LAMARSH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-30 published
A man of uncommon passion and drive
Despite hints of scandal, the scrappy former Liberal member of
parliament, who spent a lifetime fighting for social safety nets,
earned a reputation as a tireless crusader for the working people
By Ron CSILLAG
Special to the Globe and Mail; With a report from
staff Saturday, August 30, 2003 - Page F8
He died with his boots on.
John MUNRO, a Trudeau era Liberal warhorse once described as
a rumpled fighter who had gone too many rounds, had just put
the finishing touches to a barn-burning speech, to be delivered
to a Rotary Club, on the evils of concentration of media ownership
when he suffered at heart attack at his desk in his Hamilton
home on August 19. He was 72.
It was almost just as well that he went suddenly, his daughter,
Anne, said in a eulogy, for her father could not stand suffering.
Rather, he would not abide it. Suffering had no place in Canada,
he reasoned, which is why his name is so closely associated with
such social safety nets as medicare, the Canada Pension Plan
and improvements to Old Age Security.
More than 500 well-wishers, including old political pals, steel-workers,
artists, business people and labourers, packed the James Street
Baptist Church last Saturday to laud Hamilton's favourite son,
a scrappy lawyer who earned a reputation as a tireless crusader
for working people, despite the recurring taint of scandal.
As the Member of Parliament for Hamilton East from 1962 to 1984
and through five cabinet posts, he was proudly on the left of
the Liberal Party, alongside people such as Allan
MacEACHEN,
Judy LAMARSH,
Lloyd
AXWORTHY, Eugene
WHELAN -- and probably Pierre
TRUDEAU himself -- fighting for medicare, against capital punishment
and in favour of a guaranteed annual income. As minister of national
health and welfare, he didn't win the battle for a guaranteed
annual income, but he did get the Guaranteed Income Supplement
that has made life easier for many seniors. He was also known
and often ridiculed -- for being a chain-smoking health minister.
Prime
Minister
Jean
CHRÉTIEN, who entered Parliament a year after
Mr. MUNRO, mourned the death of his former cabinet colleague.
"We were very good Friends, and I'm terribly sorry that he passed
away. He was a very good member of Parliament, and he was a very
good minister and a guy who worked very, very hard in all the
files that were given to him."
The political bug bit early. At 18, Mr.
MUNRO ran for president
of the Tribune Society at Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton.
Mark NEMIGAN, a lifelong friend, remembers his resourcefulness:
"He went to a local bus stop and festooned all the park benches
with banners reading, 'Vote for John.' It worked too. He had
uncommon drive and passion, even then."
Born in Hamilton on March 26, 1931, to lawyer John Anderson
MUNRO
and Katherine
CARR, a housewife, John Carr
MUNRO became a municipal
alderman at the age of 23 while attending law school at Osgoode
Hall in Toronto.
"I have no idea how he did that," Mr.
NEMIGAN says. "The guy
didn't sleep."
Mr. MUNRO took his first run at federal politics in the seat
of Hamilton West in 1957, but was beaten by Ellen
FAIRCLOUGH,
who went on to become Canada's first female cabinet minister.
In 1962, he switched ridings, and won the seat he would hold
for the next 22 years.
With the election of Mr.
TRUDEAU in 1968, a string of cabinet
positions followed for Mr.
MUNRO: minister without portfolio,
amateur sport, health and welfare, labour and Indian affairs
and northern development, the last earning him the hard-won respect
of aboriginal groups.
In the 1968 general election, an aggressive young poll captain
named Sheila
COPPS worked on Mr.
MUNRO's re-election bid. She
would go on to replace him in the seat in 1984.
Tom AXWORTHY, who was Mr.
TRUDEAU's principal secretary, recalled
that the prime minister often turned to Mr.
MUNRO for support
on progressive positions at the cabinet table: "When we had those
kind of debates, he would kind of look over to
MUNRO when he
wanted to hear the liberal perspective on the issue."
Mr. MUNRO's support for the decriminalization of marijuana led
to a perk in December, 1969: A 90-minute chat about drugs with
John LENNON and Yoko
ONO, fresh from the duo's "bed-in" at Montreal's
Queen Elizabeth Hotel. Documents unearthed this spring by a researcher
for an Ottawa Beatles Web site revealed that Mr.
LENNON joked
that while Mr.
TRUDEAU and Mr.
MUNRO, then health minister, were
members of the "establishment," they were both "hip."
"Mr. MUNRO's speech [on the decriminalization of marijuana] was
the only political speech I ever heard about that had anything
to do with reality that came through to me," Mr.
