ARBAJI
ARBANAS
ARBEAU
ARBESS
ARBING
ARBOGAST
ARBOUR
ARBUCKEL
ARBUCKLE
ARBUS
ARBUTHNOT
ARBAJI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-07 published
Cabbies slain
Taxi drivers killed in Toronto since 1988:
April 21, 2003: Mohamad Nakib
ARBAJI, shot to death while trying
to prevent a robbery at a Morningside Ave. convenience store.
December 30, 1999: Mohammadullah
SAIGHANI, his throat slashed
in the parking lot of an Etobicoke factory, the victim of a love triangle.
February 25, 1993: Robert
NANCOO, found slain in the front seat
of his cab in a North York driveway.
December 10, 1991: Norman Washington
ENNIS, shot twice in the
head during a robbery; found beside his cab on Eglinton Ave. W.
July 1, 1991: Anthony
EKUNAH, found stabbed to death in his car
on Rondeau Dr. in the Steeles Ave. E. and Leslie St. area.
July 24, 1990: Leo
HENNINGHAM, beaten with a baseball bat after
a dispute with another driver over a customer in front of a Weston
Rd. supermarket.
October 6, 1988: Baljeet
SINGH, stabbed to death in an apparent
robbery near Jane St. and Finch Ave. W.
September 25, 1988: Michael
MARCH, shot in an apparent robbery
at Airport and Derry Rds.
July 20, 1988: Wolsey
FRASER, shot in an apparent robbery at
Runnymede Rd. and St. Clair Ave. W.
Compiled by Astrid Lange, Star Library
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ARBANAS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-26 published
ARBANAS,
Hildegard (née
BRENK)
Born on September 1, 1924 in Germany, Hildegard passed away peacefully
but unexpectedly on April 25, 2005 at the hospital. Beloved wife
for 50 years to Branko
ARBANAS.
She will be sadly missed forever.
There was never a more good-hearted, generous and always happy
woman with such a warm smile and beautiful eyes. Oh dear God,
how I will miss you. The Funeral Service will be held at Pine
Hills Visitation Chapel And Reception Centre (625 Birchmount
Road, north of St. Clair Ave. E., 416-267-8229), on Thursday,
April 28, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. with visitation one hour prior.
Burial and reception to follow.
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ARBEAU o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-31 published
LAINE,
Ensio "
Edvard
Oskar"
Peacefully at Scarborough General Hospital on March 28th, 2005
in his 84th year, husband of his beloved late wife, Asteri. Father
of Sinikka and her husband Al
AUGUSTYN,
Marjatta and her late
husband Glen
ARBEAU,
Kristiina and her husband Larry
MARTIN,
Paivikki and her husband Rick
MARSHALL,
Eine and her husband
Erkki IIVONEN and the late Harri and Leena. Paappa of Mia (John,)
Samuel (Cyndi), Trevor (Laurelle), Corey, Kirsi (Kevin), Matti
(Trisha), Owen, Kristofer (Jaclyn) and Liisa. Iso Paappa of Sebastien,
Sohvi, Isabella, Daniel, Elijah, and Erika. Well respected Scarborough
General Hospital employee for 25 years. Fondly remembered by
relatives and Friends in Canada and Finland. 'Tavataan Taivaassa
Isi ja Paappa' Resting at the Paul O'Conner Funeral Home, 1939
Lawrence Avenue East (between Warden and Pharmacy) from 12 p.m.
noon on Saturday, April 2 until time of service in our chapel
at 1 p.m. Interment Pine Hills Cemetery. Donations may be made
in Ensio's memory to The Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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ARBESS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-07-11 published
CLARK,
Gerald
Of Montreal, peacefully in his sleep on Thursday, July 7, 2005.
Foreign correspondent, author, editor of the former Montreal
Star.
Loving husband of Barbara Brown
BOURKE, devoted father
of Dr. Bette
CLARK, and father-in-law to Dr. Todd
SACKTOR, grandfather
to Rose and
CLARK.
His step-daughter, Julia
BOURKE, husband John
SHAW and children, Emory and Olivia, will miss him greatly as
will his many Friends. Predeceased by his sisters Judith and
Ruth and his brother, Harry; by wives Rosalie
ARBESS and Ruth
LEOPOLD.
Funeral service from Paperman and Sons, 3888 Jean Talon
West. Burial at Temple Emmanuel Cemetery, Mount Royal, Monday,
July 11, 10 a.m. Shiva private. in lieu of flowers please send
donations to the Shriners Hospital for Children, 1529 Cedar Avenue,
Montreal H3G 1A6.
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ARBING o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-28 published
Mom, 2 kids slain
Nine-year-old girl escapes ordeal to call police
By Kelly PEDRO,
Free
Press
Crime
Reporter
A terrified, barefoot nine-year-old girl frantically knocked
on neighbours' doors to get help for her mother and two siblings
held hostage yesterday by a man inside an east London home.
By the time gunfire subsided at 682 Princess Ave., four people
were dead, two police officers were shot and a city was in shock
over the slayings of a woman, her 13-year-old daughter and five-year-old
son.
Police didn't identify the victims yesterday.
But relatives confirmed that Halina
CZUBA, her 13-year-old daughter,
Julia, and five-year-old son, Michal, died after gunfire erupted
at their house just east of Adelaide Street about 2: 30 a.m.
The body of a man also was found inside the home. The province's
Special Investigations Unit said the man, who hasn't been identified,
died of a gunshot wound.
Halina's husband, Jan, is a trucker who was in the United States
at the time of the deadly shooting.
