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SHIRRIFF,
Barbara
Jean (née
SLOAN)
Died peacefully at home in Toronto, on Tuesday, May 27, 2003,
having recently turned 81. Predeceased by her beloved husband
Francis Colin
SHIRRIFF. Dear mother of Susan, Cathie Shirriff
FORSTMANN, Janet, Joan
VAUGHAN (the late Steven
VAUGHAN) and
Barbara. Loving grandmother of Diana
CABLE (Warren), Allyson
WOODROOFFE
(Roger
PEPLER) and Kelly
FORSTMANN. Great-grandmother
of Kate and Julia
PEPLER and Hayley, Stephanie and Scott
CABLE.
Survived by brothers Manson and Frank, and sisters Neva
PAUL
and Mary PARKER.
Barbara's love, encouragement, strength and
''joie de vivre'' will be cherished always. Our very special
thanks to Dr. Wendy
BROWN,
Dr.
Russell
GOLDMAN and The Temmy
Latner
Palliative
Care Team, Ella
CASE and the Victorian Order
of Nurses, and caregivers Ramona and Helen. The family will receive
Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home - A. W. Miles Chapel, 1403
Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton Avenue East), from 3-6 p.m.
on Thursday, May 29. A celebration of Barbara's life will be
held at Saint John's Anglican Church York Mills, 19 Don Ridge Drive
at 2 p.m. on Friday, May 30. If desired, donations to The Temmy
Latner Centre for Palliative Care, 700 University Avenue, Third
Floor, Suite 3000 Toronto M5G 1Z5 will be much appreciated by
the family.
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PAUL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-17 published
Elliott McCAUGHEY
By Cyril DABYDEEN, page A20
Doctor, cancer researcher, husband, father. Born May 21, 1927,
in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Died May 26, in Ottawa, of Parkinson's
disease, aged 76.
He could have been a lawyer, he said: but combatting diseases
became his lifelong discipline, until Dr. Elliott
McCAUGHEY succumbed
to Parkinson's. Grace, charm, and commitment to work characterized
his life, in his uniquely Anglo-Irish way. But it was in Canada
that he perhaps made his greatest contribution: In Ottawa, he
was chief of laboratory medicine at the Civic Hospital and clinical
professor of pathology at the University of Ottawa in a 14-year
period; he also served as director of the Canadian Tumour Reference
Centre.
"Everyone loved him," said staff at St. Vincent's Hospital in
Ottawa, where Dr.
McCAUGHEY spent his last years as a patient.
His elegant use of the English language and wry humour made him
"endearing and special," said Dr. John
KAUFMANN, retired neuro-pathologist
at the University of Western Ontario. "Elliott's particular use
of the intransitive verb," added Dr.
KAUFMANN, "was integral
to his style, and with his logical mind he was always pleasant
to listen to."
Dr. McCAUGHEY held many memberships in professional bodies in
Britain and North America. His more-than-100 scholarly publications
enhanced his reputation. And he was one of the first to make
the link between asbestos and cancer, appearing often in U.S.
courtrooms as an expert witness on this subject.
The McCAUGHEYs lived for generations in Belfast and Ballymena,
as far back as c.1000, having descended from the High Kings of
Ireland, according to lore. Elliott's father, William, was a
senior civil servant of the Northern Ireland Government; his
uncle Tom ELLIOT/ELLIOTT died in the Battle of the Somme in First World
War.
After graduating from Queen's University, Belfast, Elliott
McCAUGHEY
worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital, where he met nurse Amy
Kathleen PAUL from Kilrea, who became his bride; he then taught
at Queen's University, Belfast. But his intellectual energies
propelled him farther afield. in 1958, he came to Canada as assistant
director of pathology, General Hospital, Saint John's, Newfoundland.
In 1959, he worked for the famed Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
Returning to Ireland, he headed the department of pathology at
Dublin's prestigious Trinity College, serving from 1964 to 1972.
During this time he spent six months as part of a medical research
team in Nagpur, India, under the World Health Organization.
But patterns of disease in human populations and finding cures
for diseases pre-occupied him. He moved back to Canada, to the
University of Western Ontario, where he was most productive
here he also formed some of his lasting Friendships. Then, in
1976 he came to Ottawa to continue his illustrious career. He
retired after being struck by Parkinson's in 1994; around this
same time his wife Amy suffered a stroke.
