FACCA
FACCHIN
FACCHINATO
FACCHINI
FACCIOLO
FACELLA
FACEY
FACHINE
FACHNIE
FACIANO
FACKENHEIM
FACTO
FACY
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FACCA,
Armando
(Born in Azzano Decimo, PN, Italy on September 2, 1920) Peacefully
at the York Central Hospital on June 1st, 2005. Loving husband
to Rosina. Cherished father to Tina and her husband Michael
VIEL,
and Edy and his wife Carmen. Devoted Nonno to Lisa, Stephen,
Christine, and Mark. Armando will be sadly missed by all his
family and Friends. Family and Friends will be received at the
Demarco Funeral Visitation Centre (8003 Weston Road, between
Hwy. 7 and Langstaff Rd., 905-850-9500) on Friday, June 3, 2005
from 2-4 and 6-9 p.m. Funeral Mass will be held at St. David's
Roman Catholic Church (2601 Major Mackenzie Dr.) on Saturday,
June 4, 2005 at 9: 30 a.m. Interment to follow at Beechwood Cemetery
(7241 Jane St.). If desired, donations may be made to the York
Central Hospital Foundation. The family would like to express
a special thank you to all the staff of York Central Hospital
for their care and compassion.
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FACCHIN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-15 published
FACCHIN,
Giovanni
Anthony
Peacefully at Parkwood Hospital on Monday, March 14, 2005 Giovanni
Anthony, beloved husband of Elena
FACCHIN, in his 77th year.
Dear father of Edda
BISCARO and her husband Louis. Beloved grandfather
of John-Paul and Justin. Dear brother of Norina (Tita)
BOZ of
Italy. Predeceased by his brother Egidio. Brother-in-law of Domenic,
Peter and Andrea
BORTOLUSSI.
Also survived by his nieces, nephews
and cousins. Visitors will be received at John T. Donohue Funeral
Home, 362 Waterloo Street at King Street, on Wednesday from 2-4
and 7-9 o'clock. Funeral Mass at Saint Martin of Tours Church,
46 Cathcart Street, on Thursday at 12 noon. Interment in St.
Peter's Cemetery. Donations to the London Regional Cancer Centre
would be appreciated.
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FACCHIN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-04 published
FACCHIN,
Silvano
At London Health Sciences Centre -University Hospital on Thursday,
June 2, 2005 Silvano
FACCHIN beloved husband of Marina
FACCHIN.
Loving father of Tamara, Rina and Mauro
FACCHIN. Dear brother-in-law
of Albina FACCHIN of London, Pierina DE
VECCHI,
Aurelia
AUDREUZZI
and Domenico
DEL
BIANCO all of Italy. Predeceased by his parents
Rina and Tomasso
FACCHIN, his brother Germano
FACCHIN and by
his sister-in-law Catina
DEL-
PIN.
Silvano will be sadly missed
by many nieces, nephews, cousins and Friends in Canada and Italy.
Visitors will be received at the John T. Donohue Funeral Home,
362 Waterloo Street at King Street, on Sunday evening from 7-9
o'clock. Funeral Mass at St. Joseph's Church, 89 Charles Street
on Monday morning at 11 o'clock. Cremation. In lieu of flowers
donations to the London Regional Cancer Centre or the Canadian
Diabetes Association would be appreciated. "Mandi Papa"
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FACCHINATO o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-11-29 published
FACCHINATO,
Rinaldo "
Ron"
Vittorio
At Alexandra Marine and General Hospital on Saturday November 26,
2005, Rinaldo (Ron) Vittorio
FACCHINATO of Goderich in his 72nd
year. Beloved husband of Klara
FACCHINATO. Dear father of Alan
(Debbie) FACCHINATO of R.R.#2, Clinton, Richard (Rachelle)
FACCHINATO
of Benmiller, Linda
FACCHINATO of Toronto and Gina (Mark)
BURBINE
of Saltford. Grandfather of Marcel, Rylan, Erika Brooklyn, Dominic
and Bryce. Also survived by brother Renzo of Windsor, sisters
Rina and Annamaria, both of Italy, and several nieces and nephews.
Predeceased by son Steven (1962) and daughter Monique (1981).
Visitation will be held at McCallum and Palla Funeral Home, Cambria
Rd. at East St. Goderich on Friday from 7-9 p.m. A Memorial Service
will be held at the Funeral Home on Saturday, December 3, 2005
at 1 p.m. Cremation has taken place. Donations to the Heart and
Stroke Foundation gratefully acknowledged.