"Jan is just devastated. He's in shock," Dominik
SZYMANSKI, a
relative who tutored the children, said yesterday. "They were
all bright kids. It's just unbelievable that this could happen."
What happened inside the house is still a mystery.
"This is a very large tragedy, the details of which will unfold
in the days to come," Const. Jeff
ARBING said.
The couple's third child, nine-year-old Joanna
CZUBA, knocked
on at least three neighbours' houses trying to help her family.
"She knocked on our door, it was a panicked knock," said a neighbour,
who didn't give her name.
When the woman's husband went outside to check who was at the
door, he saw Joanna with neighbours.
The child called 911 at 2: 25 a.m. to report someone was beating
her mother.
Two minutes later, two police officers approached the front door
when a shotgun blast from inside blew a hole through it, striking
one officer in the shoulder and arm and grazing another officer's
face.
The officers returned fire, the Special Investigations Unit said.
It's unclear whether the unidentified man died of a self-inflicted
gunshot or from the exchange with police.
Joanna and the neighbours were still outside when shots were
fired and police ordered them into the neighbour's Elizabeth
Street house.
Joanna was petrified but unhurt, the neighbour said.
"I took her in the kitchen, sat her down and rubbed her back,"
the woman said. "She saw what (the gunman) was doing to her mom."
Joanna didn't recognize the gunman, the woman said.
Neighbour Ron
HARPER said he heard a sharp knock on his door
about 2: 30 a.m., but didn't think much of it.
"Then I heard five shots and someone yell, 'I'll kill them all,'
" he said.
When HARPER looked outside, he saw police hitting the house with
a battering ram.
"The next thing I know, I saw them (the officers) running back
with two kids. They were pretty limp," he said.
"When they put them in the ambulances, the ambulances didn't
leave right away so I don't think they made it."
Dan and Tammy
STROM were sleeping when police pounded on their
door and used the location to monitor the brown brick bungalow
across the street.
Heavily armed tactical officers told the couple and their two
frightened children to go to the basement and keep their heads
down, Dan STROM said.
"It was a little nerve-wracking," he said. "The police were in
and out and then I heard, 'Freeze! London police."
A 13-year veteran and rookie with one year on the force were
injured by the shotgun blast. The constables were taken to hospital
and later released.
"They were shaken, but relieved," police Chief Murray
FAULKNER
said of the officers' families. "This is one of these situations
where as a husband, wife or partner of a police officer, you
dread the call."
The Special Investigations Unit was called in to investigate
the man's death. London police are investigating the homicides
of the woman and her two children.
Neither the Special Investigations Unit or London police were
releasing many details about the four deaths.
"You have to understand this was not the usual man-with-a-gun
call," FAULKNER said. "Police entered because we are sworn to
protect life, so that's why the incident wrapped up quicker than
normal."
Police have been to the address before, sources confirmed, but
would not say why.
Dan STROM said his neighbours, the
CZUBAs, were a quiet, friendly
Polish family who didn't speak much English. They had lived at
the house for about 15 years.
Besides the shot officers, two tactical officers were treated
for smoke inhalation after a small fire, believed to be arson,
broke out.
London police called in counsellors to speak to colleagues of
the injured officers,
FAULKNER said.
All day a London detective worked alongside an Special Investigations
Unit investigator, carefully documenting the scene. Blood marks
could be seen on the front porch. Some windows of the home were
shattered.
Just before 9 a.m., a detective and uniformed officer brought
out the family's pet -- a trembling dachshund puppy.
Police evacuated homes one street north of Princess on Elias
Street. Neighbours were told it was because of a gas leak and
saw Union Gas on scene.
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ARBING o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-29 published
Troubled husband faces charge in Cambodian woman's slaying
By Randy RICHMOND,
Free
Press
Reporter
Tired of the voices in his head, Ngeab
KHIN was heading to his
homeland of Cambodia tomorrow to get spiritual help.
His wife, Yorn
MEY, was travelling with him. After surviving
civil war in Cambodia, refugee camps and a bout with throat cancer
seven months ago, she was willing to help her husband on his
journey.
Instead, yesterday,
KHIN, 49, was charged with second-degree
murder in the death of his wife
MEY, 49.
And their two sons are left with a family torn apart.
"I don't have a mom or dad now. I don't know what to do," said
son Soeun KHIN, 23, yesterday.
"They got their luggage packed and by the door and this is what
happened. My mom survived war and throat cancer and now this."
It was the second slaying in London within 24 hours.
While the deaths of four people Monday on Princess Avenue drew
hordes of media and police, only a line of yellow police tape
and two cruisers on a quiet stretch of Chippewa Drive bore witness
to yesterday's slaying.
Police were called about 12: 05 a.m. to 1081 Chippewa Dr. and
found MEY dead.
There were signs of trauma to her body, but the cause of her
death hasn't been determined, said London police Const. Jeff
ARBING.
Police stressed they had not recorded any other incidents of
domestic violence at the address before.
But they would release little other information until a post-mortem
expected today.
Neighbours could reveal little about the family or shed light
on what happened.
"To me they were just a nice old couple," said Laura
GILLIAN,
who lives across the road.
But behind the trim shrubs and inside the tidy-looking grey brick
bungalow, there had been signs of trouble.
"He just started to get some different ideas in his mind," said
the family's minister, Reverend Mom
PEIN of the New Apostolic Church
in London.
PEIN gathered family members at his home yesterday. While one
son, Samnang, 20, went to identify his mother's body, Soeun tried
to understand what went wrong.
"It happened after my grandmother, his mother, died, two or three
years ago," Soeun said. "He (my dad) started becoming delusional.
