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WORDEN o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-05-14 published
Elwood (Ted)
MURRAY
Passed away peacefully on Manitoulin Island on Friday, May 2, 2003,
Elwood William John (Ted), formerly of Brantford. Born February 12,
1915, son of the late Thomas and Ethel
WORDEN
MURRAY of St. Paul's.
Beloved husband of the late Barbara Isabel
WOOD
MURRAY of Saint Mary's.
Dear father of James (Mame) and the late Thomas, and grandfather of
Michael and Adrian
MURRAY of Manitoulin Island. Service and
interment at Saint Mary's Cemetery, Saint Mary's, Ontario, Tuesday, May
6. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the local charity of your choice.
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WORKMAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-11 published
STORMS,
Peter
Henderson
Died
Saturday,
June 7, 2003. Loving husband of Isabel
STORMS.
Father of Sandra, Peter Stewart, Wendy and Pamela. Grandfather
of Charles and Nicole
LEHOCZKY,
Andrew and Sarah
STORMS and Jennifer
WORKMAN.
Great grandfather of Nicholas and Alexander
LEHOCZKY
and Wendy Emma
WORKMAN.
Friends may call at the Morley Bedford
Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave. West (2 lights west of Yonge
Street)
Today, Wednesday June 11, from 7-9 p.m.
A memorial service will be held in Christ Church Deer Park, 1570
Yonge Street, Toronto (corner of Yonge and Heath St. West) Thursday,
June 12, 2 p.m.
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WORNER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-03 published
DYMOND,
Elizabeth
Jane
(Betty)
Died peacefully after a brief illness on Sunday, June 1, 2003
a Briton House at age 77. Betty
DYMOND the wife of the Late Desmond.
Loving mother of Jan and her husband Romeo
WORNER,
Eric,
Pat
and her husband Gary
IRVING.
Beloved
Grammie of Chris and his
wife Jen, Erica, Graeme and Heather. Dear sister in law of Rosemary
DYMOND.
Resting at the Murray E. Newbigging Funeral Home, 733
Mt. Pleasant Road (at Eglinton) on Tuesday from 7-9 p.m.. Funeral
and Committal Service in the chapel on Wednesday at 2 p.m. If
desired donations may be made to The Crohn's and Colitis Foundation
of Canada, 60 St. Clair Ave East, Suite 600, Toronto, Ontario
M4T 1N5.
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WORRALL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-18 published
Black pride of Canadian track and field
First Canadian-born black athlete to win an Olympic medal was
member of relay team at 1932 Los Angeles Games but could find
work only as a railway porter
By James CHRISTIE,
Tuesday,
November 18, 2003 - Page R9
Ray LEWIS's event in Olympic track and field was officially the
400-metre sprint, a flat race. His enduring place in Canadian
sport history, however, was earned for hurdling a barrier.
Mr. LEWIS, who died in his native Hamilton at age 94 on the weekend,
was the first Canadian born black athlete to stand upon the Olympic
medals podium. He won a bronze medal as a member of the Canadian
4 x 400-metre relay at the Los Angeles Games in 1932.
At a time where racial discrimination was the way of the world,
Mr. LEWIS didn't get to live a hero's life. Viewed today as a
pathfinder for talented black athletes, in the 1930s Mr.
LEWIS
had to all but quit his athletics training because of the demands
of his job as a railway porter with the Canadian Pacific Railways.
He spent 22 years on the trains making 250 trips from Toronto
to Vancouver. To try and stay fit, Mr.
LEWIS would train by running
alongside the rails when the train stopped on the prairies.
"He deserved so much more than he ever received," said Donovan
BAILEY, who won two gold medals at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics
in the 100 metres and 4 x 100-metre relay. "I benefited from
his going before.
"I had the honour and good fortune of having lunch with Ray
LEWIS
and talking with him. I couldn't imagine what it was like in
his day. It was so different. Ultimately, he's one who inspired
me."
Raymond Gray
LEWIS was a Hamiltonian, cradle to grave. James
WORRALL, honorary member of the International Olympic Committee
and Canada's Olympic flag bearer in 1936, recalled the family
roots in the area went back to the 1840s when his great grandparents
escaped slavery in the United States and settled near Otterville,
Ontario
The youngest child of Cornelius
LEWIS and Emma
GREEN, Ray
LEWIS
was born October 8, 1910, at 30 Clyde St. He began running races
for fun at age 9 when he entered as contest at a local picnic.
