TURCHIARO
TURINECK
TURNBULL
TURNER
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FIRTH,
Zena
Died peacefully at her home on Friday, September 5, 2003, at
the age of 86 years. Beloved wife of 66 years to Bill; loving
Mother to Marion, (Sam
TURCHIARO,)
Mark and the late Robert (Bob)
cherished Grandmother to Dean, Neal, Marcel, Sean, Amanda, Matthew
and Mackenzie, and their mother Lynn, and Great-Grandmother to
Ty and Tucker. Dear sister of Tina
WRIGHT of England. Zena and
Bill and their children emigrated to Canada from England in 1957.
Zena pursued a career as a teacher, and was Principal of Bishop
Strachan Junior School from 1970 to 1980. Her gentle humour and
sensitivity brought out the best in everyone. She touched many
lives. The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral
Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (South of Eglinton
Avenue East) from 5-8 p.m. on Sunday and Monday. Mass of Christian
Burial at Holy Rosary Church, 354 St. Clair Avenue West, on Tuesday
at 1: 30 o'clock. Interment Mount Pleasant Cemetery. In lieu of
flowers, donations to the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation,
555 University Ave., Toronto, M5G 1X8.
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HILLSON
-In loving memory of Maxwell Alexander "Bud" Hillson, who passed away at the
age of 77 years. Husband of the late Katherine "Kay"
(TURINECK,)
July 4, 1999.
You had a smile for everyone
You had a heart of gold
You left the sweetest memories
This world could ever hold
No one knows how much we miss you
No one knows the bitter pain
We have suffered since we lost you
Life has never been the same
Those we love don't go away
They walk beside us every day
Unseen, unheard but always near
Still loved, still missed and very dear.
A father's legacy is not riches
possessions or worldly goods
It's the way he lived,
the lives he touched, the promises he kept
It's the man he was
Your life, Dad was a job well done
and now you have left us to be with Mom.
Loving father of Bernadine, husband Phillip
HARRIS of Ottawa, Maxine,
husband Ronald
ALBERTS of London, Edward of Little Current, Roseanne
of Calgary and Kevin of Little Current. Remembered by brothers
Maxime, wife Shirley, Randolph wife Helen. By sisters Marie, husband
Gene ARMOUR,
Agnes
CARDINAL, Rita
DUNDON, Judith, husband Wifred
GUAY,
Georgina
GAGNON and Dorothy
MASSON.
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Mary CHAMBERS
McQUAY
In loving memory of Mary Chambers
McQUAY,
April 9, 1916 to May 3, 2003.
Mary McQuay, a resident of Mindemoya, died at her residence on
Saturday, May 3, 2003 at the age of 87 years. She was born in
Peterborough, daughter of the late George and Mabel
(FOLEY)
TURNBULL.
Mary graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1942 and worked in hospitals
in Kingston, where she met Jack
McQUAY, who was an intern at the same
hospital. They married in 1944, and lived in Kingston before moving
to Mindemoya in 1947. Jack began his medical practice in Mindemoya
and Mary assisted for many years running the office.
Mary had a warm, friendly manner and enjoyed socializing with her
many Friends. She will be remembered for her dedication to her
family and to her community. Mary participated in and supported many
community activities over the years. She was accomplished in sewing,
knitting and baking, and often contributed her home-made items to
bazaars and bake sales. She volunteered for the Red Cross, the
Mindemoya Hospital Auxiliary, Meals on Wheels, and the ambulance
service. She enjoyed gardening, and participated in the Mindemoya
Horticultural Society flower shows in years past. She was active in
the local Women's Institute. An enthusiastic member of the Mindemoya
Curling Club, she continued curling until she was well into her 80s,
while in the summer she enjoyed golfing. She was an avid bridge
player in the local bridge club. She was a member of St. Francis of
Assisi Anglican Church, where she sang in the choir for many years,
and participated in the life of the parish through the Anglican
Church Women's group. Always interested in crafts, she created many
beautiful pieces in pottery and paper tole crafts.
Dearly loved and loving wife of Dr. Jack
McQUAY.
Loved mother of
Marilyn▼ (husband Martin
CHILTON) of Kingston, Paul (fiancée Marion
CARROLL) of Fort McMurray, Alta, Janice
McQUAY of Toronto and
Mindemoya and Betty
McQUAY of Toronto. Also survived by Athena
McQUAY of Edmonton. Proud grandmother of Peter
McQUAY,
Jane
HOEKSTRA
(husband Terry,) Stephen
McQUAY and Jim
CHILTON and great
grandchildren Ethan, Sydney and Liam. Dear sister of Reta
CONRAN,
Gladys MITCHELL (husband Charlie,) Bruce
TURNBULL (wife
Alice,)
Norma
RAYCRAFT (husband Glen,) Billie
McNEIL and brother-in-law Earl
HARMAN.