He believed he was a prophet."
The family went along until things got out of hand.
They tried to get
KHIN help, but he refused. He believed he would
die if he got medical help, Soeun said.
The family went to police, who suggested they find a doctor.
They called an ambulance to the door about a year ago, but
KHIN
refused to go.
"He used to hide the knives because he thought we were going
to hurt him. He thought he was the okay one and we were all wrong,"
Soeun said.
The family had fled Cambodia's civil war in the late 1970s and
ended up in Thailand, where Soeun was born.
They arrived in Canada about 20 years ago. His mother and father
found jobs at Cuddy Food Products, though both were on compensation
because of physical injuries, Soeun said.
In the past few months, the stress of his father's mental illness
was getting worse, Soeun said.
Monday evening,
KHIN got up to work the overnight shift at Lamko
Tool and Mould in London and saw his father. "He was just sitting
in his chair. That's all he's been doing for the past couple
of months."
His father figured he could get help in Cambodia for the voices
in his head.
Soeun's wife sat on
PEIN's front porch yesterday and, between
sobs, called Friends in Cambodia who had been expecting to meet
her in-laws at the airport.
"Her own mother died three years ago. Three months later, we
got married and she got a new mom," Soeun said.
"They were very close. Now she is going through this again."
His wife was the first to learn about the slaying, coming home
from work yesterday morning to see police tape outside the house.
She called Soeun at work and he rushed home.
"It just blew me away. He is a really good dad."
The couple lived in the home with their parents and younger brother.
"I don't know if I can stay after what happened," Soeun said.
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ARBING o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-28 published
Four die in shooting at London family home
By Timothy
APPLEBY,
Tuesday,
June 28, 2005, Page A7
A quiet residential street in downtown London, Ontario, exploded
into violence early yesterday, a melee that ended in a shootout
with police and a house fire that left four people dead and four
police officers injured.
The house is owned by a long-distance trucker and his wife. Police
were summoned by a 911 call placed by one of the family's three
young children from a neighbour's house. Local media reported
that the couple's nine-year-old daughter placed the call.
When police entered the house, the girl's mother and two siblings
and the gunman were dead.
The province's Special Investigations Unit, which examines all
deaths and serious injuries involving police, released no names.
It was unclear who the gunman was.
Neighbours, however, confirmed that the modest Princess Avenue
bungalow was occupied by John
CZUBA, his wife and their children.
The family emigrated from Poland several years ago, said Andrew
KRALKA, who lives directly across the street.
The father was believed by local residents to have been driving
through the United States when the family members were killed.
"It's all been a big shock for us; this is very tragic," Mr.
KRALKA said.
Alerted at 2: 25 a.m. by the 911 call reporting an assault in
progress, police arriving at the household were met by gunfire
that struck two of the officers.
Police returned the fire, but authorities would not say whether
the gunman, later found dead inside the house from a single gunshot
wound, was killed by a police bullet or had committed suicide.
Both wounded officers were shot in the upper body but were wearing
body armour, and both were released from hospital yesterday.
The couple also had a 13-year-old daughter and a five-year-old
son.
London
Police
Constable Jeff
ARBING would say only the 911 emergency
call "came from a child, from a different location," adding that
in 15 years of police service, "a homicide of this magnitude
is something I haven't personally seen."
Neighbours recounted scenes of chaos. "I heard a quick 'Bang,
bang, bang, bang' -- four shots. It sounded like firecrackers
accompanied by a whole lot of police sirens," said David
STEVENS,
who was watching television at his home when the violence erupted
across the street.
"Then there was a second series of shots, about five minutes
later."
Amid scenes of shouted confusion, nearby residents retreated
to their basements for safety.
During the 20-minute confrontation, a fire also broke out at
the home, but it was unclear whether it stemmed from smoke grenades
that tactical officers threw in, or another source. Two police
officers were later treated in hospital for smoke inhalation.
"There was grey smoke just pouring out of the house," Mr.
STEVENS
said. Other neighbours described seeing police running down the
street with children in their arms, carrying them toward waiting
ambulances.
Both in their 40s, Mr. and Mrs.
CZUBA owned the home and had
lived there for several years.
Local residents described the family as courteous but introverted,
spending time with other Polish-Canadians instead of their immediate
neighbours.
Mr. CZUBA is often away and sometimes parks his rig on the street,
Mr. KRALKA said.
"They don't really associate with people on the street," said
another neighbour. "When we first moved here the kids were allowed
to play with the other kids, but then they weren't, and the kids
didn't go out any more.
"It makes me sad."
As to what triggered the violence, "That I'm not sure of," Constable
ARBING said.
"That's an honest answer. I don't know what we have here."
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ARBOGAST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-05-07 published
ARBOGAST,
Robert▼
E.▼ "
Bob,▼"
P. Eng.
Ottawa-born, a long-time resident of Baie d'Urfe, Quebec and
Hawkesbury, Ontario. Passed away peacefully at the age of 80
at North York General Hospital on Thursday, April 28, 2005, after
a brief illness. Dearly loved husband of Grace for 54 years.
He will be sadly missed by his sister Doris and her husband Ron
FRAZER and his sister Carol
FORSTER (late husband Jack) and an
abundance of nieces and nephews. Much loved father of Janet and
her husband Michel, Sandy and her partner Anne, Gord, and Brian
and his wife Valerie. He is also survived by his many grandchildren
Jean Sebastien, Stefan Michel, Jamie, Samantha, Shannon, Chantal,
Dominic, Brynn and Marley. Special thanks to the staff at North
York General Hospital for their care and tremendous kindness.
