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BAWDEN,
Mollie
Eleanor (née
ROYLE)
Mollie Eleanor, peacefully, at home on Saturday, April 30, 2005,
with her family by her side. Mrs. Mollie Eleanor
BAWDEN (nee
ROYLE) of Kingston and formerly of Saint Thomas, in her 87th year,
after a courageous battle with cancer. Beloved wife of 61 years
to Walter BAWDEN.
Loving mother of William and his wife
Denise.
Cherished gramma to Sean. Loving sister of Amy
SPENCE (the late
Walter) of Toronto. Predeceased by a sister Florence
MURRAY and
a brother Jack
ROYLE. A public memorial service will be held
at Williams Funeral Home, 45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas on Wednesday,
July 6, 2005, at 11: 00 a.m. Memorial donations would be appreciated
to the Kidney Foundation of Canada.
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BAWDEN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-08-08 published
BAWDEN,
Walter
Walter BAWDEN
(Member of the Hi-Ro Shrine Club of Elgin and Life
Member of the Mocha Temple of London). After a brief illness,
at the Kingston General Hospital, on Friday, August 5, 2005 with
his family by his side, Walter, predeceased by his beloved wife
of 61 years, Mollie
(ROYLE)
BAWDEN
(April 30, 2005.) Loving father
of William and his wife Denise and cherished grandpa to Sean.
A Service of Remembrance will be held in our Chapel on Wednesday,
August 10, 2005 at 1 p.m. An Interment Service will be held in
the Union Cemetery, Saint Thomas, at a later date. For those wishing,
memorial donations to Knox Presbyterian Church, or Shriners'
Hospitals for Children would be greatly appreciated. In the care
of Gordon F. Tompkins Funeral Homes, Township Chapel, Kingston,
Ontario. 613-546-5150. Relatives and Friends are invited to sign
the Book of Condolences at www.gftompkinstownship.ca
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BAWDEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-15 published
Earl CAMERON, 89, voice of the National
News anchor retired in 1976
Was announcer at Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for 32 years
By Jim BAWDEN,
Television▼
Columnist,
Page
A18
Earl CAMERON was often called Canada's best-known anonymous man.
The onetime warehouse worker from Moose Jaw became Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation's "
Voice of Doom" when he replaced Lorne
GREENE on
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's national radio news in the
late 1940s and Larry
HENDERSON on The National in 1959.
CAMERON, 89, one of only seven men to anchor The National, died
Thursday in Royal Victoria Hospital in Barrie after a lengthy
illness.
Over the years,
CAMERON's uncanny resemblance to the mythical
"man-in-the-street" Canadian made him a well-respected television
figure. Television critic Bob
BLACKBURN wrote in 1965: "
CAMERON
is not just the image of Canadian Broadcasting Corporation news,
he is the cultivated image of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
itself: solid, patriarchal, Gibraltary!"
CAMERON took early retirement from Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
in 1976, at age 61 and after 32 years with the corporation. Throughout
his Canadian Broadcasting Corporation career, he had always been
officially a staff announcer. He remained one of the regular
newsreaders on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio's The
World At Six but had become disappointed over his decreasing
role on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television.
On his last day, he simply dropped off a note for his department
head and left for Florida. That was in keeping with a man who
was typically "quiet, not ostentatious" said CTV anchor Lloyd
ROBERTSON, who knew
CAMERON from his early days at Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation.
"I came to Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1954 and we were
required to do it all. A typical day for Earl involved reading
weather on radio, then hosting a radio jazz show, doing station
breaks, too. At 9: 30 he'd stroll over to Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation News' studio to begin script rehearsals for The National,
which went live at 11 p.m. He had to do it all, and he did so
calmly, rarely making a mistake. We were required to memorize
the pronunciation of difficult names and foreign words, and Earl
made it all seem very natural."
Born in 1915,
CAMERON ran the gamut of business training and
normal school in his Moose Jaw hometown. Local radio station
CHAB hired him as a summer replacement at $20 a month.
CAMERON said in 1966 that,1" got the best advice ever from my
first boss. He explained to me I was reading for just one person.
He said to go into a house, and you'll find one person listening
to a radio. Try to talk to just this one person."
CAMERON later moved to Winnipeg radio station
CKY for a year,
and in 1944 joined Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Radio in
Toronto, from which he rose to top anchor status.
In 1965 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation executives began publicly
grumbling that
CAMERON was doing too many outside commercials.
His association with Rambler cars and Crest toothpaste, though
allowed by the union contract, was unseemly for the voice of
The National, they said. Under intense pressure, he ended his
lucrative contracts.
His television star went into eclipse the next year, when he
was replaced as headliner of The National by Stanley
BURK/BURKE.