LENNON is quoted
as saying in the 12,000-word document.
Contacted by a reporter in May, Mr.
MUNRO recalled that the incident,
and his stand on cannabis, didn't go over well. "Yeah, I was
in a little hot water at the time," he laughed. "Everybody thought
I wanted to give the country to the junkies."
Mr. LENNON and Ms.
ONO made a distinct impression, he said. "The
more I think about it, the more I remember he and his wife were
very polite and committed people."
In 1974, the water became considerably hotter when the Royal
Canadian
Mounted
Police raided Mr.
MUNRO's campaign headquarters
during a probe into kickbacks and bid rigging on Hamilton Harbour
dredging contracts.
Around the same time, Mr.
MUNRO was criticized for accepting
a $500 campaign donation from a union whose leaders were under
investigation.
In 1978, he was forced to resign from the cabinet when it was
revealed that he had talked to a judge by telephone to give a
character reference for a constituent on the day of the person's
sentencing for assault. But he bounced back with a tenacity that
Mr. TRUDEAU was said to have admired and in 1980 won reappointment
to the cabinet.
Mr. MUNRO's stamp on Hamilton was legendary, from the reclamation
of land that gave the city Confederation Park, to the Canada
Centre for Inland Waters, to the fundraising of more than $50-million
for the local airport, renamed in his honour in 1998. "Without
a doubt, he was the feistiest, most stubborn person I knew in
public life," former mayor Bob
MORROW remarked. "I don't think
we will ever meet his equal of scaring up funds for Hamilton."
When Mr. TRUDEAU retired in 1984, Mr.
MUNRO ran for the Liberal
leadership and prime minister. He finished a poor fifth in a
field of six. There began what his daughter called the "decade
from hell," starting with a four-year Royal Canadian Mounted
Police investigation so vigorous, the Mounties even considered
using a helicopter to track Mr.
MUNRO because the officers assigned
to tail him couldn't keep up with his car.
That investigation killed a re-election bid in 1988 and scuttled
his marriage to Lilly Oddie
MUNRO, a minister in the former Ontario
Liberal government. It eventually produced 37 flimsy charges
of breach of trust, conspiracy, corruption, fraud and theft stemming
from his years as Indian affairs minister. After a trial that
dragged on for most of 1991, the judge threw out nearly all the
charges without even calling for defence evidence. The Crown
later withdrew the rest.
Mr. MUNRO welcomed the verdict as "complete exoneration" but
was left with legal bills estimated at nearly $1-million and
a reputation in ruins. Swimming in debt (he had to rely on Ontario
Legal Aid), he filed a civil suit in 1992, claiming malicious
prosecution and maintaining he had been targeted by the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police to embarrass him. He attempted a political
comeback in 1993, only to have Mr.
CHRÉTIEN refuse to sign his
nomination papers. Mr.
MUNRO responded by filing an unsuccessful
court challenge seeking to strip Mr.
CHRÉTIEN of his power to
appoint candidates.
Mr. MUNRO, who had returned to an immigration law practice in
Hamilton, felt betrayed by the government's refusal to pay his
legal bills, and it took an emotional toll.
"I'm not mad at the world," he said in 1996. "I realized this
could totally destroy me if I didn't live a day at a time. You
have to impose discipline, or you're finished. The motivation
to carry on is voided. There's nothing to look forward to except
endless grief."
He finally won nearly $1.4-million in compensation from Ottawa
in 1999, but most of the money went to pay taxes, legal bills
and other expenses. He could have avoided problems by declaring
bankruptcy, but insisted on clearing his debts.
"He was no saint, but he was dedicated and hardworking," said
his daughter Susan. "He was deeply hurt."
Mr. MUNRO had no interest in the personal trappings of wealth,
she said, adding that he had a weakness only for Chevy Chevettes
and homemade muffins. Good thing too, for a proposal for bankruptcy
he filed in 1995 showed a monthly living balance of $476.
His last political gasp came in 2000 when he ran unsuccessfully
for mayor of Hamilton. Asked in 1996 about writing his memoirs,
he said: "I'm not ready. There's no last chapter yet."
Mr. MUNRO leaves his third wife, Barbara, and four children.
