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NEWBURY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-05 published
SCRYMGEOUR,
John
Alexander, 82, died August 30, 2003 in New York.
Born on August 12, 1921 in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia he was the
son of Alice Rebecca
NEWBURY and Charles Edward
SCRYMGEOUR. He
is survived by his wife, Dana H.
SCRYMGEOUR; son, Jack (Ann)
and their children, Carly, Christy, Devon, Rosy and Luke; great
grand_sons, Nicholas and Isaac; son, Charles (Karen); son, Alexander
(Julie) and their daughter, Joanna; daughter, Nancy (Leslie)
and their children, Andrew and Faith; daughter, Tiffany
SHEWELL
(David) and their daughter, Chloe; and his sister, Shirley. A
proud Nova Scotian, he received his early education in Dartmouth
and attended Dalhousie University where he graduated in 1943
with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree. Following graduation, he
was commissioned in the Royal Canadian Navy where he served during
the Second World War. After the war, he departed for Western
Canada and became a major figure in the Alberta Oil Patch - first
as an executive with Home Oil and then with Commonwealth Petroleums
Limited, which at the time was Canada's largest oil well drilling
contractor. He expanded this enterprise into a global corporate
entity and further diversified into the field of plumbing and
electrical supply and distribution, forming Westburne International
Industries Limited. As the founding Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Westburne, he built one of the largest drilling, wholesale
plumbing and electrical supply and distribution companies in
North America with operations spanning the globe. One of John
SCRYMGEOUR's crowning business achievements was when, with Texan
partners, he formed
SEDCO
Industries to build offshore drilling
rigs and directed that the construction of several floating drill
rigs take place in his native province of Nova Scotia. John
SCRYMGEOUR
was the first Canadian to be named a Governor of the American
Stock Exchange; he was granted honorary doctorates from the Technical
University of Nova Scotia in 1984, Dalhousie University in 1993
and was elected to the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame in 2002.
John SCRYMGEOUR served on many corporate boards, including Brascan,
Luscar, Encal Energy, and
ATCO
Industries, was a director, life
member and strong supporter of the Fraser Institute, and an Honorary
Member of the Canadian Association of Oil Well Drilling Contractors.
A lifelong supporter of the arts, he made significant contributions
to the Edmonton Art Gallery, the Dalhousie Art Gallery, where
the main gallery is known as the Scrymgeour Gallery and to other
galleries and museums across Canada. He will be truly missed
by his family, many Friends and business associates and by countless
others for his quiet and discrete acts of kindness and generosity.
Funeral services will be held in Bermuda at Saint John's Anglican
Church. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Canadian
Cancer Society or Dalhousie Art Gallery.
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NEWELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-16 published
Bluesman made his mark
Canadian harpist's brush with greatness was frustrated by his
battle with the bottle
By Bruce Farley
MOWAT
Special to The Globe and Mail Thursday,
January 16, 2003, Page R9
He will be remembered for creating some of the high water marks
in the history of popular music in Canada. Blues harpist Richard
NEWELL, also known as King Biscuit Boy, has died. He was found
dead at his house in Hamilton on January 5.
Richard NEWELL's story is the stuff of legend, but not legendary.
The Oxford Canadian Dictionary defines legend as "a traditional
story sometimes popularly regarded as historical, but unauthenticated."
Nearly all the career anecdotes surrounding King Biscuit Boy
have been verified. Yes, he really was recruited for the Allman
Brothers in 1969, for Janis
JOPLIN's Full Tilt Boogie Band in
1970 and for a mid-seventies session with Aretha
FRANKLIN.
The
stellar Houston blues guitarist, Albert
COLLINS was recording
a version of Mr.
NEWELL's
Mean
Old
Lady, before he died in 1994.
Mr. NEWELL, though, would rarely volunteer to offer up such information,
unless you prodded him for it. He didn't think it was important.
He was born the
son of Lily and Walter (Dick)
NEWELL, an Royal
Air Force airman stationed in Canada during the Second World
War. Richard
NEWELL developed an early interest in music, from
the country of Hank
WILLIAMS
Sr. to the jump blues of Louis
JORDAN,
to the frenetic sounds of such original rock 'n' rollers as Little
Richard. At age 12, he purchased his first harmonica after discovering
the blues via late-night AM radio.
Mr. NEWELL spent seven years rehearsing his ever-expanding collection
of blues 45s, which he purchased on regular hitchhiking forays
to Buffalo. Few of his Friends at the time were even aware that
he played harmonica and guitar.
In 1963, Ronnie
COPPLE's sock-hop rock 'n' roll group, the Barons,
recruited Mr.
NEWELL as its lead singer. Mr.
NEWELL had heard
a recording of their instrumental original, Bottleneck, and came
by with an record by the prototypical American electric blues
slide guitarist, Elmore
JAMES.
Within weeks of his joining, the group was transfigured into
the flat-out, deep blues band, The Chessmen Featuring son Richard.
