MICHAELSON
MICHELL
MICHELSON
MICHIE
MICKLEBURGH
MICHAELSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-29 published
BARKER,
Paul and
BARKER, Helen (née
GEGG)
Paul BARKER died in Ottawa on Thursday Auguust 14, 2003 and Helen
BARKER (née
GEGG) died in Ottawa on Tuesday November 18, 2003
both formerly of Geraldton, Ontario. Loving parents of Liz
BARKER
and her husband Mark
SLATER. Cherished grandparents of Darcie
and Quinn SLATER.
Paul is survived by a sister Kathleen
MIKKONEN
and her husband Raimo of Kapuskasing, Ontario and was predeceased
by his parents Cyril and Mary (née
MOYNA) and a brother John
and a sister Patricia. Helen is survived by sisters Elizabeth
YULE and her husband Don of Owen Sound, Ontario and Nina
NIX
and her husband El of Gravenhurst, Ontario and was predeceased
by her parents Richard and Beatrice (née
MICHAELSON)
GEGG.
Paul
and Helen will also be missed by their niece, nephews and Friends.
Funeral arrangements were completed by the Kelly Funeral Home
2313 Carling Ave. Ottawa. In Memoriam donations to The Hospice
At Maycourt, 114 Cameron St. Ottawa, Ontario K1S 0X1 appreciated.
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MICHELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-12 published
Died This Day -- 13 school canoeists, 1978
Thursday, June 12, 2003 - Page R9
Adventure outing by Saint John's School, Claremont, Ontario, struck
by high winds on Lake Temiskaming, single capsize caused panic
and the upset of other canoes, led to deaths of teacher Mark
DEANNY and boys
Todd MICHELL,
Barry NELSON,
Jody O'GORMAN,
Timothy PRYCE,
David GREANEY,
Andy HERMAN,
Simon CROFT,
Tim HOPKINS,
Tom KENNY,
Scott BINDON,
Kevin BLACK,
Fraser BOURCHIER
Autopsies showed all drowned but that some had been in water 12 hours before death occurred.
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MICHELSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-31 published
The dean of Canadian sociology
The first chair of a new University of Toronto department trained
a generation of scholars
By Carol COOPER,
Special to the Globe and Mail Friday, October
31, 2003 - Page R13
In 1938, with a doctorate in political science and anxious to
achieve his dream of becoming a professor, Samuel Delbert
CLARK
reluctantly took the only position available to him at the University
of Toronto, as its first full-time lecturer in sociology.
In doing so, S.D.
CLARK became one of the country's early anglophone
sociologists. During his career, his immense intellect, painstaking
scholarship and prolific writing brought credibility and respect
to the fledgling discipline. At a time when Canadian universities
had few sociology departments, Prof.
CLARK trained a generation
of sociologists who spread out across the country, establishing
sociology departments in other centres. And as an administrator
at U of T, Prof.
CLARK brought leading sociologists to the school.
The first sociologist born, raised and trained here, Prof. S.
D. CLARK has died at the age of 93.
Incorporating the staples theory of his mentor, leading Canadian
political economist Harold
INNIS, the work of American historian
F. J. TURNER, and sociologists Carl
DAWSON and E. C.
HUGHES of
McGill University, among others, Prof.
CLARK developed his own
approach.
He studied social change on Canada's economic frontiers such
as the fur trade, Western wheat farming, and the lumber and mining
industries. He traced the development of those communities as
the residents there, far from the cultural and financial institutions
that controlled their lives and contending with distance and
poverty, took their communities through a period of simultaneous
disorganization and reorganization. From the struggle emerged
new organizations and religious sects, such as the Co-operative
Commonwealth Federation and the Social Credit Party.
Reflecting his university training in history, sociology and
political science, Prof.
CLARK brought a multifaceted approach
to his research.
"He looked at things that were happening in Canada almost uniquely
and tried to understand them and not to reduce it to some simplistic
international generalization," said William
MICHELSON, the S.
D. Clark professor of sociology at the University of Toronto.
"He really wanted to look into a multiplicity of factors."
Not everyone liked Prof.
CLARK's approach to sociology, but nor
did Prof. CLARK favour the Chicago School approach then taught
at McGill University. Although he later altered his research
methods, Prof.
CLARK at first viewed the American approach dimly,
seeing it as one of doorbell-ringing in order to ask stupid questions,
one that scientifically quantified what happened in the present
without exploring the past. Instead, he pored over archival material,
studying the development of Canadian society from a historical
perspective.
Books by Prof.
CLARK, such as The Social Development of Canada,
drew fire from historians, who challenged his theory and said
sociology and history were incompatible. But the publications
brought attention to the new discipline.