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He founded Readers' Club of Canada
Nationalist visionary struggled financially to publish Canadian
writers
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Tuesday, April
22, 2003 - Page R7
In the early 1960s, when writers asked Peter and Carol
MARTIN
where to publish their manuscripts on Canada, the couple realized
how few choices there were. Inspired, the Martins, both voracious
readers, staunch nationalists and founders of the Readers' Club
of Canada, decided to start their own press. In 1965, Peter Martin
Associates came into being. Last month, Peter
MARTIN died of
lung cancer in Ottawa.
In an industry overshadowed by American companies, Peter
MARTIN
Associates was among the first in a wave of independent publishing
houses to open during a time of rising Canadian nationalism.
Launched in a downtown Toronto basement on a shoestring budget,
skeleton staff, idealism and enthusiasm, the company flew by
the seat of its pants. Its employees were often young and new
to the business. But many, including Peter
CARVER,
Michael
SOLOMON
and Valerie
WYATT, went on to become Canadian mainstays.
"It really was a time of Canadian nationalism and those of us
who believed in that cause could see what Peter and Carol were
doing," said Ms.
WYATT, a children's editor who spent four years
with the company in the seventies.
During the 16 years before its sale in 1981, Peter Martin Associates
published approximately 170 works, mainly non-fiction. Its presses
put out I, Nuligak, the autobiography of an Inuit man; The Boyd
Gang by Marjorie
LAMB and Barry
PEARSON;
Trapping is My Life
by John TETSO; and the Handbook of Canadian Film by Eleanor
BEATTIE.
Others who came through their doors included Hugh
HOOD,
Robert
FULFORD, John Robert
COLOMBO, Douglas
FETHERLING and Mary Alice
DOWNIE -- all to have their works published.
Started with small amounts of seed money from private investors
and no government funding, Peter Martin Associates constantly
struggled financially. At one point, for a bit of extra cash,
the office became the designated nuclear-fallout shelter for
the street. Pat
DACEY, once the firm's book designer, lugged
suitcases of books up the street to sell at Britnell's bookstore
with summer employee Bronwyn
DRAINIE.
Working at Peter Martin Associates was always fun, Ms.
WYATT
said. "You went in to work happy and you stayed happy all day."
Still, in a time when Canadian works received little recognition,
she remembers finding it difficult to get media interviews for
the author of Martin-published book.
Yet another title caused trouble with its subject. The company
was putting out a collection of previously published sayings
of former prime minister John
DIEFENBAKER, called I Never Say
Anything Provocative, edited by Margaret
WENTE. Mr.
DIEFENBAKER
heard about the project, called Mr.
MARTIN and threatened to
sue. Mr. MARTIN stood firm.
"He handled it with such élan," said writer Tim
WYNNE-
JONES,
then in the art department. "He was suitably dutiful, but not
in awe. Mr.
DIEFENBAKER was just over the top, as was his wont."
The book went to press and Mr.
DIEFENBAKER did not go to court.
Once listed along with Peter
GZOWSKI in a Maclean's magazine
article on "Young Men to Watch," Mr.
MARTIN was born on April
26, 1934 in Ottawa to a dentist father and a mother who drove
an ambulance in the First World War. The younger of two sons,
he attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario and
the University of Toronto, where he earned a degree in philosophy.
During a year in Ottawa as the president of the National Federation
of University Students, Mr.
MARTIN met his first wife
Carol.
They married in 1956 and moved to Toronto. Three years later,
they founded the Readers' Club in Featuring one Canadian book
a month, it distributed works by Mordecai
RICHLER,
Irving
LAYTON,
Morley CALLAGHAN and Brian
MOORE among others, and supplied its
members with coupons. While continuing to run the Readers' Club
(sold in 1978 to Saturday Night Magazine and closed in 1981),
the MARTINs started Peter Martin Associates.
Throughout his career, Mr.
MARTIN spoke out for Canadian publishing.
Alarmed by the sale of Ryerson Press and Gage Educational Press
in 1970 to American firms, he called a meeting of publishers
to discuss problems in the industry. Named the Independent Publishers
Association, the group started in 1971 with 16 members and with
Mr. MARTIN as its first president. In 1976, it was renamed the
Association of Canadian Publishers and continues today with 140
members. As a result of the group's efforts, Canadian publishing
began to receive federal and provincial funding.
In the late 1970s, the
MARTINs went their separate ways. Afterward,
Mr. MARTIN published a small newspaper, The Downtowner, and owned
a cookbook store with his second wife, Maggie
NIEMI. In 1983,
they moved near Sudbury, Ontario, where Mr.
MARTIN did freelance
book and theatre reviews, then moved to Ottawa in 1985 to work
as president for Balmuir Books, publisher of the magazine International
Perspectives and consulting editor for the University of Ottawa
Press.
