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Cecilia Pik-Ling
TAM
Just over a week after being diagnosed with cancer, died peacefully
at Scarborough General Hospital with her loving family at her
side on February 9, 2003. She was 54. She will be sadly missed
by her husband Paul and children Janice and Anthony. Dear sister
to Paulson
LEE and his wife
Winifred
WONG,
Anita
LEE and her
husband Choy Ping
YIN,
Leslie
LEE and her husband Gilbert
HUNG,
Antonia LEE and her husband Norman TU, Josephine
LEE and her
husband William
CHAN, Bernard
LEE and his wife Happy
SHEE. Predeceased
by her parents
LEE
Chun
Kwok and
LO Kwei Yuen as well as her
siblings LEE Pik Kwan, Betty
LEE, Elsie
LEE and her husband Chau
Kai Hang, and
LEE Pik Shan. Francis
LEE, Betty
LEE's husband,
will also miss Ceci. Loving sister-in-law to Peter
TAM and his
wife Julianna
CHEUNG, Alice
TAM and her husband Charles
YAM,
Henry TAM and his wife
Teresa
TSANG.
Her many relatives and Friends
will miss her kindness and beauty. She passed away with extraordinary
grace, courage, and faith. Surely God was on her side. Her selfless
devotion will be remembered by all the people she has touched
during her shortened lifetime. Family and Friends may visit at
the Jerrett Funeral Home North York Chapel, 6191 Yonge Street,
North York (2 lights South of Steeles Ave.) on Wednesday from
6 9 p.m. and Thursday from 2 4 and 6 9 p.m. There will
be no visitation on Friday. The Funeral Mass will be on Saturday
February 15, 2003 at 10: 00 a.m. at St. Bonaventure Roman Catholic
Church, 1300 Leslie St. (at Lawrence Ave. East.). Private burial
for family members only. In lieu of flowers, please donate to
the Cecilia
TAM
Memorial
Fund at 42 Fulham Street, Scarborough,
Ontario, M1S 2A5.
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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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BROWN,
Ruth
Elizabeth (née
TAILOR/TAYLOR) of Tillsonburg
Suddenly on March 6, 2003. Beloved wife of Grant C. (Bud)
BROWN,
Q.C. for 61 years. Loving mother of Lyn
SMITH
(David,)
Craig
BROWN
(Jane,)
Kathy
GIRVIN (David) and Timothy
BROWN (Kathé.)
Dear grandmother of Sara
SMITH
(Brian
DYCK) and Cullen
SMITH
(Deceased); Will, Anna and Julian
BROWN; Scott and Martha
GIRVIN
Lyn BROWN.
Great-grandmother of Jacob and Liam
DYCK. She will
also be greatly missed by her sisters Kay
WARREN and Jean
HUNT
and her brother, Campbell
TAILOR/TAYLOR
(Ruby) of Galt. The family will
receive Friends and relatives at The Verhoeve Funeral Home, 262
Broadway, Tillsonburg, on Sunday, from 2-4 pm and 7-9 pm. Funeral
service will be conducted on Monday at 2 pm. at St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church, 48 Brock Street, West, Tillsonburg. Interment
to follow in the Tillsonburg Cemetery. If you wish, donations
to St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church or Tillsonburg District Memorial
Hospital Foundation would be greatly appreciated by the family.
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LAKIE,
June
Hunt
Died very peacefully on May 22, 2003 at her home in Aurora. With
her were David, husband of 53 years; daughter Jennifer, sons
David, Bruce and niece Judie
HUNT of Ottawa. June was predeceased
by brothers Lindahl and Douglas. At June's request a private
family service was held at which sister-in-law Betty
HUNT of
Saint
John's, niece Shelagh Hunt
LARIVIERE,
Toronto, daughters-in-law
Manda and Andi and June's eight grandchildren were in attendance.