The sound was guitar driven and harmonica-heavy, certainly not
the type of thing you'd find at the average mid-sixties Southern
Ontario teen dance. The band made it to Europe the following
summer, playing successful shows at U.S. Army bases to predominantly
black audiences.
Back in Canada, Mr.
NEWELL would go on to become the lead singer
of Richie Knight and The Mid Knights in 1966. He also made his
debut professional recording at this time, as a session harmonica
player on a recording by country singer, Dallas
HARMS, best known
for writing such hits as Paper Rosie for American country singer
Gene WATSON.
When ex-Mid Knight and future Full Tilt Boogie band member Rick
BELL was recruited for the Ronnie
HAWKINS band in 1968, Mr.
NEWELL's
name came up. After one audition, he was hired on the spot and
rechristened with the royal King Biscuit Boy moniker, a title
he was never totally comfortable with.
Back in his native Arkansas,
HAWKINS had rehearsed in the basement
of the old
KFFA radio station where blues harpist, Sonny Boy
Williamson 2nd (Rice
MILLER,) did his King Biscuit Flour Hour
broadcasts. To
HAWKINS,
Mr.
NEWELL must have sounded like a letter
from home.
When JOPLIN scooped
BELL and guitarist John
TILL from
HAWKINS's
band early in 1970, Mr.
NEWELL and drummer Larry
ATAMANUIK were
left with the task of re-assembling the band. That group would
become the first King Biscuit Boy-led outfit, Crowbar. In a fit
of pique, HAWKINS had inadvertently given the band its name in
an exchange of parting shots at the Grange Tavern in Hamilton.
"You guys are so dumb," he yelled, "you could fuck up the moving
parts of a crowbar."
As the bandleader, singer, harmonica player and guitarist on
Official
Music,
Mr.
NEWELL was responsible for building a razor-sharp
and singularly intense sound. The rehearsals for these sessions
were apparently tension-laden affairs, but the payoff came when
the album muscled its way on to the Canadian charts, (without
the benefit of Canadian-content regulations), the fastest-selling
domestic release to date.
Mr. NEWELL and the band would part ways after King Biscuit Boy
and Crowbar had scored on the singles chart with the traditional
piece, Corrina, Corrina. In 1971, Crowbar (without King Biscuit
Boy) earned a place on the bestseller charts with a song that
was to become a perennial Canuck rock anthem. Oh, What a Feeling
was the first domestic single to take advantage of the newly
legislated Canadian-content rules for broadcasting.
Fate intervened throughout the following years to rob Mr.
NEWELL
of his career momentum. The backing band he assembled to promote
Good 'Uns, the 1971 followup to Official Music, was beginning
to work on a third album, when the funding for it ran out.
With the momentum lost, that unit disintegrated, with guitarist
Earl JOHNSON leaving to form the hard-rock outfit, Moxy.
In 1974, sessions produced by Allen
TOUSSAINT, the architect
of many a New Orleans Rhythm and Blues classic, would culminate
in the Epic label release of a self-titled recording. Mr.
NEWELL
would tour the United States the following year with The Meters
(featuring future members of the Neville Brothers) as his backup
band. When the Epic label cleaned house later that year, though,
he was one of the acts dropped.
In 1972, Mr.
NEWELL wed Jacqueline
WILLETTS but found that married
life did not curb his increasingly frequent drinking binges.
The couple divorced in 1979. Alcoholism was also the source of
most of his professional woes for the better part of his life,
as key shows were either cancelled, or worse, rendered into shambles.
Musicians who worked with him tended to admire him, but found
it incredibly frustrating that such an enormous talent was being
squandered.
At several junctures in his career, Mr.
NEWELL managed to quit
drinking. Of the three albums he recorded and released in the
eighties and nineties, two were the direct dividends of his abstinence.
Those recordings earned him Juno nominations, in 1988 for Richard
NEWELL aka King Biscuit Boy,and in 1996 for Urban Blues Re:
NEWELL.
The latter is still in print on Holger Peterson's Stony Plain
label. Official Music, along with Good'Uns and Badly Bent, a
best-of compilation, are available on the Unidisc label (http://www.unidisc.com).
The rest of the King Biscuit Boy catalogue, including the 1980
Mouth of Steel album, is out of print.
In 2000, Mr.
NEWELL's mother died and he left regular stage work,
preferring the seclusion of his home in the central Mountain
neighbourhood of Hamilton. His last recordings include a version
of Blue Christmas, available on the Hamilton Hometown Christmas
Compact Disk compilation assembled by saxophonist and long-time
friend, Sonny
DEL
RIO. An original composition, Two Hound Blues,
along with material recorded by
DEL
RIO and Mr.
NEWELL in the late
seventies (the Biscuit With Gravy sessions) is planned for release
this year.
