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POWER
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POWELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-14 published
BESWICK,
John
Alexander,
Col. (retired) M.D., C.D., F.R.C.S.
(C).
Died in Toronto on Friday, October 10, 2003. Born August 17,
1916, to the late Mr. and Mrs. John Millet
BESWICK, fifth generation
Torontonion. Beloved husband of 54 years to the late Eileen Enid
(REES.)
Loving father of Debra Anne
McISAAC and Philip Rees
BESWICK.
Dear ''Papa'' of Ryan Leonard
McISAAC. Dear grandfather of Jeremy
John.
Predeceased by his sister Marion A.
GILBERT and brother
William E.
BESWICK.
Uncle of Barbara A.
REES, Thunder
Bay, and
many nephews and nieces. Cousin of Wayne, Margo, June, Michael
and of Martha
POWELL,
Peterborough.
Remembered and respected
by many colleagues, patients and good Friends. Served overseas
5½ years with the R.C.E. and Korea for 1½ years. Former chief
of Ophthalmology of Canadian Forces Hospital, Kingston; National
Defence Medical Center, Ottawa; then Chief of Ophthalmology at
Scarborough
Centenary
Hospital, West Hill for 14 years. Dr.
BESWICK
took a very active part in the promotion of the Eye Bank in the
early 50's and 60's at Sunnybrook Hospital, Scarborough Centenary,
and other Toronto Hospitals providing a steady flow of donated
eyes for transplants and research. Resident of Sunnybrook Hospital.
The family would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to the staff
of Sunnybrook ''K'' Wing for the dedicated and compassionate
care given to ''Dad'' while he resided there. He was a remarkable
man whose strength of character and gentle nature will be sadly
missed by everyone. Cremation followed by interment at St. James
Cemetery in the plot owned by the
BESWICK family since 1874.
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MEAKES,
Elizabeth
Joyce ''Betty'' (née
POWELL)
Betty died suddenly at home in the evening on Thursday, December
18th, 2003. Betty was born in Liverpool, England and was the
daughter of Evan and Alice
POWELL.
She was predeceased by her
husband, J.R.
MEAKES, former publisher of the Sudbury Star. She
was also predeceased by her good friend of many years, Michael
DUDOWICH.
Betty was a special Aunt and like a mother to Nephew
Michael MEAKES as well as Great Aunt to Meredith. Dear cousin
of Joyce APPLETON and Elsi
GORDON from England. After graduating
from the Royal Conservatory of Music in her mid teens, Betty
pursued a career in journalism. She was a long-time columnist
at the Sudbury Star. Betty was a great supporter of arts and
culture in the Sudbury area. She keenly followed politics at
all levels of government and attended regular press events over
the years. Many a person can share a story about meeting Betty
and experiencing her clever sense of humour. She was a truly
generous person and assisted many charities. Betty will be missed
by her 'extended family' of Friends inside and outside of the
Sudbury region. Resting at the Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home,
233 Larch Street, Sudbury. Funeral Mass in Christ the King Church,
30 Beech Street, Sudbury, Monday, December 22nd, 2003 at 10 a.m.
Interment in the Parklawn Cemetery. Prayers 3 p.m. Sunday. Donations
to 2nd Floor Acute Care Unit, St. Joseph's Health Centre would
be appreciated. Friends may call 2 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday.
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MELANSON,
Mary
Bernadine (née
POWER)
Deen died peacefully at home surrounded by her family on December
28, after a wonderful Christmas. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick
on May 16, 1924, and married in May of 1948 to Gerard Joseph
MELANSON (deceased 1994,) she is survived by her sister Maura
POWER, her sons James (Rebecca) and Ian (Clodagh
REEVES) and
her loving grandchildren Eric, Owen, Patrick, and Kate. Deen
was a dedicated wife, mother, and grandmother. A graduate of
Mount St. Vincent College in Halifax in 1945, she also found
great satisfaction in being a teacher of home economics. She
was a longstanding member of the Catholic Women's League, and
active in St. Gregory's parish in Islington since 1962. She will
be missed by her family and her many wonderful Friends who were
a source of great strength to her. A Funeral Mass will be held
at St. Gregory's Church, 122 Rathburn Road, Islington, Ontario,
on Wednesday, December 31 at 10 a.m., followed by a reception
in the parish hall, and interment at Assumption Cemetery.
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Ken POWERS
By Leslie POWERS
Thursday,
May 8, 2003 - Page A22
Artist, banker, bird watcher, traveller, amateur archaeologist.
Born February 4, 1925 in Ottawa. Died June 17, 2002, in Oakville,
Ontario, of cancer, aged 77.
Two things usually struck people when they first met Ken: He
had a way of finding something remarkable about you and passed
along his observation with sincerity and a grand sense of humour,
and he was a constant source of information. Ken could tell you
in great detail all about the unusual bird nestled in the tree
or the areas of Nova Scotia where the Mi'kmaq people settled.
He was inspirational, yet humble enough to be inspired.
Ken was born in Ottawa to a single mother but was raised by his
strict Irish grandparents. Barely 17 years old when the Second
World War broke out, Ken, determined to serve his country, enlisted.