Also survived by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by
sisters and brothers Marjorie
McLEOD,
Walter
(Bud)
TURNBULL, Ted
TURNBULL,
Gwen
HARMAN and sister-in-law and brothers-in-law Marie
TURNBULL, Alan
McLEOD, Harold
CONRAN and Gene
McNEIL.
Friends called the Saint Francis of Assisi Church in Mindemoya on
Monday, May 5, 2003. The funeral service was held on Tuesday, May 6,
2003 with Reverend Canon Bain Peever officiating. Interment in Mindemoya
Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home
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John BATEMAN
McQUAY
In loving memory of John
BATEMAN
McQUAY,
October 11, 1921 to December 12, 2003.
John Bateman
McQUAY, a resident of Mindemoya, died peacefully on
Friday, December 12, 2003, in Mindemoya Hospital, at the age of 82 years.
He was born in Portage La Prairie, Manitoba,
son of the late
Doctor Russell and Gladys
(SAUNDERS)
McQUAY.
The family moved to
Mindemoya in 1934, where Russell set up a medical practice.
Following his father's footsteps, John graduated as a medical doctor
from the Faculty of Medicine at Queen's University in 1944. He
married Mary
TURNBULL in the same year, and interned in Kingston. In
1947 they moved to Mindemoya, where he joined his father's medical
practice. He quickly became known and loved as "Doctor Jack". After
his father became disabled in 1949, Doctor Jack served as the only
doctor in the area until 1970, when other doctors began to arrive.
He continued faithfully serving the community in full-time practice
until 1991, easing into retirement over the next decade.
Doctor Jack loved his vocation as family practitioner, and was dedicated
to his patients. He worked long hours, making hospital rounds in the
morning, seeing patients in the afternoon and sometimes in the
evening, and calmly handling emergencies at any hour of the day or
night. For many years he held a weekly clinic in West Bay. He often
visited patients in their homes, and in the days before ambulance
service, even brought patients to the hospital himself. He was a
skilled physician who performed many kinds of surgery, but his
greatest enjoyment was delivering babies, and he estimated he
delivered over 2000 babies in his career. He also served as coroner
for Manitoulin and the North Shore for 20 years. In 1991 the College
of Family Physicians of Canada presented him with a Special
Recognition Award for his outstanding service.
Doctor Jack will also be remembered for his dedication to his community.
As Chair of the Board of Central Manitoulin High School, he worked to
establish the Manitoulin Secondary School, serving all of the Island.
As founding member of the Manitoulin Centennial Board, he helped set
up the Manor in Little Current. He served as President of the
Mindemoya Area Chamber of Commerce in the 1960s. He was a founding
member of the Central Manitoulin Lions Club, and later received the
Lions' Melvin Jones Fellow award for dedicated humanitarian services.
He was a modest person, but he greatly appreciated this recognition.
He was also a founding member of the Mindemoya Curling Club. In
1994, the Carnarvon Township named him as Citizen of the Year, and in
September 2003, in ill health, he was particularly pleased when
Central Manitoulin Township presented him with its Senior of the Year
award. He and his wife Mary were members of St. Francis of Assisi
Anglican Church. For relaxation, Jack and Mary very much enjoyed
curling, playing bridge, and golfing. He loved playing the piano,
and his other hobbies included photography, stamp collecting,
gardening, swimming and sailing on Lake Mindemoya, and rug hooking.
Doctor Jack was devoted to his family, who will remember his
encouragement and loving support. Dearly loved and loving husband of
Mary McQUAY (predeceased.) Loved father of Marilyn (husband Martin
CHILTON) of Kingston, Paul (wife
Marion▲
CARROLL) of Fort McMurray,
Alta, Janice
McQUAY of Mindemoya and Betty
McQUAY of Toronto. Also
survived by Athena
McQUAY of Edmonton. Proud grandfather of Peter
McQUAY, Jane
HOEKSTRA (husband Terry), Stephen
McQUAY and Jim
CHILTON
and great grandchildren Ethan, Sydney and Liam. Dear brother of Mary
Alice THACKER of Ottawa, Ann
GAGE (husband James) of Hartford, Conn.,
Thomas McQUAY, wife
Barbara of Mindemoya. Predeceased by sister
Margaret KYDD and her husband Gordon, and brother-in-law Doug
THACKER.
Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called the St. Francis of Assisi Church, Mindemoya on
Tuesday, December 16. The funeral service will be conducted at the
church on Wednesday, December 17, 2003 at 2 p.m. with Reverend Canon Bain
Peever officiating. Culgin Funeral Home
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Mary-Ann Elizabeth
DAWSON
In loving memory of Mary-Ann Elizabeth
DAWSON. A graduate of Ontario
Ladies College, B. A. in Sociology, University of Toronto, Director
of Social Assistance, Community Services and Housing Department, York
Region. Peacefully with her family by her side on Friday, February
21, 2003 at the age of 52. Mary-Ann, beloved wife of Patrick.