A service was held at Chapel Ridge Funeral Home in Markham. In
Bob's memory, donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
or a charity of your choice.
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ARBOGAST o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-07 published
ARBOGAST,
Robert▲
E.▲ "
Bob,▲" P.Eng.
Ottawa-born, a longtime resident of Baie d'Urfe, Quebec and Hawkesbury,
Ontario. Passed away peacefully at the age of 80 at North York
General Hospital on Thursday, April 28, 2005, after a brief illness.
Dearly loved husband of Grace for 54 years. He will be sadly
missed by his sister Doris and her husband Ron
FRAZER and his
sister Carol
FORSTER (late husband Jack) and an abundance of
nieces and nephews. Much loved father of Janet and her husband
Michel, Sandy and her partner Anne, Gord and Brian and his wife
Valerie. He is also survived by his many grandchildren, Jean
Sebastien, Stefan Michel, Jamie, Samantha, Shannon, Chantal,
Dominic, Brynn and Marley. Special thanks to the staff at North
York General Hospital for their care and tremendous kindness.
A service was held at Chapel Ridge Funeral Home in Markham. In
Bob's memory, donations may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
or a charity of your choice.
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ARBOUR o@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2005-06-01 published
JOHNSTON, "
Nikki"
David
James
At his home in Rock Mills, after a lengthy battle with cancer,
on Wednesday May 25, 2005 in his 51st year. Devoted husband and
best friend of Marg
SANDERSON.
son of Mel (special friend Marg
PARKS) and the late Mabel
JOHNSTON.
Loving stepfather of Vanessa
DAVIES. Dear brother of Nancy (Rob)
ARBOUR of Everett and Brenda
(Jeff) LITTLE of Rosemont. He will always be loved and remembered
by his nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and Friends. The family
received Friends at the Fawcett Funeral Home, Flesherton on Friday
May 27. Services were held at the funeral home chapel on Saturday
May 28. Interment Salem Cemetery. Memorial contributions to the
Centre Grey Health Services Foundation, the Canadian Cancer society
or the charity of your choice would be gratefully appreciated.
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ARBOUR o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-10-01 published
ARBOUR,
Douglas
D.
In his 69th year on Wednesday September 28, 2005 at the University
of Ottawa Heart Institute after a brief illness. Beloved husband
of Jean (née
GIBSON,) brother of Bob and wife
Liz of Burlington,
son of Francis of Chatham and predeceased by father Sid of Tecumseh.
Owner operator of Arbour's Chatham Ambulance from 1956-1975,
Doug continued his Emergency Medical Services career with the
Ministry of Health for more than 25 years. Doug was a councilor
for the City of Chatham, then Chatham-Kent for almost 30 years
and chairman of Chatham Police Services Board for 10 years. He
was a member of the Ontario Ambulance Operators Association and
made an honourary life member in 1995. Doug was also a member
of the Great Lakes International Antique Fire Apparatus Association
(Great Lakes Chapter S.P.A.A.M.F.A.A. Inc.) and current president
of Box 42 Detroit, Michigan. Over the years, Doug received many
honors. The Chatham Jaycees honoured Doug in 1970 as "Outstanding
Young Man of the Year" and the Windsor Jaycees recognized Doug's
accomplishments in 1996. Doug also received the Order of St.
John Priory in 1973 and the Governor General's Exemplary Service
Medal in 1995. The family will receive Friends and relatives
on Sunday, October 2, 2005 from 2-5 and 7-9 p.m. at Bowman Funeral
Home, 4 Victoria Avenue, Chatham (519-352-2390). Public visitation
will also take place Monday, October 3, 2005 at the church from
10: 00 a.m. until the time of service. Funeral Services will be
held from St. Paul's Congregational Church (475 Park Ave, Chatham)
at 1: 00 p.m. Interment will follow at Maple Leaf Cemetery. Memorial
contributions may be directed to the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Online condolences made be made at www.obituariestoday.com
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ARBOUR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-07 published
ARBOUR,
Denis
Roy
(April 7, 1982-February 4, 2005)
It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden death of
Denis. Loving
son of Cathy and Dan
ARBOUR, dear brother of Daryl.
He will be greatly missed by his grandmother and best friend
Beverly GILMOUR.
Denis also leaves behind his grandparents Mae
and Bernard
ARBOUR,
Gary and Beula
LANIGAN and great-grandmother
Violet NELSON "
Nana." He will be sadly missed by his aunts and
uncles Kelly and Peter
HARPLEY,
Jim and Janis
LANIGAN, Robin
and Ed PANKHURST,
John and Diane
ARBOUR, and by all his cousins
and Friends. Friends are invited to visit the family at the Gordon
A. Monk Funeral Home Ltd., 127 Main Street, P.O. Box 427 Minden,
K0M 2K0 (1-888-588-5777), on Monday evening from 7-9 p.m. Funeral
Service will be held in the Chapel on Tuesday, February 8, 2005
at 11: 00 a.m. Spring interment at Twelve Mile Lake Cemetery,
Carnarvon. Memorial donations to the Toronto Western Hospital
Hand
Clinic
(Dr. Linda
DVALI) or to the charity of your choice
would be appreciated by the family.