He began formal training in track and field at Central Collegiate
where the autocratic John Richard (Cap)
CORNELIUS was his coach.
In 1929, he established a Canadian high-school track-and-field
record of four championships in one day, taking the dashes at
100, 200, and 440 yards as they were measured then, and anchoring
the one-mile relay. In 1928 and 1929, Mr.
LEWIS was part of the
Central relay team that won the United States national schoolboy
title.
He briefly attended Marquette University in Milwaukee but returned
to Canada during the Depression and joined the Canadian Pacific
Railway.
Besides his Olympic medal performance with teammates Phil
EDWARDS,
Alex WILSON and Jimmy
BALL,
Mr.
LEWIS was also a Canadian champion
several times and competed in the inaugural British Empire Games
in 1930 in Hamilton and the 1934 Empire Games in London. where
he won a silver medal in the mile relay. Mr.
EDWARDS was actually
the first black athlete to win an Olympic medal for Canada in
1932, getting the 800-metre honour about a half-hour before the
relay with Mr.
LEWIS.
Mr.
EDWARDS, however, was native of British
Guyana, while Ray
LEWIS was a local.
Mr. LEWIS, who in 2001 was awarded the Order of Canada, had a
life-long attachment to the Empire Games, later renamed the Commonwealth
Games. He was an adviser to the bidders who recently sought the
2010 Games for Hamilton and vowed that if the Games were coming
back, he'd be there to greet them at the official opening at
age 100. The Hamilton bid lost out last week to one from New
Delhi, India. He lit the torch during the opening ceremonies
at the International Children's Games in Hamilton July 1, 2000.
Mr. LEWIS wrote an autobiography entitled Shadow Running in which
he detailed his life "as porter and Olympian." He was featured
in a 2002 TVOntario documentary series on racism, Journey to
Justice. "It [racism] felt worse here, because it wasn't supposed
to happen here," he recalled in the video.
Whereas white athletes had an opportunity for coaching jobs after
their careers, Mr.
LEWIS did not. His position as a porter was
one of the few jobs open to men of his race.
"The first time I met him, the Canadian team was on its way to
Fort William, Ontario, for the Canadian championships in 1933.
They travelled by Pullman and Ray was the porter. He couldn't
get the time off to compete. But he did make the 1934 Empire
Games team and was presented to the Prince of Wales, something
that was a point of honour for him. He felt it was something
to rub into all those people who had kept him off teams and out
of places because he was black," Mr.
WORRALL said.
Mr. LEWIS married Vivienne
JONES in 1941, and they adopted two
children, sons Larry and Tony.
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WORTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-05 published
Kathleen
Innes
Stewart Roland
CROWE
By C.N.R. STEWARD/STEWART/STUART,
Wednesday,
November 5, 2003 - Page A26
Sister, friend, actor, social worker. Born April 9, 1908, in
London, England. Died August 26, 2003 in New York City, aged
Although born in England, Kitty -- or The Doy, as she was called
en famille -- spent her early life in Cleveland, Ohio, where
our father headed the H.K. Cushing Laboratory for Experimental
Medicine at Western Reserve University. Her three brothers (I
am the youngest) were born there. Our father, in 1922, moved
our mother and the four children to Toronto where we were enrolled
in those private schools that met his high standards. My sister
went to Havergal College on Jarvis Street in Toronto and hated
it. She stuck it out, though, and, on graduation, was accepted
into the arts program at University College at the University
of Toronto. After graduation, she and a girlfriend went to Europe
where, among other adventures, they bicycled through Normandy
and Brittany, an unusual escapade for two young women in the
late 1920s. It was a life-enhancing experience as the journals
she so meticulously kept attest.
Hers was indeed a privileged upbringing but throughout her long
life she identified more with the downtrodden. After our father
died in 1930, she returned to the family home in Toronto's Lawrence
Park where, after our mother died in 1933, she, 10 years my elder,
became my surrogate mother.