There was never any doubt about
CAMERON's announcing abilities
his reading was impeccable, but it was the system that was at
issue. He was dropped in an effort to break the union jurisdiction
which dictated that newsmen could write the scripts but announcers
could only read it on air.
Television critic Dennis
BRAITHWAITE wrote at the time: "The
national news didn't make Earl
CAMERON. He made the national
news."
CAMERON did not mention his departure on air. For his last broadcast
as announcer he simply said, "Now this is Earl
CAMERON, saying
goodnight for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Television News."
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation offered him a job as host of
the public affairs series Viewpoint, reading viewers' letters,
but that show was canned in 1976 after an 18-year run.
Retired, CAMERON moved his family to LeFroy, on Lake Simcoe.
He did commercials for American Motors and Krona margarine, golfed
daily and watched Global's 6 p.m. news.
His retirement didn't stop
SCTV from satirizing him and Lloyd
ROBERTSON as duelling, argumentative anchors Earl Camembert and
Floyd
Robertson in skits
CAMERON liked because "in this business
a little publicity always helps."
CAMERON leaves his wife, Patty; son, Hal; and three grandchildren.
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BAWDEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-07 published
'Mac' led heady days at
CHUM
Disk
Jockey
Bob
McADOREY as popular as music
'Bon vivant' later a Global television fixture
By Jim BAWDEN,
Television▲
COLUMNIST
Bob McADOREY helped usher in radio's rock 'n' roll era and set
the musical agenda for a generation of Toronto teens.
Few today realize the power that Disk Jockeys like
McADOREY exerted
over Toronto popular culture 40 years ago, when radio ruled.
It was a cozy time for music -- and then
CHUM entered the fray,
blew the cobwebs away and ushered in the crazy days of rock broadcasting.
McADOREY, 69, died Saturday at St. Catharines' Hotel Dieu hospital
after a long illness.
McADOREY grew up in Niagara Falls and attended Stamford Collegiate,
also the alma mater of Titanic director James
CAMERON. He was
in the same graduating class as Barbara
FRUM, the legendary Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation-television interviewer.
As a teen,
McADOREY won a province-wide public speaking contest
and was the popular president of his high school fraternity.
He also played ragtime piano.
"Crowds would go around him," said his older brother, Terry
McADOREY.
McADOREY's radio career started in 1953 when the Niagara Falls
native first signed on with
CHVC near the Falls, introducing
listeners to his unique style of easy-going patter.
"I looked like Buddy Holly back then,"
McADOREY told the Toronto
Star in a 1981 interview. "I weighed about 95 pounds and we played
songs like 'Que Sera Sera.' Everything was a lot softer, smoother
then."
After additional stops in London, Guelph, Hamilton and Dawson
Creek, McADOREY wound up at Toronto's
CHUM, coaxed to climb aboard
by resident star Disk Jockey Al
BOLISKA.
"I'd lived with Al above a variety store in London and he kept
telling me to come to
CHUM. I asked for $600 a month, after all
Gordie TAPP was making $100 a week, and to my surprise I got
the job."
Starting in 1960,
McADOREY began a stint that many people consider
rock programming at its finest: brash, spontaneous and pretty
wild. And the Disk Jockeys were the stars.
CHUM became the rock station to listen to and
McADOREY was the
man who told you if a song was going places. The guy who hung
out with The Beatles and The Stones when they were in town (and
introduced them from the stage) was known simply as "Mac."
For years, he hosted the all-important 4 to 7 p.m. slot.
CHUM's
chart of the week's top records was posted everywhere: in record
stores and high school lockers. Eaton's and Simpson's would only
stock those 45s that were on the
CHUM list. When a new record
called "The Unicorn" came in,
McADOREY liked it so much he immediately
put it on the air and it sold 140,000 copies in Canada in two
weeks and made The Irish Rovers.
Thinking back on those heady days,
McADOREY said, "We kept it
all clean up here. There was no payola as in the U.S. and we
deliberately helped a lot of Canadians. It was personality radio.
We were promoted like crazy back then. And the pressures were
unbelievable. We dictated what records were going to go. And
what kids would eat, drink.
"I could have written five books about what happened at
CHUM.
There'd be one book if I saved my memos. The most frightening
thing was the British invasion. There weren't enough cops to
handle the crowds -- it was out of control."
Off the air, he was a bon vivant, said 72-year-old Terry
McADOREY.
"We did a lot of drinking. He was a good friend of Ronnie
HAWKINS."
In 1968, the
CHUM deal fizzled. When owner Al
WATERS brought
in American consultants,
McADOREY felt the business was becoming
too heavily formatted and left.
McADOREY headed to
CFGM in Richmond Hill, which was trying to
invade Toronto with a country music format. As morning man, he
energized the station. He moved to
CFTR in 1970 and after a few
years returned to
CFGM.
