MASKEL
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MASON
MASS
MASSEY
MASSICOTTE
MASSON
MASSUCCI
MASSY
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MASKEL o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-07-02 published
Dorothy Mary
WILSON
In loving memory of Dorothy Mary
WILSON of Espanola who passed away
at the Espanola General Hospital on Saturday, June 28, 2003 in her 74th year.
Dorothy was a former President of the Office Workers Union at the
E. B. Eddy Paper Mill and had worked on the Espanola Town Council as a
Councillor, Deputy Mayor and Mayor.
Beloved wife of the late Cyril
WILSON.
Loving mother of Debbie
MUNERA
HEDGERS of Sydney, B.C. and Kathy May
MASKEL (husband Walter)
of Whitefish Falls.Will be sadly missed by grand_sons Dylan and Sean
HEDGER.
Dear sister of John
SHAMESS of Elliot Lake, Alfie
SHAMESS of
Michigan and the late Joe
SHAMESS and half-sister to Laurie
LUKKARILA of Sudbury.
Visitation will be Thursday, July 3rd from 7-9 p.m. at the Bourcier
Funeral Home, Espanola. A Memorial Service will be held Friday, July
4, 2003 at 10: 00 a.m. at the Calvary Baptist Church, Espanola with
John FAULKNER officiating. Interment of the ashes will be in the Espanola Cemetery.
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MASKERY o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-03-26 published
Doctor
Allan
Bain
PEEVER
Allan PEEVER, age 36, of Stratford died on Thursday, March 20, 2003 in Stratford.
Allan was born on March 18, 1967 in Sault Ste. Marie to the Reverend Canon J. Bain
PEEVER
and Clara Dale
(CLERMONT.)
From 1967 until 1996 he lived in Newfoundland, Kingston, Cornwall, London
and Guelph before settling in Stratford to practice veterinary
medicine at Mitchell Veterinary Services. He graduated from the
University of Guelph in 1996. In 1999 Allan and Dr. Morag
MASKERY
were married and
in May of 2002 they celebrated the birth of their
daughter Erica Dale.
Allan treasured time spent canoeing, hunting and fishing. He spent
many wonderful years on Lake Mindemoya, Manitoulin Island. His
humour, courage, spontaneity and love of life were inspirational to
everyone who knew him.
We sincerely appreciate the loving care Al received from hundreds of
healthcare providers throughout the last five years. Allan will be
missed by Morag, Erica, father Bain (Lynda), brother Bruce (Gina),
grandmother Olga (Paul), father-in-law David (Janet), Neil (Teresa),
Michael (Caragh), Jason and Liana, his aunts, uncles, nieces,
cousins, many Friends and colleagues. Allan was predeceased by his
mother Dale in 2001.
Visitation was held at the W.G. Young Funeral Home, 430 Huron Street,
Stratford on Friday, March 21, 2003. The funeral service was held at
St. James' Anglican Church, 41 Mornington Street, Stratford on
Saturday,
March 22, 2003. Venerable John
SPENCER officiating. As
expressions of sympathy, memorial donations may be made to the Erica
Peever Education Trust Fund c/o St. Francis of Assisi Church, Box
166, Mindemoya, Ont. P0P 1S0
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MASLECHKO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-24 published
Sailor mom had Northern Magic
An early experience with skin cancer led her to contemplate her
life and make the decision to set off from Ottawa on a four-year
family voyage around the world
By Allison
LAWLOR
Monday,
March 24, 2003 - Page R7
Diane STUEMER dared to dream big and in doing so she captured
the country's imagination.
The Ottawa woman, who sailed around the world with her husband
and three sons and captivated Canadians back home with her weekly
newspaper reports from faraway places, has died of cancer. She
was 43.
"She touched people, said her younger sister Linda
MASLECHKO.
"When you read her stories, you felt that you were part of her
family. She was unabashedly human."
The family odyssey began on September 11, 1997, when Ms.
STUEMER,
her husband Herbert, and their three sons Michael, Jonathan and
Christopher, all under the age of 12, left Ottawa in their 42-foot
steel sailboat named Northern Magic and headed down the St. Lawrence
River.
When they left, the sum of their sailing experience consisted
of a handful of summer afternoons on the Ottawa River.
"Finally, we all wanted to leave, just to get it over with. So
when every contingency had been thought of, prepared for and
fretted over, when we were as ready as we ever would be, we set
off. All we could do now was pray."
Over the next four years, they would visit 34 countries and travel
35,000 nautical miles. When they returned home, in the summer
of 2001, 3,000 people were there to welcome them.
