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William ARCHER,
Lawyer And Politician: 1919-2005
Toronto alderman was 'subtle, intricate -- one might even say
devious -- but clever.' He failed to become mayor yet won respect
as a dogged public servant who always did his homework
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Friday, April
15, 2005, Page S7
Toronto -- While the rest of the country has to reach for a thesaurus
to find the words for how much it hates Toronto, William
ARCHER
was a rare breed: a man deliriously in love with the city.
Toronto was his town, every nook and cranny of it. An unabashed
policy wonk, his encyclopedic knowledge of arcane bylaws, municipal
regulations and rules of procedure came in handy in his years
as a Toronto alderman, controller and mayoral candidate -- especially
when he peppered his fellow councillors with pointed questions.
He saw himself as "one who has kept an eye on things, one who
has raised questions," as he related to this newspaper in 1974.
"The fact that I might raise questions has had an effect on people."
At times, it was "hard to see what effect that has, apart from
irritation," wrote one city hall reporter of the day. "Much time
is taken up with items he has raised."
The word "gadfly" came up now and then in relation to Mr.
ARCHER,
but it's one former Toronto mayor David
CROMBIE dismisses.
"He was much too serious to be a gadfly," recalled Mr.
CROMBIE,
now president and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Urban
Institute. "He provided very solid advice. We used to call him
'the grey eminence.' He was very serious about his politics."
And maybe even a little mischievous. At a 1974 council meeting,
with Mr. CROMBIE absent, Mr.
ARCHER called for a number of roll-call
votes for reasons no one could quite understand. Then, the tactic
became clear: He was racking up Mr.
CROMBIE's absentee record,
which, at the time, stood at about 17 per cent.
"Subtle, intricate -- one might even say devious -- but clever,"
pronounced The Globe and Mail.
A Toronto alderman from 1958 to 1974, with the exception of three
years from 1966 to 1969, Mr.
ARCHER was remembered by colleagues
as dogged, almost obsessive about digesting the mass of the dry
arcana city politicians confront every day.
"He was one of the few who did an enormous amount of homework,"
recalled Mr.
CROMBIE, who was elected alderman in 1969 and was
Toronto's mayor from 1972 to 1978. "There were a lot of people
who would show up to meetings having read the executive summary
or sort of skimmed [reports]. But Bill was very thorough -- a
detail man -- one of the few who actually read the by-laws."
Mr. ARCHER's wife of 47 years, Gwen, is more blunt: "He had a
mind like a rat trap. He could listen to two radios, the television
and read the paper at the same time. He was so honest, it was
sickening. And he'd talk to a fence post if it would talk back."
Even so, one colleague, alderman Karl
JAFFARY, described Mr.
ARCHER as "good at government but not at politics." Mr.
CROMBIE
once introduced Mr.
ARCHER as "perhaps not the best politician,
but by far one of the best and most devoted public servants this
city has ever seen."
Born in Hamilton into a family of Anglican priests, Mr.
ARCHER
worked in Toronto as an office boy while still a teenager, and
later as a junior with the Imperial Bank of Canada. During the
Second World War, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer
Reserve, and served in the Atlantic and Pacific. He left the
service with the rank of lieutenant-commander and never lost
his love of the water, sailing seven-metre Star sailboats for
years and enjoying a life membership in the Royal Canadian Yacht
Club.
He attended McGill University in Montreal and Osgoode Hall law
school in Toronto, excelling at both in debating, and established
a Bay Street law practice before the political bug bit.
In 1958, he was elected to Toronto city council and
to Metropolitan
Toronto council, and served as Toronto's controller from 1963
to 1966, the year he made a run for mayor. After a 12-week campaign,
he polled a respectable 41,000 votes, but lost to fellow controller
William DENNISON, who proved a careful and quiet mayor. Some
blamed Mr.
ARCHER for causing the defeat of the more flamboyant
incumbent mayor, Phil
GIVENS, and
as Mr. ARCHER told his supporters
on election night, "We shook the city up quite a bit."
As former Toronto mayor, recent Senate appointee Art
EGGLETON,
remembers the '66 campaign, where Mr.
ARCHER's slogan was "
ARCHER
listens, learns... leads."
"He followed it, though he didn't always go the conventional
way," Mr. EGGLETON recalled. "Not everyone agreed with him, but
he was man of his convictions."
Mr. ARCHER returned to his law practice after his defeat but
surfaced in 1969 with three headline-grabbing feats: In May,
he spent a weekend as a derelict in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighbourhood,
living on handouts and sleeping in a flop house -- all designed,
he said, to gauge the city's services to the destitute. "It was
the most lonely and exhausting weekend of my life," he told reporters.
In July, he drove a taxi for a week. "Well, see, I'm doing it
to learn more about my community," he explained as he handed
out a six-page transcript of his recorded thoughts and impressions.
"And let me tell you, it's the loneliest job in the world. I
mean it." His tips went to the Brothers of the Good Shepherd,
who put him up during his homeless weekend.
In August of that year, he walked the length of Toronto's waterfront
to get to know the harbour.
To anyone cynical enough to suggest these were publicity stunts,
Mr. ARCHER had an answer: Honni soit qui mal y pense (roughly,
evil to him who thinks evil). Whatever it was, it worked, and
in the 1969 elections, Mr.
ARCHER was back on council. "His politics
were old-fashioned progressive conservative, and I mean that
as a complement, a type that's almost lost now," says Mr.
CROMBIE,
whose term on council overlapped with Mr.
ARCHER's until 1972.
"He was progressive on social issues and pretty strict on economic
and financial issues. He was a man of principles -- his own."
In all, Mr.