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FACCHINI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-10-25 published
DE FRANCESCO,
Michael▼
Joseph▼
(Born October 6, 1978) Sault College Graduate From Aviation Technology,
Past Flight Instructor With Island Air And Past Co-Pilot With
Adler Aviation
Died tragically on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at age 27 years.
Michael will be missed by his loving parents Fred and Angie,
his sister Mary-Ellen and her husband Joseph
FACCHINI, his grandparents
Maria DE FRANCESCO, and Joseph and Filomena
TROIANO and by everyone
who knew him. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter 'Peel'
Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street, Mississauga (Hwy. 10 North of Queen
Elizabeth Way) from 6-9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday. Funeral
Mass will be held on Friday, October 28, 2005 at 10 a.m. from
St. Michael's Cathedral, 65 Bond Street (at Shuter) Toronto.
Entombment Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill. For those who wish,
memorial donations may be made to the Trillium Health Centre
Foundation - Mental Health Care Unit. We'll miss you son.
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FACCHINI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-27 published
DE FRANCESCO,
Michael▲
Joseph▲
Born October 6, 1978 (Sault College Graduate from Aviation Technology,
past Flight Instructor with Island Air and past Co-Pilot with
Adler Aviation) Died tragically on Sunday, October 23, 2005 at
age 27 years. Michael will be missed by his loving parents Fred
and Angie, his sister Mary-Ellen and her husband Joseph
FACCHINI,
his grandparents Maria DE
FRANCESCO (the late Mike,) and Joseph
and Filomena
TROIANO and by everyone who knew him. Friends may
call at the Turner and Porter "Peel" Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street,
Mississauga (Hwy. 10 North of Queen Elizabeth Way) from 6-9 p.m.
Wednesday and Thursday. Funeral Mass will be held on Friday,
October 28, 2005 at 10 a.m. from St. Michael's Cathedral, 65
Bond Street (at Shuter) Toronto. Entombment Holy Cross Cemetery,
Thornhill. For those who wish, memorial donations may be made
to the Trillium Health Centre Foundation - Mental Health Care
Unit. We'll miss you son
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FACCIOLO o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-11-26 published
FACCIOLO,
Anna
Died peacefully at her home on Friday, November 18, 2005, in
her 83rd year. Loving wife of Ferdinando
FACCIOLO.
Beloved mother
of Tony and his wife Vikki, Mary and her husband Dominic, and
Joe and his wife Toni. Dear grandmother of Fernando, Anna, Filomena,
Vince, Fernando, Rosanna, Melissa, Amanda, and Ashley. Anna was
born in Stefanaconi, Italy on September 1st, 1922. Resting at
the Blessed Virgin Mausoleum, Holy Cross Cemetery, Thornhill.
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FACELLA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-20 published
SMITH,
Carmen (née
FACELLA)
Peacefully passed away on Monday, September 19, 2005 at Sunrise
of Richmond Hill, in her 94th year. Carmen, devoted wife for
66 years to John
SMITH.
Loving mom of Joan and her husband Ian
MOONEY,
Ian and his wife
Janice, and Bruce and his wife Tanya.
Cherished nanny of Jennifer, Gregory and his wife Joanne, Jim,
Michael, Shannon, and Kimberly and "greatnanny" of Cody, Alex,
and Andrew. Dear great aunt of Janet and her son Philip. A very
special lady who will be greatly missed by all of her family
and Friends. A memorial service to be held at a later time and
date. Condolences may be made at www.rskane.ca.
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FACEY o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2005-01-25 published
BERNIER,
Gladys
Patricia
(HIRSCHFELD)
At the Grey Bruce Health Services, Owen Sound, on Sunday, January
23rd, 2005. Gladys
(HIRSCHFELD)
BERNIER, of Tobermory, in her
72nd year. Beloved wife of Roland
BERNIER. Dear mother of Roland
and his wife, Sandy, of Whitby, Belinda
BRADLEY and her husband,
Wayne, of Oshawa, Kathy
BERNIER of Newcastle, Judy
FACEY and
her husband, Nick, of Oshawa and Anna
LOVEMAN and her husband,
John, of Port Hope. Cherished grandmother of thirteen grandchildren
and two great-grandchildren. Also survived by two brothers and
eight sisters. Predeceased by one son, Gary and one brother.