Throughout the trip, Ms.
STUEMER wrote 218 weekly dispatches
for The Ottawa Citizen, chronicling every aspect of their journey
from their lost cat to seasickness to travelling through pirate
waters along the coast of Somalia.
"It's been a long time since the cold grip of fear has clenched
me in my gut, and I was not the only one on board to shiver beneath
the touch of its icy fingers, Ms.
STUEMER wrote, before heading
into waters where there had been at least seven attacks on private
yachts in the past 12 months, two of which involved gunfire.
Ms. STUEMER subsequently published a book about their adventures
called The Voyage of the Northern Magic.
Before setting sail on their epic journey, Ms.
STUEMER and her
husband fantasized about travelling the world, but like a lot
of people they considered putting it off until their retirement.
"In the hustle and bustle of living our lives, with the business
and the home and the kids and everything else, the travel part
of our ambitions just got forgotten, " she once said in a television
interview.
But a brush with skin cancer in 1994 persuaded her to re-evaluate
her life. She and her husband decided it was time to start following
their dreams. Soon after, they sold their advertising business,
rented out their Ottawa-area home, bought and renovated Northern
Magic, a modest 37-year-old sailboat.
"She taught people that you have to find a way to make your own
dream come true, said Diane
KING, a close friend.
The STUEMERs began their journey by sailing down the eastern
seaboard of North America, through the Panama Canal and across
the Pacific Ocean, eventually reaching Australia. From there,
they travelled to Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and across the
Indian Ocean to Zanzibar. They sailed the Red Sea and up through
the Mediterranean to Gibraltar, from where they set out across
the North Atlantic homeward bound.
At times they travelled for weeks without seeing land. The music
of Canadian folksinger Michael
MITCHELL frequently echoed through
Northern Magic, calming frayed nerves during stormy weather or
reminding them of home as they sailed into a new port.
Back home in Canada, Mr.
MITCHELL read about their trip. "I almost
felt I was on the journey with them, " he said.
The family encountered many close calls on their voyage. At one
point, the family boat was docked in Yemen only a few hundred
metres away from where suicide bombers blew a gaping hole in
the U.S.S. Cole.
The trip was not just one of adventure. Along the way they met
remarkable people, many of whom were living in poverty. Touched
by these people, the family set out to make a difference. Ms.
STUEMER's work, along with her popular columns, has managed to
raise more than $50,000 so far for humanitarian causes in Africa
and Southeast Asia.
The money was raised to help pay for student tuitions and school
supplies in Kenya and to help protect orangutans in the jungles
of Borneo.
Diane STUEMER was born on June 23, 1959, in Sarnia, Ontario Not
long after, her family moved to Edmonton. From there they moved
to Calgary, where she spent her formative years. As a teenager,
Ms. STUEMER was working at the Calgary Stampede when she met
a young German man who would later become her husband. Born in
Berlin, Herbert
STUEMER came to Canada with the intention of
travelling and working throughout North America. But after meeting
Diane, he decided to stay put in Calgary. The couple married
there in 1981.
From
Calgary the couple went to Ottawa, where Ms.
STUEMER studied
journalism at Carleton University. After earning her degree,
she went to work for the federal government in various positions,
including briefing the Environment Minister for Question Period.
In 1988, she quit her government job and bought a faltering advertising
company. She turned it around to become a successful business.
She also wrote a biography of her grandfather, William
HAWRELAK,
a former mayor of Edmonton, and helped her father, Frank
KING,
write up his memories of his experience organizing the 1988 Calgary
Winter Olympics.
"Whenever she put her mind to something, she did it intensely,
Ms. MASLECHKO said.
During her life, Ms.
STUEMER followed 11 basic rules. "Live your
life with passion. Dare to dream big dreams, " was rule No. 1.
"Begin immediately, even if you are not ready, " rule No. 4 states.
Last
Boxing
Day, Ms.
STUEMER became ill, and suffered from persistent
headaches. But it was not until February 6 that the malignant
melanoma that took her life was discovered. In the last month
of her life, she was surrounded in the hospital by family and
Friends, whom she kept laughing with her wonderful sense of humour,
said her sister.
"She said: 'I got a wake-up call and thank goodness I listened.
I changed my life. I fulfilled who I was meant to be', " her
sister Ms.
MASLECHKO recalled. "She made the most of it and that's
a lesson to all of us."
Ms. STUEMER was recently presented with the Queen's Golden Jubilee
Medal. The Medal is given to Canadians "who have made a significant
contribution to their fellow citizens, their community or to
Canada."
