WEBB o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-01-08 published
Albert George
WEBB
In loving memory of Albert George
WEBB,
April 9, 1921 to December 24, 2002.
Albert WEBB, a resident of Providence Bay, died at the Mindemoya
Hospital, on Tuesday, December 24, 2002 at the age of 81 years. He
was born in Durham, and had lived on Manitoulin for the past 6 years.
Previous to that, Al had lived in Elliott Lake and Armstrong. He
had a great love of the north country, which led him to his job as a
bush pilot He truly loved his work, and spent many enjoyable years
pursuing his love of the north and of flying. Al was a veteran of
WW2, having served overseas.
Survived by his beloved partner Val
TAILOR/TAYLOR of Providence Bay, and her
family. Will be sadly missed by Ruby
CANNARD, the Mike
SPRACK family,
Linda and
Al BAILEY,
Harvey and Diane
DEBASSIGE, Lloyd
JACKSON and
Marshall RICHARD of Elliott Lake, Ryan
HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON and Jim
HARASYM.
Survived by many Friends in the Armstrong, Elliott Lake and
Manitoulin area. Also survived by sons Warren and Chris, and one
brother in the Hamilton area.
At Al's request, there will be no funeral service. Cremation will take place.
Val TAILOR/TAYLOR would like to thank the doctors and nurses at Mindemoya
Hospital for the wonderful care and concern given to Al and herself,
during this time. Words cannot express the appreciation. Culgin Funeral Home
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WEBB o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-09-08 published
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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WEBB o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-27 published
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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WEBER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-12 published
Man of peace died with his boots on
Christian-based, stop-the-war mission to southern Iraq ended
in tragedy for Canadian peace activist
By Allison
LAWLOR
Wednesday,
February 12, 2003, Page R7
He was an educator who tried to stop a war before it began. Instead,
George WEBER, a former Ontario high-school teacher who was touring
Iraq as part of an effort to stave off a war, died there in a
road accident. He was 73.
Mr. WEBER was killed instantly when the vehicle he was travelling
in as a passenger rolled on an Iraqi highway between Basra and
Baghdad.
When the left rear tire blew out of the Chevrolet Suburban, the
truck hit the shoulder of the road and flipped over before rolling
to a stop upside-down beside the road, said Doug
PRITCHARD,
Canadian
co-ordinator for the Christian Peacemaker Teams, a church-based
group dedicated to non-violent activism.
Mr. WEBER, who was travelling in the back seat, was thrown from
the vehicle and sustained massive head injuries. Two other activists
with the group were injured in the accident.
An investigation has shown that on the day of the accident, the
vehicle was in excellent condition, the tires were new and the
truck was travelling on a six-lane, lightly travelled highway
on a clear day, Mr.
PRITCHARD said.
Mr. WEBER, a retired high-school history teacher from the town
of Chesley in southwestern Ontario, was among 17 Canadian and
American peace activists who arrived in Iraq on December 29.
They were committed to living up to a mission statement of the
Christian Peacemaker Teams of reducing violence by "getting in
the way," Mr.
PRITCHARD said.
The group travelled to the country despite warnings from the
Department of Foreign Affairs advising Canadians to stay away
from Iraq for security reasons. With war looming there, antiwar
activists from around the world have been heading to Iraq to
act as "human shields" if the bombs start falling, and in solidarity
with Iraqis.
"He was a student of world politics," said Reverend Anita Janzen
of the Hanover Mennonite Church, where Mr.
WEBER and his wife
Lena attended. "He was very upset [by] the threat of war [in
Iraq]."
Mr. WEBER felt he wouldn't be able to live with himself if war
broke out in Iraq and he had failed to do anything, she said.
Yet, when people told him they thought his actions were courageous,
his reply was: " 'I'm no hero,' " said his wife Lena. "It was
what he felt he needed to do," she said.
In Iraq, Mr.
