KING o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2004-02-11 published
Hilda HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON (née
CULLIS)
In loving memory of Hilda
HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON (1934 - 2004.)
The family announces with sorrow her death at the Lady Minto Hospital, on
Wednesday, January 14th, 2004, at the age of 69.
Dear wife of the late Bert
HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON and dear mother of Bill (Lucie)
of Timmins, Bob (Jeannette,) Kathy (Bryan)
HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON-
DAVID and John
(Miriam) all of Cochrane. She will be remembered by her ten
grandchildren Ryan, Kara, Zack, Hope, Bobbi, Kellen, Kurtis, Brooke,
Victoria and Kerrigan. She is survived by her sister Marie (Grant)
KING of Thessalon, her brother Jack (Zen)
CULLIS of Edmonton and
sister-in-law Millie
CULLIS of Thessalon. She was predeceased by her
brother William
CULLIS and her grandchildren Johnny and Amber
HUTCHINSON/HUTCHISON.
Hilda was an active member of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 89,
Second Mile Club, Bowling Club and Anglican Church. She loved life
and was willing to try anything with her children and grandchildren.
She loved fishing in her home-away-from-home, Lowbush. She will be
greatly missed by her children, grandchildren, family and Friends.
Visitation was held at Salon Funiraire Irvine and Irvine Funeral Home,
149 Third Street, Cochrane, on Friday, January 16th, 2004. A funeral
service was held on Saturday, January 17th, 2004 at the Archbishop
Anderson Anglican Memorial Church, Cochrane, with Canon Sharon
MURDOCH officiating.
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KING o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2004-10-20 published
Theodore “Ted”
CORBIERE
March 8, 1919 - October 11, 2004.
In loving memory of Ted Corbiere, a resident of Little Current Manor, who passed
away on Monday, October 11, 2004 in his 85th year.
He was born in M’Chigeeng -
son of the late George and Madeline
CORBIERE
(MISHIBINIJIMA.)
Dearly loved husband for 60 years to the late Georgette
CORBIERE
(November 26, 2003.)
Proud father of Madelyn (pre-deceased), Harold of Little Current, Allan (wife Monique) of
Val Caron and Todd (wife
Kathy) of Little Current. Proud Grampa of Kimberly
KING,
Angela,
Allan Jr., Stephanie, Christina, Madelyn and Hannah. Proud Great Grampa of Melissa and Jessica.
Dearly loved brother survived by his sisters, Lizzie
CADA and Doris
CADA of Toronto, sister-in-law
Irene CORBIERE of M’Chigeeng and brother-in-law Justin
ROY of Mesa, Arizona.
Pre-deceased by sisters and brothers, Joyce ROY, Sadie
DEBASSIGE, Bernice
DEBASSIGE, Mary
LATIN,
Leonard CORBIERE, Clayton
CORBIERE, sister-in-law Eliza
CORBIERE, and brothers-in-law
Alfred CADA,
Joe
CADA, Ben
LATIN and Ernest
DEBASSIGE.
Ted was a part time Taxi driver and Suit Salesman also for many years.
After 36 years of service, Ted retired from Inco at the age of 57. After
retirement you often saw Ted operating his backhoe, enjoying every
moment. He loved fishing, moose and deer hunting with his nephews and
Friends. He was a great cardplayer and enjoyed spending time with his
family. Quite often, Ted enjoyed conversation in regards to the logging
days throughout the Manitoulin and Northshore district in his early teenage years.
Friends called at the M’Chigeeng First Nation Complex after 1: 00pm on
Wednesday, October 13, 2004. The funeral mass was celebrated at the
Immaculate Conception Church on Friday, October 15, 2004 at 11 am.
Interment in M’Chigeeng Cemetery. Officiating Priest Father Foliot S.J.
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KING o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2004-10-27 published
KING,
Barbara
--In loving memory of a dear Mother who passed away October 30, 2003.
Things are not the same,
The way they used to be
A void now fills the space,
Where your light used to be.
Your strength an inspiration,
Through suffering and pain,
You always had hope and faith
You never would complain.
Your heart warm and giving,
Your thoughtfullness and love,
Your happy smile, your kind words,
Are truly missed and often thought of.
Lovingly remembered, Jane and Ken.
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KING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2004-03-20 published
Alexander Gardner
WATSON
'Everyone said we'd never win'
How an Royal Canadian Air Force medical officer took a sad-sack
squad of airmen and built a team that brought home Olympic hockey gold
By Tom HAWTHORN,
Special to The Globe and Mail Saturday, March 20, 2004 - Page F11
Victoria -- He was a hockey enthusiast who turned a makeshift
team into world beaters. In 1947, Sandy
WATSON was a Royal Canadian
Air Force medical officer with an amateur's passion for hockey,
but within a year he had put together a squad of airmen that
overcame great odds to win an Olympic gold medal.
Dr. WATSON's part in the story of how the Royal Canadian Air
Force triumphed at the Olympics began with the announcement that
Canadian hockey officials had decided to skip the 1948 Winter
Games. The news so upset the doctor, who died late last year
at his home in Ottawa, that he vowed to create a team from scratch.