Mr. NEWELL, who leaves his father Dick, brother Walter (Randy,)
and son Richard James Oddie, made his last public performance
in a cameo appearance with The Little Red Blues Gang on September
12, 2002, at Mermaids Lounge in Hamilton. The 60 or so audience
members present were treated to a version of his hit, Corrina,
Corrina, which is strange, because he never particularly cared
for that song.
Richard Alfred
NEWELL, musician; born March 9, 1944, in Hamilton
died in Hamilton, January 5, 2003.
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NEWFIELD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-08 published
ROWLETT,
Barbara
F. (née
JEFFERESS)
It is with deep regret that we announce the passing of Barbara
ROWLETT, in her 76th year. Beloved daughter of Stanley R.
JEFFERESS,
Q.C. and Edythe Vaughan
JEFFERESS.
Loved wife of C. Brooks
ROWLETT
(1997.) Loving mother of Nancy Louise
NEWFIELD
(Martin) of Toronto,
and Jefferess (Jeff)
McLELLAND of the Dominican Republic. Adored
grandmother of precious Victoria (Tory)
NEWFIELD.
Beloved sister
of Vaughan
JEFFERESS
(Joyce) and aunt of Cameron and Scott
JEFFERESS.
Missed by dear and caring friend Ted
HOOVER of Burlington. A
former member of the Junior League of Hamilton and longtime volunteer
at the Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital. Heartfelt thanks
to Dr. Gerald
SKUPSKY for his many years of compassionate care.
If desired, donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or the
charity of your choice would be sincerely appreciated by the
family. At the family's request, there will be no visitation
and a private funeral has been held.
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NEWLOVE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-26 published
John NEWLOVE was voice of Prairie poetry
Staff, Friday, December 26, 2003 - Page R2
Ottawa -- Canadian poet John
NEWLOVE, who had suffered a debilitating
stroke more that two years ago, died Tuesday at the age of 65
from a brain hemorrhage, his wife Susan said. Since his stroke,
NEWLOVE, who won the Governor-General's award for poetry in 1972,
among a number of other honours, had not been able to write,
although his mind remained as "clear as a bell," his wife said.
Known as a leading voice in Canadian Prairie poetry in the 1960s
and 70s, NEWLOVE's poems often portrayed the quiet of the land,
while also uncovering the seemingly incidental details, a sense
of constant transition and the sheer weight of history.
"Most poets would consider him really one of the most accomplished
poets that Canada has ever had," said his friend, the writer
and editor John
METCALF.
Describing
NEWLOVE as a "towering" figure
in Canadian poetry,
METCALF nevertheless noted that
NEWLOVE "really
had been out of the public eye for quite a long time." Raised
in Saskatchewan,
NEWLOVE died in Ottawa where he had lived since
the late 1980s.
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NEWMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-20 published
MILLMAN,
Doris
A.
(NEWMAN) (née
ARNETT)
Always to be lovingly remembered by her large extended family,
Doris Angelina (née
ARNETT)
(NEWMAN)
MILLMAN died Sunday, March
9, 2003, at Lindenwood Manor, Winnipeg, at the age of 96. The
second oldest of the four children of the late T.L. and Leila
ARNETT (née
GRANT,)
Doris
Angelina was born December 1, 1906
in Souris, Manitoba. In 1923 her father moved his appliance manufacturing
business to Winnipeg. Doris attended Wesley College, then part
of the University of Manitoba, graduating with a Bachelor of
Arts degree in 1927. She played competitive ice hockey for the
university women's team, and was an avid tennis player. After
university, Doris worked for the Royal Bank of Canada where she
met Lincoln R.
NEWMAN, also of Winnipeg. They married in 1934.
During the Second World War, his career took them, and their
two sons, to Calgary and Toronto, and, at the end of the war,
to England where Linc ran Royal Bank of Canada's London office
and Doris re-established the family. In 1950 they returned to
Canada to live in Montreal. After her husband's death in 1955,
Doris returned to Winnipeg with family. She became an active
member of the University Women's Club. In 1963, Doris married
H.T. (Ted)
MILLMAN, a widower, engineer, and builder of Canada
Safeway stores across Western Canada. After their marriage, his
three children became an important part of her life. Doris maintained
her home for nearly two decades after Ted's death in 1984. Just
three months ago, she moved successfully to an apartment at Lindenwood
Manor, where she was happy. While highly capable and independent,
Doris always appreciated the care and support of her sister,
Frances BOWLES, and her brother-in-law, the late Richard S.