Next door to us was a family by the name of
CROWE and, in 1935,
she married the boy next door who went by the imposing moniker
of James Fitz-Randolph. Both were aspiring actors and singers
and moved to New York. Under their stage names, Kathleen and
Norman ROLAND, for the next 30 years or so they appeared in theatres
all over the eastern United States and Canada. In 1953, they
appeared together at the first Stratford Festival in the famous
tent. (Kitty understudied Irene
WORTH who was playing Queen Margaret
in Richard III. She told me she was terrified that one day Ms.
WORTH would be unable to appear because she felt she could not
play the part. Ms.
WORTH was in robust good health and Kitty's
fears were never tested.) Brendan Behan's The Hostage was another
vehicle for their talents, as it ran for years off Broadway.
When without a part she augmented her income by writing cookbooks
for a major American publisher. Shamelessly, she cribbed recipes
from other cookbooks to supplement her own creations (she was
a great cook). Proudly she retained her Canadian citizenship
and worked for the National Film Board during the Second World
War.
Sadly, married life became a hell for Kitty. Eventually, she
sued successfully for divorce.
She followed her stage career until well into her 60s, appearing
last in Toronto in 1975 in Noël Coward's Present Laughter, which
starred Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
As parts dried up she started another career as a social worker
for New York City where her ability to speak Spanish (she also
spoke French, German and a smattering of other languages), proved
to be a valuable tool. For many years she was also active in
the West Side Tenants Association. She hated grasping landlords
with a passion and at one time she herself successfully sued
her landlord for wrongful eviction. She was not all sugar candy.
During 2001 and 2002 she suffered a series of falls that resulted
in fractured bones; she was forced to give up her independence.
She moved into the Jewish Home and Hospital which is a fine place
but a place to which she could not adapt. Finally, I think, she
decided that life was no longer worth living. At 3 a.m. on August
26 last, she died, apparently peacefully.
C.N.R. (Jock)
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART is Kathleen
CROWE's kid brother.
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WORTHINGTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-18 published
Former
Member of Provincial Parliament, journalist Frank
DREA
dead at 69
By Jonathan
FOWLIE
Saturday,
January 18, 2003, Page A25
Frank DREA,
Progressive
Conservative
Member of Provincial Parliament
of 14 years and a journalist best known for his consumer advocacy
column in the Telegram, died Wednesday.
He was 69.
"He accomplished a great deal and was very tenacious," his wife
Jeanne said last night.
"He used to say, 'What's the use of having power if you don't
use it to help people?' He did, and I think that's how he'd like
to be remembered."
First elected to office in 1971 as the Member of Provincial Parliament
for Scarborough Centre, Mr.
DREA was known as a crusader who
often fought for the underdog.
In 1977, Mr.
DREA was appointed to the cabinet of then premier
Bill DAVIS, where he served as Minister of Correctional Services,
of Consumer and Commercial Relations and of Community and Social
Services.
During his time in politics, he worked to reform Ontario's prison
system, introduced legislation to protect workers and tradespeople
and helped to modernize the insurance industry.
Mr. DREA opted to leave politics in 1985 after Frank
MILLER took
over as premier and shuffled him out of the cabinet.
An avid horse-racing fan, Mr.
DREA was named chairman of the
Ontario Racing Commission later that year.
"Frank was tough, but he was fair," Premier Ernie
EVES said in
a statement yesterday.
"He will be missed by colleagues from both sides of the house,"
added Mr. EVES, who worked with Mr.
DREA for a number of years
during the early 1980s.
Toronto
Sun columnist Peter
WORTHINGTON, who worked with Mr.
DREA at the Telegram before it folded, remembered Mr.
DREA last
night as an aggressive and driven reporter.
"He was certainly one of the Telegram's strongest street reporters,"
Mr. WORTHINGTON said.
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Died
This
Day -- Frederic
WORTHINGTON, 1967
Monday, December 8, 2003 - Page R7
Army officer, engineer and adventurer born in Scotland in 1890
in 1907, commanded the tiny Nicaraguan navy; later, in Mexico,
fought on side of the revolutionary Francisco Madero; in First
World War, commanded Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade; in Second
World War, founded Canadian Armoured Corps and designed the prototype
for the Sherman tank; 1947, became Canada's first civil-defence
co-ordinator; 1957, stepped down to go into business.
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