Dr. McCAUGHEY was well-known for his generosity. He also read
widely: scientific material, politics, economics, belles-lettres.
He regularly visited the National Gallery, and was an ardent
listener to the short-wave radio, the British Broadcasting Corporation
mainly. A whisky connoisseur he was; and he golfed in Ireland
and elsewhere while travelling to conferences.
In the final months, as his mind teetered and his tremors increased
because of Parkinson's, he flitted back and forth to familiar
Belfast and Dublin, and to former colleagues at Queen's and Trinity:
Images interspersed with life in Canada, his family especially,
all in his ubiquitous consciousness. With his wife Amy and daughters
by his side, Dr.
McCAUGHEY showed immense courage to the end.
He left behind his wife, and children Paul, Claire and Gail
and five grandchildren.
Cyril is son-in-law to Elliott
McCAUGHEY.
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PAUL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-24 published
GREENBLATT,
David
On Tuesday, December 23, 2003, died comfortably at home surrounded
by his loving family, at the age of 84. David
GREENBLATT, beloved
husband of Hilda. Loving father and father-in-law of Michael
and Beth, Jesse and Joyce, Steven, and Caroline. Dear brother
of the late Mitzi
BURK/BURKE, and Ena
PAUL.
Devoted
Zaida of Melodie,
Elisha, Adam, and Joshua. David was the proprietor of Advance
Lumber and Wrecking Company. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel,
2401 Steeles Avenue West (one light west of Dufferin), for service
on Wednesday, December 24, 2003 at 11: 30 a.m. Interment Pride
of Israel section of Mount Sinai Memorial Park. If desired, memorial
donations may be made to the David Greenblatt Memorial Fund,
c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto M6A
2C3, (416) 780-0324.
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PAULIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-13 published
Dr.
Kundan
S.
KHERA
Research scientist, toxicologist, husband, father, golfer and
writer. Born May 12, 1922, in East Punjab, India. Died April
1, 2005, in Ottawa, of heart attack, aged 80.
Clyde SANGER - page A20
When Kundan
KHERA completed his memoirs at the age of 80, some
Friends objected to the title, A Life of struggles. They mentioned
his scientific honours. You should call them, they said, Success
After a Life of struggles. But, out of devotion to the truth
rather than any bitterness, he stuck to his choice.
There were times when, but for his sense of discipline, he came
close to despair. In June, 1958, he returned to the Punjab from
France with his doctorate from the Sorbonne and with high hopes
of an immediate professor's post and plans to develop a vaccine
for foot-and-mouth disease. Instead, he was told to wait for
word of an appointment.
Daily for two months he walked his father's six cows through
deep mud to the well in Kot Khera, the village where he was born
and where 12 family members -including his own six children -
were then surviving on his father's meagre pension.
Eventually, he took work as a poorly paid instructor in pathology
at the Punjab Veterinary College. His career was stalled by a
hostile director, who rejected his journal article on lumbar
paralysis in sheep (akin to mad-cow disease), and he had to bargain
his way to professor level by promising to refuse a senior post
offered him in Nigeria.
Kun followed a family tradition of struggle and, as others saw
it, insubordination. His father Kesar
SINGH fought for the British
in Mesopotamia and survived the five-month Turkish siege of Kut,
and later imprisonment. But, after qualifying as a veterinary
officer, he was passed over for promotion because he opposed
the taking of bribes.
By 1962, Kun had tired of the bureaucracy haunting his career
in India. A year's fellowship in Texas led to work in Ottawa
as a pathologist in the Food and Drug Directorate. His 28 years
in Health Canada were so productive that in 1988 the Society
of Toxicology gave him the Arnold J. Lehmann Award for scientific
excellence, and
an American book listed him among its "2,000
Outstanding Scientists of the 20th Century."
His major work was in reproductive toxicity. Arriving at Health
Canada just after the thalidomide disaster, his research challenged
the widely held view that a mother simply channelled a toxic
chemical through the placenta to the embryo or fetus. His work,
originally on mice, showed that a vast majority of chemicals,
if taken in large doses, first caused toxic effects in the mother
or placenta, and could account for many fetal malformations.