She bids farewell to sister-in-law Mick
HUNT of Saint John's, and
her Friends in Saint John's, Montreal, Toronto and Aurora. To her
French Group whose company she enjoyed so much - Au Revoir. Again,
at her very special request, June's ashes were taken by David
and family to her beloved Newfoundland and rest with her father
and mother. A graveside service was held in Saint John's on June
''Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth''
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CARTWRIGHT,
Joan
Elizabeth
Joan Elizabeth
CARTWRIGHT, 65, died on June 12th, after a long
and courageous fight with breast cancer, at her daughter's home
in East Hardwick, Vermont. Her daughter Deborah and son-in-law
Tim were with her at her final breath. Joan was born in Toronto,
Ontario, to William Bovell and Mary Elizabeth
(POTTER)
CARTWRIGHT.
She moved to Montreal, Quebec, where she attended McGill University,
and then Concordia University, from where she graduated with
distinction. After marriage, she raised her family of four children
living in Montreal and then again in Toronto. She moved to Wolcott,
Vermont in 1992, and bought and renovated an old schoolhouse
in the country. Her household consisted of several cats, all
of which were orange tigers, and her beloved dog Joey, with whom
she spent hours every day walking the back roads, visiting her
neighbors, and playing ball. She also kept herself busy by volunteering
at local libraries, was an extremely voracious reader and had
a wide knowledge of books. She loved her crossword puzzles in
the weekend paper, and indeed loved any type of word challenge
especially Scrabble! Joan adored her grandchildren, and although
she didn't see them often, never missed an opportunity to talk
with Friends about them and show off photos. She was an accomplished
knitter, and was pleased to give away her beautiful sweaters,
dozens of which she donated to local charities. She is survived
by her sister, Eleanor
HUNT of Ontario; her ex-husband, L. Lamont
GORDON of Toronto, Ontario; her children: Katharine
GORDON and
husband Chuck
MITCHELL of Wolcott, Vermont, Deborah and husband
Tim HARTT of East Hardwick, Vermont, James
GORDON and wife
Shannon
McQUILLAN of Kamloops, British Columbia, and Pamela
GORDON of
Toronto, Ontario; her grandchildren, Keaven, Connor, Seamus,
Haley, Walker, Sam, Laura and Angus; and several nieces, nephews
and cousins. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, June
29th, in Toronto, Ontario. Memorial donations may be made in
Joan's name, to The Frontier Animal Society of Vermont, 502 Strawberry
Acres Road, Newport, Vermont 05855.
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David LAKIE
Died July 24, 2003 in Ottawa as he was preparing to embark on
an Arctic tour. David
LAKIE was born December 19, 1924 at Motherwell,
Scotland to James and Agnes
(KENNEDY)
LAKIE.
After serving as
a flight officer in the Royal Navy, Fleet Air Arm, during the
Second World War he arrived in Newfoundland where he married
his lifelong love June
HUNT on October 5 1949. After a sucessful
career in business David retired to Aurora, Ontario to share
his love for family and travel with June. David is survived by
his children David, Jennifer, Bruce and his brother William (Bill)
LAKIE of Arbroath Scotland. Grandchildren, nieces and nephews
will all miss David and as will his many Friends from Rosedale
Golf Club, Harvard Business School, Probus Club and June's art
group. Family and Friends are invited to pay their respects during
visitation at the Thompson Funeral Home 29 Victoria Street, Aurora.
(905-727-5421), on Wednesday July 30 from 7-9 p.m. A funeral
service will be held on Thursday, July 31st 2003 at 11 a.m. at
St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, 32 Mosley Street, Aurora. A
Graveside Service will be held at a later date at Saint John's,
Newfoundland, where David will be put to rest with June. David
was deeply grieved by June's passing on May 22, 2003. His wish
to be with her again has been fulfilled.
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Sculptor 'entirely original'
A wood carver from a young age who made many public works, he
was befriended by the Group of Seven and later carved their tombstone
epitaphs
By Bill GLADSTONE,
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, November
15, 2003 - Page F10
A Canadian sculptor who as a young man was adopted by the Group
of Seven has died in Toronto. E. B.
COX, who prided himself on
achieving artistic and commercial success without ever taking
a penny in government grants, was 89.
Mr. COX was a young associate, of some of the Group of Seven
with whom he went on northern sketching trips; A. Y.
JACKSON
once complimented him on his "good sense of form." He later carved
their tombstone epitaphs.