After a spinal-cord injury in 1997, Mr.
MARTIN was left a quadriplegic,
except for limited use of his left arm. Even so, he remained
active, maintained a heavy e-mail correspondence and spent time
in the park reading while seated in a bright-yellow wheelchair.
Mr. MARTIN leaves his children Pamela, Christopher and Jeremy
and his wife
Maggie
NIEMI. He died on March 15.
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LAMBERT, Kenneth Frederick (Former President and General Manager
of BASF
Inmont
Canada
Ltd.)
Passed away peacefully at Etobicoke General Hospital, on March
2nd, 2003, with his family at his side. Ken, aged 79, is survived
by his four children, Jim, Don, Rick and Margie and by his seven
grandchildren. At Ken's request, a private family funeral service
was held. A public celebration of his life will be held at the
Courtyard Marriott, 231 Carlingview Drive, Etobicoke (905-675-0411),
on Saturday, March 8th, 2003. All of Ken's many Friends are invited
to attend anytime between 4 and 7 p.m. The family requests that
in lieu of flowers, donations in his name be made to the charity
of your choice.
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LAMBERT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-06 published
The day the music didn't die
Beloved Toronto trumpeter credited with helping preserve a unique
form of New Orleans jazz
By Sarah LAMBERT
Thursday,
March 6, 2003 - Page R9
Toronto -- The tightly knit world of New Orleans traditional
jazz has lost one of its greats with the death, last month, of
Cliff (Kid)
BASTIEN, leader of Toronto's treasured Happy Pals.
The trumpeter is credited as having nothing less than single-handedly
kept alive the unique, raw, New Orleans style of jazz, through
his leadership and mentorship of hundreds of musicians.
Saddened fans and musicians filed into the city's Grossman's
Tavern all week last month to pay tribute to Mr.
BASTIEN at the
long-time home of the Happy Pals, where the walls are lined with
photos of his fans and musicians. It was a send-off worthy of
New
Orleans, birthplace of the kind of jazz Mr.
BASTIEN played
with his seven-piece bands, the Camelia Jazz Band and later the
Happy Pals, during the 30 or so years he played at the Toronto
landmark.
"He was never late. Never, never ever, said Christine
LOUIE,
whose family inherited Mr.
BASTIEN's
Saturday-afternoon gig when
Al GROSSMAN sold the bar in 1975.
So it was with sinking hearts on February 8 that his loyal audience
and band members watched the minute hand tick past 4 o'clock,
waiting for him to arrive, brass trumpet in hand.
When he was found later that afternoon still sitting in his armchair,
apparently looking up a new song in his hymn book, the Happy
Pals played on and raised a glass in tribute to their leader
who died as he lived, surrounded by music. He was 65 years old.
Noonie SHEARS, a long-time friend and leader of the traditional
impromptu parade that would inevitably snake through Grossman's
as Saturday afternoon wound down, said she thought Mr.
BASTIEN
was looking up I'll Fly Away, the old gospel song recently dusted
off in the movie O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The band played it for the first time at Mr.
BASTIEN's official
memorial at Grossman's the Saturday following his death.
Born in 1937 in London's East End, Mr.
BASTIEN emigrated to Canada
in 1962 after a stint in New Orleans. It was there that he heard
trumpeter (Kid) Thomas
VALENTINE play and, experiencing a kind
of epiphany, Mr.
BASTIEN followed him from club to club and studied
his style. It ultimately inspired a lifelong ambition to keep
alive New Orleans-style traditional jazz.
A purist who drew a distinction between his chosen genre of music
and the more popularized Dixieland Jazz, Mr.
BASTIEN once said:
"Had I never heard that music, I wouldn't have become a musician.
I wouldn't play anything else."
I Like Bananas, Caledonia, All of Me and Louisiana Vie en Rose
were just a few of his standards. But, as Happy Pals' trombonist
Roberta TEVLIN explained, Mr.
BASTIEN wasn't content to simply
recycle the old chestnuts.
"Cliff kept adding songs. I've probably played 1,000 different
tunes with him. He was particularly notorious for finding songs
outside the standard jazz list, said Ms.
TEVLIN, who joined
the band 20 years ago, along with her saxophonist husband, Patrick.
Bob Dylan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Western Swing numbers,
Nigerian folk songs and Dean Martin could all tumble out during
a set, said drummer Chuck
CLARKE.