He struggled for 10 years to get his "outlandish" theory of maternal
toxicity accepted, at length triumphing at a 1986 conference
of the European Teratology Society. The drug industry took swift
note, and regulatory agencies revised their methods of assessing
human safety.
Kun had been betrothed to Rajinder at 11 and married at 15. Although
they often lived at a distance, he was a caring husband and father
to their four daughters and two sons, sent much of his salary
back to them in India and rejoiced when his children emigrated
to Ohio. They divorced in 1971, and soon after Kun met and married
Claire PAULIN.
Their years together, on the farm they owned near
Prescott, Ontario, or on the golf courses in Ottawa, were clearly
the happiest and most tranquil of his life. Every photograph
shows him smiling.
Movingly, Claire's daughter Roxanne told at Kun's funeral how
her stepfather had inspired her to study and to persevere. His
sons, Jag and Autar, both industrial engineers, were also testament
to his example. Success after a life of struggles, indeed.
Clyde SANGER is a family friend.
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PAULL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-28 published
Lacrosse champ endured racism
Legendary player was subjected to slurs, but he didn't respond.
'It's because you were beating them they were saying it'
By Carol COOPER
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, June
28, 2003 - Page F9
Before every Brantford Warriors lacrosse game in 1971, Ross
POWLESS,
the team's former player and coach, a member of the Canadian,
and later, the Ontario lacrosse halls of fame, crossed the floor
to speak with coach Morley
KELLS.
As they chatted, Mr.
POWLESS wagged his finger at Mr.
KELLS,
now an Ontario Member of Provincial Parliament. To the spectators
above, it looked as if he were advising the coach on the upcoming
game.
"I kind of laughed, because I knew what was taking place," Mr.
KELLS said. "You could always see them up in the stands nodding,
thinking, 'Ross has things straightened out.' I didn't mind a
bit."
Known for his sense of humour as well as his playing and coaching,
Mr. POWLESS died recently at the age of 76.
From 1945 to 1961, he played intermediate and senior level lacrosse
in British Columbia, New York State and Southern Ontario, scoring
294 goals and 338 assists during his Senior A career. He contributed
to three Mann Cup wins, lacrosse's national championship, for
the Peterborough Timbermen from 1951 to 1953.
During the 1953 Cup finals, Mr.
POWLESS won the Mike Kelly Award
as the most valuable player of the series. Also, he was twice
given the Tom Longboat Award as the top Indian athlete in Canada.
Born a Mohawk on the Six Nations Reserve of the Grand River Territory
in Southwestern Ontario, Mr.
POWLESS came from a family of talented
players. One of his grandfathers, his father and several uncles
played on Six Nations teams or with the travelling Mohawk Stars,
according to lacrosse historian Stan
SHILLINGTON.
And Mr. POWLESS was patriarch to another. Four of his sons played
Senior A lacrosse. One of them, Gaylord, joined him in the Canadian
Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1990, making them the only father and
son pair in the hall.
Ross POWLESS played what his people call "the game the Creator
gave us" with skill and ease.
"He was a great, great player," said close friend and former
teammate Roger
SMITH, also a member of the Canadian and Ontario
lacrosse halls of fame. "He could do it all. He could play defence,
offence. He scored a lot of goals, he was a great team player,
a great checker, a good corner player, a good loose-ball man.
He was one of the best."
A large man, standing above six feet and weighing more than 200
pounds, Mr.
POWLESS played an especially strong defensive game.
"He wasn't fast, but he knew where to cut you off at the pass,"
said Mr. KELLS, who played against him.
"Ross's attitude was that sooner or later you had to show up
heading for the net, so he would be there waiting for you. If
anyone had a natural understanding of how the flow of the game
should be and how to control it, it was him."
Mr. POWLESS played with handmade hickory sticks, disdaining the
later mass-produced plastic sticks as "Tupperware."
A gifted coach who got the best out of his players, he led many
teams to divisional and national championships. One of his prouder
moments came when he coached six of his sons, including Gaylord,
on the 1974 Ontario First Nations Team. The team won the All-Indian
Nations Lacrosse Tournament in B.C.
Born on September 29, 1926, in the log cabin his carpenter father
built in Ohsweken, Ontario, Alex Ross
POWLESS was one of eight
children. Although the family lived without running water or
hydro, he later told his children that he never felt poor because
there was always food on the table.
After his mother died in 1932, Mr.
