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LAPERRIÈRE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-19 published
Sharon NIELD
By Barbara
LAPERRIÈRE and Nora
HAMMELL
Tuesday,
August 19, 2003
- Page A18
Wife, mother, grandmother, nurse. Born October 18, 1943, in Dauphin,
Manitoba Died December 26, 2002 in Ottawa, of cancer, aged 59.
Sharon championed nurses and nursing. She was always on the lookout
for pioneers and heroes whom she visited, to know first-hand
what their work was like. Then she would tell the world.
On business in the Northwest Territories, she met with a nurse
in the community and learned she had established a Brownie group,
an effective way to create a healthier community for young girls.
She spent time with a "street nurse" in Toronto and told people
about the amazing nursing she had seen. Sharon noticed a Canadian
Living magazine contest and submitted an essay on the contribution
of nursing sisters. Hers was a winning entry and the prize was
a tulip garden planted in front of the Canadian Nurses Association
to honour the nursing sisters.
In becoming a nurse, Sharon was following in her mother's footsteps.
Sharon graduated from Misericordia Hospital in Winnipeg and began
her practice as a labour and delivery nurse. After moving to
Montreal, Sharon completed both her Bachelor of Nursing and a
graduate degree in counselling psychology. Returning to school
even while caring for four small children -- awakened in her
the understanding of nursing's vast possibilities and her commitment
to the profession.
For more than 10 years, Sharon taught nursing at John Abbott
College in Montreal. She was a role model of nursing and teaching
at its best. One patient, a woman in the final stages of multiple
sclerosis, was considered difficult by staff but not by Sharon.
Sharon recognized that this woman was a talented storyteller
who dreamed of writing a children's story. Sharon helped her
realize her dream by listening to the story, writing it down
and finding a way to have it published. The woman lived to see
her story in print.
In 1992, Sharon joined the Canadian Nurses Association in Ottawa,
in time becoming the director of nursing policy. At the national
level, she was alert to the impact nursing can have and was a
ray of hope at a difficult time. She didn't shy away from tackling
the hard issues (such as the role of the nurse practitioner)
for which consensus needed to be built across the country. Sharon's
influence extended beyond Canada. Twice she visited the Ethiopian
Nurses Association. The Ethiopian Nurses Association president
wrote: "She was like a mother who was nurturing our association
to stand on its own feet."
She was a mentor to many and revelled in the achievements of
others -- completing a course, having an article published, giving
up smoking or having a baby. A firm believer in having fun at
work, Sharon convened occasional meetings at a neighbourhood
coffee shop which she dubbed the "Elgin Street office." At work,
Sharon would often say: "I've got to get a life." This was frequently
followed by: "Jack [her husband] has a life, and I don't." And
even sometimes by: "Jack's having more fun than I am." We always
chuckled: We knew and Sharon knew that she was enjoying a truly
wonderful life both at work and beyond.
She showed how to balance work and personal goals. Regardless
of what was happening at work, she made it clear that the moment
a new grandchild was born (there were seven) she was gone. Cottage
time with her husband, their four children and grandchildren
was sacrosanct.
During her illness, Sharon continued to give us lessons in living.
When she left work on sick leave, she spoke openly about her
cancer and informed her co-workers that she was going out to
do some "undercover" work on the health-care system. Through
her final days, with humour and grace, she reminded us of the
power of love, the importance of family and the meaning faith
can give to life.
Barbara and Nora are Sharon's Friends.
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LAPIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-31 published
GALLAGHER,
Paul,
Member of the Order of Canada
Aged 73 years, on March 27th, 2003. A husband, father, grandfather
and brother as well as friend of and mentor to many, he died
peacefully at home, surrounded by family, after a long battle
with cancer. Paul was a distinguished educator and enthusiastic
and dedicated volunteer. He was also a passionate Canadian who
served as a Citizenship Judge from 2000 until his death. Paul
is survived by his wife
Grace; daughter Katherine (Jeff
PARSONS)
sons Stephen (Donna), Edward (Michelle) and Peter; and grand_sons
Richard and Charles. Paul's family wishes to thank the North
Shore
Palliative
Care Team. Special thanks go to Joanne
LAPIN,
our closest family friend, for her care and devotion to Paul
and family. A Memorial Service will be held 2: 00 p.m. Tuesday,
April 1st, 2003 in the Boal Chapel of First Memorial Funeral
Services, 1505 Lillooet Road, North Vancouver. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the North Shore Palliative Care Program
c/o Lions Gate Hospital Foundation or to Adult Learning Development
Asscociation.