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ARBOUR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-11-20 published
ARBOUR,
Frances (née
BOROWSKI)
After a long and full life, suddenly on Friday, November 18,
2005 at the age of 88. Loving mother of Arthur, Lynda, Carolyn,
Michael, Kenneth and Paul. Mother-in-law of Beverley, Michael,
Margaret, Noriko and Janice. Grandma of Marc, Adrienne, Deirdre,
Rachel, Joy, Andre, Elizabeth, Gregory, Seira, Leyna, Hannah,
Dylan, Caitlin and Brenna. Sister of Carrie, Stan and Lisa. Loving
and generous auntie to the Arbour/Borowski/Bielawski clan, cherished
neighbour to Friends on Hiscock Blvd., active member of St. Rose
of Lima parish. Fran loved gathering the family around the pool,
volunteering at St. Barbara's School, playing euchre at the Seniors'
Club, driving them to Mass, tending her garden, cooking, watching
Canadian Football League football, enjoying weekly movies with
the girls and visiting family in Quebec, Detroit and Japan. Resting
at the Paul O'Conner Funeral Home, 1939 Lawrence Ave. E. (Between
Warden and Pharmacy) from 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday, November 20
and Monday, November 21. Funeral Mass at St. Rose of Lima Church,
3216 Lawrence Ave. E. on Tuesday, November 22 at 10: 30 a.m. Interment
Mount Hope Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made
to Canadian Food for Children, 40 King Georges Rd., Toronto.
M8X 1L3 or Rosalie Hall, 3020 Lawrence Ave. E., Toronto, M1P
2T7.
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ARBOUR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-13 published
ARBOUR,
Evelyn
Rose (née
CROSSEY)
At St. Joseph's Health Centre on Sunday, December 11, 2005. Cherished
mother to Kathryn
HILL,
Patricia
PIPHER, John
ARBOUR (Karen,)
Kevin ARBOUR (Cathy), Debra
PETERS (Rick) and Karen
ARBOUR (Bruce).
Adored grandmother to David, Jacqueline, Samantha, Kristine,
Allison, Jason, Christopher, Michael, Kaitlin and Sarah and great-grandmother
to Hailey. Sister to Jack
CROSSEY,
Pat
MILLETTE (Richard,)
Norah
NEEDHAM, Marie
THIMM (Ed), Maureen
BROWN and Joe
CROSSEY (Gloria).
Survived by many other family and Friends. Predeceased by parents
Patrick and Evelyn
CROSSEY, and brothers Des and Ted. She will
be forever missed. Friends will be received at the Ridley Funeral
Home, 3080 Lake Shore Blvd. W. (between Islington and Kipling
Aves., at 14th Street, 416-259-3705) on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and
7 to 9 p.m. Complete service in the chapel Thursday at 11 a.m.
Cremation. Messages of Condolence may be placed at www. RidleyFuneralHome.com.
"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the
dying of the light."
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ARBUCKEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-13 published
MOFFAT,
James
Unexpectedly, on Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at Sunnybrook Health
Centre, in his 73rd year. Survived by his wife
Janet
(ARBUCKEL)
MOFFAT.
Will be missed by his children Ann, William, Gladys,
James, Una, John, Janet and their partners. Loving Papa to 15
grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Friends may call at
the Murray E. Newbigging Funeral Home, 733 Mount Pleasant Road
(south of Eglinton) on Friday, January 14, 2005, from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. A private family service will be held. Interment at
Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
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JAMES,
Thomas "
Tom"
Frederick
Thomas "
Tom"
Frederick
JAMES of Saint Marys, suddenly at Saint Marys
Memorial Hospital on February 28, 2005 in his 64th. year. He
was born in London, Ontario on August 29, 1941,
son of the late
Frederick T.
JAMES and Edna May
JAMES
(ARBUCKLE.)
Tom was a dedicated
employee of the Saint Marys Cement Plant from 1963 to 2002. Tom
is survived by his wife
Kathleen
JAMES
(KING,) whom he married
in 1962; his brothers Alan
JAMES of Terrace Bay and Nat
JAMES
and wife Pearl of Wellington, his children Lynda
WILSON and husband
Todd of Elmira, Travers
JAMES and wife
Niki of Granton and grandchildren
Lydia and Amilya
WILSON.
Family and Friends will be received
at the Andrew L. Hodges Funeral Home, 47 Wellington St. South,
Saint Marys (519-284-2820) on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. The
Funeral Service will be conducted at St. James Anglican Church
on Church Street, Saint Marys on Thursday March 3, 2005 at 11 a.m.
Interment in Saint Marys Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made
to the charity of choice.
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ARBUCKLE,
Stevenson and Doris
In loving memory of a dear father, Stevenson, who passed away
April 8, 1948 and a dear mother, Doris, who passed away November
17, 1992. To some you may be forgotten, To others part of the
past, But to us who loved and lost you, You will always be in
our hearts, Always in our memories. We love and miss you Tom,
Clare and family.
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Alice MILNES
By Arthur Herbert
MILNES,
Monday,
June 6, 2005, Page A16
Grandmother, mother, friend. Born August 26, 1906, in Toronto.
Died May 11 in Pickering, Ontario, of old age, aged 98.
'Oh that's good."
Those were my 92-year-old Grandmother's words on Christmas Eve
of 1999. She'd just taken a long drink of rye -- topped with
a splash of soda water -- we'd handed her to celebrate the season.
After that first sip, she looked out over my kitchen at three
of her nine grandchildren, tipped her glass and tossed back another.
Nanny was born in Toronto in 1906 and spent almost all of her
life living near the thoroughfare called The Danforth in Toronto.
She vowed she'd never burden her children by moving in with them
in old age. (Her mother-in-law had done that and it was an experience
she said she wouldn't revisit on anyone.) She kept her vow, living
on her own in her tidy apartment until old age forced her into
a long-term care facility at age 96.