"When I read the headline saying we -- this great hockey nation
would not be sending a team, I was offended," he said. "And
I thought maybe I could do something about it."
The International Olympic Committee had adopted tough new rules
defining an amateur athlete. The Canadian Amateur Hockey Association
felt the new standard eliminated most senior players from the competition.
With the entry deadline just 48 hours away, Dr.
WATSON decided
on what he would later describe as a whim to build a team from
among fellow Royal Canadian Air Force members. The squadron leader
won approval from hockey officials and superior officers in two
frantic days of lobbying. Canada would take part in the Olympic
tournament after all. Now all he needed were some players.
The Royal Canadian Air Force's postwar enrolment of 16,000 promised
a wealth of hidden hockey talent. Dr.
WATSON had managed a series
of exhibition hockey games in England in the months following
the defeat of Germany, pitting the air force against the army.
The games featured such National Hockey League players as left-winger
Roy CONACHER, a sniper for Royal Canadian Air Force teams during
the war. Such professionals were ineligible for the Olympic team,
of course, so Dr.
WATSON knew the calibre of players would not be very high.
About 200 airmen were dispatched to Ottawa for a training camp
in October, 1947. The volunteers were mostly a sad-sack lot,
a shock for Dr.
WATSON and coach Frank
BOUCHER, an Royal Canadian
Air Force sergeant. Some could barely skate.
The team made its public debut in an exhibition game played at
the Auditorium in Ottawa on December 14, 1947. The opponents
were McGill University's varsity team, deliberately chosen to
offer minimal resistance. The air-force brass was in attendance,
as were senior hockey officials and the governor-general, Earl
Alexander of Tunis. To Dr.
WATSON's horror, the McGill Redmen
scored an easy 7-0 victory.
The newspapers were highly critical of the Olympic team. An all-Royal
Canadian Air Force team seemed a folly. Senior officers in the
air force could not have been happy about such a poor squad wearing
the Royal Canadian Air Force roundel on their sweaters. They
were likely to be embarrassed on the world stage.
Reinforcements were needed, so Dr.
WATSON went hunting.
"We just put the thing together overnight, almost," he told the
Medical Post in 1988. "Our guys had played together as a team
for something less than three weeks before we left. The goaltender
I never even met until we reached Europe."
Dr. WATSON's first move was to scout an Ottawa Senior League
game. The New Edinburgh Burghs beat the Hull Volants 6-2, with
five goals produced by a forward line of Reg
SCHROETER, Ab
RENAUD
and Ted HIBBERD.
Dr.
WATSON invited the trio to join his squad,
also taking former flying officer Frank
DUNSTER and Pete
LEICHNITZ.
Other players parachuted onto the team were defenceman Andre
LAPPERIERE, a student at the University of Montreal; forwards
George MARA and Wally
HALDER from Toronto; and, goaltender Dick
BALL, also from Toronto.
The recruits joined Louis
LECOMPTE, Pat
GUZZO, Irving
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Andy GILPIN, Roy
FORBES, Ross
KING, Orval (Red)
GRAVELLE and
Hubert BROOKS on a team called the Royal Canadian Air Force Flyers,
but whose military experience varied. While
HIBBERD and
LEICHNITZ
were civilians sworn into the Royal Canadian Air Force with the
rank of aircraftsman 1, Mr.
BROOKS, a flying officer, had been
a prisoner of war who escaped three times before joining Polish
partisans. He was awarded the Military Cross.
With the team preparing to embark for Europe, Dr.
WATSON faced
another crisis. Mr.
BALL, slated to be the starting goalie, failed
his physical with a lung infection. Facing another 48-hour deadline,
Dr. WATSON awoke Toronto bus driver Murray
DOWEY with a telephone
call at his home at 1 a.m. The practice goalie for the Toronto
Maple Leafs was willing to play, but would need a leave of absence
from his job. Dr.
WATSON convinced his boss, Allan
LAMPORT, a
future mayor of Toronto, in a phone call at 1: 30 a.m.
Mr. DOWEY was called back at 2 a.m. and told to report at Downsview
airport at 6 a.m. to catch an Royal Canadian Air Force plane
to Ottawa. The airport was fogged in that morning, so a sleepy
Mr. DOWEY caught a train to the capital.
His appearance did not immediately impress the team manager.
"Around noon a skinny, bedraggled kid, looking like something
dragged through a knot hole, arrived at my office," Dr.
WATSON
once told the Ottawa Citizen. "We swore him in the Royal Canadian
Air Force, got him kitted up with a uniform and he looked even worse."
The Canadians were given poor reviews by the European press.
A tie and a one-goal victory over lightly regarded English teams
did not auger well for the Flyers.
The round-robin Olympic tournament was held in an outdoor rink
at St. Moritz, Switzerland. In the opening game, Sweden scored
against Mr.
DOWEY after just two minutes and 35 seconds of play.
But the Canadian goalie would be the team's star and a crowd
favourite with his innovative use of a catching glove. Canada
beat Sweden 3-1, before rolling over Britain (3-0), Poland (15-0),
Italy (21-1) and the United States (12-3).