BOWLES,
former Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba; and since Ted
MILLMAN's
death, the continued devotion of his youngest child, Alison
KENNEDY,
whom Doris raised as her own daughter. Doris is also survived
by her sons, print journalist Roger
NEWMAN
(Janice,)
Gimli,
Manitoba
journalist and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television broadcaster,
Don NEWMAN,
(Shannon
DAY,) Ottawa,
Ontario; stepsons, architect
Hartley Vance
MILLMAN
(Claudia,)
Ottawa, and retired school principal
Bob MILLMAN
(Linda
CHERNENKOFF,) Winnipeg; sisters-in- law Joyce
NEWMAN and Bernie
ARNETT,
Winnipeg; ten grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren
and numerous also treasured nieces and nephews. Her memorial
service was held in Winnipeg, Wednesday, March 19th, at Westminster
United Church where Doris was a member for nearly 40 years. She
died on her way to a church service. Doris was cremated and buried
at Brookfield Cemetery between her beloved husbands. She was
also predeceased by her cherished parents and brothers Tom and
Sheldon ARNETT; brothers- and sisters-in-law; daughter-in-law
Audrey-Ann
NEWMAN and grand_son Lincoln Taylor
NEWMAN.
Doris
Angelina
Arnett Newman
MILLMAN will be remembered by her family as a cheerful,
positive, intelligent, independent and nurturing person. She
was caring and compassionate no matter what the circumstances.
In lieu of flowers, donations in Doris Millman's memory may be
made to the Lincoln Taylor Newman Bursary Fund to assist promising
students in need; cheques payable to Queen's University, and
sent to the attention of the L.T. Newman Fund, Queen's Office
of Advancement, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 3N6.
''Love never ends.'' (1 Corinthians 13: 8)
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NEWMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-10 published
The Globe was his church'
The editor-in-chief was mentor to journalists, defender of social
policies, respected by those criticized in print, and described
as a man with a 'warm human touch'
By Michael
VALPY
Thursday,
April 10, 2003 - Page R11
In his two decades as editor-in-chief of The Globe and Mail,
former senator Richard (Dic) James
DOYLE wielded a journalistic
influence in Canadian public life matched only by that of George
BROWN, the newspaper's founder.
He died yesterday in Toronto, one month past his 80th birthday.
His wife of 50 years, Florence, passed away on March 20.
Senator DOYLE -- editor from 1963 to 1983 -- gave the newspaper
a boldly independent voice, loosening up its then lock-step support
for the Progressive Conservative Party.
Under his direction, the newspaper would praise a government
one day and lambaste it the next. He was a passionate defender
of civil liberties, intensely engaged in the development of Canada's
social policies throughout the 1960s and 1970s and as much concerned
with the powerless in Canadian society as the powerful.
"In the time I've been editor," he once said, "we've not supported
any party in office. I think we make whomever we support uncomfortable.
We're the kind of friend you could do without."
He once said he felt more intellectually comfortable with Pierre
TRUDEAU than all the prime ministers he knew, and one of his
favourite editorial cartoons was one he suggested after overhearing
his daughter Judith talking to a friend in her bedroom. It showed
two teenage girls sitting on a bed under a poster of Mr.
TRUDEAU.
One girl says to the other: "He's not 50 like your father's 50."
His views, although stamped on the editorial page, were never
imposed on his reporters. He was concerned with a story's news
value -- not the fallout -- and he expected his staff to act
with the same concern.
He wanted The Globe to be a writer's newspaper and gave his writers
autonomy, even when their views went against his own philosophies.
He had a special place in his heart for columnists who expressed
contradictory opinions.
The young writers invited to attend the buffet lunches he gave
regularly for prime ministers, premiers and cabinet ministers,
bank presidents and giants of the arts were treated to superb
tutorials in the life of their nation that left an indelible
mark on their minds.
Warm, funny, theatrical and gregarious, he was a mentor and model
for many of Canada's best-known journalists -- among them, the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's Michael
ENRIGHT and Don
NEWMAN,
former Globe and Maclean's managing editor Geoffrey
STEVENS,
his successor as Globe editor Norman
WEBSTER, and former foreign
correspondent, dance critic and now master of the University
of Toronto's Massey College, John
FRASER.
"He was absolutely fearless," Mr.
STEVENS said yesterday. "He
did tough stuff. He did important stuff. And he refused to bow
to pressure from business, from politicians and for that matter
from journalists. I didn't always agree with him, but I always,
always respected what he said."
Mr. FRASER said: "He was an editor who made young journalists'
dreams come true. Like many who came under his spell at The Globe
and Mail, I will go to my grave grateful for the horizons he
opened up to me."
George BAIN, for years The Globe's Ottawa columnist, recalled
the only time Senator
DOYLE actually complained about something
Mr. BAIN had written was when he filed an end-piece to a royal
tour and suggested that the institution wasn't appropriate to
the Canadian circumstances.
"Dic, as a devoted monarchist, was moved to say, 'Did you have
to?' The fact is I felt I did -- and he, despite strong feelings,
didn't say, 'You can't.' "
When
Prime
Minister Brian
MULRONEY appointed him to the Senate
in 1985, he decided to sit as a Conservative out of courtesy.
Mr. MULRONEY described him yesterday as "a marvellous man, rigorous,
thoughtful, with a disciplined approach to life and a very warm
human touch to everything he did.
