LACEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-20 published
Ex-politician and war hero
FLYNN dies
Was chairman of Metropolitan Toronto
By James RUSK Municipal Affairs Reporter Wednesday, August 20,
2003 - Page A17
Dennis FLYNN, a war hero who parachuted into France on D-Day
and eventually rose to be chairman of Metropolitan Toronto, died
yesterday morning as he was preparing to observe an army reserve
exercise at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa.
Mr. FLYNN, 79, who had been in poor health in recent years, collapsed,
apparently of a heart attack, at his hotel in Pembroke, and was
pronounced dead at Pembroke General Hospital, the Canadian Armed
Forces said in a statement.
Mr. FLYNN was mayor of Etobicoke from 1972 to 1984, the longest-serving
mayor of the Toronto suburb, and was chairman of Metropolitan
Toronto from 1984 to 1988. He continued to serve on Metro Council
until the 1997 amalgamation that created the new City of Toronto.
He served on the Toronto Police Services Board and was awarded
the Order of Canada in 2001.
Major Tim LOURIE, public-relations director of the exercise,
said Mr. FLYNN travelled to Pembroke on Monday to observe a reserve
exercise in which the Toronto Scottish Regiment (the Queen Mother's
Own,) of which Mr.
FLYNN was the honorary lieutenant-colonel,
was participating.
"Unfortunately, he didn't even get out to see us here," Major
LOURIE said. The regiment received the call that he had collapsed
in the hotel just before a group of honorary colonels was heading
out to observe the exercise.
Mr. FLYNN, was born in County Cork, Ireland, in 1923. When he
was two years old he migrated with his family to the Kensington
section of Toronto, long a melting pot for immigrants.
In 1938, at age 15, he joined the Toronto Scottish and volunteered
for active service at the outbreak of the Second World War. In
1942, he joined the joint Canadian-American unit that came to
be known as the Devil's Brigade, and in 1943, he transferred
to the 1st Canadian Parachute Regiment.
He jumped into Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944, where he was
wounded by German fire. After recovery, he rejoined the regiment,
jumped into Germany on March 24, 1945, in Operation Varsity,
the crossing of the Rhine River, and was wounded again when part
of his leg was shattered by machine-gun fire as he escorted two
German prisoners across the Rhine.
As a result of the wound, Mr.
FLYNN walked with a cane for the
rest of his life. "One of his most self-deprecating comments,
when talking to young soldiers, was that he had made only three
jumps. One was for practice, one was on D-Day, and the third
and last was across the Rhine," commented Lieutenant-Colonel
Mike TRAYNER, commanding officer of the Toronto Scottish.
After the war, he joined the City of Toronto's clerk's department,
and rose to be protocol officer. He failed in his first run for
mayor of Etobicoke in 1969, but upset the incumbent, Doug
LACEY,
in 1972.
In 1984, he was elected chairman of Metropolitan Toronto, replacing
Paul GODFREY, now president of the Toronto Blue Jays, who was
then leaving Toronto politics to become publisher of the Toronto
Sun. His career as Metro chairman ended in 1988, when he lost
to Alan TONKS, now a member of parliament.
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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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LACKIE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-21 published
Canadian Football League wide receiver 'was always there' and
rarely missed a pass
All-round athlete was also a prolific artist who amused teammates
and Friends with his skillful caricatures
By Randy RAY
Special▼ to The Globe and Mail Monday, July 21, 2003
- Page R5
Ottawa -- Kelvin
KIRK was an artist on and off the football field.
On the gridiron, the former Canadian Football League wide receiver
was known as an all-round athlete with tremendous breakaway speed
who rarely missed a pass within his grasp; in the locker room,
at home and in his second career in the advertising department
at an Ottawa newspaper, he was skilled with pen, pencil and paintbrush.
His humorous caricatures often left his teammates and fellow
employees grabbing at their sides with laughter.
Mr. KIRK, who was born on December 13, 1953, died on July 2 of
an apparent heart attack while playing pickup basketball in Ottawa.
The 49-year-old native of Mt. Pleasant, Florida, began his football
career at Dunbar High School in Ohio where he caught 13 touchdown
passes in two years for the Dunbar Wolverines.
In 1973, the 5-foot-11 (1.79 metre), 175-pound (65-kilogram)
receiver joined the Dayton Flyers at the University of Dayton
in Ohio, where he was the Flyers' top pass receiver for three
straight years and was voted the team's most valuable player
in 1975.
When he left after three seasons, he held the school's record
for receiving yardage, with 1,676 yards. In the Flyers' record
book, he continues to hold fourth place in career receiving yardage,
says Doug HAUSCHILD, director of media relations and sports information
at the University of Dayton.
After being selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 17th round
of the 1976 National Football League draft, Mr.
KIRK walked out
of training camp when he sensed he wasn't getting a legitimate
opportunity to make the club.
He was named "Mr. Irrelevant" because as the 487th selection,
he proved to be the last player taken in the draft, says Shawn
LACKIE, a public-relations spokesman for the Canadian Football
League.