WEBER and the Christian Peacemaker Team visited
hospitals, farms and schools to talk to Iraqis about the Persian
Gulf war, the United Nations sanctions and the current possible
U.S.-led war.
Shortly after arriving in Baghdad, he made a trip to the marketplace
to have a local tailor make him a suit. He had planned to pick
it up after his trip to Basra but he never made it back to the
marketplace. But someone else did. Mr.
WEBER wore the suit at
his funeral.
Having the suit made in Baghdad fit with Mr.
WEBER's personal
philosophy of trying to help those most in need. It was not uncommon
on his various travels to developing countries to seek out the
most decrepit taxi, saying it was that driver who was the most
in need of the fare, Lena
WEBER said.
"He was really kind of an unassuming and a genuinely humble man
who in a quiet way lived his beliefs," said Jim
LONEY, a fellow
Canadian who was in the truck but escaped serious injuries. Mr.
LONEY accompanied Mr.
WEBER's body back to Canada from Iraq.
Mr. WEBER had been scheduled to return home on January 9. "He
was a deeply committed Christian, and deeply committed to peace."
Mr. WEBER's trip to Iraq wasn't his first with the Christian
Peacemakers Team. After retiring from teaching, he applied to
take part in a Peacemakers mission to Chiapas, Mexico. In his
application in 1999, he noted that throughout his life he had
been interested in current events and was aware that it was the
poor and disadvantaged people in the world who end up suffering
the most.
"I think that most of the calamities that befall ordinary folk
could be alleviated if it were not for the selfishness and greed
that motivate the power structures, which are in place throughout
the world.
"But there are also many people of goodwill who wish to treat
everyone fairly and with charity. I try to be among this group,"
he wrote.
He was part of a two-week delegation to Chiapas in February,
2000. This trip was followed by another six-week mission to Hebron
in the West Bank in 2001, and another six weeks there in 2002.
In the West Bank, Mr.
WEBER was particularly moved by the plight
of the Palestinian children and would accompany them to school
through military checkpoints ensuring that they arrived safely.
Mr. WEBER had also been a member of the Peace Justice and Social
Concerns Committee of the Mennonite Conference of Eastern Canada
between 1994 and 1998.
George WEBER was born on July 28, 1929, and grew up on a farm
near Elmira, Ontario He was the fifth of seven children born
to Ion and Geneva
WEBER.
After his father died when he was in
his 50s, George was left to take over the family farm. A young
man, just 20, he helped his mother raise his younger siblings.
When George felt one of his younger siblings was able to take
over the farm, he got on a boat headed for Europe. It was during
his travels that he decided he would like to one day attend university.
He returned to Canada in his mid-20s and enrolled in the history
department at the University of Toronto. After graduating with
a degree, he went into teaching. His first job was teaching history
at Western Technical-Commercial School in Toronto.
It was through the Mennonite church that he met Lena
FREY.
The
couple married in 1959 and not long afterward went to Africa.
Mr. WEBER taught in Ghana and Nigeria during the 1960s for the
Mennonite Board of Missions teaching school and his wife worked
as a nurse.
After returning to Canada, he taught at a Toronto high school
before settling in Chesley, Ontario, where he taught history
at a local high school, farmed and was active in the Hanover
Mennonite Church.
"George was a very critical thinker," said Barry
WOODYARD, a
retired vice-principal at Chesley District High School. "He used
to challenge his students not to accept anything they heard on
the news," or from politicians. "He felt they needed to do their
own thinking."
A quiet, hard-working man, he was known among his colleagues
for having a particular talent for forming relationships with
the difficult students the other teachers often didn't want to
deal with.
"If people needed help he would help them," Mr.
WOODYARD said.
Mr. WEBER leaves his wife
Lena, children Reginald and Tania and
four grandchildren. He also leaves two brothers and one sister.
George WEBER, teacher, farmer, missionary, born on July 28, 1929,
in Elmira, Ontario; died near Basra, Iraq, on January 6, 2003.