"When he cut people up, including me, there was no malice to
it, no ad hominem attack, he was never bitter or partisan in
any way.'The full impact of Senator
DOYLE's presence as editor
was probably first felt by The Globe's readers on March 20, 1964,
when a front-page editorial appeared under the heading, Bill
of Wrongs.
It was prompted by legislation proposed by Ontario's Conservative
attorney-general, Frederick
CASS, which empowered the Ontario
Police Commission to summon any person for questioning in secret
deprive him of legal advice; and keep him in prison indefinitely
if he refused to answer.
"For the public good," the editorial stated, the Ontario Government
"proposes to trample upon the Magna Carta, Habeas Corpus, the
Canadian Bill of Rights and the Rule of Law.
"Are we in... the Canada of 1964 -- or in the Germany of 1934?
"This legislation is supposed to be directed against organized
crime. In fact, it is directed against every man and woman in
the province."
Soon after, Mr.
CASS resigned.
Senator DOYLE's skills as a writer were particularly evident
on an election night when the paper would present an editorial
on the results between editions. Alastair
LAWRIE, now retired
as an editorial writer, recalled that once the results were known,
Senator DOYLE would stand in silent thought for maybe a minute
and a half and then start to dictate. In a matter of a few minutes,
he would complete a reasoned editorial that scarcely required
the addition of a comma.
Senator DOYLE preferred to work in anonymity, only accepting
honorary degrees and later the seat in the Senate near the end
of his newspaper career.
He sat on no boards, belonged to no important clubs, almost never
appeared on television or radio, didn't sign petitions and seldom
gave speeches. When he met a politician, there were usually witnesses.
He didn't hold a driver's licence and for years arrived at the
old Globe office on King Street by streetcar. When The Globe
moved to its present office on Front Street, Senator
DOYLE took
a taxi.
Retired
Ottawa
Citizen publisher Clark
DAVEY, a former managing
editor of The Globe and a close friend of Senator
DOYLE, suspected
"he didn't trust his Irish temper [to drive] and that was probably
to the common good."
Mr. DAVEY said Senator
DOYLE's low public profile "was part of
his own protection against conflicts on his own part. The Globe
was his church. Journalism was his religion.
"I think that Dic, in the context of his time, probably had a
greater influence on Canadian journalism than any other single
individual," Mr.
DAVEY said.
"It was Dic's execution that made the Report on Business what
it became and is. He was the moving force from within The Globe
often unseen -- in the whole question of conflicts of interest
as they affected journalists.
"He was really the wellspring of that kind of thinking and, of
course, what The Globe did affected very directly what a lot
of other organizations did."
Born in Toronto on March 10, 1923, Dic
DOYLE seemed destined
to get ink on his hands. He said in 1985 that he had decided
on a newspaper career at age 7 and joined the Chatham Daily News
as a sports reporter after he graduated from Chatham Collegiate
Institute. He was promoted to sports editor, city editor and
then news editor.
During the Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian
Air Force and served with the 115 (Bomber) Squadron (Royal Air
Force) at Ely, near Cambridge in England. He was discharged at
the end of the war with the rank of flying officer.
He was 23 and felt that life was passing him by, so rather than
attending university, as other returning air-force officers were
doing, he returned to the Chatham paper. It was a decision he
said he later regretted.
He came to The Globe in 1951, initially as a copy editor, the
only job available. His first byline appeared in The Globe in
December of 1952 over a story about milk bottles.
In the same year, he also wrote a book called The Royal Story,
a labour of love that proved to be a standard treatment of the
monarchy, and which he was the first to acknowledge, replowed
already well-tilled soil.
(The Royal family had a special status at The Globe under Senator
DOYLE.
One former senior editor, the legendary Martin
LYNCH,
told of being taken off the front-page layout after he replaced
a picture of Princess Margaret, which appeared in early editions,
with a photograph of a prize-winning pig.
When The Globe decided to publish a weekly supplement in 1957,
Senator DOYLE became its first editor, with a staff that had
no experience in the weekly field. The paper was laid out on
the carpet of the managing editor's office after he had gone
home.
It shrunk over the years because, Mr.
DOYLE said, it was ahead
of its time. It died in 1971.
From there, in 1959, he became managing editor of the newspaper
and then editor in 1963. He stepped aside in 1983 to take on
the role of editor emeritus and to write a column -- an experience,
he said two years later, that left him chastened. "The guy [columnist]
out there has his problems."
Former
Globe publisher A. Roy
MEGARRY, said, "In my opinion,
no one -- including the seven publishers that Dic has served
with during his time at the paper -- had made a more positive
and lasting impression on The Globe than he has."
Likely among the greatest tributes paid to him as an editor came
from the Kent Commission established by the federal government
in 1980 to investigate the ownership of Canada's daily newspapers
after the Ottawa Journal and the Winnipeg Tribune folded in virtually
simultaneous moves by the Thomson and Southam chains.
In its report, the commission credited Senator
DOYLE with "adhering
to an ideal of press freedom that often tends to get lost in
the management of newspapers....
