at York Cemetery. Panachida
on Wednesday 7: 30 p.m.
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HUME o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-13 published
Jim NOBLE: 1924 - 2003
Toronto beat cop who went on to become a deputy chief was 'one
of the most highly respected operatives in the history of Canadian
justice'
By Bill GLADSTONE
Special to The Globe and Mail Wednesday, August
13, 2003 - Page R5
He was a gentleman cop who rose through the ranks of the Toronto
police force to become deputy chief. Jim
NOBLE, who devoted 37
years to Canadian law enforcement, has died at the age of 78.
Mr. NOBLE's career was marked by an almost continuous advancement
through the ranks. As a divisional detective, he worked on a
gamut of crimes that included "housebreaking, frauds, sex offenses,
robberies -- a little bit of everything," he once explained.
Later promoted to the homicide squad, he investigated more than
100 murders. He was known for his painstaking legwork, his meticulous
attention to detail and his uncanny ability to weave an assortment
of disparate clues into what he once called "a nice rope of circumstantial
evidence."
He eventually headed the homicide squad, where up-and-coming
detectives like Julian
FANTINO, the current police chief, worked
under his command.
"He was one of the most highly respected homicide investigators
that the Toronto Police Service ever had," Mr.
FANTINO said.
"I always found him to be of impeccable integrity and a man of
very strong character and loyalty to the profession."
"He was one of the guys that knew all the answers,"said Walter
TYRRELL, a retired deputy chief who also once worked in homicide
under Mr. NOBLE's command. "If you needed advice, Jim was the
guy you would go to."
Mr. NOBLE was promoted to inspector in 1973, staff superintendant
in 1974 and deputy chief in 1977. He retired in 1984 with 61
letters of commendation in his file.
Besides homicide investigation, he was an expert on deportation
and extradition and lectured on those subjects at police colleges.
An outspoken critic of what he saw as an overly-liberal legal
system that put the rights of criminals above those of law-abiding
citizens, he once penned an article titled "The Pampered Criminal."
Convinced that the immigration department was equally soft on
criminals, he helped spurred the government into tightening up
the process by which criminals are deported.
"He was really upset with the system," said his former partner,
Jack FOSTER, a retired staff sergeant from the detective branch.
"He felt they were too soft on immigrants. We'd go to all the
trouble of a deportation hearing, they'd escort a guy over to
the United States, and within an hour he'd be back on our side
again."
Born in Whiteabbey, near Belfast, Northern Ireland, in 1924,
James Melvyn
NOBLE came to Canada with his family at the age
of four and grew up in a working-class neighbourhood on Toronto's
Shaw Street. After grade 12 he entered the Royal Canadian Air
Force and earned his pilot's wings, but, to his immense disappointment,
he never served overseas. Leaving the Royal Canadian Air Force
in 1946, he began looking for "something with a little bit of
action, a little bit of excitement." When his father, a carpenter,
suggested that he apply for a position with the police department,
the 22-year-old laughed -- hard -- but agreed to talk to a friend
of his father's who was a police inspector. After two lengthy
discussions, Mr.
NOBLE was ready to "give it a try."
For six months he pounded a beat in a police uniform. Then, paired
with a partner in a patrol car, he worked a graveyard shift and
became familiar with the "usual cases -- fights on the streets,
drunks, domestics, robberies." Often, after an overnight shift,
he would be obliged to make an appearance in court the next day.
Promoted to detective in 1957 and to the homicide squad in 1961,
he once explained that he'd watch for certain telltale signs
in an accused upon introducing himself as a police detective:
"a darting of the eyes, the mouth becomes dry and there's a wetting
of the lips, a throbbing of the artery in the neck. The person
gets pale, he's trembling."
He was often amazed at how readily criminals, once apprehended,
will confess their misdeeds. "There's almost a compulsion of
people to confess, especially in murder cases," he once said.
"It makes them feel that they have salved their conscience to
some degree by telling about it."
In one of many infamous cases that he handled,
NOBLE solved the
murder of an 89-year-old female doctor, Rowena
HUME, who was
viciously beaten to death by a derelict who had stayed at a Salvation
Army shelter and whom she had hired to do a few odd jobs. Two
days after the murder, having followed a series of clues, Mr.
NOBLE nabbed the suspect on a downtown street; the man blurted
out a confession almost instantly. Mr.
NOBLE was also part of
the gruesome homicide investigation involving the notorious Evelyn
DICK of Hamilton, Ontario
Mr. FOSTER, who was paired with Mr.
NOBLE for about eight years,
recalled that though he took his job very seriously, he also
"had a good sense of humour -- he enjoyed a good laugh."
On one occasion, after a painstaking, six-month investigation
into a complex case of insurance fraud, the duo were finally
ready to collar the perpetrator, a well-known socialite named
Irene.