The City of Ottawa also has plans to name a park and beach area
on the north shore of Petrie Island Stuemer Park, in honour of
Ms. STUEMER. The Ottawa River island, close to where the
STUEMERs
live, is the place from which they departed on their journey
and returned to four years later.
News of her death attracted a flood of messages to the family
Web site (http: //www.northernmagic.com). Some admirers had followed
Ms. STUEMER's exploits for years. Long-time reader Carol
LAVIOLETTE
wrote: "I followed your adventure from the very start; I laughed
and cried through all of the stories in the Citizen. I prayed
for your safe return and cried tears of joy when the five of
you returned to Canada.
"I am a mother of three myself and could not imagine going on
that kind of adventure, I don't have the strength of character
to undertake something of such magnitude. But I lived it through
your tales. Thank you and God bless you."
Ms. STUEMER died in an Ottawa hospital on March 15. She leaves
her husband Herbert and their three sons Michael, 16, Jonathan,
14, and Christopher, 11, her mother and father, sister and two
brothers.
"Diane was like a little girl who, in all her innocence, really
truly believed she could change the world, Ms.
KING wrote in
a eulogy. "Who would dare tell her that she couldn't?"
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MASON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-11 published
Visionary performer waged war on trivial art
Her trademark was a experimental process that embraced dance,
music, text, mime, clown, ritual and mask
By Paula CITRON
Friday,
April 11, 2003 - Page R13
Canada has lost a powerful force in experimental theatre and
dance. Director, dancer, actor, writer and choreographer Elizabeth
SZATHMARY died last month in Toronto.
While she will be remembered as a dynamic figure, her artistic
life will remain a contradiction. At the beginning of her career,
Ms. SZATHMARY was one of the gilded darlings of Toronto's burgeoning
experimental theatre. At the end, she was seen by some as a marginalized,
religious eccentric who put on plays in church basements.
To her long-time Friends and loyalists, however, Ms.
SZATHMARY's
life was a spiritual journey in which art, religion and morality
were inextricably intertwined in a nobility of purpose.
Ms. SZATHMARY was born in New York on October 12, 1937, to Jewish-Hungarian
parents. Her mother was an unhappy former opera singer and vaudeville
performer and her father was a composer and arranger who wrote
the theme for the popular television show Get Smart and who abandoned
his family. Ms.
SZATHMARY attended New York's High School of
Performing Arts and later performed with the Metropolitan Opera
Ballet under choreographer Antony
TUDOR.
A ravishing beauty with masses of long, jet-black curls and compelling
light-coloured eyes, Ms.
SZATHMARY attracted followers throughout
her career. She was, says Toronto choreographer David
EARLE,
a powerful, mysterious presence and a charismatic performer.
Another admirer was Canadian Robert
SWERDLOW.
Mr.
TUDOR's piano
accompanist, he fell in love with the beautiful young dancer
and followed her to France where Ms.
SZATHMARY danced with such
companies as Les Ballets Classique de Monte Carlo and Les Ballets
Contemporains de Paris. He was the first of many artists to be
inspired by Ms.
SZATHMARY.
"Elizabeth was a theatre philosopher who wanted to save the world
through the beauty and truth of her art," Mr.
SWERDLOW said.
The couple relocated to Montreal in the mid-sixties where Mr.
SWERDLOW got a job with the National Film Board. One assignment
brought him to Toronto, and it was Ms.
SZATHMARY who persuaded
him to settle there because of the city's "happening" dance scene.
Performing under the name Elizabeth
SWERDLOW, she first worked
with Mr. EARLE and the future co-founders of Toronto Dance Theatre.
In 1969, Mr.
SWERDLOW took an unexpected windfall of $30,000
and built his wife a performing venue of her own. In this way,
Global Village Theatre emerged from a former Royal Canadian Mounted
Police stable and the couple went on to became synonymous with
a new wave of provocative, political, issue-oriented theatre.
Mr. SWERDLOW provided the words and music, and co-wrote the shows
Elizabeth co-wrote, choreographed, directed and was the featured
performer. Importantly, she was the visionary who came up with
original concepts and her trademark, multidisciplinary theatrical
process embraced dance, music, text, mime, clown, ritual and
mask.
Among their better-known collaborations was Blue.S.A., an indictment
of the "American empire," and Justine, the story of a young
girl who gains wisdom through the vicissitudes of life. A huge
hit, Justine went to New York where it won off-Broadway awards
and enjoyed a long run.