Born to a farming family on February 24, 1910, in Lloydminster,
Alberta.,
Samuel
Delbert
CLARK was the second of five children.
The family of Northern Irish descent had been established in
Ontario since 1840 until it moved West in 1905.
Showing an early aptitude for school and a strong interest in
history, Prof.
CLARK graduated from the University of Saskatchewan
with an honours B.A. in history and political science and an
M.A. in history. Brushing aside suggestions that he become a
high-school teacher and politician, Prof.
CLARK aimed instead
for a university position.
He entered University of Toronto in 1931 to do a doctorate in
political science and economic history. While the studies proved
dry and disappointing, it was there that he first met Harold
INNIS, read the works of Marx, Engels and North American left-wingers,
and attended meetings of the radical League for Social Reconstruction.
Disillusioned with his studies and short of funds, Prof.
CLARK
accepted a Saskatchewan Imperial Order of the Daughters of the
Empire scholarship and headed for the London School of Economics
in 1932. At the school, he received his first exposure to sociology,
including the works of Prof.
DAWSON at McGill.
After leaving London in 1933, Prof.
CLARK arrived in Montreal,
again strapped for cash. Hoping to collect a debt from a friend,
who was then studying at McGill, Prof.
CLARK stopped by his house.
With the friend not home, Prof.
CLARK then visited Prof.
DAWSON,
who offered him a research fellowship. After working on a project
studying Canadian-American relations for two years and receiving
an M.A. in sociology, Prof.
CLARK returned to Toronto to continue
his doctorate in political science.
In 1937 he accepted an appointment to teach political science
and sociology at the University of Manitoba and stayed a year
before returning once again to University of Toronto to complete
his thesis and begin his career there.
As a proponent of a more British style of sociology, Prof.
CLARK
was favoured for the job over another Chicago-trained candidate,
setting the academic direction for the school. Sociology was
then run as a section under the department of anthropology, to
be transferred a year later to the department of political economy.
Except for occasional leaves, Prof.
CLARK remained a fixture
on campus, impeccably dressed in a woollen suit and sporting
a pipe, until his retirement in 1976.
Shy and quiet, Prof.
CLARK constantly cleared his throat and
jingled the change in his pocket while lecturing.
"He never cracked a joke.... It was serious scholarship. You
had to ask serious questions," recalled retired York University
sociology professor Edward
MANN, an early undergraduate student
and later a doctoral student of Prof.
CLARK. "
Their [
INNIS and
CLARK] religion was scholarship."
In that vein, Prof.
CLARK never talked to the press about daily
issues, saying it cheapened the discipline. And he practised
rigorous scholarship.
"He had a tremendous amount of integrity," said Lorne
TEPPERMAN,
a University of Toronto sociology professor and former student
of Prof. CLARK. "
This was a guy who knew what he stood for, what
he believed in. He was uncompromising. He had very high standards
for himself and other people."
During the fifties, Prof.
CLARK, an admirer of Lester
PEARSON,
exchanged his membership in the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation
for that of the Liberal Party, the one endorsed by his wife,
Rosemary. A graduate in economics from Columbia University, she
edited all his works. By the sixties, Prof.
CLARK had begun to
study social change and urbanization, writing The Suburban Society
and later, The New Urban Poor. Despite altering his research
methods, dropping his historical research and adopting the American
style of conducting questionnaires to collect data, he stopped
short of tabulating them, arguing in The Suburban Society that
"to lay claim to scientific precision... would be to falsify
the competence of sociology."
And the man who studied social change became buffeted by it.
While the sociology section had remained small during the forties
and fifties, it ballooned during the sixties, becoming an independent
department in 1963 with Prof.
CLARK as its appointed head.
A capable administrator, Prof.
CLARK brought feistiness to the
job. "He was a very honest man," said Prof.
TEPPERMAN. "He wasn't
afraid on an argument, he wasn't afraid of a fight. If he liked
you, he really liked you and if he didn't like you, he really
didn't like you."
With the huge increase in sociology-department enrolment but
small number of sociology graduates, Prof.
CLARK looked outside
the country to fill teaching positions. Most either came from
the United States, or had been trained there.
While some scholars hailed Prof.
CLARK for having eschewed American-style
sociology and maintaining a Canadian approach, the young and
sometimes radical newcomers with a markedly different approach
regarded him as an oddball and an anachronism. And as an older,
white, staunch Liberal Party-supporting male at the centre of
an old-boy network, he represented everything they were fighting
against. Accustomed to a more democratic academic culture at
other schools, the new staff agitated for a greater say in the
running of the department. When Prof.
CLARK resisted, he was
pushed out, and the chair became an elected position. He remained
at the university until his retirement in 1976.
