LENGELLE
LENNON
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LENSON
LENT
LENGELLÉ o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-04 published
Artist and portraitist refused to compromise
Works in his trademark use of colour hang in the Art Gallery
of Ontario, Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital and in private collections
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, September
4, 2003 - Page R9
When the director of the University of Toronto's Hart House Gallery
needed a portrait of Hart House warden Dr. Jean
LENGELLÉ, she
called artist Gerald
SCOTT.
"In this case, Gerry was a perfect fit for Jean, because Jean
wanted something that was not staid and traditional, which is
certainly Gerry," said the director, Judi
SCHWARTZ.
"He [Dr. LENGELLÉ] liked the patterning approach that Gerry took,
and the two of them got along very well."
Mr. SCOTT painted the 1977
LENGELLÉ portrait and countless others
in the manner of his friend and mentor, Group of Seven artist Fred
VARLEY.
"Gerry placed colours together that you wouldn't think of, and
when you stand back from the painting, you get the effect of
the work, and when you get closer to it, you start to notice
the colours," Ms.
SCHWARTZ said of the
LENGELLÉ portrait.
One of the foremost Canadian portrait painters, whose works hung
in the inaugural exhibition of Toronto's prominent Greenwich
Gallery along with those of Michael Snow, Graham Coughtry and
William Ronald and are found in the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto's
Mount
Sinai
Hospital and numerous private collections, Mr.
SCOTT
died of cancer at the age of 76. Along with Dr.
LENGELLÉ,
Mr.
SCOTT's subjects included a Bermudan prime minister and a Baroness
Rothschild. One of six children, whose father worked as a building
engineer and car salesman, Gerald William
SCOTT was born in Saint
John. Although his birth certificate reads September 30, 1926,
Mr. SCOTT always said it was wrong and he was born in 1925. To
help support his family during the Depression, Mr.
SCOTT danced
on the city's docks, missing school to do so. After service in
the Canadian army during the Second World War, he returned to
Toronto where his family had settled.
There he met and married the Italian countess Josephine Maria
INVIDIATTA. An
English teacher who recognized her husband's gifts,
she taught Mr.
SCOTT to read. Thereafter, he read incessantly,
devouring all types of material. Countess
INVIDIATTA also encouraged
Mr. SCOTT to attend the Ontario College of Art, now named the
Ontario College of Art and Design.
Graduating from the college in 1949, Mr.
SCOTT won the Reeves
Award for all-round technical proficiency in drawing and painting.
After a short career in advertising and turning down an opportunity
to do a cover for Time magazine, he focused on fine art.
Mr. SCOTT taught at his alma mater part-time from 1952 to 1958
and full-time for a period beginning in 1963. And he participated
in shows at both The Roberts Gallery and The Greenwich Gallery,
later renamed The Isaacs Gallery.
While other artistic styles, such as abstract expressionism came
and went, Mr.
SCOTT continued with portraiture. "He didn't want
to compromise his style," said his son Paul
SCOTT. "He didn't
follow trends."
Lacking the time to develop a body of work for a show, and with
a self-effacing temperament which disliked the gallery scene,
by the mid-eighties Mr.
SCOTT no longer exhibited his work, sticking
to commissions and teaching, and writing plays and poetry.
Teaching took up much of Mr.
SCOTT's time, and he was known as
a good one. For 25 years, he taught at the Three Schools of Art
and later at the Forest Hill Art Club, both in Toronto.
"He was an inspirational teacher," said Michael
GERRY, a student
of Mr. SCOTT for six years and now an instructor at Central Technical
High School in Toronto.
"He was one of the few people around who understands the vocabulary.
He really knew his lessons. Not only was he skillful, he was
thoughtful, unusually thoughtful. Colour and temperature were
his specialty."
Said his friend and fellow artist Telford
FENTON, "He had wonderful
use of colour. It spoke to you."
A deliberate, patient and methodical instructor, popular with
Rosedale matrons, Mr.
SCOTT taught his students to observe colour.
"He could see colour everywhere," said Joan
CONOVER, who served
as a portrait model for Mr.
SCOTT. 'They're [the colours] there,
Joanie,' he would say to me. 'All you have to do is stop looking.
Close your eyes and then open them, very quickly. Close them,
open them again, and you'll get a brief glimpse [of the colours].'"
Mr. SCOTT also demonstrated painting for his students. "Most
teachers would not demonstrate," said another
SCOTT student Roger
BABCOCK. "
His demonstrations were like a Polaroid picture. They
would form before your eyes."
When students complained of lack of subjects, Mr.
SCOTT told
them how he stayed up nights painting works of his hand.
As he taught, Mr.
SCOTT discussed the Bible, religion or politics.
But he would not discuss his war experiences, according to Ms.
CONOVER. "It made his stomach hurt," she said.
Mr. SCOTT used his right thumb for certain strokes, and was highly
critical of his work, only signing it with persuasion.
Good
Friends since the fifties with Mr.
FENTON, the pair was
known as the Laurel and Hardy of the art world.
Once, they sold the same painting to three different clients,
eventually making good to all three. Another time while sailing,
Mr. SCOTT's boat crashed into the dock of the Royal Canadian
Yacht
Club.
Always charming Mr.
SCOTT ended up in the club's
bar, along with those of his party, treated to a round of drinks.
Mr. SCOTT continued working until he suffered a heart attack
three years ago.
He died on July 13 and leaves his partner Joyce, two ex-wives,
children Paul, Sarah, Hannah, Rebecca, Aaron, Amelia Jordan,
Jarod and Dana, and five grandchildren. His first wife, Josephine,
and a son, Simon, predeceased him.