Its success meant Global Village became a stopping place for
others. Gilda
RADNER,
John
CANDY and Salome
BEY represented just
some of the talent that passed through. Later, when Ms.
SZATHMARY
founded Inner Stage Theatre, she helped propel the early careers
of Antoni CIMOLINO and Donald
CARRIER of the Stratford Festival,
Jeannette ZINGG and Marshall
PYNKOSKI of Opera Atelier and Native
American performer Raoul
TRUJILLO.
In the mid-seventies, Ms.
SZATHMARY experienced a religious conversion
and became a devout Christian.
For Mr. SWERDLOW, it was the last straw in an already turbulent
relationship. After the couple split up, Ms.
SZATHMARY founded
Inner Stage, a name that expressed her desire to produce art
that would transform and heal through spirituality. To better
strike out on her own, she also shed the
SWERDLOW name. Until
the 1990s, the main work of Inner Stage was a series of acclaimed
morality tales -- or modern fables as Ms.
SZATHMARY called them
which toured schools from coast to coast. She also explored
the storytelling power of Native American myths and turned to
such themes as the plight of street youth or to the Holocaust
from a teenager's point of view. Her final project, No Fixed
Address, attempted to air the true voice of the homeless by both
telling their stories and casting them as actors.
By all accounts, Ms.
SZATHMARY was a true eccentric who personalized
everything. Her computer, for example, was called Daisy. Her
home was a living museum dominated by a family of cats who occupied
their own stools at the dining table, held conversations and
sent out Christmas cards to the pets of Friends. Spiritual sayings,
religious art and theatre memorabilia covered every scrap of
wall and floor space. On an even more personal level, Ms.
SZATHMARY
kept a journal of religious visions and dreams written in ornate
calligraphy and illustrated in Hungarian folk-style art. What
is more, she described ecstatic events and augurisms, including
a personal affinity with bison, as if such occurrences were as
routine as the weather.
In her work, Ms.
SZATHMARY demanded perfection, which meant she
often proved impossible to work alongside. Friends and colleagues
Robert MASON,
Julia
AMES and Peter
GUGELER all talk about Ms.
SZATHMARY's middle-of-the-night phone calls -- and the fact that
she brooked no criticism or contrary opinions. All the same,
their devotion never lessened.
"She was a queen and we were her subjects," said Mr.
GUGELER.
"Elizabeth never left you once she got ahold of you."
Guerrilla theatre, grass-roots theatre, shoe-string theatre,
theatre against all odds, a "let's-make-a-show" mentality --
that was the brave, artistic world in which Ms.
SZATHMARY waged
her war against what she saw as frivolous or commercial art.
In 1989, Inner Stage lost its operating grant and from that time
on she financed her own productions. During the last year that
she was able to work, she earned a pitiful $5,000.
Ms. SZATHMARY continued to perform in all her productions, turning
more to straight acting as her dancing powers declined. Even
so, she never gave up the stage to anyone.
Elizabeth SZATHMARY died of rectal cancer in Toronto on March
28. A memorial service will be held at the Church of the Redeemer,
162 Bloor St. W., Toronto, at 3 p.m. on April 27.
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MASS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-03 published
Stanley GOLVIN
By Philip MASS,
Thursday,
July 3, 2003 - Page A26
Businessman, husband, father, and grandfather. Born August 22,
1918, in Kielce, Poland. Died May 5, in Toronto, of an apparent
heart attack, aged 84.
Stanley GOLVIN was a man who had a strong impact on others: individuals
who literally owe their lives and their livelihoods to him; countless
Friends, colleagues, and employees to whom Stanley was a mentor
and a benefactor.
Not that Stanley was always an easy guy to be with. He was complicated
and a man of many contradictions. He was exacting in his expectations
of himself and others. Even so, he commanded unqualified loyalty,
affection, and respect from even those of whom he was most relentlessly
demanding. On the whole, we will remember Stanley fondly for
his penchant for ideas and for his unwavering qualities of generosity,
loyalty, courage, and just plain smarts.
Stanley's life was marked forever by the devastation that the
Holocaust brought to what had been a rather commonplace life
in Poland. Stanley spent most of the war in the Auschwitz concentration
camp. Stanley managed to survive years in the camp even as he
put his life in jeopardy time and again to bring food to other
starving inmates and to help fellow prisoners escape. Astonishingly,
he then managed to escape himself. This period in Stanley's life
was not one that he could put behind him easily, nor did he wish
to; he did his part in memorializing the Holocaust in several
ways, including a video testimony as part of Steven Spielberg's
Shoah initiative.