She and Grampa spent many years on Rhodes Avenue and her neighbours,
Nel and Jack
ARBUCKLE, became so close they even chose to have
cottages side by side. In later years, Nel and Jack's daughter,
Marge, and her husband, John, did so much to help allow Nanny
to keep visiting her cottage, with countless gestures that personified
Friendship.
While she never went past primary school, she read constantly
throughout her life -- how she loved her mysteries -- and it
was a matter of pride for her that all three of her children
Bill, Joan and Herb Jr. -- became educators.
Nanny and Grampa -- Herbert
MILNES, my grandfather, who died
in 1983 -- had a cottage near Bluewater Beach, north of Toronto.
As a child, I'd spend hours playing cards with her there and
she'd tell me story after story of life in Toronto during days
gone by. My favourite? Her account of the Royal Visit of 1939.
I never got tired of hearing about the crowds and the flags and
her description of the Queen; I must have heard a thousand times:
"She was so beautiful, Art." In 1989, I happened to be working
at Queen's Park when that beautiful Queen -- by now the beloved
Queen Mum -- returned to Toronto to mark the 50th anniversary
of that historic visit. I left my office and watched the Queen
Mum from the crowd. When I returned home that night, the first
thing I did was call to tell my grandmother where I'd gone and
whom I'd seen.
"You know that flag," she said to me out of the blue one day
in the late 1980s, while I was raising Canada's Maple Leaf for
her at the cottage, "Your Grandfather always put it up but we
used to call it 'Pearson's dish-rag.' "
That comment aside, I never heard her express many political
views but I knew she followed the news and politics faithfully.
Last summer we asked former Prime Minister Brian
MULRONEY if
he'd help us mark our matriarch's birthday. He did just that,
sending Nanny a handwritten letter.
"I learned that you will be turning 98 this weekend," Mr.
MULRONEY
wrote. "What a marvellous milestone in life and Mila joins me
in conveying our warmest congratulations and best wishes for
many more. Have a rye and soda on me!"
She broke into a big smile as she sat surrounded by family as
that letter was read to her.
"Who did you say that was from?" she asked.
And she just nodded and grinned in a way I'd never seen before.
Above all else, my Nanny loved being the centre of attention
and Mr. MULRONEY's letter was icing on the cake. I detected from
her the belief that all former prime ministers should be honouring
her. Why wouldn't they, she seemed to say by her grin.
She was Alice
MILNES -- a feisty yet gentle Iron Lady -- and
she knew it.
Arthur MILNES is the grand_son of Alice
MILNES.
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ARBUCKLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-01 published
James GUILLET,
Chemist and Teacher: (1927-2005)
University of Toronto professor figured out how to produce polymers
that will degrade or break down plastic litter in sunlight, writes
Sandra MARTIN. He discovered he could 'make it disappear'
By Sandra MARTIN,
Saturday,
October 1, 2005, Page S7
A "green" chemist, James
GUILLET was fascinated by photosynthesis
in plants and the wonders that nature could create with solar
light and water. He wanted to mimic the function of natural systems
in his laboratory.
As a scientist, he was a pioneer in establishing photochemistry
and photophysics of the polymer system as an important and separate
discipline in chemistry. As an inventor, he used his scientific
discoveries in practical applications for human and environmental
benefit. During his lifetime he registered more than 100 patents,
including a process for making plastics (such as foam coffee
cups and fast food clam-shell containers) decompose in sunlight,
and an agricultural mulch film That smothers weeds during the
growing season and then breaks down into the soil in the winter.
Although he was honoured as a scientist, he did not see his progressive
ideas widely embraced by industry and government in this country.
On the contrary, he was frustrated by self-interested environmentalists
and paper manufacturers who lobbied against the industrial use
of his "man-made plastics."
He was revered by colleagues and students, many of whom called
him "the Boss" and came from around the world to work with him.
"He was not the professor with blinders on his eyes who could
only see science," says his Polish colleague Maria
NOWAKOWSKA.
He loved opera and theatre, growing orchids, swimming and sailing
at the family cottage he designed and built nearly 50 years ago.
James Edwin
GUILLET was born into an academic Toronto family
his father, Edwin, was a prominent historian and the author
of Early Life in Upper Canada, among many other books. They lived
in the Annex neighbourhood of the city before moving to the suburbs
when Jim was 12. Summers were spent with their Ohio relatives
at on Horseshoe Island in Stoney Lake near Peterborough.
Musician Sue
POLANYI went there, too, as a child because her
father was the Anglican Minister at the rectory on the island.
"He was immensely handsome as a young man," remembers Ms.
POLANYI,
and he "grew up to have a grip on business like no other chemist"
because he "wasn't a dreamer -- he was a practical man."
After attending Huron Street School, young Jim
GUILLET went to
the University of Toronto Schools and then the University of
Toronto. He joined the campus camera club, winning first prize
in a photography contest judged by Yousuf
KARSH, with a black
and white picture called "Valley of the Shadows" that he had
taken of the rocks in the creek at the bottom of his parents'
East
York home. Prof.
GUILLET always attributed his success in
finding summer jobs at Eastman Kodak to his early passion for
photography.
He graduated from the University of Toronto with an honours degree
in physics and chemistry in 1948. Unable to find a job in Canada,
he began working fulltime as a research chemist for Eastman Kodak,
first, in Rochester and, then, in Kingsport, Tennessee.
During the day, he worked on new types of graft and block copolymers
but spent his evenings enjoying the company of Helen
BIRCHER,
a young university graduate from Nashville, Tennessee., who had
recently moved to Kingsport to work for the Girl Scouts. "It
was a very small town and everybody knew everybody and we had
a ball," she said, "dating and hiking and parties and church."
They were married in 1953 in Nashville.