"I remember Jim and me driving up Yonge Street to make the final
arrest, and he was singing, 'Irene, Goodnight, Irene,' " Mr.
FOSTER recalled. Irene, needless to say, was convicted.
For all of Mr.
NOBLE's acumen as an investigator, however, not
all of his professional faculties were in operation the day he
and Mr. FOSTER visited a Yonge Street ladies' wear shop to check
into a routine fraud. Getting back into the patrol car, Mr.
NOBLE
commented on how attractive he had found the store manager and
that he wished he could get to know her better.
"But she's probably married," he lamented.
"Jim, what kind of detective are you?" Mr.
FOSTER said. "Didn't
you notice that she's got no wedding ring on her finger?"
"No, I didn't. I guess I was too busy taking notes."
Mr. FOSTER insisted that Mr.
NOBLE, then 35 and single, make
the requisite follow-up call on his own. He did, and he and the
store manager, Barbara, were married in 1961.
Although he could play rough when the situation demanded, Mr.
NOBLE was known as an impeccable gentleman and a guardian of
old-fashioned standards and family values.
He once upbraided some bikers for using profanity in the presence
of their girlfriends; the biker girls explained they weren't
typical ladies but seemed touched by his courtesy all the same.
According to his daughter, Elaine
NOBLE Tames, Jim
NOBLE rarely
spoke about his professional life at home.
"Being in a house with two ladies, the typical gentleman side
of him would say, 'That's not the sort of thing to discuss with
your wife and daughter,' " she said.
Mr. NOBLE was the subject of a cover story in Toronto Life magazine
in 1972 that used him as a prism through which to view the entire
police force. The article described him as "gentle, thoughtful
and courteous," and noted that, except in target practice, he
had never fired the snubnosed Smith and Wesson.38 revolver that
he wore on his right hip.
American authors Bruce Henderson and Sam Summerlin devoted a
chapter to him in their 1976 book The Super Sleuths, and described
him as "one of the most highly respected operatives in the history
of Canadian justice."
"He was the embodiment of professionalism in everything he did,
and that was the standard to which he held other people," Mr.
FANTINO said.
Jim NOBLE died in Toronto on July 15, leaving his wife
Barbara,
daughter Elaine and sister Pat
WILKINSON, all of Toronto.
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HUMENIUK,
Mary▲
Died suddenly, at her home in Penetang, on Friday, July 25, 2003.
Beloved wife of the late Peter (Prokip)
HUMENIUK.
Loving▲ mother
of Lucille
HUME,
Myron▲ and his wife
Abha.▲ Dear grandmother of
Michael. Resting at Cardinal Funeral Home, 366 Bathurst St. (near
Dundas), on Tuesday and Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral
service on Thursday at 10 a.m. Interment at York Cemetery. Panachida
on Wednesday 7: 30 p.m.
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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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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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CHRISTIE,
Mary
Louise (née
HUMPHREY)
Died peacefully of natural causes on February 19, 2003, at the
age of 84. She was predeceased by her husband John Donald
CHRISTIE
(1967,) and her mother Stella
HUMPHREY
(CHARTERS) (1977.) She
was born in Toronto but after her marriage to Jack, considered
herself to be a Westerner. She will be greatly missed by a small
Corp of dear Friends in Winnipeg and her cousins in Ontario.
Donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated
by the family.
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HUMPHREY,
Molly,
(May
Anne) née
MOLLOY
Peacefully March 6, 2003, in her 89th year. Predeceased in 1996
by Cecil, her husband and best friend of 57 years. Beloved mother
of Valerie, Susan, Jennifer and Patricia; cherished Nana of 8
grandchildren, Craig (Susie), Karin, Christopher (Julie), Alexis,
David, Leigh, Ian and Robyn; and two great-granddaughters, Cameron
and Aidan. While Molly lived in Canada for many years she was
always proud to be first a Londoner. If desired donations may
be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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Thomas Alexander
HUMPHREY
By Bruce T.
HUMPHREY
Tuesday,
June 24, 2003 - Page A20
Husband, father, grandfather, community leader, funeral director.
Born December 6, 1918 in Toronto. Died October 22, 2002 in Barrie,
Ontario, of cancer, aged 83.
Tom HUMPHREY was born the only child of Albert (Bert) and Florence
HUMPHREY.
When his father died at the age of 44, Tom's mother
took control of the family firm with the assistance of a manager
until Tom was old enough, in 1939, to obtain his funeral director's
licence.
He and his mother operated both the funeral home and the ambulance
service they provided to the public. As the third generation
HUMPHREY to guide the family business, Tom took great care in
making sure that the firm continued to upgrade its services and
facilities within an ever-changing society.
Active in the community, Tom helped create the Metropolitan and
Provincial Ambulance Groups.