Mr. BASTIEN's
Friends and peers point out that he was known for
three primary qualities: His love of music, his scorn for fame
or publicity and his mentoring of local musicians.
During the memorial at Grossman's, Downchild Blues Band headman
Donny WALSH arrived from Florida to sit in with his harmonica,
as he had done regularly with Mr.
BASTIEN in the 1970s. Juno-nominated
bluesman Michael
PICKETT was there, as well as jazz singer Laura
HUBERT, formerly of the Leslie Spit Treeo, pianist Peter
HILL,
The Nationals and many more.
From the worldwide New Orleans jazz community, among those who
came to pay their respects were saxophonist Jean-Pierre
ALESSI
of France, trumpeter Roger (Kid Dutch)
UITHOVEN of Orlando, Florida,
clarinetist Kjeld
BRANDT from Denmark and Toronto's Brian
TOWERS,
Jan SHAW and Joe
VAN
ROSSEM.
"I cannot imagine the Toronto traditional jazz scene without
Cliff BASTIEN and his raw, emotional New Orleans-style jazz,
Mr. TOWERS wrote in a notice posted on the Internet shortly
after he learned of the death of his friend.
"He was probably the most popular and influential figure on the
Toronto traditional jazz scene. He taught many others to play
their instruments in the style and introduced thousands to the
joys of New Orleans traditional jazz.
"We went to Grossman's after our own gig and Jan and I played
some hymns with the Happy Pals. A sadder and more emotional scene
I have rarely seen."
Toronto musician Joanne
MacKELL, leader of the Paradise Rangers,
wonders how things might have been if she had not met Mr.
BASTIEN
when she was just starting out.
"Though I was young and inexperienced, Kid would always invite
me up to sing, Ms.
MacKELL said, recalling how the band took
her under its wing when she discovered them in the early 1970s.
"Kid didn't care about money or popular opinion. He filled Grossman's
Tavern every Saturday for some 30 years because he played great
music with honesty and integrity and he inspired me to try and
do the same."
Until just last year, Mr.
BASTIEN, who feared flying, avoided
the lure of the road, taking only an annual sojourn to New Orleans
for the French Quarter Festival. Finally, in the fall of 2002,
he accepted an invitation to tour Scandinavia with the Danish/Swedish
band New Orleans Delight, playing with George
BERRY on tenor
sax. A new Compact Disk is due to be released this spring.
His official recordings are few, numbering about a dozen, as
Mr. BASTIEN preferred to play to an audience. Though, as Ms.
TEVLIN pointed out: "There are bootleg tapes all over the place."
His legacy, the band says, is keeping the New Orleans style of
jazz alive.
"Kid Thomas
VALENTINE was one of the greats, and when he was
gone, Kid BASTIEN carried on. Kid
BASTIEN was one of the greats,
and now Kid's gone. So who's going to carry the music on now?
We will, said saxophonist Mr.
TEVLIN on behalf of the Happy
Pals, who intend to continue the Saturday-afternoon tradition
at Grossman's.
In another side to his life, Mr.
BASTIEN was an accomplished
commercial artist whose hand-crafted signs, woodwork and acid-etched
glass can be seen in many local pubs, including Toronto's Wheat
Sheaf Tavern. His work can be found across Ontario, Quebec, British
Columbia and California, as well as in Europe.
Mr. BASTIEN's wish was to be buried in New Orleans.
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MURRAY,
James
Findlay, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
of Canada
A much respected, much loved and wonderful man has died. Peacefully
but suddenly on April 4, 2003 in his 83rd year. Beloved husband
of Shirley for 57 years, dearest father to John (Jenny), Bill
(Stephanie), Claire and Hugh, adored grandfather to Amy and Katie
(Milne), Robert and Olivia (Murray) and Scott and Cameron (Murray).
Dear brother to Betty
LAMBERT and the late Margaret
PHOENIX,
and cherished by his nieces, nephews and many relatives and Friends.