"To a great extent, the editor-in-chief of The Globe belongs
to a breed which unfortunately is on its way to extinction.
"The Globe and Mail testifies to the influence that continues
to be exerted by a newspaper with a clearly defined idea of its
role and substantial editorial resources. It is read by almost
three-quarters of the country's most important decision-makers
in all parts of Canada and at all levels of government. More
than 90 per cent of media executives read it regularly and it
tends to set the pace for other news organizations."
The Globe and Mail was bought by Thomson Newspapers in 1980.
Senator DOYLE made no secret of the fact that he would have preferred
having the newspaper bought by R. Howard Webster, who owned it
before it became part of the Financial Post chain. However, in
1985 he said that Thomson was the best alternative among the
others in the field.
When
Prime
Minister
MULRONEY named him to the Senate, he became
the first active Globe journalist to receive such an appointment
since George
BROWN in 1873. As an editor and a columnist, Senator
DOYLE had often preached Senate reform and had opposed patronage
appointments.
His acceptance prompted a flow of letters to the editor that
favoured and disapproved of the appointment in about equal measure.Senator
DOYLE is survived by his children Judith and Sean and his granddaughter
Kaelan MYERSCOUGH.
Funeral arrangements have not been announced.
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NEWMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-23 published
Rolf O. KROGER, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Psychology University
of Toronto
Rolf died, as he lived, with grace, courage, humour and dignity,
at home on April 18th, 2003, of advanced prostate cancer. He
was the devoted and beloved husband of Linda
WOOD. He was the
cherished son of Erna
KROGER and son-in-law of Adele
WOOD; loving
brother of Harold and Jurgen
KROGER; dear brother-in-law of Wilma
KROGER,
Edelgard
DEDO, Lorraine
WOOD, Robert and Deborah
WOOD,
and Reg WOOD; much loved uncle of Andrew
KROGER and Stephen
KROGER,
Christina and Linda
JUHASZ-
WOOD, Taylor, Genna and Devon
WOOD,
Jonathan and Nicole
WOOD,
Phillippe
NOEL, and Jose and David
TILLETT, and nephew of Liesl
WINTER,
Otto
WINTER and Alf and
Sue MODJESKI.
Rolf was born in Hamburg, Germany, on September
28th, 1931. He emigrated to Canada in 1952, and completed a B.A.
in psychology at Sir George Williams College (now Concordia University)
in 1957. Following his M.A. (1959) at Columbia University, New
York, he received his Ph.D. in psychology from the University
of California at Berkeley in 1963. His advisor, Prof. Theodore
R. SARBIN
(Prof.
Emeritus,
University of California, Santa Cruz,)
has continued to be a valued colleague and dear friend, together
with Rolf's fellow graduate student, Prof. Karl E.
SCHEIBE of
Wesleyan University and Karl's wife Wendy. Rolf joined the Department
of Psychology at the University of Toronto in 1964 and continued
his research and writing in social psychology after retiring
in 1996. Rolf's work addressed a variety of topics concerning
the individual in the social system. His articles and papers
on the social psychology of test-taking, hypnosis, history, epistemology,
methodology and the discipline of social psychology all reflected
his dissatisfaction with the status quo combined with proposals
for new directions. For more than 20 years he has worked with
Linda A. WOOD
(University of Guelph) on topics in language and
social psychology (e.g., terms of address and politeness), and
most recently on a book on discourse analysis. At the time of
his death, he was working on a discursive critique of the 'Big
Five' personality theory enterprise and on stories of his experiences
growing up in Germany during the Second World War. Rolf also
took great pleasure in teaching and greatly valued the opportunity
to work for almost forty years with so many talented and enthusiastic
students, both undergraduate and graduate. Rolf was privileged
to have many long-lasting Friendships, and he was grateful for
the encouragement, help and comfort given by so many, especially
Bogna ANDERSSON,
Eva and Fred
BILD, Clare
MacMARTIN and Bill
MacKENZIE, Frances
NEWMAN and Fred
WEINSTEIN, Jesse
NISHIHATA,
Anne and Michael
PETERS,
Andrew and Judi
WINSTON and Lorraine
WOOD. We have also been sustained by the kindness of our neighbours
on Walmer Road. We express our particular thanks and appreciation
to family physician and friend, Dr. Christine
LIPTAY.
Our thanks
go also to the staff of Princess Margaret Hospital, to the physicians
and nurses of the Hospice Palliative Care Network Project, especially
Dr. Russell
GOLDMAN and nurses Francine
BOHN,
Joan
DYKE, Dwyla
HAMILTON, Lynda
McKEE and Ella
VAN
HERREWEGHE, and to the nurses
of St. Elizabeth, especially Liz
LEADBEATER,
Sylvia
McCALLUM
and Cecilia
McPARLAND.