Loving mother of Tracy
ATKINS and loving step-mother of Tammy
BOUCHARD and her husband Michael, Julie and Matthew. Proud
grandmother of Shelby. Loving daughter of Alma
McDOUGALL and the
late Lauchlan
McDOUGALL of Gore Bay. Dear sister of Ross
McDOUGALL
and his wife
Deone and Connie
TURNER. Dear sister-in-law of Michael
and Elizabeth
DAWSON.
Loving▼ aunt of Kyle, Neil, Nicole, Cole, Peter
and Katie. Mary-Ann will be deeply missed by many Friends and
family. A funeral service takes place on Wednesday, February 26 at
the Aurora United Church. Arrangements entrusted to the Thompson
Funeral Home, Aurora. 905-727-5421. A memorial service will be held
in the spring in Gore Bay followed by an interment at the Gordon Cemetery, Manitoulin Island.
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DAWSON, Mary-Ann Elizabeth
Graduate of Ontario Ladies College, B.A. in Sociology University
of Toronto, Director of Social Assistance, Community Services
and Housing Department York Region. Peacefully with her family
by her side on Friday, February 21, 2003 at the age of 52. Mary-Ann,
beloved wife of Patrick. Loving mother of Tracy
ATKINS and loving
step-mother of Tammy
BOUCHARD and her husband Michael, Julie
and Matthew. Proud grandmother of Shelby. Loving daughter of
Alma McDOUGALL and the late Lauchlan
McDOUGALL of Gore Bay. Dear
sister of Ross
McDOUGALL and his wife
Deone and Connie
TURNER.
Dear sister-in-law of Michael and Elizabeth
DAWSON.
Loving▲ aunt
of Kyle, Neil, Nicole, Cole, Peter and Katie. Mary-Ann will be
deeply missed by many Friends and family. Visitation will be
held on Tuesday from 2-3 and 7-9 p.m. at the Thompson Funeral
Home, 29 Victoria Street, Aurora, 905-727-5421. A Funeral Service
will be held on Wednesday at 1 p.m. at the Aurora United Church,
15186 Yonge Street, Aurora. A Memorial Service will be held in
the spring in Gore Bay followed by an interment a the Gordon
Cemetery, Manitoulin Island. Memorial donations may be made to
the York Region Breast Cancer Society or Sunnybrook Cancer Clinic.
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Canada's
Catholic leader,
CARTER dies at 91
By Michael
VALPY
Religion And
Ethics
Reporter Monday, April 7,
2003 - Page A1
Three weeks ago, John
TURNER met Gerald Emmett
CARTER for their
annual St. Patrick's Day drink. The former prime minister held
the glass for his friend of 50 years while he sipped his Irish
whisky through a straw.
When the retired cardinal archbishop of Toronto died yesterday
morning at the age of 91, a reputation as richly coloured as
the scarlet of his soutane died with him.
Canadian Roman Catholicism will probably never see his like again:
a prince of the church who, while never unmindful of the meek
and the poor, made no bones about being comfortable rubbing elbows
with fellow princes of politics and business.
He was the close friend of prime ministers and premiers. He enjoyed
socializing in the corridors of power with people like Conrad
BLACK,
Hilary and Galen
WESTON and Fredrik
EATON. He displayed
an unabashed fondness for Progressive Conservative Party gatherings.
("I think at one Christmas party, I was the only Liberal there,"
Mr. TURNER said in an interview.)
Yet academics and religious and business leaders also spoke yesterday
of a man with an acute understanding of Canada and its history.
They described an intense, intellectual democrat who believed
he should speak out forcefully on the moral and political issues
of the day and who welcomed debate with those who disagreed with
him. And they talked of a cleric who profoundly understood the
nature of the church and who welcomed ecumenism and Canada's
emerging pluralism.
"He felt the institution of religion should have a public voice
and he was not shy about exercising it," said Michael
HIGGINS,
principal of St. Jerome's University in Waterloo and co-author
of My Father's Business, the 1990 biography of Cardinal
CARTER.
"Whenever he spoke, his voice was strong, clear, public, undiluted
and welcomed by political leaders even when they disagreed with
him. It is an unfortunate circumstance that the marginalization
of religious debate occurred at the same time as he was eclipsed
by a stroke, retirement and age, at a time when his church needed
him. He embodied a certain kind of churchman we probably won't
see again."
Cardinal CARTER suffered a stroke in 1981 and retired in 1990.
Cardinal Aloysius
AMBROZIC, his successor as archbishop of Toronto,
said Cardinal
CARTER "wanted to know what the movers and shakers
were doing."
Cardinal AMBROZIC described him as a man totally engaged with
his church and with his society -- an advocate for the poor,
for immigrants and for the homeless.