Stanley emerged from the war, like so many others, without a
country, without a home, without an intact family, and without
material resources. He did, however, come away with one thing
of incalculable value: a worldwide network of devoted Friends
with whom he shared a common experience that only he and they
could truly comprehend.
Not long after the war, Stanley came to New York, determined
to achieve personal security. In New York he met Sharon
GREEN
who soon became Sharon
GOLVIN.
They set roots in Sharon's home
city of Toronto and Stanley, with a partner, opened a furniture
store. The business flourished and developed into an impressive
chain of outlets. Still restless, Stanley then set out to build
the real estate business: that was his passion and is his legacy
to his children.
Meanwhile Stanley's family flourished as well, with the birth
of Stuart and Ilene and the eventual establishment of their own
families. Then, in 1992, came the second tragedy of Stanley's
life: the passing of Sharon. And yet, for a second time in his
life, out of devastation came rebirth. Ella
LOTEM, who Stanley
had first romanced in Poland some 45 years earlier, moved to
Toronto from Israel to marry him. A softer and mellower Stanley
started to allow himself to sit back and enjoy some of life's
pleasures, particularly his five grandchildren who adored him.
Stanley shared with me recently that he never could have believed
that he would live so long. He was truly amazed by his long and
fruitful life, grateful for the "mazal" that had been his companion,
and I believe he was now resigned that his time had come. As
Stanley would say, "I'm on overtime now."
When Stanley's four-year-old grand_son Benn was told that his
Zaidy had died, Benn responded uncertainly, "But he'll be alive
again, right?" Intent on having Benn understand the situation,
we lost sight of the wisdom in his magical thinking. Indeed Zaidy
will be alive again in a very real sense as Stanley's memory
and his spirit remain alive and continue to guide us for ward.
But before we could affirm this notion with Benn, he uttered
simply, and in a soft voice, "But I love Zaidy." As we all do.
Philip MASS is Stanley
GOLVIN's son-in-law.
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MASSEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-25 published
Pilot 'displayed utmost fortitude, courage and devotion to duty'
By Tom HAWTHORN
Special▼ to The Globe and Mail Monday, August
25, 2003 - Page R5
Jack KESLICK, a pilot who won a Distinguished Flying Cross for
his several daring bombing missions over Germany in the Second
World War, has died in Richmond Hill, Ontario He was 81.
Mr. KESLICK, a flying officer, had several scrapes with disaster,
losing engines on two sorties and being hit by flak on two others.
On August 9, 1944, he lost an engine during an attack on a launch
site for the V-1 flying bomb at Prouville, France, but managed
to return safely to base at Leeming, Yorkshire, home of No. 429
(Bison) Squadron. The following month, he again lost an engine
on a mission. Though he had yet to reach his target at Calais
on the French coast, Mr.
KESLICK continued with his bombing assignment
before returning to England.
Four days later, on September 28, a wave of 38 Lancaster and
214 Halifax bombers was assigned to take out coastal guns at
Cap Gris Nez. Many crews had to return with their bombs because
of poor weather, but Mr.
KESLICK was able to strike the target.
On October 12, Mr.
KESLICK's
Halifax was hit by flak while joining
95 others in a sortie against oil plants at Wanne-Eickel, Germany.
His plane was not seriously damaged.
His crew also took part in the massive attack on the Wilhelmshaven
naval base on the night of October 15-16, as 119 Halifaxes and
19 Lancasters dropped more than one million pounds of incendiaries
and high explosives on the port city.
From
July 28 to November 6, 1944, Mr.
KESLICK logged more than
165 hours of flight on 31 sorties, but his most harrowing mission
was yet to be flown. On November 24, his bomber was one of a
baker's dozen on a mining operation on the Kattegat, the strait
separating Denmark and Sweden. His Halifax was hit by flak, damaging
the bomb bay and the starboard outer engine. He nursed his Halifax
back to Scotland.
John Leask
KESLICK was born in Toronto on May 25, 1922. He enlisted
on July 29, 1942, and had been promoted to pilot officer by the
time he left military service.
He was presented his medal at Government House in Ottawa by Governor-General
Vincent MASSEY in 1953, according to research by the military
historian Hugh
HALLIDAY.
The citation noted that Mr.
KESLICK
had "invariably displayed the utmost fortitude, courage and devotion
to duty."
Mr. KESLICK died of congestive heart failure at Richmond Hill,
Ontario, on July 15. He leaves a son, a daughter and a sister.
