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WELD
WELLS
WELLWOOD
WELT
WELCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-04 published
WELCH,
Dr.
Robert
Hamilton
Died peacefully, at home in Toronto, on Tuesday, July 1, 2003,
in his 90th year. Beloved husband of Jane (Penny) Simpson (née
COYNE.)
Devoted father of Thomas Gordon (Anne
LAMBERT,) James
Coyne (Hélène
QUESNEL), Sarah Jane (Edward
GELLER) and Margo
Hamilton. Adored grandfather of Emily, Jackson, Brennen, Julia
and Philippe. Predeceased by his brothers Albert Gordon and Thomas
Alan.
Bob WELCH was born in Toronto, educated at University of Toronto
Schools and U of T, and served his country as Surgeon-Lieutenant
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve in World War 2. He was
in family practice and associated with St. Michael's Hospital
for nearly 50 years. He was a great diagnostician who practiced
the art of medicine with compassion for both patients and their
families. A famous raconteur with a gentle sense of humour, he
was also an avid reader who was engaged with life until the end.
While he lived and worked in Toronto, he cherished his summers
in Prince Edward Island from the 1950's on. Greatly loved and
deeply missed.
The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home
- A. W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton
Avenue East), from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, July 3rd. Private service
in Toronto and interment at Fortune, Prince Edward Island In
lieu of flowers, donations may be made to St. Michael's Hospital,
30 Bond Street, Toronto M5B 1W8 or Bay Fortune United Church
Cemetery Fund, c/o John Aitken, Souris, Prince Edward Island
C1A 1B0.
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WELD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-03 published
WELD,
Thomas
John
Died peacefully at his Toronto home on Saturday, May 31, 2003
in his 49th year, surrounded by his family. Tom handled his illness,
a 12½ year battle with brain cancer, with dignity and courage.
Tom is survived by his beloved wife of 25 years, Gillian (a true
Florence Nightingale), and was a proud father to daughter Ashley,
and son Christopher. Also survived by his mother, Harriet ''Sis''
Bunting WELD and father John Douglas
WELD
(Patricia,) sisters
Wendy JARVIS
(David) and Leeanne
KOSTOPOULOS (Chris;) nephews
Strachan and Pearce
JARVIS,
Andreus
KOSTOPOULOS, niece Olivia
KOSTOPOULOS, and mother-in-law Margaret
EASTON.
Tom was educated
at Trinity College School, Port Hope, and Ryerson Polytechnical
Institute. He then embarked on a career in the Graphic Arts Industry
where he spent 25 years with The Bryant Press Limited in Toronto.
Tom was an enthusiastic sportsman who was a long-time member
of The Toronto Golf Club, The Badminton and Racquet Club, and
The Osler Bluff Ski Club. The family would like to extend special
thanks to Annette Drinkwater for her months of care as well as
Dr. John RIEGER and Mamdough
REZK (R.N..) A funeral service will
be held at Saint John's Anglican Church (York Mills), 19 Don Ridge
Drive, Toronto, on Wednesday, June 4, 2003 at 11 a.m. with a
reception to follow. Private family interment at Mount Pleasant
Cemetery. The family would appreciate memorial donations to St.
Michael's Hospital Foundation, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario
M5B 1W8 or a charity of your choice.
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WELLS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-16 published
Horse-race announcer 'giant in his profession'
Canadian Press, Tuesday, December 16, 2003 - Page R5
Niagara Falls, Ontario -- Legendary horse-race announcer Daryl
WELLS died Friday night of heart disease. He was 81.
Mr. WELLS entertained thoroughbred horse racing fans at Woodbine
race track in Toronto for more than 30 years. From 1956 -- the
year Woodbine opened -- until 1986, he described racing for fans
on the Ontario Jockey Club circuit, which included Fort Erie
and Greenwood.
"He was a giant in his profession," said Louis
CAUZ, managing
director of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. "His calls,
whether they be for a claiming race or the Queen's Plate, were
both dramatic and detailed. Every horse got at least one call.
You always knew where your horse was during a race."
His son Daryl Jr., who followed in his dad's footsteps and now
calls races at Fort Erie, Ontario, said: "Dad was particularly
happy of the way he called Secretariat's final career race at
Woodbine."