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LENNON 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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LENNOX o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-04 published
YOUNG,
Don
Beloved husband of Jennifer, died on Wednesday, October 1, after
a brief illness. Don had been in poor health for some time. Don
was born on October 24, 1914 in Saint Thomas, Ontario. He spent
two years of his early childhood in the wilds of Montana, avoiding
rattlesnakes, and listening to coyotes howl. During his early
adult life he had a short career playing the guitar for The Royal
Canucks, a dance band in London, Ontario. He received his post
secondary education at the Universities of Western Ontario, and
Toronto. After serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force in World
War 2, Don began his teaching career, working in Dutton, Haldim
and County, Forest Hill, and in the Ministry of Education, where
he held several senior positions. Throughout his life Don was
especially interested in natural science, birding in particular,
and enthusiastically shared these interests with Friends and
associates. He was a member of several science clubs, including
the Brodie Club. Don loved the challenge of learning both practical
and intellectual subjects, and became skillful at photography,
fly fishing, furniture making as well as achieving considerable
fluency in French, German and Spanish. His love of adventure
took him to five continents where, among other things, he rode
on the back of both an elephant, and an ostrich. He and Jennifer
traveled widely pursuing their interest in the visual arts. Don
leaves behind his wife
Jennifer, brother-in-law David
LENNOX
and wife Virginia, and their sons, Chris and his wife Leola,
and Andrew
ROACH of Barrie, his sister-in law Tina
LENNOX, her
two sons, Jason and Joshua and their families, and his cousin
Edna BATE and her family of Brantford. During his long and happy
life Don won many cherished Friends, who will miss his loyalty,
and wisdom. During his declining health, Don exhibited grace
and fortitude, always the gentleman. His last three years were
made easier due to the fine care he received at Carefree Lodge,
for which Debbie
ARAUJO and her fine staff deserve special praise.
The family will receive Friends at the Kane Funeral Home at 6150
Yonge Street, Toronto, on Sunday, October 5, from 2-4, followed
by a reception. According to Don¹s wishes, there will be no funeral.
If desired, donations may be made in Don¹s memory to Birdstudies
Canada, P.O. Box 150, Port Rowan, Ontario, N0E 1M0, or a charity
of your choice.
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LENNOX o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-16 published
LENNOX,
Rosamond Cicely-Joan (née
NEWMARCH)
Died peacefully on Friday, October 10, 2003 after a brief illness
at McMaster University Medical Centre in Hamilton. Much loved
and devoted wife of Harvey A.
LENNOX for 61 years, she will be
greatly missed and remembered by her children, Susan, Peter and
John, their spouses William, Lynne and Geri, and grandchildren,
Richard and wife Jayne, Mark, Andrew, Amy, Michael and Kimberely.
Cicley was born in Parksville, British Columbia to Henry and
Rosamond NEWMARCH (both deceased.) Her brother Oliver, now deceased,
is survived by wife Helen and children Robert and Patricia. In
keeping with Cicely's wishes, a Private family Funeral has been
held. A Memorial Service in celebration of Cicely's life will
be held at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church (70 James Street South,
Hamilton) on Friday, October 24th at 4: 00 p.m. followed by a
reception at the Hamilton Golf and Country Club, 232 Golf Links
Road (at Halson), Ancaster. In lieu of flowers, Cicely requested
that donations be made to the Canadian Red Cross International
Relief Children's Fund in Africa c/o Canadian Red Cross, Hamilton
Branch, 400 King Street East, Hamilton, Ontario, L8N 1C4 or to
the charity of your choice. Cicely was involved with many charities
and organizations over the years, including St. Paul's Presbyterian
Church, Meals on Wheels Victorian Order of Nurses, the Junior
League of Hamilton, Big Sisters and Hamilton Golf and Country Club,
where she was an active member for over 30 years. Cicely will
be remembered for her kindness, generosity of spirit, humour,
devotion to family, and fondness and loyalty to Friends. She
will be sadly missed.
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LENNOX o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-20 published
MATHERS,
Andrew
Sherlock
Died of a heart attack early Friday morning. Husband of Suzanne.
Father of Drew, Mary and Jane. Andrew will be missed by his brother
John (Joan); niece Janet; nephews Eric, Ian and Scott; step-siblings
Susan GARRARD,
John and Charles
LENNOX; and by sister-in-law
Jane CLAPPISON.
Private
Cremation. A Memorial Service will be
held at a later date. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to the Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation.
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LENSON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-04-16 published
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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LENT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
LENT, Maida Mary Freda (née
SCHROEDER) M.A. Queen's University
Suddenly on March 2nd, 2003 at Sunnybrook and Women's College
Health Science Centre in her 90th year. Beloved wife of the late
Elton LENT (1998.) Left to mourn are his daughter Ellie
LEGGE
(Randy) and his son Ryck
LENT
(Barbara,) grandchildren Dallas
and Devin LEGGE and Krissa and Tiffany
LENT, great-grand_son McLeod
WILSON, nephews Tony and David (Mary
FINCH.)
Predeceased by her
sister Ilse
FINCH.
Maida taught French and German ay Galt Collegiate,
Scarborough Collegiate and Humberside C.I. in Toronto. According
to her wishes, her body has been donated for research to the
University of Toronto. A Memorial Service will be held at Eglinton
St. George's United Church, 35 Lytton Blvd. (at Duplex) on Thursday,
March 13th at 1 p.m. with a reception afterwards in the Eglinton
Room. If desired, remembrances may be made to the charity of
your choice.
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