He was predeceased by his wife, Evelyn.
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Died
This
Day -- Daniel
MASSEY, 1856
Monday, November 17, 2003 - Page R5
Farmer and manufacturer born at Windsor, Vt., on February 24,
1798; Farmed near Cobourg, Upper Canada; 1847, took interest
in farm machinery and invested in foundry at Bond Head; 1849,
moved to Newcastle to establish Newcastle Foundry and Machine
Manufactory that, under son Hart
MASSEY, later became Massey-Harris
Co. and then Massey-Ferguson; global manufacturer of farm implements.
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MASSICOTTE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-02 published
He fought the Teamsters -- and won
Worker won protection for part-timers in a court battle that
involved the most powerful union in North America
By James McCREADY
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday, October
2, 2003 - Page R13
Gerry MASSICOTTE was a man who didn't like being pushed around,
and one of his fights made him famous, at least for a while.
He won a precedent-setting case involving unfair labour practices,
not just against his employer but also the Teamsters, the most
powerful union in North America. The legal battle lasted about
three years, in what was mostly a one-man fight in a case that
was heard in the Supreme Court of Canada.
He didn't take no for an answer when the union said it wouldn't
handle his grievance, insisting that he deserved better because
he had paid his dues.
"His fight was based on the simple principle of taxation without
representation," said Ray
KUSZELEWSKI, now a Halifax lawyer but
back in the late 1970s another Teamster with a problem with the
union. The Teamsters not only refused to represent Mr.
MASSICOTTE,
but it negotiated a lower wage, from $6.85 an hour to $6, in
Mr. MASSICOTTE, who has died at the age of 55, was a man who
could not be pigeonholed. He had a degree in social work and
worked as a professional for more than 10 years before the intensity
of the work forced him to leave.
Gerald Manley
MASSICOTTE was born on October 22, 1947, in Toronto.
His father worked at the Post Office, his mother worked in restaurants.
Eventually she ended up owning her own place, The New Brazil,
at Runnymede and St. Clair in Toronto. Later, Mr.
MASSICOTTE
and his wife, Elaine, would take it over.
Mr. MASSICOTTE went to Runnymede Collegiate and graduated with
a degree in social work from Ryerson Polytechnical Institute.
He worked for many years as a social worker in group homes for
children and in halfway houses. He then took on part-time work,
including a stint at Humes Transport, loading refrigerated trucks.
He did that for 2½ years, before he was fired.
That started his long crusade against the Teamsters. On Aug.16,
1979, he filed a grievance asking his union to protest his firing.
"I claim that I have been unjustly terminated and must be reinstated
immediately," began his grievance letter to local 938 of the
Teamsters. The answer came back that the union would not represent
him, and that he had no protection as a part-time employee, in
spite of paying union dues of $18 a month.
At the time, Mr.
MASSICOTTE and others were unhappy with the
way the Teamsters were run and he set out to prove that it did
him wrong.
The case went to the Canada Labour Relations Board. The union
argued that the safe, clean environment it negotiated with Humes
Transport was a great benefit for a part-timer like Mr.
MASSICOTTE.
The union also informed him that his pay would be lowered so
the company could pay full-time employees more. In late January,
1980, the Labour Relations Board ruled in favour of Mr.
MASSICOTTE,
ordering the union to pay costs. But the Teamsters wouldn't quit.
The union took the case to the Federal Court of Appeal in October,
1980, but lost.
"The union and the employer have established the price of their
labour, and
in MASSICOTTE's case, reduced that price drastically
without asking him," wrote the court.
The case went to the Supreme Court, and the Chief Justice, Bora
LASKIN, confirmed the lower court's ruling in May, 1982.
"It was one of the few cases in which a union member took his
union to court for not representing him," said Brian
IHLER, the
lawyer who worked with him on the case.
It set a precedent that all unions in Canada would have to represent
all their dues-paying members.
By the time the Supreme Court ruling came down, Mr.
MASSICOTTE
had moved on with his life. A keen cook, he took courses at George
Brown College. He also became well-known again, but for his food
this time. He renamed his mother's restaurant, the Northland
Truck Stop and Café.
Mr. MASSICOTTE later moved into his wife's father's business,
selling and servicing small pumps, used soft-drink machines and
even kidney dialysis machines. He and his wife ran the company,
Potter-Blersh. He died of cancer on July 15.
Gerry MASSICOTTE leaves wife
Elaine
BLERSH; siblings Debbie,
Jeff, Ron and Jim; and mother Joan.