Outside of the university, throughout his career, Prof.
CLARK
served as an editor of The Canadian Journal of Economics and
Political Science, and as president of the Royal Society of Canada.
In addition, he was appointed an Officer in the Order of Canada.
Despite the recognition he received, Prof.
CLARK always felt
that his older brother who took over the farm was the family
success, according to his son, Edmund. And he enjoyed such simple
pleasures as hockey. Once, while attending a dinner party at
Claude BISSELL's house, then the president of U of T, Prof.
CLARK
asked where the television was and sat down to watch the hockey
game. When questioned later, Prof.
CLARK replied, "Anyone stupid
enough to hold a party on a hockey night deserved to have the
guests watch television in the den."
S.D. CLARK died on September 18. He leaves his wife, Rosemary,
sons Edmund and Samuel, nine grandchildren and a sister, Grace.
His daughter Ellen predeceased him.
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MICHIE o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-22 published
Albert Jeffrey
MICHIE
(United
Steel
Workers of America Local 2784 Associate Member,
RCL #43)
In Oshawa on Sunday, January 12, 2003 in his 65th year.
Beloved husband of Carrollynn. Predeceased by his wife
Theresa
ROCHON.
Loving father of Carol
FILLION, David
MICHIE (Sherri), Louise (Sue)
MAY, Danny
MICHIE (Andrea). Step father of Candy
SHELLEY, George
ATKINSON
(Dianne) and Paul
ATKINSON (Jennifer.) Dear brother-in-law
of Bernard and Linda
JONES.
Lovingly remembered by his grandchildren
James, Matthew, Tara, Tanya, Jennifer, Cheyenne, Chantelle, Amanda,
Philip, Tess, Lisa, Corey, Renne, Danielle, Eric and by his great
granddaughter Jennifer. Predeceased by his brothers Bill, John
"Bud", Orton, Roland, Austin and Edward. Sadly missed by all of his
family and Friends. Funeral service was held at Thornton Cemetery
Chapel on Saturday, January 18, 2003. Cremation. Armstrong Funeral Home Oshawa.
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MICKLEBURGH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-08 published
Tales of derring-do
By Rod MICKLEBURGH,
Saturday,
November 8, 2003 - Page F6
Thunder Bay -- In a senseless war that lasted four years and
took millions of lives, it was rare for individuals to stand
out amid the carnage. But some managed.
Meet
Hector
Fraser
DOUGALL, a corker of a Canadian with more
tales of derring-do attached to his name than you could shake
a First World War riding stick at. You think Steve McQueen's
motorcycle ride was heroic in The Great Escape? After his shelled
Sopwith Camel was shot down behind German lines and he was taken
prisoner, Mr.
DOUGALL made at least three dramatic escape attempts.
During one dash for freedom, the story goes, he saved the life
of fellow escaper William
STEPHENSON, who later became the legendary
spymaster Intrepid, by tossing him over a stone wall as the pair
fled a furious, gun-firing farmer who didn't appreciate his ducks
being pilfered. When their capture appeared inevitable, Mr.
STEPHENSON
impersonated a German officer and ordered Mr.
DOUGALL returned
to prison. As he was marched away, Mr.
STEPHENSON made good his
own escape.
It was a typically audacious
DOUGALL stunt that yielded the largest
and most vivid of the First World War artifacts sent in by Canadians
to The Globe and Mail -- the huge German flag that flew over
the grim, fortress-like PoW camp at Holzminden, where guards
did their best to contain the fighter pilot.
Mr. DOUGALL pinched the flag on Armistice Day, November 11, 1918,
the day the Imperial German Army surrendered.
"The prisoners woke up that morning and the guards were all gone,"
said his son, Fraser
DOUGALL. "
Some of the prisoners went down
to the village to cause a bit of wrack and ruin. But dad wanted
the flag. He knew how to get to the roof from one of his escape
attempts. So he picked a few locks, went up there, took it down,
and kept it."
Mr. DOUGALL then managed to lug the bulky flag all the way through
Germany, back to England and finally to Canada. When he died
in 1960, it was found at the bottom of a trunk full of souvenirs,
including grenades, bayonets, old muskets, bombs, diaries, photos,
old German money, helmets and his thin, black flying cap.
"This is a piece of work, this is. It went right through the
war," Fraser
DOUGALL said as he unfurled the old flag across
his dining room table in Thunder Bay. The edges fell over the
side like a table cloth.
The flag is dominated by a fierce black-and-gold representation
of the imperial German eagle, with an iron cross in the top left-hand
corner -- the state flag of Prussia from 1892 to 1918. Eighty-five
years later, the colours are still bright. A red tongue flickers
menacingly in the eagle's open beak, on its head a red-and-gold
crown topped by a blue cross, while a mace and a bejewelled orb
are clutched in its dark talons.