First Memorial Funeral Services North Vancouver (604) 980-3451
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LAPINSON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-09-17 published
Nancy Louise
(WEMIGWANS)
SHAWANA
In loving memory of Nancy
SHAWANA,
March 7, 1936 to September 10, 2003.
Nancy SHAWANA, a resident of Wikwemikong, passed away at the
Wikwemikong Nursing Home, on Wednesday, September 10, 2003 at the age
of 67 years. She was born in Wikwemikong, daughter of Esther
ANNIMIKWAAN and the late Adolphus
WEMIGWANS (predeceased January
1946). She was a member of the Catholic Church and the Homemaker's.
Nancy had many hobbies and interests including quilting, putting
puzzles together and Bingo. She was an avid outdoorswoman, who
enjoyed playing with the grandchildren, and visiting with family and
Friends. Nancy has left happy memories that will be cherished by
family, Friends and staff and residents at the nursing home where she lived and worked.
Beloved wife of the late Joe Alex
SHAWANA
(September 1999.) Loving
mother of Gordon
WEMIGWANS (wife
Julia,)
Clement
SHAWANA (friend
Irene) of Wikwemikong, Howard (friend Sheila,) James
SHAWANA (wife
Marcella) of Niagara Falls. Her son Justin predeceased her.
Dear grandmother of 13 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.
Predeceased by 2 grandchildren and 1 great grandchild. Loving sister
of Lawrence (wife
Agatha)
WEMIGWANS,
Beatrice
BONDY (husband David
predeceased,) Rozina
BRASS,
Ronnie (wife
Gail)
ANNIMIKWAAN, Patsy
CÔTÉ (friend Arnold,) sister-in-law Leona
WEMIGWANS and Margaret
SHAWANA (husband Lloyd predeceased.) Predeceased by Francis
WEMIGWANS and Marcella
LAPINSON.
Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called the St.Ignatius Church, Buzwah on Thursday, September
11, 2003. Funeral service was held on Saturday, September 13, 2003
from Holy Cross Mission, Wikwemikong. Father Doug McCarthy
officiated. Interment in Wikwemikong Cemetery.
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LAPLANTE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-12-10 published
Nels PETERSEN
The family announces with sorrow his death in Arizona on Sunday, November 30, 2003 at the age of 73 years.
He was born in Wadena, Saskatchewan and married Iona (née
COONEY) in Sudbury in 1950.
After 25 years of service with the Region of Sudbury, Nels retired in 1989 and moved with
Iona to Manitoulin Island. There they spent summers at Cedar Eden with their 5 children
and 14 grandchildren and enjoyed winters at Cielo Grande Park, Mesa, Arizona with many Friends
and relatives. He was always happiest tending to his flower and vegetable gardens and creating
projects in his workshop. Nels was a hard worker, but took time to enjoy a round of golf, a game
of pool, a good glass of wine and he always had a song in his heart. He will be remembered as
a devoted family man and a good friend. Dear son of Peter and Elizabeth (both predeceased).
Beloved husband of Iona
(COONEY)
PETERSEN of Sudbury. Loving father of Ken (partner Cathy
KINSMAN)
of Halifax, Kathy
WOLYNSKY (husband George) of Sudbury, Kirk (wife
Joyce) of Montreal, Mike
(wife Debra predeceased) of Sudbury and Patty
LAPLANTE (husband Paul) of Lively.
Proud grandfather of Ronnie, Laura, Nick, Graham, Kim, Elizabeth,
Jessica, Amy, Jayson, Angela, Andre, Michelle, Amanda and Emily.
Predeceased by sisters Herta and Elsie and brothers Andreas and Hans.
Survived by his brother Peter (wife Millie) and Arne and sisters
Margaret (husband Wilfred predeceased), Maren (husband Gordon
predeceased) and Toody (husband Ron predeceased) all of Saskatchewan.
He will be sadly missed as brother-in-law and uncle to his special
Friends Martti and Gloria
LUOMA of Coniston. Rested at the Jackson and
Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch Street, Sudbury. Funeral Mass at Christ the King Church on
Friday, December 5, 2003. Cremation at Parklawn Crematorium.
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LAPOINTE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-14 published
Wilfred Franklin
HEIS
In loving memory of Wilfred Franklin
HEIS who passed away peacefully at
Sault Ste. Marie Area Hospital on Saturday, May 10, 2003 at the age of 92 years.