He loved life with a passion, and deeply touched the hearts of
countless people through the myriad organizations and endeavours
he undertook. Born in Toronto, Jim attended Oakwood Collegiate,
and University of Toronto where he graduated from medical school
in 1943 as the permanent class president and Valedictorian, and
recipient of the George Biggs Trophy. From 1944-46 he served
as Captain in the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps, and subsequently
undertook his surgical training at the University of Toronto
and at McGill University in Montreal. In 1953 he joined the Toronto
East General and Orthopaedic Hospital, where he became head of
Plastic Surgery and later Surgeon-in-Chief. He organized a specialized
hand clinic, and was then appointed the consultant Hand Surgeon
at the Ontario Workers' Compensation Board. Jim
MURRAY is considered
one of the pioneers of modern hand surgery in Canada. In 1983,
he founded and became the first director of the Hand Service
at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and in 1985 he was bestowed
the honour of Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Toronto. Over the years he held numerous professional positions
including the Presidencies of the Canadian Society of Plastic
Surgeons, The Canadian Society for Surgery of the Hand, and the
American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Where he was known
as ''Doc'', Jim served as team doctor for the Toronto Maple Leafs
during the ''glory years'' from 1948-1964, and liked to claim
he led them to 5 Stanley Cups. He was head doctor for Team Canada's
1972 Canada-Russia Hockey Series. This remarkable man who is
sadly missed has brought warmth, love, humour, magic and a human
touch to so many people, and above all to his Friends and dear
family. The family will receive Friends and relatives at the
Humphrey Funeral Home - A. W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue
(south of Eglinton Avenue East), from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
There will be a memorial service to mark Jim's passing and celebrate
his life on Thursday, April 10 at 11 o'clock at Lawrence Park
Community Church, 2180 Bayview Avenue. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, 1200 Bay Street,
Suite 202, Toronto M5R 2A5.
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WELCH,
Dr.
Robert
Hamilton
Died peacefully, at home in Toronto, on Tuesday, July 1, 2003,
in his 90th year. Beloved husband of Jane (Penny) Simpson (née
COYNE.)
Devoted father of Thomas Gordon (Anne
LAMBERT,) James
Coyne (Hélène
QUESNEL), Sarah Jane (Edward
GELLER) and Margo
Hamilton. Adored grandfather of Emily, Jackson, Brennen, Julia
and Philippe. Predeceased by his brothers Albert Gordon and Thomas
Alan.
Bob WELCH was born in Toronto, educated at University of Toronto
Schools and U of T, and served his country as Surgeon-Lieutenant
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in World War 2. He was
in family practice and associated with St. Michael's Hospital
for nearly 50 years. He was a great diagnostician who practiced
the art of medicine with compassion for both patients and their
families. A famous raconteur with a gentle sense of humour, he
was also an avid reader who was engaged with life until the end.
While he lived and worked in Toronto, he cherished his summers
in Prince Edward Island from the 1950's on. Greatly loved and
deeply missed.
The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home
- A. W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton
Avenue East), from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, July 3rd. Private service
in Toronto and interment at Fortune, Prince Edward Island In
lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Michael's Hospital,
30 Bond Street, Toronto M5B 1W8 or Bay Fortune United Church
Cemetery Fund, c/o John Aitken, Souris, Prince Edward Island
C1A 1B0.
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Professor played a role in defeat of
SSAINTURENT government
By M.J. STONE
Special to The Globe and Mail Friday, August 15,
2003 - Page R5
Nearly four decades after Louis
SSAINTURENT had been Prime Minister
of Canada, McGill professor James
MALLORY was surprised to discover
how influential he had been in the defeat of Mr.
SSAINTURENT's
Liberals in 1957. The revelation occurred in 1992 when the cabinet
papers of the
SSAINTURENT government, which had been sealed for
35 years, were made available to the public.
Unknown to Professor
MALLORY, a radio interview he gave in the
wake of the 1957 election had caught the Prime Minister's ear.
The Liberals had been reduced to 105 seats in the House, seven
fewer than the Conservatives. But the Grits were still in a position
to form a minority government with the aid of the 25 elected
members of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, later to
become the New Democratic Party.
Mr. SSAINTURENT found himself at a crossroads. While his party
was clearly in decline, the Conservatives were on the rise and
many questioned whether the Liberals still had a legal mandate
to govern. When Mr.
SSAINTURENT arrived in cabinet that morning,
Prof. MALLORY's radio interview was still ringing in his ears.
Prof. MALLORY, who died in Montreal on June 24, said in the interview
that if the Liberals continued to govern it would result in a
constitutional crisis. He believed it was the responsibility
of John DIEFENBAKER and the Conservatives to form a government.
The cabinet papers clearly reflect Prof.
MALLORY's influence
over the Prime Minister that morning. Mr.
SSAINTURENT demanded
a copy of the
MALLORY interview and after carefully studying
the radio transcripts, he handed the rule of government over
to the Tories.
Highly regarded as the foremost expert in Canadian legal and
federal structures, Prof.