Born in Victoria in 1922, Mr.
WELLS entered the broadcast business
as a disc jockey at age 15 but later switched to sports. He leaves
his wife Marian and children, Daryl Jr., Dana and Wendy.
A memorial visitation will be held today at Morse and Sons Chapel
on Main Street in Niagara Falls, Ontario
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WELLS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-19 published
The voice of Ontario horse racing
For three decades, the announcer added detail and drama to his
calls at Woodbine, Fort Erie and Greenwood tracks
By Allison
LAWLOR,
Special to The Globe and Mail Friday, December
19, 2003 - Page R13
When the great Secretariat burst out of the starting gate at
Toronto's Woodbine Race Track on that dark and miserable day
in late October, 1973, in what would be his final race, Daryl
WELLS was behind the microphone calling the race for fans.
"In a blaze of glory, ladies and gentlemen, he's all yours,"
Mr. WELLS cried as the Triple Crown-winner won the Canadian International
by 12 lengths.
Daryl WELLS
Jr. was there that day in the announcer's booth to
hear what would be his father's most famous call and share his
excitement of seeing the last career race of the horse, considered
by many to be the greatest thoroughbred of all time.
"I thought it was the greatest thing that ever happened," said
Daryl WELLS
Jr., who carried on the tradition and now calls races
at Ontario's Fort Erie track.
Mr. WELLS, the voice of Ontario thoroughbred racing for more
30 years, from just after the new Woodbine Race Track opened
in the spring of 1956 to the summer of 1986, died last Friday
of heart disease in Niagara Falls, Ontario He was 81.
For three decades, Mr.
WELLS was at the Ontario Jockey Club microphone,
describing the thoroughbred races at Woodbine, Fort Erie and
Greenwood, entertaining fans with his calls that were both accurate
and exciting. When the gates opened, fans could often be heard
imitating his familiar, trademark call: "They're off."
Whether it was a small, weekday afternoon race or the prestigious
Queen's
Plate,
Mr.
WELLS made every call dramatic and detailed.
"Every horse got his call," said his long-time friend Gary
ALLES.
Behind the microphone, Mr.
WELLS was a pro who also had a mischievous
streak that could sometimes be seen in the announcer's booth.
Mr. ALLES remembers one day sitting next to his friend while
he was calling a race at Woodbine. A second after telling fans
where their horses were in the race, he switched off his microphone
and asked Mr.
ALLES which horse he had betted on that day. Back
to the microphone, he gave fans a quick update before turning
off the microphone again. This time with the microphone off,
he started giving Mr.
ALLES the call he really wanted to hear
that his horse looked poised to win. But before Mr.
ALLES
could get too excited the microphone was back on again and Mr.
WELLS was giving fans the true account of the race.
"He had a mischievousness that emanated from his eyes," Mr.
ALLES
said.
Daryl Frederick
WELLS was born on December 10, 1922, in Victoria.
As a young boy, he would tag along when his parents went to the
races. "That's what got him interested," said his wife, Marian
WELLS.
By the age of 15, he had entered the broadcasting world as a
disc jockey, after a local radio station allowed him to play
a few records. "It [his career] took off from there," Daryl
WELLS
Jr. said.
Several years later, he headed east and got a job in the sports
department of radio station
CHML in Hamilton, where he worked
in the 1940s and 1950s and later as a sports director for
CHCH-TV.
During the Second World War, he served for a time in Britain
with the Canadian Army.
Ed BRADLEY, a former general manager of Greenwood, Mohawk and
Garden City Raceways, can remember his first introduction to
Mr. WELLS in 1955. Working then as an announcer at Long Branch
track in Toronto's west end, Mr.
BRADLEY recalls one day seeing
a man standing around outside his announcer's booth watching
while he worked.
The next day he saw the same man again. Mr.
BRADLEY was curious
about this mysterious man but thought nothing of him again until
the following spring when the track opened in Fort Erie. He was
in the announcing booth when his manager came to him to tell
him he had a new guy for him to break in.
"The guy walked in and it was Daryl
WELLS,"
Mr.
BRADLEY said.
They got down to work and, right away, Mr.