The family will receive Friends at the George Funeral Home, 430
Mary Street, Wiarton, on Wednesday, from 2: 00 to 4:00 and 7:00
to 9: 00 p.m. The funeral service will be conducted from the funeral
home on Thursday, January 27th at 11: 00 a.m. with Father Steve
LACROIX officiating. Cremation to follow. Spring Interment of
cremated remains at Dunk's Bay Cemetery, Tobermory. Donations
to the Tobermory Clinic or the Lion's head Hospital would be
appreciated by the family. Condolences may be sent to the family
at www.georgefuneralhome.com
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FACEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-01-08 published
GRAHAM,
Donald
Nixon "D.N."
It is with great sadness that his family announces Don
GRAHAM,
in his 87th year, peacefully entered into his eternal rest on
Thursday January 6th, 2005 at the Brantford General Hospital.
Don was the beloved husband of Ruth (née
FACEY) for 57 years
and loving father of Linda
McGUFFIN
(David,)
Windsor,
Barbara
WOOD (Philip), Dundas, Jean
FARHOOD (Wayne), Waterloo, Eleanor
GRAHAM (Henry
VOGELSANG), London, Peter (Veryan), England, Stanley
(Tracy), Delhi, and John (Luraine), Ottawa. He was always interested
in the lives of his 16 grandchildren, Scott (Tracy), Aimee and
Sarah McGUFFIN,
Eric
(Melissa) and Andrew
WOOD, David (Cheryl)
and Stephen
FARHOOD, Jonathan, Tatiana, David and Imogen
GRAHAM,
Nicole, Lesley and Duncan
GRAHAM,
Ian and Katherine
GRAHAM. He
had one great-grandchild Ethan
FARHOOD.
Don has two surviving
sisters, Dorothy
ABRAHAM
(Bill) of Petrolia and Isobel
HUGHES
of Ilderton. He was predeceased by his parents Peter L. and Grace,
his brothers George and Stanley and sisters Gladys
WELCH and
Marjorie PETRIE. He will also be sadly missed by many nieces,
nephews and Friends.
Don was the Agricultural Representative in Brant County from
1950 - 1983 and since retirement remained very active in the
community, in the Rotary Club, the Probus Club and as a faithful
member of Heritage United Church (formerly Colborne Street, Brantford
United Church). Friends will be received at the Beckett-Glaves
Family Funeral Centre, 88 Brant Ave., Brantford on Saturday January
8th, and Sunday January 9th from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Service
will be held in the Chapel at Beckett-Glaves on Monday January
10th at 1: 00 p.m. Reverend Randall
MacKENZIE
Officiating.
Cremation.
If wished, donations to the Heritage United Church, 360 Colborne
St. or Canadian Foodgrains Bank, P.O. Box 767, 400-280 Smith
Street, Winnipeg Manitoba, R3C 2L4 would be appreciated. A tree
will be planted for Don in the Beckett-Glaves Memorial Forest.
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FACEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-06-15 published
SIMKINS,
Edward "
Ted"
Arthur
Edward "Ted" Arthur of Saint Thomas and formerly of Kitchener on
Tuesday, June 14, 2005, at the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital,
in his 85th year. Beloved husband of Carmel E.
(LAFONTAINE)
SIMKINS
and dearly loved father of Dianne E.
(SIMKINS)
MARTIN and her
husband Bruce of Saint Thomas. Dear brother of Josephine
FACEY
(Stanley) of R.R.#1 Saint Marys. Loved grandfather of Katherine
(Shaun) SHIVERS, Susan (Rollie)
CAMERON and John (Tracey)
MARTIN
and great-grandfather of Alyssa and Andrew
MARTIN,
Tyler and
Grace CAMERON and Lindsey and Robert
SHIVERS.
Sadly missed by
several nieces and nephews. Ted was born in Owen Sound on October
19, 1920, the
son of the late Sydney and Grace
(FITZGERALD)
SIMKINS.
He has lived in Saint Thomas the past 3 years and formerly of Kitchener.
He was retired from the furniture industry. Ted was a member
of Saint Anne's Church. He served 6 years in the military in Med.
Field Regiment (Artillery). He was a member of the Canadian Legion
Branch 6, Owen Sound and a member of the Kitchener Knights of
Columbus Council 1505. Resting at Williams Funeral Home, 45 Elgin
Street, Saint Thomas until Friday morning and then to Saint Anne's Church
where Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11: 00
a.m. Interment to follow in Holy Angels' Cemetery. Prayers will
be recited at the funeral home on Thursday at 4: 00 p.m. Visitation
Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Remembrances may be made to the
Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital Foundation or charity of choice.