He was also a member of the Toronto Board of Trade; the Masonic
Order, and Bedford Lodge No. 638 G.R.C. for more than 50 years.
Tom also belonged (and held office) in the Rameses Shriners
as well, he was a member for 50 years (in addition to having
served as a past director) of the Royal Order of Jesters Court
83 and a member of the Toronto-Leaside Rotary Club for more than
45 years.
He was one of the founders of the Funeral Society of Ontario
(Fraternal), known today as Guaranteed Funeral Deposits of Canada.
He also served as a director on various boards for several companies
and participated in several professional associations during
his life.
Tom was a member of Toronto's Leaside United Church since 1956,
having served many years as an elder.
Boating was a also great interest -- almost a passion -- to my
father; this led to his becoming the first Commodore of the Big
Bay Point Yacht Club.
Thomas HUMPHREY moved to Thornhill, Ontario, shortly after his
marriage to Lois Belle
LEONARD, the love of his life since their
meeting 70 years ago. Eventually, he and his family moved to
homes in Big Bay Point and the Barrie area in Ontario, providing
him with great personal satisfaction and an ever-increasing and
enlarging circle of Friends.
"His other love in life has been to travel with my mom to wonderful
and exotic locales around the world, with his home time divided
between Ontario and Florida," says his daughter Valerie
DICKSON/DIXON.
Thomas's wife Lois says: "His personal and corporate success
will be long remembered and revered by family, Friends and business
associates. "
Most of all, Tom loved his family members, who meant so much
to him. He will always be missed and loved by his children, grandchildren
and all those who were close to him.
Tom is survived by his wife Lois, daughter Valerie and her husband
Rod DICKSON/DIXON; son Bruce and his wife
Christina
K.
HUMPHREY.
Tom was predeceased by daughter Denise
WATSON and is father-in-law
to John WATSON.
Tom is lovingly remembered by his grandchildren Andrew
WATSON
Sean and Jeffrey
DICKSON/DIXON; and Adam, Jacquelyn and Courtney
HUMPHREY.
Bruce HUMPHREY is Thomas
HUMPHREY's son and president of Humphrey
Funeral Home, A.W. Miles Chapel.
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HUMPHREY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-31 published
Slain man was central to case that altered confession rule
By Christie
BLATCHFORD,
Wednesday,
December 31, 2003 - Page A7
The late Kirk Alexander
SWEENEY, who was buried just this week,
may be best remembered by the general public as one of a number
of young black men gunned down over the Christmas holidays.
Toronto homicide detectives may think instead of how crude street
justice got Mr.
SWEENEY in the end: He was, they say, essentially
executed at the G-Spot nightclub in the early-morning hours of December 22.
The handsome 26-year-old allegedly had been a witness, four years
ago, to a double murder that took place at another crowded club.
But Mr. SWEENEY, like dozens and dozens of others who were within
an arm's length of the victims, refused to tell police what he
knew of the shooting of Godfrey (Junior)
DUNBAR and Richard
BROWN.
The result of their collective silence has been that those two
slayings remain unsolved, the killer or killers still at large.
And now, of course, the same hear-, see-, and speak-no-evil rule
appears to be applying to the investigation of Mr.
SWEENEY's
slaying. Detectives find few people who were within eyeshot, among the crowd of 150, willing to co-operate.
But Mr. SWEENEY made a rather more lasting contribution to Canadian
criminal law -- aside, that is, from compiling a not unimpressive
record of his own on various weapons-related offences.
In the fall of 2000, he was the person at the centre of an important
legal case, the outcome of which made it far more difficult for
police to get suspects to talk and virtually impossible for prosecutors
to take any resulting confessions to court if even a hint of a whiff of a threat had been used to obtain them.
The background goes like this.
On December 31, 1996, a taxi driver -- a hard-working new immigrant
picked up two men and drove them to a townhouse complex in Toronto.
One man, allegedly Mr.
SWEENEY, was in the front passenger seat,
the other in the rear. Once they reached their destination, the
man in the front switched off the ignition, while the rear passenger
purportedly put his arm around the driver's neck.
The man in the front then allegedly pointed a gun at the driver, threatened to kill him, and demanded his money.
As the driver was reaching to get it, he told police later, the man in the front pistol-whipped him about the head.
The two men fled with the money; the police were called, and
within an hour, a police dog was tracking a scent from the cab
to the rear entrance of the townhouse of Mr.
SWEENEY's family.
As Mr. SWEENEY left the home, he was arrested, along with another suspect.
Mr. SWEENEY subsequently made two statements to police.
One officer said if Mr.
SWEENEY could tell them where the gun
was, they would not have to execute a search warrant on his mother's home.
Mr. SWEENEY told the detective he had thrown the weapon out a window, but police still couldn't find it.
At Mr. SWEENEY's original trial, Judge David
HUMPHREY disallowed
the statement on the grounds that it was the product of "an inducement" by the detective.