Cremation was private. There will be an
Open House for remembrance and celebration on Sunday, April 27th
(3-7 p.m.), Monday, April 28th (4-8 p.m.) and Tuesday, April
29th (4-8 p.m.) at 98 Walmer Road, Toronto, Ontario M5R 2X7.
Please direct any queries to Frances
NEWMAN (416-351-0755.) In
lieu of flowers, donations to Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative
Care (700 University Avenue, Third Floor, Toronto, Ontario M5G
1Z5) or Amnesty International would be appreciated.
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NEWMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-19 published
NEWMAN,
Jeffrey
C.
Of Uxbridge formerly of Scarborough. Died suddenly at his home
to the deep sadness of all who knew him, we lost Jeff on Tuesday,
September 16, 2003 at the young age of 51. He is survived by
his mother Joan (Charlie) and predeceased by his father Edgar.
He also leaves his wife Teresa, sons Kevin and Ryan, daughter
Lara, siblings Brad (Jeiley), Jan (Gary), Barb (Max) and many
aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, nephews, Friends, and clients.
Jeff was a chartered accountant for 25 years, a good husband,
father, and friend to many. We shall miss him greatly and was
loved by all. The family will receive Friends on Saturday, September
20 from 2-5 p.m. and Sunday, September 21 from 4-7 p.m. at the
Highland Funeral Home, 3280 Sheppard Avenue East, west of Warden
Avenue, Scarborough. Funeral service will be held on Monday,
September 22 at 11 a.m. in the chapel. Interment Highland Memory
Gardens. Donations may be made to a charity of your choice.
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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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FREDEEN,
Frederick▼
John▼
Hartley▼
Fredeen was born in Macrorie, Saskatchewan, on September 23,
1920, and died on September 10, 2003 in Saskatoon. He is survived
by his wife, Margaret Stephens
NEWSHAM and their six children:
Shirley (Robin, Owain and Myfanwy) of Saskatoon; Edward (Judy)
and their four children (Tristan, Keisha, Caitlin, and Garrett)
of Medicine Hat, Alberta; Alan (Linda) and their three children
(Cara, Jonathan, and Trevor) of Truro, Nova Scotia; Kenneth (Katherine
LADLY) and their three children (Connor, Patrick, and Ana) of
Oakville,▼
Ontario;▼
Arthur▼ (Sabine
CORDES) of Prince George, British
Columbia and Toronto, Ontario; and Lawrence (Andrea
PASTERSHANK)
and their two children (Molly and Ethan) of Prince George, British
Columbia. He is survived as well by his brother Howard (Joan)
of Lacombe, Alberta, Muriel of Macrorie, Saskatchewan, and Phyllis
(Charles HEDLIN) of Saskatoon, brothers- and sisters-in-law Lloyd
NEWSHAM
(Lois▼) of Victoria British Columbia, Kathleen
SWALM (Reece)
of Kindersley, Saskatchewan., Gwendolyn Stephens
NEWSHAM of Montreal,
Quebec, and Ivor
NEWSHAM
(June▼) of North Battleford, as well
as by numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his
father Alvin Hartley
FREDEEN, his mother Olive Arasmith
FREDEEN,
and his sister Elizabeth
FREDEEN-
PALMER.
Hartley▼ was a graduate
of the University of Saskatchewan (B.S.A. 1943, M.Sc. 1951).
He recently attended the 60th reunion of his B.S.A. graduating
class. After graduation, Hartley began his career as a research
scientist in entomology for Canada Agriculture. His specialty
was the study of black flies and of means of controlling them.
He published numerous research papers and was seconded to work
in Montreal for three years prior to, and during, Expo 67 and
to west Africa with World Health Organization. Through his many
interests and the causes he believed in and supported, he earned
the respect of many. He was an active member of Grosvenor Park
United Church, member of the choir, a long time cub and scout
leader, charter member of the Saskatchewan. Insitiute of Agrologists,
and a member of Agricultural Institute of Canada for over 60
years. He was a charter member and past chair of the Entomological
Institute of Canada, a former member of the International water
Apportionment Board, past chairman of the U of S Credit Union
and founding member of the Steep Hill Co-op. He was Chairman
of the Memorial Society of Saskatchewan from 1986 to 1997, a
long time supporter of the Wheat Pool, the Saskatoon Co-op Association
and was a life time member of the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan.
He was an active bird watcher and enjoyed his membership in the
Golden Eagles and supported many other causes such as the Seniors
for Peace and Habitat for Humanity. Hartley was a faithful husband
and friend to Margaret for over fifty years. He shared his love
for the outdoors with his children, grandchildren and nieces
and nephews. Ten years ago he completed a stage in the Jasper
to Banff running relay as part of the Fredeen Family team. Every
day will present us with the opportunity to celebrate his life
and, should we choose, to act upon those beliefs he so strongly
held: social justice, equality, the environment and peace. We
will miss him. There are few who are so committed and true to
their principles.''The true test of nationhood is not the height
of its skyscraper nor the amount of its gold reserves, but rather
how it cares for the weak, the downtrodden and the underprivileged.''