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FACEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-08-01 published
FACEY,
Walter
E.
Peacefully at the Wildwood Care Centre Saint Marys on Sunday July
31, 2005. Walter E.
FACEY a life long resident of West Nissouri
Twp. age 85 years. Beloved
son of the late Denzil and Alice
HALL)
FACEY. Dear brother of Elva and Austin
TIMMS of Bryanston. Dear
uncle of Marlene and Doug
TUCKER,
John and Karen
TIMMS, Shirley
and Jeff BAKER and Linda and Jerry
JONGENEELEN and their families.
The late Walter
FACEY will rest at the L.A. Ball Funeral Chapel,
7 Water St. N. Saint Marys on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where a
private family service will be held on Wednesday August 3, 2005.
Interment will follow in Saint Marys Cemetery. In his memory donations
to the Canadian Diabetes Association or the charity of one's
own choice would be appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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FACEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-02 published
FACEY,
Sheila▼
Barbara▼
Peacefully at home on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 in her 76th year.
Beloved wife of the late Harry G.
FACEY. Dear mother of Maralyn
and Dennis
LESKI,
Patricia▼ and David
MIZZAU, Brian
FACEY and
Angela KANE and the late Cheryl
FACEY.
Loving▼ grandmother of
Claire, Raya, Evan and Jake. Dear sister of Elizabeth and her
husband Arthur
BROOKER and the late Robert
DOWNIE.
Fondly▼ remembered
by nieces, nephews and many dear Friends. Devoted member and
treasurer of Islington United Church, United Church Women Her
compassion for others, her ability to see the brighter side of
life and her courage will long inspire those who have known her.
Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Butler Chapel, 4933 Dundas
Street West, Etobicoke (between Islington and Kipling Avenues),
from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Thursday.
Funeral Service at Islington United Church, 25 Burnhamthorpe
Road on Friday, March 4, 2005 time to be confirmed. Interment
Westminster Cemetery. If desired, donations may be made to the
Canadian Cancer Society.
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FACEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-02 published
FACEY,
Sheila▲▼
Barbara▲▼
Peacefully at home on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 in her 76th year.
Beloved wife of the late Harry G.
FACEY. Dear mother of Maralyn
and Dennis
LESKI,
Patricia▲▼ and David
MIZZAU, Brian
FACEY and
Angela KANE, and the late Cheryl
FACEY.
Loving▲▼ grandma of Claire,
Raya, Evan and Jake. Dear sister of Elizabeth and her husband
Arthur BROOKER and the late Robert
DOWNIE.
Fondly▲▼ remembered
by nieces, nephews and many dear Friends. Devoted member and
treasurer of Islington United Church, United Church Women Her
compassion for others, her ability to see the brighter side of
life, and her courage will long inspire those who have known
her. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Butler Chapel, 4933
Dundas St. West, Etobicoke (between Islington and Kipling Aves.)
from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Thursday.
Funeral Service at Islington United Church, 25 Burnhamthorpe
Rd. on Friday, March 4, 2005, time to be confirmed. Interment
Westminster Cemetery. If desired, donations may be made to the
Canadian Cancer Society.
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FACEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-03 published
FACEY,
Sheila▲
Barbara▲
Peacefully at home on Tuesday, March 1, 2005 in her 76th year.
Beloved wife of the late Harry G.
FACEY. Dear mother of Maralyn
and Dennis
LESKI,
Patricia▲ and David
MIZZAU, Brian
FACEY and
Angela KANE, and the late Cheryl
FACEY.
Loving▲ grandma of Claire,
Raya, Evan and Jake. Dear sister of Elizabeth and her husband
Arthur BROOKER and the late Robert
DOWNIE.
Fondly▲ remembered
by nieces, nephews and many dear Friends. Devoted member and
treasurer of Islington United Church, United Church Women Her
compassion for others, her ability to see the brighter side of
life, and her courage will long inspire those who have known
her. Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Butler Chapel, 4933
Dundas St. West, Etobicoke (between Islington and Kipling Aves.)
from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Thursday.
Funeral Service at Islington United Church, 25 Burnhamthorpe
Rd. on Friday, March 4, 2005, time to be confirmed. Interment
Westminster Cemetery. If desired, donations may be made to the
Canadian Cancer Society.