POWLESS attended residential
school in nearby Brantford until Grade 8 and then high school
for one year. In 1945, at the age of 18, he headed to Vancouver
to play on Andy
PAULL's Senior North Shore Indians team.
For the next five years, Mr.
POWLESS played for intermediate
teams in Buffalo, Brantford and Huntsville, Ontario, taking seasonal
jobs to support himself. In 1951, he joined the Senior A Peterborough
Timbermen.
By 1954, Mr.
POWLESS and his wife
Wilma, whom he married in 1948,
had moved their growing family, which would eventually number
14, back to the family homestead in Ohsweken. There, they lived
without electricity until 1957 and without running water until
a new house was built in 1970.
Mr. POWLESS continued playing Senior A lacrosse for Hamilton
and St. Catharines, and as a pickup player for the Timbermen
in the 1956 Mann Cup finals, then moved to Senior B and intermediate
teams until he retired from playing in 1961.
Lacrosse was important to a lot of people, but it was extra important
to him, Mr.
POWLESS told Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio
in January.
Richard POWLESS, another son from the 1974 team, said: "It opened
up the world to him. Back in those days, there weren't many Indians
playing in the wider world. It got him off the reserve, and he
had the talent to go places, and it was recognized."
Often the wider world greeted Mr.
POWLESS with racial slurs.
The crowd and members of opposing teams called him blanket-ass
and wagon-burner and squirted drinks on him.
"You'd get used it, it wouldn't bother you. They wouldn't be
saying that if they were beating you. It's because you were beating
them they were saying it," Mr.
POWLESS told the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation.
Richard POWLESS said, "He didn't react to it, he didn't respond
to it, it was just part of the burden he had to carry."
Still, Ross
POWLESS credited lacrosse with helping him make white
Friends across the country. Some of them stood up for him. Once
during tryouts for the Timbermen, he entered a bar in Peterborough
with some members of the team. Because he did not have a blue
card indicating that he had given up his Indian status, he could
not drink legally and was refused service.
The Timbermen left the bar saying, "If he's not good enough,
we're not good enough neither," author Donald M.
FISHER quotes
Mr. POWLESS's recollection in Lacrosse: A History of the Game.
Mr. POWLESS was proud of his heritage and maintained its traditions.
However, he did not teach the Mohawk language to his children.
Scarred by his experience in residential school, where he was
punished for speaking his mother tongue, he and his wife decided
not to pass it on. Instead, he told his children that it was
a white man's world, and to live in it successfully, they needed
to excel in English.
At times, Mr.
POWLESS acted politically. In 1959, a group of
Mohawks, including him, tried to reinstate the traditional native
government. "He was a firm believer in our own system and our
own way of doing things," Richard
POWLESS said. "When he believed
in something, it wasn't just talk and that's the way he raised
us."
Mr. POWLESS had settled into carpentry after his return to Ohsweken
in 1954, a trade he practised for the next 30 years.
Earning a reputation as a hard worker, he soon became a foreman
and, among other projects, worked on the Burlington Skyway Bridge.
Always an avid hunter, fisherman and pool player, Mr.
POWLESS
worked as a building inspector on the Six Nations Reserve until
his retirement in 1991, served as a band councillor for eight
years and helped to start Six Nations minor lacrosse and hockey
leagues. In 1997, the Ontario Municipal Recreation Association
gave him a volunteer service award.
Like many players, Mr.
POWLESS was buried with lacrosse sticks.
He had told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation of his intention,
saying, "I want to play with my dad, my sons, my uncles and my
nephews."
Mr. POWLESS died on May 26 in Paris, Ontario, of cancer. Sons
Victor, Gaylord and Gregory predeceased him. He leaves Wilma,
his wife of 55 years, 11 children, 27 grandchildren and seven
great-grandchildren.
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PAULS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-25 published
Autopsy done on hiker who fell to her death
Canadian Press, Tuesday, November 25, 2003 - Page A12
An autopsy was performed yesterday on the body of a woman who
fell to her death while hiking near Burlington.
Angelica PAULS, 51, lost her footing near the edge of a cliff
in the Mount Nemo area of the Bruce Trail on Sunday. The Grimsby
woman fell 15 metres onto rocks.
Her husband ran about a kilometre to get help, but his wife had
died by the time he and rescuers returned.
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