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MASSON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-07-02 published
HILLSON
-In loving memory of Maxwell Alexander "Bud" Hillson, who passed away at the
age of 77 years. Husband of the late Katherine "Kay"
(TURINECK,)
July 4, 1999.
You had a smile for everyone
You had a heart of gold
You left the sweetest memories
This world could ever hold
No one knows how much we miss you
No one knows the bitter pain
We have suffered since we lost you
Life has never been the same
Those we love don't go away
They walk beside us every day
Unseen, unheard but always near
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
A father's legacy is not riches
possessions or worldly goods
It's the way he lived,
the lives he touched, the promises he kept
It's the man he was
Your life, Dad was a job well done
and now you have left us to be with Mom.
Loving father of Bernadine, husband Phillip
HARRIS of Ottawa, Maxine,
husband Ronald
ALBERTS of London, Edward of Little Current, Roseanne
of Calgary and Kevin of Little Current. Remembered by brothers
Maxime, wife Shirley, Randolph wife Helen. By sisters Marie, husband
Gene ARMOUR,
Agnes
CARDINAL, Rita
DUNDON, Judith, husband Wifred
GUAY,
Georgina
GAGNON and Dorothy
MASSON.
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MASSUCCI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-09 published
He was a daredevil footballer in the days of leather helmets
By Tom HAWTHORN
Special▲ to The Globe and Mail Friday, May 9,
2003 - Page R11
Norris LINDSAY, a teammate of Ormond
BEACH and Bummer
STIRLING
on the storied Sarnia Imperials football team, has died in Petrolia,
Ontario He was 94.
At 6-foot-3, 220-pounds, he was a big man in the era of leather
helmets and earned a reputation for his flying tackles, a daredevil
play that has long since fallen out of favour. In lieu of salary
as a two-way player, Mr.
LINDSAY and his teammates were guaranteed
jobs with Canadian Oil Companies Ltd.
Mr. LINDSAY helped the Imperials win the Ontario Rugby Football
Union champioship in 1933 and 1934 over Balmy Beach, St. Michael's
College and the Hamilton Tigers.
In 1933, the Imperials played host to the 1933 Grey Cup championship
against the Toronto Argonauts. Despite his regular-season contributions,
coach Pat OUELLETTE did not have Mr.
LINDSAY suit up for the
big game, which was won 4-3 by Toronto in the lowest-scoring
Grey Cup ever played.
Mr. LINDSAY was frustrated again the following year, when coach
Art MASSUCCI did not place him on the Imperials' roster for the
Grey Cup final. Sarnia defeated the Regina Roughriders 20-12
at Toronto. Among Mr.
LINDSAY's teammates wearing the three-starred
sweater of the Imperials were Mr.
BEACH, a sensational halfback
kicker Hugh (Bummer)
STIRLING of Saint Thomas, Ontario; rugged
snapper Boob
MOLLOY; and, the speedy Norm
PERRY, known as The
Galloping Ghost.
Mr. LINDSAY, who was born in Tupperville, Ontario, near Chatham
in southwestern Ontario, was also a gifted golfer who entered
the 1940 Canadian Open. "He told me his first shot went out of
bounds, said Pat
SUTHERLAND, a friend. "By the time he was
done, he had shot an 11 on the first hole."
Mr. LINDSAY, an amateur, shot an embarrassing 93 on the par-71
course, following with a 90. The tournament was won in a playoff
by the legendary American golfer Sam
SNEAD.
Shortly after, Mr.
LINDSAY joined the merchant marine and was a radio operator during
the Second World War. In peacetime, he took over the Blue Bay
Lodge near Huntsville, Ontario, which he operated until 1963.
Mr. LINDSAY golfed until late in life. When his local club opened
a new clubhouse, he rented the old one and made it his home.
He died on March 11 at the Lambton Meadowview Villa in Petrolia,
10 days after marking his 94th birthday. He was predeceased by
his wife, Bette, who died in 1965.
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MASSY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-04 published
Died This Day -- 269 airline passengers, 1983
Thursday, September 4, 2003 - Page R9
All aboard Korean Air Lines flight 007 killed when plane shot
down by Soviet fighter after straying into Soviet airspace; dead
included nine Canadians: Mary Jane
HENDRIE of Sault Ste. Marie,
Ontario; George
PANAGOPOULOS, Marilou
COVEY, Chun Lan
YEH and
San-Gi LIM, all of Toronto; François DE
MASSY and François
ROBERT
of Montreal; Larry
SAYERS of Stoney Creek, Ontario; and Rev.