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FACHINE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-03-15 published
FERGUSON,
Hector
Raymond
On Monday, March 14, 2005 in his 94th year, beloved husband of
Mabel
Ann (née
McDONALD) for 57½ years.
son of the late Thomas
J. FERGUSON and Lavina (née
FACHINE.)
Predeceased by his brother
Clarence and wife
Reta
FERGUSON, their daughter Carol and grand_son
Jason BERENDS, his sister-in-law Margaret McDonald
HUNKING.
Hector
will be fondly remembered by Margaret's husband Elmer, by nieces
and nephews, Ann (Ken)
WEATHERALL,
(John)
BERENDS, Gordon
(Anne)
FERGUSON, Lorne (Susan)
FERGUSON, Neil (Ann)
HUNKING, Glen (Lois)
HUNKING,
Bruce
(Donna)
HUNKING and many great and great-great-nieces
and nephews. Uncle Hector, as he was known to many, will be missed
by his extended families - the Ron Allen family and the Phyllis
Rumple family. Friends and family may call at the McMillan and
Jack Funeral Home, Dundalk, on Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
A Service to celebrate Hector's life will be held in the chapel
on Thursday, March 17, 2005 at 2 p.m. Spring interment in Badjeros
Cemetery. If desired, donations in his memory to the charity
of your choice would be appreciated.
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MARSHALL,
John "
Jack"
John "Jack"
MARSHALL.
Entered into rest in Centre Grey Hospital,
Markdale on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 in his 61st year. Jack
MARSHALL, beloved
son of the late Gordon and Violet
MARSHALL
and dear brother of Muriel (Bob)
MARSDEN of Brooks, Alberta,
Dorothy DOLSON of Durham, Helen (Roger)
MILLER of Innisfil, Marie
FACHNIE (Kevin
CURTIS) of Dundalk, Lynda
MARSHALL (Mike
HEINTZMAN)
of Stayner and a brother-in-law John
TRUDGEON of Dundalk. Predeceased
by a brother Robert
MARSHALL and a sister Ina
TRUDGEON.
Rested
at the McMillan and Jack Funeral Home, Dundalk where visitation
took place on Saturday. Service was held in the chapel on Saturday,
April 30, 2005 at 1 p.m. Interment in Dundalk Cemetery. Donations
to the charity of your choice would be appreciated.
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FACIANO,
Lillian "
Lya"
Suddenly on Tuesday, August 9, 2005, at Humber River Regional
Hospital,
Church
Site. Lya
FACIANO, predeceased by her parents
Antonino and Giuseppa
FACIANO. Survived by her sisters Santina
FACIANO,
Rose
COSENTINO and her husband Joseph, and brother Anthony
FACIANO. Dear aunt to Linda and Michael
COSENTINO, and loving
great-aunt to Marc and Christopher. Friends will be received
at the Lynett Funeral Home, 3299 Dundas St. West (one block east
of Runnymede) Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Mass of Christian Burial
will be held Friday, August 12, at 10 a.m., from All Saints Church,
1415 Royal York Rd. (at LaRose). Interment Mt. Peace Cemetery.
If desired, donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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FACKENHEIM o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-02-01 published
Richard OUTRAM,
Poet 1930-2005
Writer who was a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation stagehand
by day viewed the world in a grain of sand. A private and intensely
emotional man, his devotion to his art was nourished by a lifelong
love of his wife, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Tuesday,
February 1, 2005 - Page S7
On the coldest night of the winter, poet, stagehand and widower
Richard OUTRAM, having consumed a quantity of pills and drink,
sat on the enclosed side porch of his house in Port Hope, Ontario,
and, in a grand Blakean gesture, contemplated the universe and
quietly allowed himself to die.
Everything that made his life joyful emanated from his love for
his wife and collaborator, the artist Barbara
HOWARD.
She died
in 2002 during an operation to fix a broken hip. "Devotion is
not too strong a word," said writer Barry
CALLAGHAN. "
The two
of them fed each other beautifully and with enormous intensity.
They were the closing of the couplet. So, what are you going
to do with a one-line couplet? He really was his work and his
love for her."
Mr. OUTRAM was not the only poet to have a day job that required
entirely different skills from his literary vocation. The poet
Raymond SOUSTER, for example, spent his working life at the Canadian
Imperial
Bank of Commerce. It was Mr.
OUTRAM's conscious decision
to spend his days at physical labour so his mind would be free
in the evenings to devote to his poetry. But unlike other working
poets, such as Mr.
SOUSTER,
Mr.
OUTRAM won very little popular
or critical acclaim.