He became a member of the Royal Air Force's 12th squadron, stationed in Lincoln,
England. Remarkably, Ken made it back from every one of his 32
missions.
Prior to the war, Ken had no ambitions for higher education or
a career. Upon returning to Ottawa, he had a new sense of purpose
and direction and immediately enrolled in Carleton College. He
later entered the college's undergraduate commerce program before
completing his degree (with Honours) at Queen's University.
Shortly after graduating, Ken was hired by the Industrial Development
Bank (now the Business Development Bank of Canada) and began
a career that took him, his wife and two children to Winnipeg,
Montreal, Halifax and Oakville. During his tenure at the bank,
Ken also spent time in Ghana, Africa, teaching commerce.
Ken's wife Joan was his soulmate and constant companion. The
couple met in 1954 after a performance of Swan Lake by the Royal
Winnipeg Ballet. Joan was a ballerina with the Royal Winnipeg
and Ken was introduced to her following a performance one spring
evening. Married after nine months of courtship, Ken would often
remark on how lucky he was to have met his "darling Joani."
While living in Halifax, Ken started taking art classes. Ken
had always drawn, but the art classes uncovered a unique talent.
Art became a focal point in Ken's life. Friends would often receive
a painting to commemorate a special event. Incredibly well-versed
in art and artists, Ken became an aficionado and collector of
Canadian art. When living in Winnipeg, he made a special point
of contacting the primitive painter, Jan
WYERS.
Ken befriended
Mr. WYERS and corresponded with him for years. While living in
Halifax,
Ken contacted Nova Scotian painter Maud
LEWIS, and made
several trips to her tiny house in the country where everyone
would gather round the wood-burning stove, discussing her art
over a cup of tea.
Ken's other interests included bird watching -- a passion born
out of a chance childhood meeting with Canadian ornithologist
P.A. TAVERNER.
Ken also liked archeology: his archeological digs
took him across Canada and to the Badlands in the United States.
When Ken invited Friends and their children on his archaeological
digs he would often strategically place arrowheads around the
site so the children would find them.
In 1980, Ken retired from the bank to pursue his many avocations.
For the next 20 years, Ken and his wife travelled extensively.
The places he visited became inspiration for his artwork and
his paintings often portrayed images from distant lands or those
closer to home, such as snow-laden pine trees in Algonquin Park
or decaying totem poles on the Queen Charlotte Islands.
Shortly before his death, a close friend remarked that Ken operated
the way people are supposed to be living their lives: with passion
and with joy.
Leslie POWERS is Ken's daughter.
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ACTON,
Colin
Peacefully, at Grand River Hospital, Kitchener, Ontario on Monday,
December 8, 2003. Born in Brighton, England, in 1925, Colin was
in active service with the British Army in France and Germany
in World War 2. After the war he went to sea with Cunard Lines.
He worked his way up to Staff Purser on the Queen Elizabeth and,
in that role, met his future wife, Cathie
WEBB, a Toronto-born
Canadian traveling to Europe on Cunard Lines. After the birth
of their first child they emigrated to Canada where Colin started
at the bottom again as a clerk at Canada Life. He retired in
1989 as a Vice-President; quite an accomplishment on a Grade
8 education. Throughout his life, Colin was an avid reader and
a prolific writer, earning extra money for his short stories
and articles published in newspapers and magazines. He fully
embraced the computer age, acquiring one of the first 10 Macintosh
computers in Canada. Prior to retirement, Colin moved to St.
Catharines where he was active in the community until disabled
by Alzheimer's. He lived most recently at Leisureworld in Elmira,
Ontario. Colin will be missed by his children: Janet and her
husband Neil
KENNEDY of Elmira, Lee
ACTON and his wife
Cindy
of Seattle, Craig
ACTON of Toronto and Maria
POWERS, also of
Seattle, Washington. He leaves grandchildren Kate, Thomas, Colin,
Julia and Brittany. His wife, Cathie, died on June 30, 2003.
Cremation has taken place. A memorial service and interment will
be held in May 2004 at Little Lake Cemetery in Peterborough,
Ontario. In lieu of flowers, donations to The Alzheimer Society
of Canada (www.alzheimer.ca) or the Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Canada (www.HeartAndStroke.ca) would be greatly appreciated
by the family. Stories and memories about Colin may be shared
with his family by email at Colin_Acton@hotmail.com
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POWLESS,
Alex
Ross
September 29, 1926 - May 26, 2003.
Peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, at the Willett Hospital,
in Paris, Ontario, at 5: 00 a.m., on Monday, May 26, 2003, Alex
Ross POWLESS, in his 77th year, went to meet his creator after
several months of illness. Ross was born in Ohsweken on the Six
Nations Reserve on September 29, 1926. Ross was a devoted husband
and loving father and was married to Margaret Wilma
POWLESS (nee
BOMBERRY) for 55 years. Together they raised 14 children, 27
grandchildren and 7 great grandchildren. Ross was predeceased
by his sons: Victor in 1955, Gaylord in 2001 and Gregory in 2002,
his parents: Chauncey and Jessie, and his siblings: Mary Ella
and Alice Maracle, Amy and Maude Martin, and Raymond and Jean
Powless.