The next year, the
GUILLETs went to Saint John's College, Cambridge,
in England. Rationing was still in effect, the best form of transport
was a bicycle, and they found lodging in a thatched cottage.
He studied under R.G.W. Norrish, a future Nobel laureate, earning
his Ph. D in photochemistry in 1955. Twenty years later, the
university honoured him with an Sc. D, a doctor of science.
After
Cambridge, the
GUILLETs went back to Kodak in Kingsport,
where all four of their children were born. James worked as senior
research chemist and later research associate in charge of polyolefin
research before joining the chemistry department at the University
of Toronto as an associate professor in 1963. At the time, he
had 30 U.S. patents and had published 20 scientific papers.
John POLANYI, a future Nobel laureate in chemistry, was on the
hiring committee. "He had a great string of patents to his name
and we worried that he wasn't going to fit into academe," he
remembered, noting the cultural disparities between industry
and the "ivory towers."
Fears that Prof.
GUILLET's approach might be too commercial proved
groundless. In 1969, he was promoted to full professor and named
professor emeritus in 1991. "His bent was to do academic science
and to figure out why things happened the way they did, rather
than how useful they were," said Prof.
POLANYI. "He warned all
the time against letting the applications of science dominate
the university agenda."
At the time, polymer chemistry wasn't a particularly sexy field.
That changed largely because of Prof.
GUILLET's work. Hearkening
back to his early interest in light and shadow in photography,
Prof. GUILLET's main areas of research involved studying the
way polymers react to light. Polymers are large molecules made
from smaller and simpler molecules. They can be artificial, such
as plastics, or natural, such as proteins and
DNA.
Before his
time, people were interested in how light reacts with small molecules
and he advanced the science with large molecules.
This research led to one of his most important discoveries: how
to produce polymers that will degrade or break down in sunlight.
In other words, a potential antidote to much of the world's litter
problems.
In true scientific fashion, the solution came to him while he
was working with his students on the opposite problem: creating
a polymer that is resistant to the sun's rays. Electrical wires,
which are insulated with plastic, have to be replaced every so
often because the sun rots the plastic, making it useless as
an insulator.
In 1969, while Prof.
GUILLET was working on developing sun-hardy
polymers, he went on vacation with his wife Helen to Andros Island
in the Bahamas. Disturbed by the litter floating ashore from
cruise ships, he realized he could "make it disappear," according
to Mrs. GUILLET.
All he had to do was to create polymers that
were less resistant to ultraviolet rays from the sun.
And of course he did. He registered three patents for photodegradable
polymers in 1970, assigning the rights to the U of T. That same
year, he started a high-tech company called EcoPlastics to manufacture
ecolyte bio-cyclic plastics. The company, which also did contract
research on tar sands and greenhouse films, was never able to
raise the necessary capital in Canada. A Dutch deal collapsed
after the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries oil
crisis of the 1970s. About 50 per cent of EcoPlastics was acquired
by a American entrepreneur in 1986.
Instead of a stock-market bonanza for the U of T, Prof.
GUILLET
was awarded a Lindbergh Grant worth $10,000 in recognition of
his efforts to create a better balance between technology and
the environment. He and a colleague were also awarded a gold
medal and Canada's patent number 1,000,000 for inventing photodegradable
plastics. Some years later, a cynical Prof.
GUILLET observed,
"It is perhaps a measure of the government's commitment to science
and technology that the medal turned out to be gold plated!"
During his career, James
GUILLET published nearly 300 scientific
papers and wrote 80 patent applications. He founded two other
companies besides EcoPlastics. Medi-Pro Sciences Ltd., which
was incorporated in 1976, did research on artificial skin and
medical applications of plastics. Solarchem Corporation (1984)
tried to develop pharmaceuticals and specialty chemicals for
pollution control using sunlight as the primary energy source.
He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada and awarded a Guggenheim
Fellowship in 1981, a Killam Research Fellowship in 1987 and
the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science in
1999. During his career, he supervised 28 Ph. D. theses, 26 masters
degrees and 50 post-doctoral fellows and research associates.
He immersed himself in the lives and problems of his students
and the scientists who came from around the world to work with
him. "I thought he was a wonderful person who cared about his
students and would spend hours and hours tutoring them if they
were having a problem," says Susan
ARBUCKLE, his secretary since
she moved here from California in 1971.
That sentiment was echoed by John
FRASER,
Master of Massey College
at the U of T, who called on Prof.
GUILLET a number of times
to mentor troubled science students. "He was just incredible,"
said Mr. FRASER. "He knew what their log jam was and who they
should speak to." He also gave the college two Paul Kane portraits
that had belonged to his father.
One of his research associates was Maria
NOWAKOWSKA, now vice-rector
for research and international relations at Jagiellonian University
in Krakow, Poland. Back in the early 1970s, Prof.
NOWAKOWSKA,
then a Ph. D student, went to an international conference in
Prague, one of the few places she could visit before the fall
of communism. Prof.
GUILLET, who was the keynote speaker, spoke
with her after her presentation because he "always had the idea
to approach young people who needed his hand and his help," Prof.
NOWAKOWSKA said by telephone from her home this week.
He invited her to work in his lab, a trip she couldn't make for
15 years because of work and family commitments and the hurdles
erected by the state to keep her from defecting to the West.
She says his lab, then, was the best in the world in photophysics
and photochemistry and "supervisors were fighting" to find places
for their students "to work with Jim
GUILLET."
She arrived with no luggage, no place to stay, no computer, and
almost no cash, so Prof.