A constant listener was Bill
CUNNINGHAM, head of Global television
news, and he asked
McADOREY to contribute satirical bits, which
eventually became a full-time job.
Sample segment: during an airline strike
McADOREY headed out
to Terminal 2 with bowling equipment and pins to demonstrate
the building was only of use as a bowling alley. Royal Canadian
Mounted Police officers saw nothing funny in this and whisked
him out as the piece was being filmed.
Another time during a city campaign to get dog owners to scoop
up deposits,
McADOREY and a cameraman went out to do field tests,
which consisted of chasing terrified dogs whose owners had failed
the test.
By 1980, he was entertainment editor. In 1983, Global tried to
fire him when he disagreed over assignments. Global's Three Guys
at noon telecast was a big hit (the others: Mike Anscombe and
John Dawe) and hundreds of daily phone calls forced management
to reconsider. For a time, Global even outperformed Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation's Midday.
McADOREY later got his own afternoon entertainment show where
he'd report from movie junkets and comment on the entertainment
scene.
I last chatted with him in 2000 when he was railing against Global's
retirement-at-65 rule. But he looked frail and had been off for
months after a fainting attack.
McADOREY had a farm at Gormley and a place in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Despite his television success he still yearned for the golden
days of radio: "I'd walk into the booth in pyjama tops and jeans
and talk one-on-one to people. At least that's the way I always
imagined it."
McADOREY leaves daughter Colleen, her husband Jim
TATTI, a Global
sports broadcaster, and four grandchildren.
He was predeceased by his wife Willa, daughter Robin and son
Terry.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Patrick's
Church in Niagara Falls.
With files from Gabe
GONDA
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BAWES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-24 published
PEARCEY,
Eleanor
Gertrude - Estate of
Ontario Superior Court Of Justice
at 3 Dominion Street, Bracebridge,
Ontario P1L 2E6
Notice To: Debbe
BLANEY, Betty
BAWES, Myrna
GREER/GRIER, Sherry
MOVITTIE,
Linda SPEEDIE, Carylon
NELSON, Paul
LYNN, Danny
LYNN, Jeane
TOTTEN,
Pat TOTTEN
Re:
The
Estate Of Eleanor Gertrude
PEARCEY
An application has been commenced for directions re: the estate
of Eleanor Gertrude
PEARCEY at the Court located at 3 Dominion
Street, Bracebridge, Ontario P1L 2E6.
The next court date is May 9th, 2005 at 10: 00 a.m. or as soon
as possible after that time at 3 Dominion Street, Bracebridge,
Ontario P1L 2E6.
The court may make an order in this case that will affect your
rights in relation to any and all claims you may have against
the estate of Eleanor Gertrude
PEARCEY.
You can get more information
about this case from the Court Office at the above address. You
may also get information about this case from Hugh A.
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Sugg, Fitton and Taylor LLP, 5 Chancery Lane, Unit #1, Bracebridge.
Ontario P1L 2E3. 1-705-645-5211, Solicitors for Barry Howard
LYNN.
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BAWN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-01 published
MARSHALL,
Margaret
Bawn (née
AUSTIN)
90, Chester, died September 13, 2005 in Surf Lodge, Lockeport.
Born in Toronto, the daughter of Alfred Henry and Margaret
BAWN)
AUSTIN.
Margaret is survived by her daughter Dorothy "Dolly"
(Jim) DIMITROFF,
Chester, son Austin (Margaret)
MARSHALL, Yellowknife,
grandchildren Kelly, Jayme (Connie)
DIMITROFF,
Allison and Sean
MARSHALL.
Predeceased by her husband John Fraser, sisters, her
twin Dorothy and Edna. Memorial service will be 11 a.m. Friday,
October 7th, 2005 in Chester United Baptist Church with Rev.
Dan GREEN officiating. Burial at a later date. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the Chester United Baptist Church Building
Fund. Arrangements entrusted to Davis Funeral Home, Chester,
Nova Scotia (902-275-3811).
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BAWN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-29 published
YOUNG,
Marie
Ann
Passed away at St. Joseph's Health Centre on Sunday, March 27,
2005. Beloved wife of the late James
YOUNG. Dear son of Ronnie
YOUNG.
Loving grandmother of Jimmy, Carol, Carley and Ronnee
and great-grandmother of Michael, Sarah and Rebecca. Survived
by brother Glen
BAWN and predeceased by brothers Harold, Roy
and Jack BAWN.
Loved by many nieces and nephews. A Service of
Remembrance will be held at the Turner and Porter "Yorke" Chapel,
2357 Bloor St. W., Toronto, at Windermere, east of the Jane subway,
on Saturday, April 2, 2005 at 3 p.m. with visitation beginning
at 2 p.m. For those who wish, donations may be made to the charity
of your choice.
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