MALLORY was often called on to advise
governments about constitutional procedures. McGill professor
Charles TAILOR/TAYLOR said another good example occurred in 1979.
"Joe CLARK's
Conservatives had just lost a parliamentary vote,"
Prof. TAILOR/TAYLOR recalled. "The governor-general, Ed
SCHREYER, telephoned
McGill's political science department, looking for Jim. It caused
something of a stir when he couldn't be found immediately.
SCHREYER
was frantic for
MALLORY's advice. The governor-general was unsure
how to proceed.
"Jim was eventually found and consulted. His advice was that
the Conservatives should call an election -- exactly what Joe
CLARK did."
The son of a county sheriff, James Russell
MALLORY was born on
February 5, 1916. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of New Brunswick in 1937 and later studied law at
Edinburgh and Dalhousie universities.
He met his American-born wife, Frances
KELLER, in Scotland, and
the couple married in 1940. They had two sons: James and Charles.
Prof. MALLORY joined the faculty of the University of Saskatchewan
in 1941. Later, he taught at the University of Toronto and Brandon
College before moving to McGill in 1946.
A respected scholar and lawyer, Prof.
MALLORY was an "old-school"
professor who taught at McGill for 45 years. His reputation as
a constitutional expert was solidified in 1954 when he published
Social Credit and the Federal Power in Canada. The quintessential
text mapped out the constitutional parameters of federal/provincial
relations.
"James MALLORY was a discreet and modest man," McGill professor
Sam NOUMOFF recalled. "He had a profound understanding of morality
and he was incapable of self-promotion. He worked on university
committee after committee while holding many teaching responsibilities.
"Jim wasn't the sort of man who sought public approval, he just
did things because they were the right thing to do."
His son James, who lives in Britain, summed up his father's idealism:
"He had a bloody-minded stubbornness. It would manifest sometimes
in allowing discussions to go on and on. Then he would do exactly
what he intended to do in the first place. Somehow it never impaired
his reputation as a genuine democrat."
Prof. MALLORY was the founder of both the Canadian Studies program
at McGill and the Canadian Association of University Professors.
After retiring in 1982 he was appointed professor emeritus and
continued to teach for another 10 years. In 1964, he was elected
to the Royal Society of Canada and was later awarded the Queen's
Silver Jubilee Medal in 1977.
In 1995, McGill founded the James R. Mallory lecture series,
a one-day event that features a special guest who lectures about
Canadian issues. Past guests have included Bob
RAE,
Peter
WHITE/WHYTE
and Phyllis
LAMBERT.
The organizers of the event say that this
year's lecture will focus on Prof.
MALLORY's legacy.
Prof. MALLORY died 11 weeks after the death of his wife on what
would have been their 63rd anniversary.
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LAMONT,
Katharine▼
Johnston,
M.A. (Oxon.)
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, in her 98th year. Beloved daughter
of the Honorable John Henderson
LAMONT,
Supreme
Court of Canada,
and Margaret Murray
JOHNSTON; predeceased by her brother Duncan
Cameron. Miss
LAMONT was head of the History Department at The
Bishop Strachan School in Toronto (1930-1952), and Principal
of The Study in Montreal (1952-1970). She will be remembered
with pride, affection, respect and gratitude, by hundreds of
former students, and by her surviving cousins, Jane
MONTGOMERY
of St. Catharines, Katherine
STAPLES of Napanee, Elizabeth
McLEOD
of Toronto, and their families. Memorial donations may be made
to Save the Children, Canada, 4141 Yonge Street, Toronto M2P
2A6, or the Katharine Lamont Bursary, The Bishop Strachan School,
298 Lonsdale Road, Toronto M4V 1X2. A memorial service will be
held in the chapel of the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton
Avenue West, Toronto, on March 3, at 1: 30 p.m.
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Katharine Johnston
LAMONT
By Wallace
McLEOD
Wednesday,
August 13, 2003 - Page A16
Historian, teacher, school principal, author. Born December 25,
1905, in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. Died February 19, in Toronto,
of natural causes, aged 97.
Throughout her life, Katharine Johnston
LAMONT would recall her
vivid memories of the cyclone that hit Regina in the afternoon
of June 30, 1912, blowing away the third storey of the family
home, while she hid under the dining-room table.