Although he published steadily for more than 40 years, he won
only one major prize -- the City of Toronto Book Award in 1999
for his volume Benedict Abroad. There is only one book-length
critical study of his work, Peter Sanger's "Her kindled shadow..."
An Introduction to the Work of Richard
OUTRAM, which was published
in limited numbers by The Antigonish Review in 2001.
Instead of a popular audience, he had a series of passionate
champions, such as Mr. Sanger, a retired academic. "Richard has
both a physical and a metaphysical orientation that isn't compromised
at either level," explained Mr. Sanger. "When Richard writes
well there is absolutely no distinction between those two levels."
Although Mr. Sanger agrees some poems are better than others,
he says what makes Mr.
OUTRAM's work stand out is its "magnificence
coherence." Every poem is ultimately linked to the rest of his
body of work.
Richard Daley
OUTRAM was born in Oshawa, Ontario, the son of
Mary Muriel
DALEY, a teacher, and Alfred Allan
OUTRAM, an engineer
who served in the artillery in The First World War and was wounded
at Ypres in Belgium. His mother's father was a Methodist minister
who was deeply involved in the negotiations to form the United
Church of Canada in 1925. His paternal grandfather ran the hardware
store in Port Hope, the town east of Oshawa where Mr.
OUTRAM
and his wife moved in 2000.
Shortly after young Richard's birth, his parents moved to the
Leaside area of Toronto. As a teenager, Mr.
OUTRAM was already
interested in music and botany, two areas that remained central
to his poetry for the rest of his life. Graduating from Leaside
Secondary School in 1949, he went that autumn to Victorian College
at the University of Toronto to begin an honours degree in English
and Philosophy. There he encountered two professors, philosopher
Emil FACKENHEIM and literary critic Northrop
FRYE, both of whom
had a huge impact on the way he thought about the world. He also
enlisted as an officer cadet in the reserve system of the Royal
Canadian Navy, spending the summers of 1950 and 1951 aboard frigates
in the Bay of Fundy and
at H. M. C. S. Stadacona in Halifax.
After he graduated from the University of Toronto in 1953, he
worked for a year at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in
Toronto as a stagehand and then moved to England where he found
a job in the same capacity for the British Broadcasting Corporation.
It was in London that he first began to write poetry and where,
in 1954, he met visual artist Barbara
HOWARD.
From that meeting
their lives were entwined until her death in 2002.
"You can't speak of them apart," said Louise
DENNYS, executive
vice-president of Random House Canada. "They were so completely
connected and so beloved of each other, and that is what proved
in the end to be impossible for him to live without."
Four years older than Mr.
OUTRAM,
Ms.
HOWARD was born in Toronto
in 1926, began drawing as a child, graduated with honours and
a silver medal from the Ontario College of Art in 1951 and then
taught school to earn enough money to continue her studies in
the major art centres of Europe.
They returned to Canada in 1956 and Mr.
OUTRAM went back to working
as a stage hand and then crew leader at the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation, a job he would hold until he retired at 60 in June,
1990. The late typographical designer Allan
FLEMING/FLEMMING (of the Canadian
National logo among other work) was the best man at their wedding
in April, 1957, and also the designer and publisher of Mr.
OUTRAM's
first collection, Eight Poems, a chapbook with a print run of
190 copies that appeared in 1959 under the Tortoise Press imprint.
The next year, Mr.
OUTRAM and Ms.
HOWARD founded The Gauntlet
Press, producing an elegant series of hand-printed volumes of
Mr. OUTRAM's poetry over the years decorated with Ms.
HOWARD's
beautifully coloured wood engravings.
Early in their marriage, the
OUTRAMs had a daughter who lived
for only a day. His grief is encased in several poems including
Sarah, which appeared in his first major collection, Exsultate,
Jubilate (1966,) an elegant volume designed by Mr.
FLEMING/FLEMMING and
published by Macmillan Co. of Canada.
Toronto writer Barry
CALLAGHAN, who was one of the hosts on Weekend,
a local Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television show, met
Mr. OUTRAM on the set in the late 1960s. "I became aware of this
intense man standing beside the camera, dressed like a guy working
on the floor but staring at me like a hawk," Mr.
CALLAGHAN said
in a telephone conversation. After the two men struck up a conversation,
"I discovered this very isolated and intensely intellectual man
who was interested in poetry and ideas."
In the middle 1970s, Mr.
OUTRAM took the manuscript for Turns
and Other Poems to the now defunct Clarke Irwin publishing house.