He signed with the Canadian Football League's Toronto Argonauts
in 1977 and led the team in pass receptions.
He also played for the Calgary Stampeders, Saskatchewan Roughriders
and the Ottawa Rough Riders. He was Ottawa's most valuable player
in 1981 when the Rough Riders made it to the Grey Cup that year
but lost 26 - 23 to the Edmonton Eskimos.
His quarterback that year was J.C.
WATTS, who would later become
an Oklahoma congressman.
During his Canadian Football League career he caught 153 passes
for 2,942 yards and 16 touchdowns. He returned 163 punts for
1,678 yards and 82 kickoffs for another 1,922 yards. His runbacks
produced seven touchdowns.
"When the ball was thrown to him, he was always there. He had
great breakaway speed," says Rick
SOWIETA, a teammate of Mr.
KIRK's when both broke into the Canadian Football League with
the Argonauts.
"He had good speed, great hands -- he was our deep threat," says
Jeff AVERY, one of Mr.
KIRK's former Ottawa Rough Riders teammates,
and now a radio commentator for the Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian
Football League. "I remember one game when he caught three touchdown
passes to help us whip the Montreal Concorde." Most of his former
Rough
Riders' teammates remember Mr.
KIRK's biggest missed pass,
though the failed reception wasn't his fault.
"It was the 1981 Grey Cup game in the third or fourth quarter
and Kelvin was streaking down the sidelines in the clear. J.C.
[WATTS] overthrew him by about six inches. Had he made the catch,
it was a touch-down and we would have won the cup," says Mr.
SOWIETA, now a restaurant owner in Ottawa.
A professional artist and trained art teacher, Mr.
KIRK joined
the advertising department at The Ottawa Citizen in 1989 in an
order entry position and eventually worked on layouts and processing
copy for advertisements, before moving into desktop publishing,
which involved the creation of ads.
"There was nothing you could put on his desk that he couldn't
handle," says Rejéan
SAUMURE, manager of advertising services
at the Citizen.
"Kelvin never complained. He took it all on with a smile that
was worth a million bucks.
"He was the kind of guy who, as soon as he walked into the office,
everyone liked. He had a magnetism about him. He warmed a room."
Besides staying in tip-top shape, Mr.
KIRK kept involved in football
by helping coach the Ottawa Sooners of the Ontario Football Conference.
He was also a prolific artist, one of his specialties being caricatures
that amused his former teammates and Citizen colleagues.
During his years as a player, he would often sneak into the locker
room prior to practice and draw cartoons on a chalk board, usually
poking fun at teammates, coaches and various on-field happenings,
says Mr. AVERY. He continued his antics as a coach with the Sooners
as a way of keeping the mood light, adds Mr.
SOWIETA.
"Before practice, players always checked the board to see who
was being picked on that day by this mystery drawer. His work
could be hilarious," says Mr.
AVERY.
At the Citizen, where one of his dreams was to become a newsroom
artist, Mr.
KIRK often drew caricatures of co-workers and members
of his own family.
His drawings often appeared on the birthday cards that circulated
around the office.
"People would be quite amused," says Mr.
SAUMURE. "
His work was
not always flattering but it always captured those he was drawing."
Mr. KIRK leaves his 20-year-old son, Jonathan, and his wife
Joann
LARVENTZ, from whom he was separated.
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LACROIX o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-14 published
Philanthropist extraordinaire
Francophone students were among the many beneficiaries of her
generosity
By Randy RAY
Special▲ to The Globe and Mail Monday, July 14, 2003
- Page R7
Ottawa -- Before he died in February, 1993, millionaire Baxter
RICARD urged his wife
Alma to spend the couple's fortune wisely.
''Put it back into the community, " he told her. ''Spend it well.''
Mrs. RICARD did not let her husband down.
In the 10 years following the death of Mr.
RICARD, who owned
a chain of radio, television and cable stations in Northern Ontario,
she earned a reputation as one of Canada's most generous philanthropists,
highlighted by a $23-million donation in 1998 to a fellowship
fund that promotes higher education to francophone students across
the country.
Mrs. RICARD, who was born in Montreal on October 4, 1906, died
at her home in Sudbury on June 2. She was 96.
To date, the Ottawa-based Fondation Baxter and Alma Ricard has
given 81 students a total of $4.2-million to further their postsecondary
education. Other beneficiaries of the couple's generosity have
included colleges, hospitals, church groups and universities
in Sudbury and Toronto.
''Mrs. RICARD is one of the biggest philanthropists in Canada,"
said Alain
LANDRY, executive director of the foundation, which
was formed in 1988 to distribute the
RICARDs' money to various
charitable causes. The fellowship fund was set up a decade later.
Mrs. RICARD, formerly Alma
VÉZINA, moved to Sudbury in 1931 after
responding to a job advertisement from a hardware store run by
Félix RICARD, father of Baxter
RICARD.
She was trained as a secretary
at the time.