BRADLEY recognized
Mr. WELLS's voice from his broadcasting work. After three days
of training, Mr.
WELLS was ready to call a race on his own.
"He turned out to be a real pro," Mr.
BRADLEY said, adding that
Mr. WELLS was very descriptive in his calls and got to know what
the jockeys were doing during a race.
During a time when horse racing was among the country's favourite
sports, and fans would regularly stream out of work to head to
the bar to watch a race, Mr.
WELLS was its voice, said Wally
WOOD, a former long-time racing columnist. "He was the poster
boy for the sport," Mr. Wood said. "He was willing to do anything
to promote racing....
"He was very good for racing," Mr.
WOOD added.
A true showman, Mr.
WELLS not only had the voice, but he looked
as though he had just stepped out of an Armani commercial. "Daryl
was show business and he dressed like it," Mr.
ALLES said.
After 30 years as a well-loved fixture in the announcing booth,
Mr. WELLS left Woodbine in July of 1986 amid controversy. His
employers suspended him after the Ontario Racing Commission fined
him for his part in a 1983 wager that returned a $237,598 payoff.
"Touting" (volunteering an opinion on the outcome of a race for
profit) was the official description and is strictly against
the rules. While it was never a case of Mr.
WELLS affecting the
outcome of a race, he was suspended and his career as a horse-race
announcer was over.
"He missed the excitement of the track," Ms.
WELLS said, adding
that it was the people he missed most of all. After he left Woodbine,
he seldom went to the track except on special occasions.
"He always wanted to be surrounded by people," said Ms.
WELLS,
who never knew when she would come home to find her husband throwing
an impromptu party.
Mr. WELLS, who had been living in Lewiston, New York since the
late 1980s, died on December 12 at the Greater Niagara General
Hospital in Niagara Falls. He leaves his wife; children Dana,
Daryl Jr. and Wendy; sister Velda
SCOBIE; and stepchildren Michael,
Kelly and Jeffrey.
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WELLWOOD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-02-04 published
Bill WELLWOOD was racing hall of famer
By Beverley
SMITH
Tuesday,
February 4, 2003, Page S12
Bill WELLWOOD, an icon in the North American harness racing world,
died yesterday at the Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga,
Ontario He was 62.
WELLWOOD was a member of the Canadian Horse
Racing Hall of Fame and was chosen horseman of the year in Canada
in 1974 and 1992. He was known as an astute horseman who had
a gift for picking out yearlings and turning them into top racehorses.
These included two-time Breeders Crown winner Village Jiffy,
Village Connection, Village Jasper, and 1997 Metro Pace winner
Rustler Hanover.
WELLWOOD is survived by wife
Jean and daughter,
Paula, also a horse trainer. His funeral will be held tomorrow
in Cambridge, Ontario
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WELT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-19 published
GRAY/GREY, The Honourable Wesley Gibson, B.A., LL.B., LL.D., Q.C.
(Lieutenant (N) Royal Canadian Navy, Justice, Supreme Court of
Ontario; Treasurer and C.E.O., The Law Society of Upper Canada
original Smoke Lake Lease Holder)
Died peacefully, At Toronto, on Wednesday, June 18, 2003 after
a short illness. Gibson, beloved husband of Nancy
BURTON for
60 years. Dear father of Patsy (Tim
PORTER,)
Katy
WAUGH (Ralph
EIBNER,) and Barbara (Dudleigh
COYLE.)
Loving
Grandpa of Suzanna
and Rosalind
PORTER;
Maggie
WELT (Bruno) and Emily
WAUGH; Nancy,
David and Patrick
COYLE. He will be sadly missed by his sister
Estelle CUNNINGHAM and her family. Special thanks to the medical
team at St. Michael's Hospital who took such good care of him.
The family will receive Friends at the Humphrey Funeral Home
- A. W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue (south of Eglinton
Avenue East), from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Friday, June 20th, Service
at Rosedale United Church, 159 Roxborough Drive (M4W 1X7), on
Saturday, June 21st at 11 o'clock. Interment at Saint John's Norway
Cemetery on Monday, June 23rd at 10 o'clock. In lieu of flowers,
donations to St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto
M5B 1W8, or Rosedale United Church.
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