Beloved husband of Eugenia (née
LAPOINTE.) Cherished father of
Monica McNALLY
(Gerald) of Sault Ste. Marie, Frances
THOMAS (Gary) of
Sydney, BC. Kathryn
HEIS of Prince George, BC, Margaret Elaine
JAMIESON
(Patrick) of Victoria, BC, Ann Marie
PIPPY (Grant) of
Ottawa. Loved grandfather of Laurie, Michael, Christopher, Dawn,
Sarah, Hollie, Gerry, Jennifer, Sean, Karen, Mark, Wilfred, James,
Cathy and Lisa. Will be missed by 17 great grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 9: 30 am on Saturday, at Island Funeral Home
followed by Funeral Mass at 11: 30 am Saturday, May 17, 2003 at Saint
Bernard's Catholic Church. Cremation.
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LAPORTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-11 published
An old-fashioned newsman
Distinguished journalist began humbly as a copy boy at the Hamilton
Spectator and soared to the top of the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation
By James McCREADY,
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, December
11, 2003 - Page R11
During the October Crisis of 1970, there were a lot of editors
who buckled under. They followed the orders of the police and
the Quebec and federal governments about not printing or broadcasting
some details about the kidnapping of British Trade Commissioner
James CROSS and the kidnapping and murder of Quebec cabinet minister
Pierre LAPORTE.
Many editors and broadcast executives took to self-censorship,
anticipating what the authorities wanted and keeping newscasts
and newspapers clean. Denis
HARVEY, who has died at age of 74,
was not one of them.
Then editor of The Gazette of Montreal, the man he faced down
was Jerome
CHOQUETTE,
Quebec's justice minister and the public
face of authority during much of the crisis.
CHOQUETTE did not
want newspapers to publish the full manifesto of the Front de
libération du Québec. Denis
HARVEY ignored the request and published
it.
The paper also broke the news that police had a photograph of
James CROSS sitting on what looked like a box of dynamite. The
justice minister warned The Gazette editor he could be arrested
under the terms of the War Measures Act, but Mr.
HARVEY called
his bluff.
During the crisis, Mr.
HARVEY didn't change his habits. When
the paper was put to bed, he would walk to the Montreal Men's
Press Club in the Mount Royal Hotel carrying the bulldog or first
edition of the paper and sit at the bar and argue statistics
with the sports editor, Brodie
SCHNIEDER/SNIDER/SNYDER.
There would also be political discussions, some of them heated,
since the man who wrote the stamp column at the paper had been
called up from the reserves in the military and took himself,
and the War Measures Act, quite seriously.
Mr. HARVEY was an old-fashioned newsman, a high-school dropout
who rose to edit newspapers and who went on to run the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation Television news service and then the
entire Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Television network.
Denis Martin
HARVEY was born on August 15, 1929, in Hamilton,
where his father was a customs inspector. He left school halfway
through Grade 13 and landed a job as a copy boy at The Hamilton
Spectator. This was not uncommon and was the traditional route
for a young person coming into the newspaper business. Journalism
schools were all but unknown and university-educated reporters
and editors were rare.
He went from copy boy, ripping the wire copy off the machines,
to listening in for police tips on radio scanners. He became
a sports writer and in 1952 quit the paper and went to travel
in Europe for six months. He came back to the Spectator as a
general reporter the next year.
He did everything, from labour columnist to business writer.
At 26, he was city editor of the Spectator and then news editor.
In 1961, he was executive editor and held that job for five years.
In 1966, he moved to The Canadian Magazine, a joint venture with
the Toronto Star. It meant leaving Hamilton after 21 years, but
it was the first step to the most important job in his career
editor of The Gazette, which he took over in 1969, the year
he turned 40.
Mr. HARVEY was tough. He scared people with a gruff demeanour,
which at times seemed like something out of The Front Page. When
he arrived at The Gazette, it was losing the newspaper war with
rival Montreal Star. Many editors had cozy sinecures. Almost
right away, Mr.
HARVEY fired the head of every department but
one. When one editor came into his office and said he had found
another job and was giving two weeks' notice.
HARVEY shot back:
"Two hours' notice." The man was gone in less.
However, he inspired loyalty in his staff of reporters and editors.
"He could be tough but he stood up for his staff. And he was
completely honest and honourable. A stand-up guy," said Brian
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, who covered city hall at The Gazette and was later hired
by Mr. HARVEY at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. "You
always wanted to impress him."