Ross is survived by his loving wife
Margaret
Wilma▼
POWLESS (nee
BOMBERRY) and sister Vernice Maizie
JONATHAN, and his children,
including daughter in law Patti, Gail (Mark
AYRES,)
Gary,
Audrey
(Jim BOMBERRY), Harry, Arlene (Dan
MARTIN), Richard (Effie
PANOUSOS),
Darryl (Naansii
JAMIESON,)
Karen
(Jerry
MARTIN,) Tony (Cheryle
GIBSON,)
Jeffery, and Jacqui baby (Ron
LYNES.) Ross is a cherished
uncle to many nieces and nephews.
Ross had a passion for hunting and also loved fishing, pool and
playing cards. He demonstrated his love for his grandchildren
in many ways. He's fondly remembered for making up nicknames
for them. Ross' sense of humour and storytelling was renowned
and he was often asked to speak at public functions because of
it.
Ross POWLESS distinguished himself in lacrosse both as a player
and a coach. He was a member of the Ontario and Canadian Lacrosse
Hall of Fame and won four Mann Cups (Canadian Lacrosse Championships)
with the Peterborough Timbermen from 1951 to 1954, including
an Most Valuable Player award in 1953. Ross coached the Brantford
Warriors to the Canadian Senior B Championship in 1968 and the
Rochester Chiefs to a Can-Am Lacrosse League Championship in
1969. In 1974, Ross coached six of his sons on the Ontario First
Nations Team, which captured the All Indian Nations Championship
Cup.
The family will honour his life with a visitation at Styres Funeral
Home, Ohsweken after 7 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. Evening prayers
7 p.m. Wednesday, May 28 where Funeral Service will be held in
the chapel on Thursday, May 29, 2003 at 2 p.m. Interment: St.
Paul's Anglican Cemetery, Sour Springs Road. Memorial donations
to the Canadian Diabetes Association, the Iroquois Lodge or the
Canadian Cancer Society can be made in lieu of flowers.
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Lacrosse star lauded as top Indian athlete
Wednesday, May 28, 2003 - Page R7
Brantford, Ontario -- Six Nations lacrosse legend Ross
POWLESS,
a member of the Canadian and Ontario lacrosse halls of fame,
died Monday. He was 76.
Born in Ohsweken, Ontario, Mr.
POWLESS played on four Mann Cup
winning teams in the early 1950s. He won the most valuable player
award in 1953 and twice won the Tom Longboat Award as the top
Indian athlete in Canada.
After▼ he retired, Mr.
POWLESS went on to coach the Brantford
Warriors to the Canadian Senior B Championship in 1968 and a
year later led the Rochester Chiefs to the Can-Am Lacrosse League
title. He also coached six of his sons -- Gaylord, Gary, Greg,
Harry, Richard and Darryl -- on the Ontario First Nations team
that captured the All Indian Nations Championship Cup in 1974.
Canadian Press
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POWLESS 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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NESBITT,
Andrew
Maxwell ''Mac'' (1924- 2003) President of Anderson
Bros. Ltd. Veteran of World War 2, Royal Canadian Navy
Surrounded by family, Mac died peacefully at the Kingston General
Hospital Friday September 5th, 2003 after a brief illness. Beloved
husband of Glenna
(POWNALL)
NESBITT; dear father of John and
his wife Maureen of Calgary; dear grandfather of Glen, Diane
and Colleen. Dear brother of William and his wife Irene of Nepean
and the late Dorothy
WEBB; dear brother-in-law of Evelyn
FUDGE
and Donald
WEBB.
Also survived by nieces and nephews. Mac and
Glenna's ''expanded family'' also includes Andree and Rejean
LEMAY and their children Elyse and Matthieu of Kingston. Mac
was born in his grandfathers home at the corner of Princess and
Division Street; he attended Victoria Public School then Trinity
College School. During World War 2, Mac served in the Royal Canadian
Navy on the corvette ''Mordan''. On his return from the war,
he helped rebuild the family business, Anderson Bros. Ltd; destroyed
by fire that same year. For the next 50 years, Mac successfully
operated four businesses from the corner of Division and Princess
Street. His volunteer service includes: President of Kingston
branch of the School of Convocation of Trinity College School
for over 10 years, Governor of Trinity College School, and Board
Member of Kingston General Hospital. Mac and Glenna recently
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in a glorious event
attended by family and many close Friends. Mac was known for
his sage advice, his fabulous sense of humour and his unending
passion for meeting new people and helping his Friends in whatever
way he could. Mac will be sorely missed by his family and countless
Friends. The family will receive Friends at the Robert J. Reid
& Sons Funeral Home, 309 Johnson (at Barrie Street), Kingston,
on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9. Funeral service will be held at St.
George's Cathedral, King Street East (at Johnson Street), Kingston,
on Tuesday, September 9 at 11: 30 a.m. Interment at Cataraqui
Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy the family would appreciate
memorial donations to Kingston General Hospital Foundation: Intensive
Care Research.
Online Guest Book ReidFuneralHome.com (613) 548-7973
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