A wood carver from a young age, he came to master stone and even
the delicate art of faceting and carving precious stones; he
also tried metal, ceramics and glass. Because he liked to work
fast, he pioneered the use of power tools to quicken the chiselling
process, a technique that purists initially disdained as a form
of cheating.
According to one 1990s guide-book, he had "more sculpture on
view in Toronto's public places than any other single artist."
His 20-piece Garden of the Greek Gods, originally installed in
the 1950s on the Georgian Peaks near Collingwood, Ontario, was
later relocated to the far more populous grounds of the Canadian
National Exhibition near the Dufferin Gate. The only fully human
representation in the group, an 11-foot-high statue of Hercules,
was carved from a six-tonne piece of Indiana limestone -- "the
biggest piece of stone used by a sculptor in Canada," according
to friend and patron, Ken
SMITH.
Among his many other public works are a fish fountain for a courtyard
at the former Park Plaza Hotel, a stone bear for the Guild Inn,
a stone Orpheus for Victoria College, lavish countertops and
railings for historic bank buildings, a large seated lady for
McMaster University and whimsical creatures for a school yard
in Milton, Ontario
Having mastered big, he also excelled at small: He used to claim
that he invented coffee-table art. He carved little totem poles
to put himself through university, and became known for his small
bear sculptures, which he sold at popular prices, especially
at Christmas. "At university, I damned near starved," he would
explain. "I don't believe in starving artists."
Influenced by Iroquois and West Coast Haida art, he focused on
bears, beavers, birds and other animals as well as human torsos,
masks and heads; he often caught the animals in quirky fluid
poses and never failed to capture their essential natures. He
once crafted an all-Canadian limited-edition chess set for the
Hudson's Bay Co., with beavers as pawns, coureurs de bois as
knights, Indian princesses as queens, and so on. He was "the
great bridge between aboriginal art and modern art," according
to Mr. SMITH and others. A picture book about him, featuring
an essay by Gary Michael
DAULT, was published by Boston Mills
Press in 1999.
"He was entirely original," said Toronto sculptor Dora DE
PEDERY-
HUNT.
"Absolutely nobody else did what he did. What style he had was
entirely his. I call him a real good sculptor, a real good artist."
The younger of two brothers, Elford Bradley
COX was born on July
16, 1914, in Botha, Alberta., where his family made a short-lived
attempt at farming; he learned to carve by watching his maternal
grandfather whittle kindling by the fireside. He persisted in
sculpting even though his pious father was vehemently opposed
to the creation of "graven images," he told Toronto Life magazine
in 1997. The family returned to Bowmanville, Ontario, where E.
B. spent most of his childhood, and where his mother died suddenly
after an epileptic attack when her favoured son was a young teenager.
When it was time for him to go to university, "his father sent
him off with $5, a suitcase and a wish of good luck," said Kathy
SUTTON, the younger of his two daughters.
Studying languages at the University of Toronto from 1934 to
1938, Mr. COX was befriended by German professor and painter
Barker FAIRLEY, who introduced him to A. Y.
JACKSON,
Fred
VARLEY
and Arthur
LISMER of the Group of Seven.
Mr. COX started teaching languages at Upper Canada College, but
soon left to join the war effort as an intelligence officer,
interrogating prisoners of war in Europe.
Afterward, he resumed teaching at Upper Canada College, and devoted
part of a summer to a school canoe trip on the Mississauga River
the next summer he escorted a group of boys on an even more adventurous
trip down the Churchill River in the barren lands. "That was
just unheard-of in those years," recalled Terence A.
WARDROP,
who joined that expedition and became Mr.
COX's lifelong friend
and solicitor. "It was a big trip and it was almost historic
the rivers and some of the lakes were unmapped in 1948."
Quitting his teaching job in 1949, Mr.
COX married the former
Betty CAMPBELL, bought a farm near Palgrave, Ontario, and discovered
that he could survive as a full-time artist. (Although he considered
government subsidies poisonous, he once applied for a government
grant to study Canadian stones suitable for sculpting -- and
was turned down. "I did my stone research without their damn-fool
money," he told The Globe and Mail in 1970.) Moving to a rural
property in north Toronto and later to a Victorian house in eastern
Toronto, he separated from his wife but remained on excellent
terms with her and their daughters.