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Sara STARK
(Sarika)
By Peter STARK,
Wednesday,
November 26, 2003 - Page A22
Mother, Serb, snack-bar administrator. Born September 19, 1925,
in Subotica, Yugoslavia. Died September 21, in Toronto, of natural
causes, aged 78.
Back in 1997, I took my mother back to Belgrade. We arrived midday
and, to pass some time, we went to a piac (market). Strolling
around, mother spotted a stall that had a chicken in a pot of
water. "How much for the chicken?" she asked in Serbian. "Twenty
a kilo and she's two kilos!" the well-sauced proprietor answered.
Now Sara was a country girl and knew a bird when she saw one:
"Why you liar! That chicken is the size of a pigeon and is less
than a kilo!" The farmer stirred, picked up on our Western clothing
and launched into a verbal assault. Quickly others stepped in.
What a scene! Less than half-an-hour on the ground and my mother
had found a battle -- but she was never one to back down.
Sara, or Sarika as she was known to the villagers of Zitiste,
was the only daughter of the wealthy
WEBERs -- Moijse and Nina
and the granddaughter of family matriarch, Malvina
HAJDUSKA.
Sara grew up in privileged surroundings, yet her upbringing included
some stern lessons in individuality and self-reliance: From the
age of 11, she was expected to produce butter and sell it in
the village for her pocket money. Perhaps that's why the residents
of Plandiste (where the family owned a second farm) met her with
such joy in 1997. Not having seen her for 55 years they had no
problem recognizing her and came running shouting, "Sarika! Sarika!"
Back in 1942, at the age of 17, Sara, along with Nina and Malvina,
were moved to the Jewish ghetto in Subotica. Deported to Bacalmas
in 1943 they were later sent to Strasshof, Austria, where they
worked 15-hour days on the land. At season's end, they were put
on a train for Auschwitz but over-crowding there forced the re-routing
of the train to Bergen-Belsen. Later, they were transferred to
Theresienstadt, where Sara met Alex. At war's end, she, Alex
and Nina (Malvina had died on the day of liberation) went on
foot to Budapest.
In Budapest, Sara and Alex were married and had three children:
Robert (1946), Peter (1948), and Judy (1950).
Life was not easy. Alex's father, Aladar, had a small shoe store
and provided them with stock to sell in country markets. On market
days, Sara and Alex rose at 3 a.m. to load a truck and head out
with other vendors. Regardless of the difficulty in making a
living, Sara insisted that her children receive the best: they
were immaculately dressed in their weekend whites, and were the
talk of the neighbourhood.
During the 1956 uprising, the family fled, eventually to arrive
in Canada, in Ottawa -- Alex would only live in a capital city.
Sara, despite a fluency in seven languages, accepted any position
available -- cook, maid, cleaner -- to make a living. Later,
she worked in the kitchen at the Jewish day school and also ran
a community snack bar on weekends. Her reputation as cook spread
and she landed the position of head of the kitchen at an Ottawa
home for the aged.
Retirement did not suit my mother -- she had an active, nervous
mind that needed constant activity.
Her three kids provided the opportunity. Ever a dabbler in their
lives, they were never aught but cubs to her tigress. "I can
criticize you all," she used to say, "but if anyone else does
I'll scratch their eyes out!"
Yes, that was mum. Loyal, intuitive, and brave as all get out
possessor of a natural nobility that never needed proving nor
felt shame at doing menial tasks when necessary. She loved and
hated fiercely, and her Friends knew it and accepted the storms
along with the plentiful sunshine.
Peter STARK is the
son of Sara
STARK.
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Phillip Howard
DEBASSIGE
In loving memory of Phillip Howard
DEBASSIGE,
February 5, 1947 to
August 9, 2003. "Lover of Horses" Phillip
DEBASSIGE, a resident of
M'Chigeeng First Nation, began his spiritual journey through the
western door, on Saturday, August 9, 2003 at the age of 56 years. He
was born in Mindemoya,
son of Vincent
DEBASSIGE and the late Margaret
(MIGWANS)
DEBASSIGE.