GUILLET took her home where she was
treated as a member of the family and given a bed until she found
a place to live. It was the beginning of an international collaboration
that continued until his death. Working with him was like being
in "a volcano of ideas," she said. "People respected him and
each other."
She met with him for the last time before Prof.
GUILLET underwent
heart surgery in August. Even in hospital he was still encouraging
her to pursue new patents on natural polymers and publish the
results.
James Edwin
GUILLET was born in Toronto on January 14, 1927.
He died September 23, 2005, from complications following successful
bypass surgery. He is survived by his wife, two siblings, four
children and nine grandchildren.
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ARBUCKLE,
Caroline
Louise
(QUERENGESSER)
Peacefully, at the Guelph General Hospital, on Monday, May 9,
2005. Caroline
(QUERENGESSER)
ARBUCKLE in her 92nd year, was
the beloved wife of the late Reverend John Andrews
ARBUCKLE (1996.)
Dear mother of James and his wife Nancy of Baden, Bill of Guelph,
and Rob and his wife Elizabeth of Kitchener. Loved grandmother
of David and his wife
Cielo,
Amy and her husband Bill
BRADLEY,
Brett, and the late Michael and his wife the late Alana. Great-grandmother
of Austin, Joshua and the late Kennedy. Resting at the Gilbert
Maclntyre and son Funeral Home, "Dublin Chapel", 252 Dublin Street
N., Guelph where the family will receive Friends on Tuesday evening
7-9 p.m. Visitation will also take place at St. Paul's Lutheran
Church, 210 Silvercreek Pkwy. N., Guelph on Wednesday, May 11,
2005 from 10-11 a.m. A Funeral Service will take place at 11: 00
a.m. Interment at St. Peter's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Brodhagen.
As expressions of sympathy, and in lieu of flowers, donations
to St. Paul's Lutheran Church Memorial Fund would be appreciated
by the family. (Cards available at the funeral home 519-822-4731
or send condolences at www.gilbertmacintyreandson.com)
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ARBUCKLE,
Natalie
Suddenly after a brief illness surrounded by her loving family
on Monday, June 13th, 2005. Predeceased by her husband Jack and
granddaughter Jennifer. Natalie will be deeply missed by her
children Valerie (Ralf
JARCHOW) and Warren (Sarah,) grandchildren
Natasha, Robyn, Alyssa, Megan, Christian, Helena and Scott and
her extended family and Friends. Friends may call at St. Andrew's
Presbyterian Church, 1579 Royal York Road on Thursday from 12
noon until service time at 2 p.m. Interment Sanctuary Park Cemetery.
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GORD,
Nancy▼
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at Baycrest Hospital. Nancy
GORD
beloved wife of Marvin, loving mother and mother-in-law of Sharon
ARBUS,
Lisa▼ and Izy
HEMI, Jemmie and Neil
SILVER and the late
David Jay GORD. Dear sister and sister-in-law of Dorothy and
Frank SANELI,
Betty▼ and Ken
McKREAVIE, Joan
McMULIN. Devoted
grandmother of Debbie
ARBUS,
Paul▼
ARBUS, Adam and Colleen
ARBUS,
and Rachel, Jason and Michael
HEMI, and Aaron, Joel and Daniel
SILVER and great-grandmother of Ben. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Ave., W. (3 lights west of Dufferin) for
service on Thursday August 18 at 3: 00 p.m. Interment Pardes Shalom
Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations may be made to Nancy
Gold Memorial Fund c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst
Street, Toronto M6A 2C3 416-780-0324.
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GORD,
Nancy▲
On Wednesday, August 17, 2005 at Baycrest Hospital. Nancy
GORD
beloved wife of Marvin, loving mother and mother-in-law of Sharon
ARBUS,
Lisa▲ and Izy
HEMI, Jemmie and Neil
SILVER and the late
David Jay GORD. Dear sister and sister-in-law of Dorothy and
Frank SANELI,
Betty▲ and Ken
McKREAVIE, Joan
McMULIN. Devoted
grandmother of Debbie
ARBUS,
Paul▲
ARBUS, Adam and Colleen
ARBUS,
and Rachel, Jason and Michael
HEMI, and Aaron, Joel and Daniel
SILVER and great-grandmother of Ben. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Ave. W. (3 lights west of Dufferin) for
service on Thursday, August 18 at 3: 00 p.m. Interment Pardes
Shalom Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations may be made to
Nancy Gold Memorial Fund c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst
Street, Toronto M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324.
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O'HARE,
John
John died suddenly at home on Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at age
68. John leaves his much loved wife Frances and his daughter
Leslie (Scott
LIPPETT) and son Danny (Tammy.) He treasured the
time he spent with his cherished grandchildren Sarah, Matthew,
Brady and Dylan. John was predeceased by his sister Mary Alice
(Lloyd DUNN) and his sister Kathleen (Hank
SHERWOOD.) He will
be greatly missed by his surviving siblings Danny, Margaret (Don
MacKAY,)
Jean
(Jim
ARBUTHNOT) and Jim (Liz.) He will also be
missed by his sister-in-law Elizabeth
ADAM/ADAMS
(Pat) and Monica
SCHEPENS
(Eugene.) He left a legacy of love to many nieces and
nephews and numerous Friends. Visitation at the Low and Low Funeral
Home, Uxbridge, 23 Main Street South (905-852-3073) on Sunday,
June 26, 2005 from 2: 00 to 4:00 p.m. Funeral Mass to be held
at Saint Mark's Catholic Church, 345 Glad Park Avenue, Stouffville
on Monday, June 27, 2005 at 11: 00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society and the Heart and
Stroke Foundation.
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