T.C.Douglas. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September
13 at 1 o'clock in Grosvenor Park United Church.
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FREDEEN,
Frederick▲
John▲
Hartley▲
FREDEEN was born in Macrorie, Saskatchewan, on September 23,
1920, and died on September 10, 2003 in Saskatoon. He is survived
by his wife, Margaret Stephens
NEWSHAM and their six children:
Shirley (Robin, Owain and Myfanwy) of Saskatoon; Edward (Judy)
and their four children (Tristan, Keisha, Caitlin, and Garrett)
of Medicine Hat, Alberta; Alan (Linda) and their three children
(Cara, Jonathan, and Trevor) of Truro, Nova Scotia; Kenneth (Katherine
LADLY) and their three children (Connor, Patrick, and Ana) of
Oakville,▲
Ontario;▲
Arthur▲ (Sabine
CORDES) of Prince George, British
Columbia and Toronto, Ontario; and Lawrence (Andrea
PASTERSHANK)
and their two children (Molly and Ethan) of Prince George, British
Columbia. He is survived as well by his brother Howard (Joan)
of Lacombe, Alberta, Muriel of Macrorie, Saskatchewan, and Phyllis
(Charles HEDLIN) of Saskatoon, brothers- and sisters-in-law Lloyd
NEWSHAM
(Lois▲) of Victoria British Columbia, Kathleen
SWALM (Reece)
of Kindersley, Saskatchewan., Gwendolyn Stephens
NEWSHAM of Montreal,
Quebec, and Ivor
NEWSHAM
(June▲) of North Battleford, as well
as by numerous nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his
father Alvin Hartley
FREDEEN, his mother Olive Arasmith
FREDEEN,
and his sister Elizabeth
FREDEEN-
PALMER.
Hartley▲ was a graduate
of the University of Saskatchewan (B.S.A. 1943, M.Sc. 1951).
He recently attended the 60th reunion of his B.S.A. graduating
class. After graduation, Hartley began his career as a research
scientist in entomology for Canada Agriculture. His specialty
was the study of black flies and of means of controlling them.
He published numerous research papers and was seconded to work
in Montreal for three years prior to, and during, Expo 67 and
to west Africa with World Health Organization. Through his many
interests and the causes he believed in and supported, he earned
the respect of many. He was an active member of Grosvenor Park
United Church, member of the choir, a long time cub and scout
leader, charter member of the Saskatchewan. Insitiute of Agrologists,
and a member of Agricultural Institute of Canada for over 60
years. He was a charter member and past chair of the Entomological
Institute of Canada, a former member of the International water
Apportionment Board, past chairman of the U of S Credit Union
and founding member of the Steep Hill Co-op. He was Chairman
of the Memorial Society of Saskatchewan from 1986 to 1997, a
long time supporter of the Wheat Pool, the Saskatoon Co-op Association
and was a life time member of the New Democratic Party of Saskatchewan.
He was an active bird watcher and enjoyed his membership in the
Golden Eagles and supported many other causes such as the Seniors
for Peace and Habitat for Humanity. Hartley was a faithful husband
and friend to Margaret for over fifty years. He shared his love
for the outdoors with his children, grandchildren and nieces
and nephews. Ten years ago he completed a stage in the Jasper
to Banff running relay as part of the
FREDEEN
Family team. Every
day will present us with the opportunity to celebrate his life
and, should we choose, to act upon those beliefs he so strongly
held: social justice, equality, the environment and peace. We
will miss him. There are few who are so committed and true to
their principles.''The true test of nationhood is not the height
of its skyscraper nor the amount of its gold reserves, but rather
how it cares for the weak, the downtrodden and the underprivileged.''
T.C.Douglas. A memorial service will be held on Saturday, September
13 at 1 o'clock in Grosvenor Park United Church.
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POTTER,
Douglas
Briant
died in Toronto on Sunday, June 29, 2003 after a prolonged struggle
with Alzheimer's. Douglas is survived by his wife Josephine
his son John and partner Mark
KENNY; granddaughter Natasha, and
her mothers Dr. Andrea
NEMETH and Dr. Samantha
KNIGHT of Oxford
England. He was born in Leeds, England in 1925 to William Clifford
POTTER and Francis
(NEWTON)
POTTER.
Predeceased by his brother
Jack who died tragically at age of 12. He served in the British
Army where he was stationed in Italy. Following his time in the
forces he immigrated to Canada in 1950. Douglas married Josephine
DAGNALL in 1952, and later went on to found Industrial Process
Equipment. We wish to thank the staff at the Laughlen Centre
and Fudger House for all their support through Douglas's long
illness. The family will have a private Service officiated by
the Reverend Jeannie
LOUGHREY. In his memory we will be planting
a tree in the garden of the house he loved. If desired, donations
may be made for Alzheimer Research through the Alzheimer Society
of Ontario.
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