''She took the train and arrived at 4 a.m.," says Mr.
LANDRY.
''In those days, a young lady was not to be seen with a man going
to a hotel, so she and Baxter went to a church where they sat
until daylight, and she fell in love with him.'' She worked as
an administrative assistant to the elder Mr.
RICARD and eventually
married Baxter, who in later years inherited his father's hardware
store and ran it with the help of his wife.
In 1947, the
RICARDs left the hardware business and began building
a broadcasting empire in Northern Ontario, starting with two
radio stations in Sudbury and growing to include numerous radio
and television stations. Radio stations established by the couple
included CHNO, the first bilingual radio station in Ontario,
CFBR and
CJMX-FM.
In 1974, when cable television started to expand, Baxter
RICARD
and some colleagues obtained a licence for cable distribution
in northern and eastern Ontario and created Northern Cable Holdings
Ltd., which served the greater Sudbury area and areas as far
north as Hearst, Ontario In 1980, the company acquired two television
stations to serve the same areas and gave it the name Mid-Canada
Television. Mr.
RICARD also had an interest in a Toronto cable-television
company.
Alma RICARD was her husband's ''right-hand person" and took an
active part in the broadcasting business and all other ventures
he was involved in, including the city-planning committee in
Sudbury, the board of directors at Sudbury General Hospital and
the Central Canada Broadcasting Association. ''They were inseparable
in all those activities," says Mr.
LANDRY.
Like Felix
RICARD,
Baxter and Alma
RICARD were strong believers
in a Canadian mosaic that included French-speaking citizens.
In an era when Ontario's francophones were not permitted to study
in French, Felix
RICARD didn't have the financial means to promote
the francophone culture and lobby for French schooling, so he
became an outspoken trustee on the local school board.
As a trustee, he was ''a defender of the rights of francophones
in matters of French education... [who] made significant gains
for the francophone population of that region. A school in Sudbury
bears his name," says a document obtained from Fondation Baxter
& Alma Ricard. Baxter and Alma
RICARD, on the other hand, made
millions in the broadcasting industry and had the financial wherewithal
to further the francophone cause, including the struggle for
a quality education for French-speaking Ontarians.
''Baxter had no family and the couple had no children so they
had to think of who would inherit their money," says André
LACROIX
of Sudbury, a lawyer, business associate and long-time friend
of the RICARDs. ''Fairly early in the game they realized most
of their assets should be used for charitable purposes. That's
when they developed the idea of a charitable foundation.'' In
its initial years after Mr.
RICARD's death, the foundation donated
$600,000 to Cambrian College and $1-million each to Sudbury General
Hospital, the University of Sudbury, and Laurentian University,
all in Sudbury, and a total of more than $4-million to the University
of Toronto and St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
In the early 1990s, the
RICARDs and their associates sold their
radio and television stations to Baton Broadcasting and their
cable distribution company to
CFCF
Ltd. In 1998, on the strength
of money reaped from the sale, the fellowship fund was started
and aimed specifically at francophone Canadians living permanently
in a minority situation outside of Quebec who need money to advance
their studies beyond a bachelor's degree.
Based on Baxter
RICARD's idea, the fund was created jointly by
businessman Paul
DESMARAIS
Sr., now chairman of the executive
committee of management and holding company Power Corporation
of Canada. Mr.
DESMARAIS and Mr.
LACROIX, plus Paul
DESMARAIS
Jr., are members of the board of directors of Fondation Baxter
& Alma Ricard.
It was launched with the original $23-million donation from Ms.
RICARD and despite many disbursements, today sits at $25-million
thanks to interest earned on the principal, says Mr.
LANDRY.
Until her death, Mrs.
RICARD was president of the board and until
three months ago, continued to sign cheques, says Mr.
LACROIX,
who remembers Mrs.
RICARD as a ''generous and kind person who
helped people with problems.''
''Baxter's father would be proud of what Alma has accomplished
since Baxter died. It is well along the way to what he had promoted
for many years," says Mr.
LACROIX.
In addition to donations in the millions of dollars over the
years, Mrs.
RICARD once helped out a person who couldn't handle
her mortgage payments and was about to lose her home; she also
donated to a religious group that raised money for the poor.
Mr. LACROIX remembers Mrs.
RICARD as a woman who loved to have
fun.
''From age 70 onward she didn't mind going on until 1 a.m. or
2 a.m. She enjoyed going out at night, she loved to dance," he
says. ''She was also quite religious, church attendance was sacred.''
Mrs. RICARD also loved to collect hats: ''She had hundreds of
hats and they were attention-getters," says Mr.
LACROIX, who
knew the RICARDs for more than 30 years.
Of all the recognition she received over the years, Mrs.
RICARD
cherished most the Officer of the Order of Canada bestowed on
her in 2000, says Mr.
LACROIX. Governor-General Adrienne
CLARKSON
travelled to Sudbury to present the honour to Mrs.
RICARD in
her sick bed, at her home, in September, 2002.
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