Phillip worked in M'Chigeeng teaching computers at Kenjgewin Teg, a
member of the Economic Development Committee and worked with the
Union of Ontario Indians as well as Metis Nation of Ontario. He also
enjoyed band politics especially the First Nation Governance Act.
Phillip enjoyed playing the trumpet, playing lotteries especially
Keno and horse racing. He was a great community worker as he helped
many work in their garden, visited elders, enjoyed his time at the
maple sugar camp and helped others with house construction and
renovations. This familiar sight walking in the neighbourhood or on
his way to Gus's store to play his numbers, will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Loving father of Corena
RYAN and husband Justin, Ladeanne
DEBASSIGE
and Nathan
MIGWANS.
Loved
Mishomis of Justice and Reign
RYAN.
Survived by his former wife
Giovanna. Dear brother of Ina
PANAMICK,
Alfred DEBASSIGE (wife Gladys), Marjorie
WEBKAMIGAD, Greg
DEBASSIGE
(friend Bonnie,) Norma
CORBIERE (friend Charlie,) Lyla
KINOSHAMEG
(husband Ray,) Nicolas
DEBASSIGE
(Alice,)
Patrick
DEBASSIGE, Joanne
DEBASSIGE (Amadeo), Stanley
DEBASSIGE (wife Donna) and Doris
DEBASSIGE (friend Ronnie.) Also survived by many nieces and nephews.
Friends called at the home of Alfred
DEBASSIGE
Monday and Tuesday.
The funeral mass will be celebrated at Immaculate Conception Church,
M'Chigeeng on Wednesday, August 13, 2003 at 11: 00 a.m. with Father
Robert FOLIOT as celebrant. Interment in M'Chigeeng Cemetery. Culgin Funeral Home
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WEBSTER 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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WEBSTER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-28 published
COLQUHOUN,
Stephen
Murray
It is with great sadness that we announce that Stephen Murray
COLQUHOUN died suddenly on Wednesday, June 18th, 2003 in Thunder
Bay, Ontario. Steve will be sorely missed and always cherished
by his wife
Maria (née
SALATINO,) sons Stevie and Jamie, his
sisters Liz (Mike
EVANS), Marg (Brian
WEBSTER), Mary Louise (Paul
RADDEN,) and brother Bob (Judy
COLQUHOUN.) He died too young.
First and foremost in Stevie's life was always Maria and his
boys. He will also be missed by his in-laws Maria and Giacomo
SALATINO, his wife's sisters Rosa (Cheslan
CHOMYCZ,)
Anna
(Chris
KELOS), Gina (Dan
CHAMPAGNE), Aunt and Uncle Jim and Cappy
COLQUHOUN.
A funeral was held at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church on Monday,
June 23, 2003. In lieu of flowers, a donation to a trust fund
for his children, c/o any branch of the Bank of Nova Scotia,
account #006870000485 would be greatly appreciated.
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WEBSTER,
Eric
Taylor
Died on Saturday, October 11, at Queensway-Carleton Hospital
in Ottawa, at the age of 87. Eric was the youngest and last surviving
of the six children of Senator Lorne
WEBSTER and Muriel Taylor
WEBSTER of Montreal. He was predeceased by brothers Colin, Stuart,
Howard and Dick, and by their sister, Marian. Born in Montreal
on March 1, 1916, he attended Selwyn House School and Lower Canada
College, then graduated from Mount Allison University in Sackville,
New Brunswick. Already a licensed pilot, in 1939 he volunteered
for the Royal Canadian Air Force, in which he served until 1945,
rising to the rank of Wing Commander. In 1940 he married Elizabeth
(Ibby) PATERSON, daughter of Senator Norman and Eleanor
PATERSON
of Fort William, Ontario. After the war, they settled in Sherbrooke,
Quebec, where he became President of J.S. Mitchell and Co. and
established Eastern Townships Warehousing Ltd. He was a leader
in a wide range of community activities including Trinity United
Church, the Sherbrooke Hospital, the Eastern Townships Protestant
School Board, Bishop's College School, Bishop's University and
Stanstead Wesleyan College. He also went into farming in North
Hatley and served a term as President of the Canadian Hereford
Association. His interests included antique and classic cars
and family motor coaches, in which he traveled widely. He could
install an oil burner, design a cottage or lead a fund- raising
campaign, but never seemed happier than when under a motor vehicle,
tinkering with its innards. When Ibby died in 1974, he married
Jane Sweny
ARMITAGE of Ottawa, where they lived until he died.