But Mr. SWEENEY gave another statement.
A second officer said police had prepared a search warrant for
the house -- this was true -- and told Mr.
SWEENEY that officers
would "trash" the house, looking for the gun, if he didn't tell
them where it was. Mr.
SWEENEY apparently hesitated, and the
officer added, "Your mom is already upset. Just be a man and
make this easier for her." Mr.
SWEENEY told the officer the gun
was in a box in his mother's closet, and even drew a little diagram for him.
The police executed the warrant and, as sure as cats like litter,
found the gun, right where Mr.
SWEENEY said it was.
At trial, Judge
HUMPHREY concluded -- sensibly, I'd argue, to
the average Joe -- that this statement was also the result of
an inducement, and thus involuntary, but found it admissible
under what's called the St. Lawrence rule. That rule, taken from
an old case of the same name, held that even involuntary statements
are admissible if they are reliable -- if, in other words, the
suspect is proved to have been telling the truth. In this way,
those who make false confessions are still protected.
As Judge HUMPHREY wrote with considerable understatement of the
purported inducement, "There was no aura of oppression, no torture
it was almost a gentlemen's agreement, if you will."
Mr. SWEENEY was duly convicted by a judge and jury of robbery,
assault while using a weapon and two other weapons offences, and sentenced to six years in prison.
Fast forward to the Ontario Court of Appeal, where Mr.
SWEENEY's
new lawyer, Howard
BORENSTEIN, successfully argued that his client's
Charter right to remain silent had been violated by the police
having held over his head the "threat" of the raucous search.
In a September 25, 2000, decision, Mr. Justice Marc
ROSENBERG,
writing for the unanimous court, threw out the involuntary confession,
thundered that "a threat to destroy the property of a family
member by abusing the authority given to the police by the search
warrant is not properly characterized as a technical threat"
and said that if the confession were allowed, "it would be condoning
the use of threats to abuse judicial process" and would "raise serious concerns for the administration of justice."
More broadly, Judge
ROSENBERG said that the old St. Lawrence
rule was now so undermined by the Charter that it "would only
be in highly exceptional circumstances" that a trial judge would
be entitled to admit a confession like Mr.
SWEENEY's.
And because the poor cab driver -- remember him? -- had had only
a glimpse of his attacker, and there was virtually no other evidence
against Mr.
SWEENEY, the Court of Appeal set aside the conviction and entered an acquittal.
Mr. SWEENEY went on to compile his lengthy criminal record, allegedly
witness a double murder about which he remained mute, and die
on the floor of the G-Spot. I wonder what all that does for the glory of the administration of justice.
Clarification Due to my inability to read my own notes, I wrote
the other day that Adrian
BAPTISTE, gunned down last Saturday
in a North York parking lot and only eight days out of jail after
being acquitted of second-degree murder, had been talking of
straightening out his life, and thinking of going into law enforcement.
In fact, as his lawyer David
BAYLISS told me, Mr.
BAPTISTE had dreamed of becoming a lawyer.
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HUMPHRIES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-13 published
MARCHANT,
Douglas
Macleod
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 69 years ago and died on July 20th,
2003, while holidaying at Mermaid Beach, Queensland, Australia.
For 35 years a loving husband and friend of Juleen, wonderful
father and father-in-law of Warwick (Toronto) and Ainslie and
James AITKEN
(London,
England,) proud son-in-law of Jean
HUMPHRIES
(Brisbane,
Australia.)
Loved younger brother of Canon Iain
MARCHANT,
Colonel Kenneth
MARCHANT and Anne
PATERSON and their families
in England and Scotland. Doug was a special and energetic man,
who radiated life and inner strength. He was always there for
his family and gave his enthusiastic support in all their endeavours.
After 40 years living and working around the world with Bata
International, Doug's passion for life, be it in work or in retirement,
was an inspiration to all who knew him. He was a champion golfer,
a skier, windsurfer, sailor, tennis and squash player, surfboarder,
motorcycle enthusiast and Bridge player. With his love of nature,
sports, music and reading there were never enough hours in each
day. He will be greatly missed and forever in our hearts. A funeral
service and cremation took place in Brisbane on July 25th, 2003.
A Memorial Service will be held at 3: 30 p.m. on Thursday October
9th at Kingsway Lambton United Church, The Kingsway and Prince
Edward Drive in Etobicoke, with a reception following. Doug's
final resting place will be in the hills of Scotland. With interests
in a number of organizations, Doug was also on the Board of the
Bethany Hills School. If desired, donations may be made to the
Douglas M. Marchant Endowment Fund, to benefit the students through
an academic scholarship, at the Bethany Hills School, P.O. Box
10, Bethany, Ontario. L0A 1A0. Phone (705)-277-2866. www.bethanyhills.on.ca
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