Jean-Paul GRÉGOIRE, a Tokyo resident.
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MASTEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-22 published
Died This Day -- Four Ontario boaters, 1986
Thursday, May 22, 2003 - Page R7
Toronto police abandon search for 16-foot boat and occupants
lost off Scarborough on Lake Ontario; Mark
SMITH, 28, Patricia
HEYS, 21, James
MASTEN, 20, and Kim
MASTEN
(Mark's sister,) 20,
last seen early May 4, 1986, when boat launched at local marina
official and longer private search inexplicably found only a
washed-up jacket and a cooler.
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MASTROMARTINO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-04 published
HEFFERON,
Margaret
Jane
Died suddenly on Monday, November 3, 2003 in her 72nd year, at
St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. Survived by her husband
Dennis, sons Michael (wife Kathleen) and Thomas (wife Patricia),
her daughter Kathleen (husband Jed
LIPPERT) and her 2 loving
grandchildren Colin and Rory. She is also survived by 3 sisters,
Maureen (husband Ted
LORIMER,)
Patricia (husband Robert
RIDDELL)
and Linda (husband Mario
MASTROMARTINO) and 2 brothers, Jim
KERNAGHAN
(wife Carol) and John
KERNAGHAN (wife Michelle.) Her life was
devoted to the care of people in her career as a nurse (Toronto
East General Hospital) and as a public health nurse (Durham Region).
Since her retirement she helped found the Caring Alliance to
help the homeless and was a dedicated visitor to and supporter
of housing for disadvantaged families living in motels. She will
be sorely missed by her family, her Friends and the many whose
lives she touched. Visitation will be held at the ''Scarborough
Chapel'' of McDougall and Brown, 2900 Kingston Road (east of St.
Clair Avenue East), on Wednesday, November 5th from 2-4 and 7-9
p.m. Funeral service will be held on Thursday, November 6th at
11 a.m. from Washington United Church. Interment will be private.
As expressions of sympathy, donations made to St. Michael's Hospital
Foundation would be appreciated.
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MASTROUTUCCI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-22 published
CURRIE,
Alda
Christina (née
MAIR)
(1932-2003) We regret to announce the death of our mother and
friend, she died peacefully at home surrounded by family and
Friends.
She was predeceased by her husband James
CURRIE (1991.)
Alda was a loving, caring, compassionate person and will be missed
by many her children Bob (Charlotte
YATES,)
Andy
(Rose
CHAN,)
Mary (John
WOOD), Stewart, John (Elizabeth
MASTROUTUCCI), and
her seven much loved grand children, and her siblings, Arlington
MAIR and Kathleen
BURSEY, and much loved by her in-laws. During
her illness Alda was cared for by her cousin Mary Ann
DEACON
and her sister Kathleen, and supported by her family and Friends.
A Service to celebrate Alda's life will be held at the Beaconsfield
United Church, 202 Woodside Road, Beaconsfield, Quebec at 1 p.m.
on Monday, February 24, 2003. Donations in her name may be made
to the Canadian Cancer Society, and the Victoria Order of Nurses,
and Child Haven.
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MASUHARA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-29 published
Sheila Anne
HAMILTON
Sept. 18, 1930 - Feb. 26, 2003
Sheila Anne
HAMILTON died unexpectedly in her daughter's Ocala,
Florida home following surgery on a broken leg. She lived until
the 1970s in Hamilton and Ancaster, Ontario, where her family
owned Royal Oak Dairy. She is survived and greatly missed by
her son Scott
McKEE of Courtenay, British Columbia, her daughter
Jane HAMILTON and Jane's spouse Joy
MASUHARA, both of Vancouver,
her granddaughters Sarah
HAMILTON of Japan and Meghann
HAMILTON
of Vancouver, and her daughter Sally
McKEE and grand_son Corey
THOMAS of Ocala, Florida, along with her brother, Donald
HAMILTON
and his wife
Pat
HAMILTON of Burlington, Ontario, several cousins,
her late sister Jane's husband, Fred
WRIGHT and their five children,
especially Liza
ALLAN.
She was an Registered Nurse Anesthetist
and Licensed Practical Nurse as well as a master seamstress with
her own business selling children's heirloom clothing. She was
keenly interested in interior design and was a master chef along
with a skilled gardener who most loved red roses. She had an
infectious sense of humour and a true zest for living. Services
were private. Cremation was followed by the scattering of her
ashes at sea off Key Largo. Donations in lieu of flowers may
be made to the Humane Society.
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