Two young editors, Susan
KEENE and Louise
DENNYS pushed the collection,
but Clarke Irwin was already in its demise and was doing very
little original publishing.
"He had a shining, sharp, sense of the natural world and he was
able to give it a sense of form, a sense of greatness larger
than and one moment," said Ms.
DENNYS. "He saw the world in a
grain of sand and he did that in a way that was very beautiful
and very particular to his work and to him."
Ms. DENNYS wanted to find a way to publish the book and Mr.
OUTRAM
suggested she meet his friend bookseller Hugh
ANSON-
CARTWRIGHT.
Bookseller and poet had met years before, the way such people
usually do, over a volume of Mr.
OUTRAM's poetry that Mr.
ANSON-
CARTWRIGHT
was trying to sell in his bookstore. Then it turned out that
they were neighbours and a lifelong Friendship ensured.
The
Christmas of 1974, Ms.
DENNYS took the manuscript on a visit
home to her parents in England and cold-visited the Hogarth Press,
a division of Chatto and Windus. She met poetry editor D. J. Enright,
who eventually offered to publish Mr.
OUTRAM's poems. She came
back to Canada and was able to tell Mr.
ANSON-
CARTWRIGHT that
if he wanted to form a little publishing company, here was a
British partner. That is how Turns and Other Poems was published
by Chatto and Windus with the Hogarth Press in London in 1975
and by Anson-Cartwright Editions in Toronto the following year.
"That moment, when I elided happily in his life back then, was
a moment of great pride for Hugh and for me too," she said. "It
was the first time that I was involved directly in a book's publication."
Mr. ANSON-
CARTWRIGHT published another volume of
OUTRAM poems,
The Promise of Light in 1979 and Mr. Callaghan's Exile Editions
did a Selected Poems in 1984. "He had a fantastic sense of form
and a musical ear for what he was doing that was almost perfect,
but often his poems were the prisoner of his skill," said Mr.
CALLAGHAN, adding that "you can't be first rate every time out
and there are times when the form traps what he is trying to
do."
Shortly after writer Alberto
MANGUEL arrived in Canada in 1983,
he met Mr.
OUTRAM. "I was awed at first by the strange combination
of intelligence and devastating humour," said Mr.
MANGUEL. "
For
all the seriousness of his poetry, he was a very funny man."
After reading Mr.
OUTRAM's poetry, Mr.
MANGUEL says he was surprised,
as he has been so many times in Canada, that "a poet of Richard's
magnitude" was not celebrated around the world. "Richard's poems
were very serious and complex, and in many cases they required
a lot of time and patience from readers," said Mr.
MANGUEL. "
You
had to disentangle the references and look up the words, but
it was always worthwhile. When you discovered what he meant,
the poem built to a different level."
The next person to publish Mr.
OUTRAM was Tim
INKSTER of The
Porcupine's Quill, who released Man in Love (1985), Hiram and
Jenny (1989) Mogul Recollected (1993) and Dove Legend (2001).
"It is incredibly elegant and sophisticated and passionate and
demanding and even, to a lot of people, off-putting, because
verbally it is immensely clever and full of allusions and references,"
said writer and poetry editor John
METCALF. "It is probably some
of the most rewarding stuff that has been written in Canada."
Writing poetry, even life itself, lost its purpose for Mr.
OUTRAM
after his wife died. "Richard was always sending me poems that
he loved by other people," said Mr.
MANGUEL, mentioning the poem
Winter Remembered by John Crowe Ransom about an "... Absence,
in the heart, /" that was too great to bear and how the only
way to soothe it was to "...walk forth in the frozen air/."
"He must have been thinking of that poem," concluded Mr.
MANGUEL
sadly.
Funambulist by Richard
OUTRAM, 1975
I work on a slender strand
Slung between two poles
Braced fifteen feet apart.
My patient father coached me
From childhood to fall unhurt,
Then set me again and again
On a crude slack-rope he rigged
Out back of our caravan,
Raising the rope by inches:
Now, I'm the only acrobat
In the world to include in his act,
As finale, a one-hand-stand
Thirty feet from the ground
With no net. I married
A delicate, lithe girl
From another circus family.
We are very happy. She stands
On the circular platform top
Of one pole, to steady me
As I reach the steep, last,
Incredibly difficult slope
Near the pole: when I turn about
To retrace my steps, no matter
How quickly I spin, she is there
At the top of the opposite pole,
Waiting, her arms outstretched.