Katharine's▲ father was John Henderson
LAMONT (1865-1936;) he
was successively a member of the federal Parliament (1904-1905),
the first attorney-general of the new province of Saskatchewan
(1905-1907), a judge of the Provincial Supreme Court (1907),
and a justice of the Supreme Court of Canada (1927). The town
of LAMONT, 56 kilometres northeast of Edmonton, was named for
him. Katherine's mother was Margaret Murray
JOHNSTON (1865-1950,)
the daughter of William Soules
JOHNSTON (1838-1869,) who edited
and published the Iroquois Chief, the first newspaper in Dundas
County, Ontario (1858), and the granddaughter of Reverend William
Henry WILLIAMS (1795-1873,) who conducted the first Methodist
camp-meeting in the eastern part of Upper Canada (near Point
Iroquois, in 1823), and who later served as the junior minister
of the Hay Bay Church, in Adolphustown (1838-1840).
She received her schooling in Saskatchewan, graduating from Regina
College. She then attended Victoria College at the University
of Toronto, where she earned a degree in English and history
in 1927. Her entry in the Torontonensis yearbook gives as her
characteristic motto, "Making a virtue of necessity." Then she
went on to Oxford University, where she enrolled in Lady Margaret
Hall, the oldest women's college there (founded in 1878), and
graduated in 1930. She received the degree of Master of Arts
from Oxford in 1934.
On her return to Canada, she obtained a position as a teacher
at the Bishop Strachan School for girls in Toronto, where she
served as head of the history department from 1930 to 1952. Then
in 1952 she accepted a call to become the third headmistress
(principal) of The Study, a school for girls in Montreal, which
had been founded in 1915. She presided over its move to a new
location in 1959/60, and continued in office there until her
retirement in 1970. Soon after that, she returned to Toronto.
Over the years, she received a good measure of recognition from
the alumnae of the Bishop Strachan School. A bursary was established
in her name in 1992, and a celebratory dinner was held in her
honour; her former students were invited to submit written testimonials.
They included such assessments as "She made history come alive
" "a truly remarkable woman; " "the most outstanding teacher
I ever had; " "known throughout the Province as its finest history
teacher; " "she had a way of making her pupils think things out."
And, as another testimony of appreciation, in 2001 one of the
student subdivisions of the Bishop Strachan School was named
"LAMONT
House." A pupil she had taught 60 years earlier said
at the time that she especially remembered "an enlightened and
influential history teacher, Miss
LAMONT, who taught her how
to look at, question and analyze the world around her -- not
with cynicism but with reason."
After her retirement from teaching, as a student of the past,
Katharine wrote a history of her Montreal school, titled The
Study: A Chronicle (published in Montreal in 1974). Then, to
celebrate the bicentenary of the Loyalist settlement on the Bay
of Quinte, she wrote Adolphustown 1784-1984 (Napanee, 1984).
Early in 1996, as her health deteriorated and it became impractical
for her to live on her own, she took up residence in the Glebe
Manor, in Toronto, where she received excellent care.
Wallace is a friend of Katharine
LAMONT.
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LAMONT,
Jean
Annette
(ROBINS)
Jean died peacefully, on Tuesday, October 14, 2003 in Toronto,
with her children Doug and Anne at her side; in her 84th year.
Predeceased by her loving husband and friend of 53 years, Bruce
Maitland LAMONT, a former senior international executive with
Royal Bank of Canada. Survived by son, James Douglas and his
wife Kathy, stepchildren Melissa and August and step-great granddaughter,
Elizabeth; and daughter Anne and husband Christopher
JAMES and
their daughter, Kathleen. Cherished sister of Joan
BAILEY and
her children, Robin (Marie,) Joanne (Ken
HOLT,)
John
(Clare)
and Janet (Heino
CLAESSENS) and their families. Remembered by
sisters-in-law Pauline
FLYNN
(Hank) and Meribeth
LAMONT and their
families and the extended
LAMONT clan. Special thanks to cousin
Joanne HOLT for all her support and help over the last few years.
Thank you to the staff and Mom's new Friends at the Kingsway
Retirement Residence, Etobicoke for their Friendship and support
in making the Kingsway her home away from home. A graduate of
MacDonald Hall, Guelph University (1940) and Toronto Western
Hospital School of Nursing (1943) she was always proud of her
accomplishment as one of Canada's first female nursing flight
attendants with Trans Canada Airways. Mom was an avid bridge
player and golfer, a social dynamo who cherished her wide circle
of Friends. A celebration of her life will be held on Saturday,
October 18, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 89
Dunn Street (at Lakeshore Road), Oakville. If desired, in lieu
of flowers, donations in Jean's memory to a charity of your choice
would be appreciated.
Mom, a Grand Slam and a hole-in-one to you. Love always.
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