A scoreless tie with Czechoslovakia was followed by a 12-0 drubbing
of Austria. The gold-medal game was played against the Swiss
hosts on February 8. Dodging snowballs thrown by local partisans,
the Flyers won 3-0 to claim an unlikely gold medal and a place
in Olympic lore. Canada finished with seven wins and one tie.
Mr. DOWEY allowed just five goals in eight games for a miserly 0.62 average.
Two days later, Mr.
BROOKS married his Danish sweetheart, Birthe
GRONTVED, in a ceremony at a small church in St. Moritz. Barbara
Ann SCOTT, the Canadian figure skater who also became an Olympic
champion at those same Games, was the maid of honour and Dr.
WATSON was best man.
The Flyers barnstormed Czechoslovakia, France, Belgium, Sweden,
England and Scotland while overseas. They completed the European
tour, including the Olympic matches, with a record of 31 wins, five losses, six ties.
"Nothing in my life gave me the same thrill (as) organizing that
trip and then actually winning it," Dr.
WATSON said.
While something told him that Canada had a chance, few at home
believed it when the team set out.
"Everyone said we'd never win," he told the Medical Post. The
headline in the Ottawa Citizen the day they left summed up the
opinion of the sporting press: "The Flyers, like the Arabs, are
folding their tents and silently stealing away."
Alexander Gardner
WATSON was born on March 28, 1918, at Cellardyke,
a fishing village on the north shore of Scotland's Firth of Forth.
As captain of a minesweeper, his father had trawled for mines
during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. Long months spent fishing
the dangerous waters of the North Sea seemed unsuitable for the
father of a young family, so the
WATSONs moved to the Ontario
fishing village of Port Dover on Lake Erie when Sandy was a toddler.
A brilliant student, he spent a year studying at Queen's University
in Kingston, Ontario, before completing a medical degree at the
University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He won a scholarship to
Cambridge, where he earned a bachelor of surgery. He later studied
at Harvard and Columbia Universities in the United States.
An Royal Canadian Air Force wing commander during the war, Dr.
WATSON became in peacetime one of Canada's eminent ophthalmologists.
In 1967, he helped found the Sally Letson Foundation for post-graduate
training. He served as the foundation's executive director for 25 years.
He was chairman of the department at the University of Ottawa
medical school from 1968 to 1985. Dr.
WATSON was the driving
force behind the university's Eye Institute, which opened in 1992.
He was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1988.
Among his patients were a Parliamentary Guide's worth of notables,
from governor-general Jeanne
SAUVÉ to New Democratic Party leader
T.C. (Tommy)
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS. He treated prime ministers John
DIEFENBAKER,
Lester PEARSON, Pierre
TRUDEAU, Joe
CLARK and Brian
MULRONEY.
Dr. WATSON also became the eye specialist for the Montreal Canadiens,
a legacy of his desperate plea for assistance while putting together
the Royal Canadian Air Force team. The Canadiens contributed,
while Conn
SMYTHE of the Toronto Maple Leafs refused. (Major
SMYTHE was army, of course.) One young prospect examined by Dr.
WATSON was a gangly, teenaged goaltender who needed contact lenses.
Dr. WATSON reported the goalie's vision was good, and Ken
DRYDEN
would lead the Canadiens to six Stanley Cups.
Dr. WATSON, who retired in 1997, died at home in Ottawa of prostate
cancer on December 28. He leaves his wife, Patricia, sons John
and Alexander, and five grandchildren. He also leaves a sister,
Faye McVEAN. He was predeceased by a sister and a brother, who
drowned as a teenager.
His death came just 17 days after that of Mr.
BOUCHER, the coach,
who also died in Ottawa. They are survived by eight of 17 players.
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Roy Cecil KINSLEY
In loving memory of Roy Cecil
KINSLEY,
December 8, 1924 to December 20, 2003.
Roy KINSLEY, a resident of the Manitoulin Lodge, Gore Bay, passed away at the Mindemoya Hospital
on Saturday, December 20, 2003 at the age of 79 years.
He was born at Orangeville, and worked for the Region of Peel for many years.
Five years ago, Roy moved to Manitoulin and lived at Providence Bay with his daughter Peggy,
until moving to the Lodge about one year ago. Roy enjoyed fishing and
gardening. He had a tremendous green thumb, and had one of the best
gardens possible. He gave away most of the produce from his garden,
much to his Friends' and neighbours' delight. This was only a small
part of the way Roy lived his life. A man of many talents and gifts
and never complaining of illness or aches and pains, he lived a
simple but rewarding life. He enjoyed his time with family and
Friends and many precious memories will be cherished by Peggy and all who knew him.
Surviving is his wife
Arlene
(WILSON)
KINSLEY, loved and loving
father of Peggy
RUSSELL, husband Ted of Providence Bay.
Predeceased by brother Norman and an infant brother and sister.
Cremation will take place, followed by interment of ashes at Caledon in the spring.
Culgin Funeral Home
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