From Turns and Other Poems, published by
ANSON-
CARTWRIGHT
Editions.
Richard Daley
OUTRAM was born in Oshawa, Ontario on April 9,
1930. He died of willful hypothermia in Port Hope, Ontario, on
Friday, January 21, 2005. He was 74. He was predeceased by his
wife Barbara. A celebration of their lives is being planned for
a later date.
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Mary
Louise (née
HAMMOND)
At Peel Manor in Brampton on Sunday, June 12, 2005 in her 96th
year. Beloved wife of the late George
FACTO and loving mother
of June and her husband Don
BURT,
Bernice and her husband Gord
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON and the late Mary
McPHERSON.
Sadly missed by her son-in-law
Ranald McPHERSON, four grandchildren, great-grandchildren and
great-great-grandchildren. Special thanks to the staff of Peel
Manor for 11 years of loving care and a special mention of her
many Friends she made during her stay. Friends may call at the
Ward Funeral Home "Brampton Chapel," 52 Main Street South (Hwy.
10), Brampton, from 7-9 p.m. Monday. A Mass of Christian Burial
will be held on Tuesday morning at Saint Mary's Roman Catholic
Church, 66A Main St. S., Brampton at 10 a.m. Interment to follow
at Assumption Cemetery.
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Laura
Suddenly on June 10th, 2005 at home in her 73rd year. Will be
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Mathew and Lucas. Survived by brother Frank
CAPICCIOTTI and wife
Glenda, sister Rose
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(Markham Rd.), Markham on Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass on Thursday morning at 11: 00 a.m.
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GRANGE,
Samuel▼
George▼ McDougall
(March 19, 1920-August 26, 2005)
Predeceased by his father Ned, his mother Ginty and his brother
Alec. Survived by his children, Alice and Dougall. Sam was a
Lawyer, Judge, Royal Commissioner, Bencher, Captain, Teacher,
Mentor, Poet, Storyteller, Wit, Host and Friend to many. Devotee
of justice, dogs, birds, scotch, crumpets, rare meat, runny eggs,
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, punctuality, grammatical
correctness, Dame Vera Lynn, Osgoode Hall and his beloved Cotaj
Mahal. Thanks to Friends who visited at Sunnybrook, and to those
who helped him be at his cottage. Kudos to fabulous nurses Chito
GONZAGA, Izona
FACY, Fatima
BRUNNING, Daisy
ANDERSON-
CHARLES
and Carole
ROBINSON, and
to Myralee
HARRIS,
Annette▼
EBANKS and
Neverlyn James, professional caregivers extra-ordinaire. In lieu
of flowers, donations in his name may be sent to Parkdale Community
Legal Services. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Andrew's
Church, Simcoe and King, September 12, 2005 @ 3: 00 p.m., followed
by another at Sunnybrook Hospital's K wing garden, (enter at
L wing), on September 28th @ 3: 30. Dad, we hope you are surrounded
by family, Friends and noble beasts and that we'll meet again,
someday.
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GRANGE,
Samuel▲
George▲ McDougall (March 19, 1920-August 26, 2005)
Predeceased by his father Ned, his mother Ginty and his brother
Alec. Survived by his children, Alice and Dougall. Sam was a
Lawyer, Judge, Royal Commissioner, Bencher, Captain, Teacher,
Mentor, Poet, Storyteller, Wit, Host and Friend to many. Devotee
of justice, dogs, birds, scotch, crumpets, rare meat, runny eggs,
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, punctuality, grammatical
correctness, Dame Vera Lynn, Osgoode Hall and his beloved Cotaj
Mahal. Thanks to Friends who visited at Sunnybrook, and to those
who helped him be at his cottage. Kudos to fabulous nurses Chito
GONZAGA, Izona
FACY, Fatima
BRUNNING, Daisy
ANDERSON-
CHARLES
and Carole
ROBINSON, and
to Myralee
HARRIS,
Annette▲
EBANKS and
Neverlyn JAMES, professional caregivers extra-ordinaire. In lieu
of flowers, donations in his name may be sent to Parkdale Community
Legal Services. A Memorial Service will be held at St. Andrew's
Church, Simcoe and King, September 12, 2005 at 3: 00 p.m. followed
by another at Sunnybrook Hospital's K wing garden, (enter at
L wing), on September 28th at 3: 30 p.m. Dad, we hope you are
surrounded by family, Friends and noble beasts and that we'll
meet again, someday.
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