"What I admired about him, what I found so instructive about
him, was his sense of responsibility for the church and for society
at large. He was very much a man of Vatican 2 [the church's 1962-65
ecumenical council] and he knew what the Catholic Church was
about."
There was also, said Cardinal
AMBROZIC, "his own personal style.
He had panache."
The priest who rose from a working-class Montreal background
to become the most powerful cleric in Canada met Mr.
TURNER when
the former prime minister was a young lawyer in Montreal doing
legal work for the church. "He was a great human being who understood
the balance between the religious and secular worlds," Mr.
TURNER
said.
"He loved tennis, and he had a wicked serve."
Former prime minister Pierre
TRUDEAU consulted him on the Constitution
in the early 1980s and became a close friend. At the celebration
of Cardinal
CARTER's 75th birthday in 1987, instructions were
given that an entire pew was to be reserved for Mr.
TRUDEAU in
Toronto's St. Michael's Cathedral.
Mr. TRUDEAU delayed his arrival until just before the cardinal
entered the church. "All eyes were trained on
TRUDEAU until Cardinal
CARTER arrived," said Dr.
HIGGINS. "It was symbolic of the close
relationship they had."
Toronto's
Anglican
Archbishop, Terence
FINLAY, who first met
Cardinal CARTER when they were both bishops in London, Ontario,
in the 1970s, said the Roman Catholic Church in Canada had lost
a great leader.
"He enabled us to bring our churches closer together. I certainly
counted on him as a friend and colleague. He had an impressive
understanding of Canada's history and political situations. He
knew who we were."
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DAVIS,
Curtiss▼
Gridley▼
Born August 31, 1916 in Rochester, New York died after a long
and courageous battle, on July 31, 2003 at the Guelph General
Hospital. He was a resident for the past year at St. Joseph's
Health Centre, Guelph. Predeceased by his first wife Grace
TURNER.
Lovingly▼ remembered and missed by his wife
Audrey▼
LIVERNOIS.
Dearly loved father of Natasha
VAN
BENTUM (Henri) and Bruce Gridley
DAVIS
(Janet▼
WRIGHT,) of Vancouver. Stepfather of John
LIVERNOIS
of Guelph, and Laurie
STATHER of Belleville; dear brother of
Joyce LOVETT
(Bob▼) of Kitchener and Jim
DAVIS (Mary) of Maple
grandfather of Rachel
DAVIS,
Celine and Jacob
RICHMOND, Nicole
STATHER, Michael
STATHER (Tabitha), Ryan
STATHER, and Ali and
Becky LIVERNOIS; and great grandfather of four. Fondly remembered
by many nieces, nephews, family and Friends. During World War
2, he served with the Toronto Scottish Regiment in England and
Europe. He will be remembered for his thirst for knowledge and
as a gifted writer and reader. A memorial service will be held
on Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 1: 30 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian
Church,▼ 20 Quebec Street, Guelph, with the Reverend Thomas
KAY officiating.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Knox
Church, or to the charity of your choice. (Arrangements entrusted
to Wall-Custance Funeral Home and Chapel, 206 Norfolk Street, Guelph
(416) 822-0051 or www.wallcustance.com).
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DAVIS,
Curtiss▲
Gridley▲
Born August 31, 1916 in Rochester, New York died after a long
and courageous battle, on July 31, 2003 at the Guelph General
Hospital. He was a resident for the past year at St. Joseph's
Health Centre, Guelph. Predeceased by his first wife Grace
TURNER.
Lovingly▲ remembered and missed by his wife
Audrey▲
LIVERNOIS.
Dearly loved father of Natasha
VAN
BENTUM (Henri) and Bruce Gridley
DAVIS
(Janet▲
WRIGHT,) of Vancouver. Stepfather of John
LIVERNOIS
of Guelph, and Laurie
STATHER of Belleville; dear brother of
Joyce LOVETT
(Bob▲) of Kitchener and Jim
DAVIS (Mary) of Maple
grandfather of Rachel Davis, Celine and Jacob
RICHMOND,
Nicole
STATHER, Michael
STATHER (Tabitha), Ryan
STATHER, and Ali and
Becky LIVERNOIS; and great grandfather of four. Fondly remembered
by many nieces, nephews, family and Friends. During World War
2, he served with the Toronto Scottish Regiment in England and
Europe. He will be remembered for his thirst for knowledge and
as a gifted writer and reader. A memorial service will be held
on Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 1: 30 p.m. at Knox Presbyterian
Church,▲ 20 Quebec Street, Guelph, with the Reverend Thomas
KAY officiating.
In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to Knox
Church, or to the charity of your choice. (Arrangements entrusted
to Wall-Custance Funeral Home and Chapel, 206 Norfolk Street, Guelph
(416) 822-0051 or www.wallcustance.com).
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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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