One night at Martin's, a bar next door to The Gazette, there
were complaints about a sports picture in the paper. The photographer
said to Mr.
HARVEY: "
I'd like to see you do better."
Next night he was at the Forum for a Canadiens game. Along with
two regular photographers, he took pictures which, unsigned,
went back to the office for selection. His picture made the paper.
It was a combination of hot news stories and the ability to turn
around a failing newspaper that made his reputation at The Gazette.
The police strike in 1969, the October Crisis, riots and labour
battles made the period one of the most exciting in the paper's
history.
Having secured his reputation as an editor, Mr.
HARVEY was lured
away to television in 1973 to become chief news editor at Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation Television News in Toronto. His colleagues
told him he was crazy.
"My newspaper Friends said: 'How can you make the transition?'
Mr. HARVEY said years later. "But I'm surprised more people
don't. I believe in changing jobs."
Although he didn't know anything about television, he told people:
"I do know pictures." He went to CBS in New York for a crash
course in television news.
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Television News was as much
of a mess as The Gazette had been. There had been a series of
editors who hadn't managed to get a handle on the place. Mr.
HARVEY took quick action and made it more professional, spending
less time on bureaucracy and more time on the main newscast.
One night, an old-time producer was called into his office and
the new chief news editor asked him why he hadn't gone with a
fresh lead story. The producer replied he couldn't order anyone
to do that -- that was the lineup editor's job. Mr.
HARVEY disagreed
and said: "Put on your coat and go home." The man kept his job,
but worked on the desk and not as a producer.
During his short reign at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News,
he brought in fresh faces and got television reporters to think
about breaking stories instead of following newspaper headlines.
Audience levels rose and so did Mr.
HARVEY, moving up the ladder
at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. But the promise of
a big paycheque lured him to a three-year stint at The Toronto
Star starting in 1978.
There, he was first in charge of the editorial page and then
became editor in chief and vice-president. He left the Star in
1981 and was replaced by George
RADWANSKI, the future federal
privacy commissioner, who had worked for him at The Gazette.
Mr. HARVEY returned to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation,
taking over sports for the English network. By 1983, he was vice-president
of the entire English network of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
He held that job for seven years. He used to say his favourite
part of the job was the power to do programming. He changed the
face of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and it has stayed
that way. Mr.
HARVEY took the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
all Canadian -- it took several years but he stopped running
American program in prime time.
"We have handed over this most powerful medium to a foreign country,"
he told a broadcasting conference in 1990. "Nowhere else in the
world had one country imported the total television of another
country."
Along with Canadian content, one of his lasting creations was
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's news and current-affairs
specialty channel Newsworld. He left the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation in 1991 and worked off and on as a broadcast consultant.
He spent a lot of time travelling and took up some rather un-tough-guy
hobbies, such as bird-watching and going to the ballet.
Mr. HARVEY, who died after a brief struggle with cancer, leaves
his wife Louise
LORE, and Lynn and Brian, his two children from
an earlier marriage.
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LAPP o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-06-11 published
Floyd Douglas
BELL
In loving memory of Floyd Douglas
BELL who passed away Saturday
evening, June 7, 2003 at the Extendicare York Nursing' Home Sudbury.
Beloved husband of 52 years, of Jessie
(HONESS)
BELL of Val Caron.
Loving father of Donna (husband Ches
WITTY,)
Marian (husband Bruce
ELOFSON), Jeff (wife Debbie), Joanne (husband Bob
LAPP) and Lila
(friend Glen
BATEMAN.) Cherished grandfather of Derek, Trevor,
Dylan, Evan, Leanne, Scott, Bradley and great grand_son Kaleb
"Muscles." Dear son of Sarah and Peter
BELL both predeceased. Dear
brother of Daisy, Roger, Terry and predeceased by Ervin. Sadly
missed by his faithful canine companion Trooper. Born in Burpee, he
worked as a miner at the
INCO
Stobie and
Frood
Mines for 37 years.
He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing and gardening. He had a
wonderful attitude and sense of humor, he brought sunshine into our
world. A special thank you to the staff and residence at Extendicare
York for their care and compassion. A service of remembrance will be
held at Mills Township Cemetery, Manitoulin Island, Thursday, June
12, 2003. (Time to be confirmed) Cremation at the Park Lawn
Crematorium. Arrangement entrusted to the Lougheed Funeral Home.
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