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Died This Day
Thursday, January 2, 2003, Page R9
James Garfield
GARDINER, 1962
Teacher, farmer, politician, born in Hibbert Township, Ontario,
on November 30, 1883; in 1914, elected Saskatchewan Member of
Legislative Assembly; cabinet minister from 1922-26 and from
1926-29; in 1934, became Premier of Saskatchewan; from 1935-57
served as federal Minister of Agriculture; established Prairie
Farm Rehabilitation Administration to help drought-stricken farmers
in 1948, ran for Liberal Party leadership but lost to Louis ST-
LAURENT
died in Lemberg, Saskatchewan.
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LAURENT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-31 published
BRAILEY,
F.
George
March 6th, 1923 to May 29th, 2003. Died peacefully at West Park
Long Term Care Centre. George suffered from Alzheimers, and the
past year was very difficult for him as he declined so rapidly.
George leaves his loving wife of 57 years, Joyce, and two daughters,
Seonaid BRAILEY and Moira
MacRAE and her husband, Garth. He was
a wonderful Poppa to Justin
MacRAE,
Krista
BRAILEY, Gail
MacRAE
(Allan LAURENT,) and Heather
MacRAE
(Chris
O'CONNOR.) George
enjoyed being Great Poppa to his precious great-granddaughter,
Jordan TUCKER-
MacRAE and great-grandchildren, Sam and Leigha
BRETT, Haley
MacRAE, Finlay and Emma
O'CONNOR and Philippe
GIGUERE.
The family is grateful to the kind and caring nurses and support
staff at West Park Long Term Care Centre for treating Dad with
gentleness and dignity. Private arrangements have been made,
however the family invites Friends to join them on Saturday,
June 7, 2003, 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the home of Moira and Garth
MacRae. If you wish, a donation may be made to the Alzheimer
Society or to the charity of your choice.
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LAURIER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-27 published
Mary KEENBERG
By Jonina WOOD
Monday,
January 27, 2003, Page A16
Wife, mother, grandmother. Born July 4, 1913, on a train passing
through Fort William, Ontario (now part of Thunder Bay). Died
September 26, 2002, in Winnipeg, of natural causes, aged 89.
I first met Mary
KEENBERG in 1999 at the Manitoba Club in Winnipeg.
With its Edwardian oak-panelled walls, deep chairs and old-world
ambience, it was the perfect setting for Mary. She half-rose
from her fireside chair to greet me -- a tiny, elegant, perfectly
coiffed woman who smiled a warm welcome. Sweet-hearted yet somewhat
imperious, she was a master of the quick quip. "We're the long
and short of it," she once pointed out to a crowd, getting a
huge laugh as I stood a full foot taller than she. But the meeting
at the Manitoba Club had a deeper significance.
Mary was born on a train. Her parents, newly arrived from the
shtetls of Russia, were on their way to a whistle stop in Saskatchewan
called Mikado. They were part of the waves of immigrants inspired
by Prime Minister Wilfrid
LAURIER's international appeal to come
settle Canada.
So they did. Mary's father, Maurice Max
BURTNICK, opened a general
store. To a brood that already included Tony, Sasha and Mary
were added Louis, Polly, Harry and Allan. The sudden departure
of Mary's mother left Mary to care for her younger siblings.
This she did with a fierce and protective love that would come
to be one of her defining character traits.
Mary was younger than most when she graduated from Grade 12 with
the highest grades in all Saskatchewan. She taught Grades 1 to
12 in a one-room country schoolhouse near Canora, Saskatchewan,
biding her time until she was 18 and could enter nursing at the
General Hospital in Winnipeg. Once again, she graduated with
the highest marks in her class.
With little money and the tough, physical demands of nursing,
life cannot have been easy for her and it was during this time
that she lost her much-beloved sister Polly in a fire back home,
a tragedy which created a lifelong wound in Mary's heart.
Meanwhile, on a happier note, there was a young, Jewish doctor
in the small Manitoban town of Baldur named Abe
KEENBERG.
Dr.
KEENBERG was very busy (and also perhaps a tad lonely, the story
goes), so one day he called his younger brother Lou who lived
in Winnipeg. "Lou," he said, "I need a wife. Do you know any
nice Jewish nurses?"
Lou soon invited Abe to meet Mary. It was a match. In 1938, they
were married at the Royal Alex in Winnipeg. They formed a loving
and effective team, first taking up residence in Glenboro, Manitoba,
and then in 1945 moving to Winnipeg with their new son. Here,
Mary took on what would become her life's passion: the fledgling
state of Israel.
With her own children, she was equally zealous. If Patty or Ron
came home with an A, Mary wanted to know what happened to the
"plus." If ever they were taunted as Jews, they were to fight
back. In the
KEENBERG home, there was honour in a bloodied nose
won fighting against racial slurs of any kind.
Tiny, but with the constitution of an ox, Mary was awhirl with
her work, her children, her travels with Abe, and her Friends.
When Abe died in 1987, she bravely carried on although devastated
by his passing. She filled her time with work, bridge (she was
an ace), and she was a friend to her grandchildren -- Megan,
Kathryn and Adam.
But she was often lonely. She missed her Abe and was anxious
to join him. This determined woman, who had fought her way from
poor beginnings to membership in the Manitoba Club, was weary
toward the end. Yet she was ever ladylike, ever gracious, ever
the warrior.
Jonina WOOD is Mary's daughter-in-law
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LAURIER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-02 published
Died
This
Day -- Sir Joseph
POPE, 1926
Tuesday, December 2, 2003 - Page R5
Federal civil servant born at Charlottetown on August 16, 1854
1878, arrived in Ottawa as private secretary to uncle, Prince
Edward
Island premier James Colledge
POPE; later served Sir John
A. MacDONALD; 1896, became under-secretary of state for foreign
affairs; persuaded
LAURIER government to set up permanent department
1909, named first permanent head of External Affairs; helped
resolve such significant issues as Alaska boundary dispute; adviser
to Mackenzie
KING.
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