Eric leaves his widow, Jane, and children Norman
WEBSTER of Montreal
(with wife
Pat,)
William
WEBSTER of Vancouver (Diana,) and Maggie
GALLAGHER of Oakville, Ontario (Tom.) Two other children, David
and Ruth WEBSTER, died in infancy. He also leaves stepsons Mark
ARMITAGE of Montreal (Pam,) Bill
ARMITAGE of Ottawa (Jan) and
David ARMITAGE of Ottawa. There are 12 grandchildren and eight
great-grandchildren. There will be a memorial service at Plymouth-Trinity
United Church, 380 Dufferin Street, Sherbrooke, on Thursday, October
16, at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the
Queensway-Carleton Hospital Foundation, 3045 Baseline Rd., Nepean,
Ontario, K2H 8P4.
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Part of Globe history passes with
DALGLEISH
Ex-publisher's wife dies on the same day as their son
By Michael
VALPY,
Tuesday,
December 9, 2003 - Page A17
Delsya DALGLEISH was a beautiful South African ballet dancer.
She gave her name to one of the world's best-known brands of
toilet paper. She married a legendary Globe and Mail editor and
publisher, and, when she died at 92, it was on the same day in
the same hospital as her son, Peter.
The deaths last Thursday were coincidental. Mr.
DALGLEISH, 68,
died in the afternoon of a cancer that had been diagnosed a short
time earlier. Ms.
DALGLEISH, who had been in a nursing home,
died of old age later the same day. She was not aware her son
had predeceased her, as had his two brothers several years earlier.
Born Delsya
GRIFFITHS in Wales, she was raised in South Africa
and had an established London stage career when she met Oakley
DALGLEISH, a 22-year-old Canadian student at the London School
of Economics. They married almost immediately. He was appointed
editor-in-chief of The Globe 15 years later and publisher 10
years after that.
The DALGLEISHes were a glamorous and adventurous couple, travelling
the world and partying throughout Europe and North America with
the powerful and celebrated.
Ensconced members of what passed for Toronto café society in
the 1940s and 1950s (Steak Oakley was on the menu of Winston's
restaurant on Bay Street for years), they and their companions
in full evening dress would sometimes go into The Globe's newsroom
late in the evening for a nightcap in the editor's office.
Ms. DALGLEISH, in clinging gowns, would twirl gaily around the
floor, eliciting whistles from copy editors toiling beneath green
eyeshades.
Her husband Oakley, a handsome, elegantly dressed man, had lost
his left eye as the result of a freak childhood accident involving
a fire truck, and from his earliest adult days he wore a jet-black
eye patch. The look was dashing, and was noticed by an advertising
executive at a New York cocktail party who gave birth to the
Hathaway shirt man.
The same executive, after being introduced to, and charmed by,
Delsya DALGLEISH, bestowed her name (with his own spelling) on
a toilet-paper account, Kimberley-Clark's Delsey "bathroom tissue."
Mr. DALGLEISH died at age 53 in 1963. Ms.
DALGLEISH was appointed
to The Globe's board of directors by her husband's successor,
Montreal businessman R. Howard
WEBSTER, and was consulted by
Mr. WEBSTER on how the newspaper should be run.
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