Being partial to pranks, he once purchased a canoe for his wife
as a gift and, to achieve maximum surprise, paddled it to the
dock at the family cottage in a rented disguise. Along with his
love of humour, Friends recall his sharp wit and his ability
to cut through social pretense. "He said he wanted his gravestone
to read, 'I told you I was sick,' " recalled art dealer John
INGRAM. "
That's what I remember about him -- his great sense
of humour and just what a wonderful compassionate guy he was.
He tried to give this air of being an old curmudgeon, but in
fact, he was anything but."
Becoming a mentor to many young artists, Mr.
COX generously shared
his tools and experience with them. "He didn't have much mentoring
when he was learning to be an artist -- people didn't help him
so he took the opposite tack," said his daughter Kathy.
Always enthusiastic and full of ideas, he was usually in his
workshop early in the morning -- and kept on working even after
losing his sight in his final years. His home was full of fine
sculpture and painting, including a portrait of Mr.
COX by Mr.
FAIRLEY that hung over the mantel. "It was a lovely place, and
by the time you got out of there, you were in a buying fever,"
Mr. SMITH recalled. "E.B. himself was part of the fun of buying
stuff. People were just charmed by the atmosphere he created."
He was also famously not particular about the prices he asked
from genuine admirers of his work.
As for his art's place in the world, he was confident it would
last, at least in the physical sense. "We'd have these long philosophical
talks about whether there was an afterlife and what legacy to
leave behind," friend Eric
CONROY recalled. "He'd say that his
stone works would be there long after Rembrandt's paintings had
crumbled."
E. B. COX died in Toronto on July 29, leaving his wife
Betty,
daughters Sally
SPROULE and Kathy
SUTTON, two grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
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Lillian Milinda
VINEY
In loving memory of Lillian Milinda
VINEY, who passed away peacefully
at Manitoulin Health Centre on Friday, April 11, 2003 at the age of 82 years.
Beloved wife of Charles
VINEY. Dear mother of Shirley
VINEY of
Little
Current,
George
VINEY of Manitowaning, Sandra and husband
Bruce POPE of Manitowaning, Lyla
VINEY of Orillia. Loved grandmother
of Stephanie and Mark
MacDONALD (fiancée Holly,) Andrew and Katherine
POPE,
Kimberley,
Laura and Marianne
MENARD. Special great
grandmother of Jonathan and Jessica
ORR,
Justin,
Destanie
(BAILEY)
and Liliana
MacDONALD.
Remembered by brother and sisters Violet
HUBBARD-
McALLISTER (predeceased,) Harry
JAGGARD (wife
Gladys
predeceased,) Bessie
LOCKYER (husband James predeceased,) Florence
LENSON (husband Walter predeceased,) Madeleine
CHARLTON (husband John
predeceased), predeceased by sisters Beulah and Iris and parents Guy and
Evalena JAGGARD.
Sister-in-law of Harry
VINEY, Ruth
McCULLIGH
(predeceased,) Lauretta
McGILLIS (predeceased,) Grace
HUNTER
(predeceased,) Joyce and husband Howard
HOLMES,
Glenn and wife
Margaret VINEY, predeceased by Joe, Bob and Edith. Will be missed by
numerous nephews and nieces. Visitation was held Sunday, April 13,
2003. Funeral service was held Monday, April 14, 2003. Both at Knox
United Church, Manitowaning. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery at a
later date. Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home.
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Howard Kenneth
HOLMES
In loving memory of Howard Kenneth
HOLMES who died unexpectedly at
home on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 at the age 72 years.
Beloved husband of Joyce (née
VINEY.)