"It was really meant to convey a sense of power. You can see
that, even now."
It has become his son's passion to recount, preserve and even
relive Mr.
DOUGALL's wartime experiences. Mementos are prominently
displayed in the downstairs recreation room, and scrapbooks have
been put together meticulously.
Fraser DOUGALL even organized a trip to Europe three years ago
to revisit as many of his father's prison stops as possible.
To ensure that the lore remained in the family, he brought along
his wife and children, enticing them with newsletters, quizzes
about his father that brought cash rewards and tapes describing
what they could expect to find there.
More than once during the expedition, he knocked on the doors
of unsuspecting Germans, asking if they knew that the places
they lived were once PoW stopovers. (Few did.) And on his return,
Fraser DOUGALL had a 23-minute video, which he will show this
Remembrance Day to the local Rotary Club, and the experience
of a lifetime.
"The war. The war. The war. The aura of it has always been with
me," he said. "When we found the first place where my father
was incarcerated -- prison from Napoleonic times -- the others
found it interesting. But for me, it was incredibly emotional.
It was my first face-to-face meeting with the dirt and filth
that my father endured.
"I felt a real sense of closure, of fulfilment."
His father, a tough, intimidating Winnipegger from a family of
carriage-makers and blacksmiths, signed up for the war while
still in his teens. Hector Fraser
DOUGALL had spent 14 months
in the trenches when he was wounded. While recuperating in hospital,
he decided the infantry was not for him. According to his son,
he told them, "There are too many people with missing arms and
legs. I want out!"
He learned to fly and joined the Royal Flying Corps. "I once
asked him why he became a pilot," Fraser
DOUGALL said. "He said
it was simple: 'I could shoot back.' "
Even in the trenches, however, Mr.
DOUGALL was no pussycat. Once,
his father kidnapped a piano player so "the boys" could enjoy
a bit of a sing-song. Mr.
DOUGALL noticed one of the soldiers
singing much louder than the others, so he took out his pistol
and shot him in the face. Mr.
DOUGALL believed the man was a
German spy, trying too hard to fit in. He turned out to be right.
In his diary, Mr.
DOUGALL nonchalantly recorded a close call
on a patrol, 10 days before he was shot down: "Went eight miles
into Hunland.... Came back about a foot off the ground with machine
guns blazing after me, three bullet holes thru my machine. Froze
my nose."
As a prisoner, Mr.
DOUGALL was forever getting into trouble,
whether for insubordination or for his actual escapes. One time,
he and flying mate S.G.
WILLIAMS jumped from a train transporting
them between prisons, a 500-kilometre trek from Holland. For
17 days, they travelled only at night, swimming rivers to escape
pursuers and raiding farms for food. At one point, Mr.
WILLIAMS
reported, "
DOUGALL jumped a six-foot fence with a half-dozen
eggs, basin of milk, jam, large pot of honey and many other articles.
Everything was intact."
When the two were finally nabbed just short of the frontier,
Mr. WILLIAMS bolted again. As a guard prepared to shoot, Mr.
DOUGALL tussled with him and ruined his aim. His friend lived
to make it back to England.
Mr. DOUGALL's last escape effort at Holzminden was typically
brazen. He rounded up two ladders, bound them with rope from
the camp's flagstaffs, and was just about to project himself
on the end of the ladders out a second-floor window and over
the barbed wire to safety when he was discovered by guards.
At war's end, he hid the flag from his desultory German captors
until arrangements finally were made to have the prisoners sent
home. He was no slouch after that, either. He earned money stunt
flying for a while; was the first pilot to venture into Northern
Ontario; captained an early version of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
started CKPR, the first radio station in Port Arthur, Ontario
took a leading role in training pilots for the Second World War
and, in 1954, opened the Lakehead's first television station.
Today, DOUGALL
Media owns four radio stations, a community newspaper
and both television stations in Thunder Bay.
Mr. DOUGALL accomplished all this in spite of permanent leftover
pain from his war wounds, according to his son. "He had a brace
on his back. His ribs hurt. He was always ill." Mr.
DOUGALL was
eventually worth millions, but could never get life insurance
or a pension because of his injuries.
After all his research, Fraser
DOUGALL, a trim, athletic 61-year-old,
said he feels closer than ever to his larger-than-life father,
who was in his late 40s when Fraser was born.
"I'd been living away from home since I was 13," he said, gesturing
toward his lovingly preserved collection of war relics. "For
me, all this is my father.... I wanted to preserve his story.
It's part of me, and now, I think I understand him a lot better."
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