Loved father of Bonny and
husband Douglas
KILGOUR of Fort McMurray, Kenneth and wife
Evelina of
Longlac, Joe and wife Joyce of Bidwell Rd., Manitowaning, Diana
HOLMES and friend Williard
PYETTE of Tehkummah, Sharon and Robert
Case of the Slash, and predeceased by son Douglas (1957). Cherished
grandfather of Allison
KILGOUR and friend Jason, Heather and husband
Gopal BRUGALETTE,
Kenny
HOLMES and friend Sarah, Crystal and husband
Rob PERIGO, Nick
HOLMES and friend Melanie, Pam
SHEAN, Pat
SHEAN,
Scott CASE,
Brock
CASE. Forever remembered by four great
grandchildren Jazzlynn, Taylor, Faith and Nikaila. Will be missed
by brother Clarence and wife Guelda of Mitchell and sister Dorothy
and husband Gordon
GERMAN of Crossfield, Alberta and in-laws Harry
VINEY of Gore Bay, Charlie (wife
Lillian predeceased)
VINEY of
Wikwemikong Manor, Glenn and wife Margaret
VINEY of Kinmount, Gladys
(predeceased) and husband Harry
JAGGARD of Manitowaning. Predeceased
by Grace and husband Carmen
HUNTER,
Ruth and husband Bill and Loretta
and husband Neil
McGILLIS.
Visitation was held on Thursday, November
20. Funeral service was held on Friday, November 21, 2003 all at
Island Funeral Home. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery.
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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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Died
This
Day -- Adelaide
HOODLESS, 1910
Wednesday, February 26, 2003 - Page R7
Social activist, educational reformer born Adelaide
HUNTER at
St. George, Canada West, on February 26, 1857; in 1889, jolted
out of a comfortable, middle-class life by death of infant son
caused by impure milk; thereafter, sought to improve education
of women for motherhood and household management; campaigned
for domestic science courses in schools; in 1897, founded first
Women's Institute chapter; within few years, the movement spread
across Canada and around the world; helped found National Council
of Women, Victorian Order of Nurses and national Young Women's
Christian Association; believed women's destiny lay in home
never supported suffragette cause.
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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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Wilma Ruth
KYLE
By Patricia
HUNTER
Thursday,
September 4, 2003 - Page A28
Wife, mother, grandmother, volunteer, world traveller. Born November
12, 1915, in Toronto. Died March 28 in Niagara Falls, Ontario,
of congestive heart failure, aged 87.
Wilma sounds like such a plain name and my mother was anything
but: she was a beautiful woman who was intelligent, kind, loving,
and fun-loving. She often said that she was supposed to be a
boy and be named after her Uncle Bill, Wilfred Reese
BINCH.
However,
my dad, her family and her Friends called her "Willie."
Willie and her parents, Ernie and Ella
YOUNG, and her brother,
Jerry, lived in the west end of Toronto. Mom attended Keele Street
Public School and she made some lifelong Friends there. She and
her Friends at Humberside Collegiate started a bridge club, calling
themselves The Lucky Thirteen. They had great fun together and
one summer they rented a cottage at Grand Bend, Ontario.
One evening six medical students crashed a dance at University
College at the University of Toronto. Cam
KYLE asked Willie
YOUNG
to dance and then he asked if he could drive her home and she
said yes. When he took her home, she told him that she should
write down her phone number for him because there were a lot
of Youngs in the phone book. Cam didn't call for about two weeks
and Willie was starting to wonder if he was ever going to phone
her. When he finally did call and asked if he could come and
see her, he brought along his best friend for moral support.
This was the beginning of a four-year courtship and 62 years
of marriage.
After completing her B.A., Mom worked for six weeks at Eaton's
in the accounting department. She made $13 a week and before
she left to get married, she was offered a promotion and a raise
to $18 a week.
Dad completed his junior internship at St. Michael's Hospital
and joined the newly formed medical corps in the Royal Canadian
Air Force. This was July, 1940. Dad couldn't get leave to come
to Toronto to get married, so my parents were married in Winnipeg
on Valentine's Day, 1941.
After being raised a city girl in Toronto, Mom's life changed
dramatically, living in the wild west called Manitoba. She learned
how to cook on a wood stove and shoot prairie chickens with a
shotgun. Mom would drive the car and dad would stand on the running
board and shoot. When they reversed roles, my mother broke her
collarbone as the gun discharged.
The next several years tested my mother's inner strength. Dad
was posted overseas for three years when my brother, Bill, was
an infant. This meant that Mom was a single mother like many
women during the war. As well, her father died of heart disease
at the early age of 52. After the war, Dad completed his surgical
training and my brothers, Bob and Peter, and I arrived on the scene.
Jumping ahead to life in Niagara Falls, Mom worked hard on the
home front while dad established his medical practice. Mom enjoyed
gardening and grew beautiful flowers, especially roses and African
violets. Other activities included reading, curling, theatre,
and volunteer work. But mostly, she looked after dad and us and
this was a full-time job, especially when we were young. I didn't
realize until I was much older that everyone's mother didn't
stay up late at night sewing ballet and skating costumes after
putting in a full day.
Travel was a big part of my parents' life together. Not only
did it enrich their lives, teaching them about other cultures
around the world, but my mother often had some funny stories
to tell. She certainly was able to laugh at herself.
At her funeral, granddaughter Shannon described Willie as being
loving, adventurous, intelligent, and a bit of a worrywart. After
years of training from my mother, we all say to our own children,
"Call when you get there."
Patricia is Wilma's daughter.
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DE CASTRO,
Mhairi
Angela McLeod (née
FENTON-
McEUEN)
November 30, 1918 - March 19, 2003 Mhairi lived in Ste-Agathe,
Quebec with her parents until she was five, when her mother died.
Her uncle and aunt in Scotland, Dr. and Mrs. Stuart
McEUEN, took
her back with them to St. Andrews, Fife. On the death of her
grandfather Dr.
HUNTINGTON in St. Andrews, the McEuens returned
to Quebec, Montreal, and Lac Ouimet in the Mont Tremlant area.
Mhairi was educated in Montreal and Ottawa, where she was a pupil
at Elmwood School for a while before finishing her education
at a private school in Scotland. She left the United Kingdom
at the outbreak of World War 2, but not before having an adventure
in France driving ambulances. In 1937 Mhairi accompanied the
McEUENs to the Canadian Arctic. Her uncle was conducting research
into the health of the Native people in that area. During World
War 2 Mhairi spent much of her time helping her aunt, Dolly
McEUEN,
run the Ajax Club for British sailors in Halifax. Many comforts,
and brief holiday respites were made available to the sailors
in private homes. As well, the club provided a place to go when
they had leave from their duties on board ship. After the war
the success of this venture produced enough funds to create fifteen
scholarships for young men from the United Kingdom These young
men were unable to attend university because of their service
in the navy during the war. Now, the McEuen Scholarship would
provide them with an opportunity to continue their education
at McGill University. The
McEUENs knew all these scholars well,
meeting them at the dock when they first set foot in Canada.
For many of them the
McEUEN
House became a home away from home.
After the war Mhairi lived at 'Ottir', the house the
McEUENs
built on the side of a mountain overlooking Lac Ouimet, Quebec,
until the late sixties when she and her aunt moved to Ottawa.
Mhairi married her beloved Henry DE
CASTRO in 1976, he died in
1989. Mhairi and her aunt created another scholarship for a Canadian
to attend St. Andrews University in Fife, Scotland, and this
will continue indefinitely. She cared a lot about these students
and loved to hear from them, their progress and successes while
at university and afterwards. Mhairi also maintained her interest
in the Fraser Highlanders of which she was a member. Mhairi will
be remembered for her generosity in providing donations of Canadian
artifacts to Government House and to the Museum of Civilization
in Ottawa, as well as to the Louisburg Fortress and Maritime
Museum of the Atlantic in Nova Scotia. Over the last years after
Alzheimer Disease took away the life she loved, Mhairi has been
cared for by Luci
PEREIRA, her employee, friend, and loving caregiver,
since the seventies. Luci headed the team charged with attending
Mhairi, and deserves our thanks and praise for her devotion.
Also appreciated is the compassion and nurturing of the nurses,
staff, and doctors in the Villa Marguerite. The Funeral Service
will be held at St. Bartholomew's Anglican Church, 125 Mackay
Street, Ottawa, Ontario on Tuesday, March 25, 2003, at 11 a.m.
Arrangements in care of the Central Chapel of Hulse, Playfair
& McGarry, Ottawa. In lieu of flowers we request that you may
think of making a donation to the Villa Marguerite or the McEuen
Scholarship Foundation.
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