ARCHER represented three midtown and downtown wards,
and served on a slew of influential committees and boards, including
works, transportation and planning. He fought for better pensions
for municipal employees, improvements to welfare and was chiefly
responsible for building the city's new fire boat. He also co-ordinated
the Yonge Street mall, a popular pedestrian walkway closed to
traffic that lasted for a few years in the early 1970s.
He clashed with council on two major issues: a 45-foot height
bylaw and the decision not to have separate elections for Metro
and the city. He called the latter "the greatest tragedy of this
council."
Mr. ARCHER lost to a left-wing candidate in the 1974 election
but the next year, he was appointed commissioner of a provincial
review of the Niagara region, followed by many years on the Toronto
Historical Board. In 1997, he received the Toronto Award of Merit.
His fight against the status quo did not wane. In 1986, a task
force on which Mr.
ARCHER served suggested more than a dozen
changes to the municipal voting process, including holding elections
on a Sunday in October, with separate election days for mayor,
council and school trustees.
Mr. ARCHER once said that voters make a few mistakes, but not
as many as politicians. "I only know I needed to do what I considered
the right thing," he said, "whether I stood alone or not."
William Lee
ARCHER was born in Hamilton on September 25, 1919,
and died in Toronto of heart failure on March 6. He was 85. He
is survived by his wife, Gwendolyn (née
BAMFORD,) and a daughter,
Janet. A service will be held at a later date.
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JAFFARY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-13 published
Dorothy THOMAS stormed city hall
One of reformer group elected to council in 1972
She started poop and scoop program in Toronto
By Catherine
DUNPHY,
Obituary
Writer
Once upon a time, when Toronto was younger and believed in itself
much, much more, a group of urban idealists stormed city hall.
They called themselves reformers and they got into the council
chamber by getting themselves elected. David
CROMBIE was their
leader, a man dubbed Toronto's "tiny perfect mayor" by the media
of the day, and great things were expected and sometimes even
delivered.
Now, these reformers were feisty and forward-thinking -- they
were people like the late Colin
VAUGHAN, an architect turned
activist, lawyers Dale
MARTIN and Karl
JAFFARY, renegade thinker
John SEWELL. And three of the newly minted aldermen -- for that
was the job title of councillor in those days -- were women.
But only two -- Anne
JOHNSTON and Dorothy
THOMAS -- made it through
the first term of office.
JOHNSTON, who retired from municipal
politics at the time of the last election, says that was only
because they learned to be tough and because they had each other.
"I met her December 4, 1972, the night we were all elected. There
was a spontaneous gathering of all the reformers at city hall
and I remember Dorothy was wearing a hat and she came up to me
and said: 'You and I are going to be Friends,'" she said.
They were a gang of citizen politicians who believed they were
going to create a livable, even lovable city, but
THOMAS was
right about at least one thing that night: she and
JOHNSTON were
Friends until May 9 this year, when
THOMAS died of cancer at
Dorothy MIKOS was the proud daughter of very proud Hungarians.
Her father, a tailor, and her mother, a talented seamstress,
came to Canada in the 1930s. Theirs was the classic immigrant
story, according to
THOMAS's only child, Nye
THOMAS, a lawyer
and policy director of the Ipperwash provincial inquiry. His
grandparents worked hard in Spadina Ave. sweatshops so their
children would never have to and were thrilled when their daughter
went to the University of Toronto.
THOMAS discovered journalism there -- it was the heyday of the
varsity press -- as well as Ralph
THOMAS, another journalist
who would become a well-known Canadian filmmaker. Now living
in California, he is best known here for Ticket To Heaven and
The
Terry
Fox Story. Dorothy
THOMAS left university before she
graduated to work at the Toronto Star, where she was an arts
reporter under the watch of the legendary entertainment editor
Nathan COHEN.
She was a stay-at-home mom living in a fourplex on Wineva Ave.
in the Beach when she joined up with a group of residents to
successfully fight the construction of the Scarborough Expressway,
which would have cut right through her neighbourhood.
THOMAS served two terms on Toronto council, from 1972 to 1976
and from 1981 to 1985, representing the old Ward 9 until ousted
by a tag team of Paul
CHRISTIE and Tom
JAKOBEK.
She had been
one of the founders of the City of Toronto's Person's Day Award
and had headed the Mayor's Task Force on the Status of Women.
"She was an excellent politician," said Barbara
CAPLAN, a former
Toronto city clerk. "She could build consensus across political
ties."
JOHNSTON said her friend initiated Toronto's poop and scoop program,
an achievement not among those noted on the condolence motion
passed by council 10 days after
THOMAS died, but not without
its significance.
"She owned the public works committee," said
JOHNSTON. "
She was
always the chair. She liked it because it was working on neighbour
stuff."
Attractive and articulate,
THOMAS was also blunt. "There was
no filter with her, ever," her son said.
She made headlines when she and Alderman Dale
MARTIN visited
Calgary in 1985 for the 48th annual convention of the Federation
of Canadian Municipalities. "The whole of downtown Calgary shows
an amazing lack of planning," she said. Ralph
KLEIN was the mayor
then and he summoned photographers to record him standing in
front of Calgary City Hall wearing boxing gloves and dissing
the smug politicians from the East.
THOMAS didn't back down. "It's very ugly in Calgary," she told
the Star. "It even makes (Metro planners) look good."
By then a single mom working punishing hours,
THOMAS still made
a point of being home every night to have dinner with her son.
When she quit politics the first time, it was to spend time with
Nye. When she left municipal politics for good, she moved to
Euclid Ave. and got a job heading and helping clean up the Metro
Licensing Commission, serving on the subsequent Toronto Licensing
Tribunal until 2003.
A spectacular cook and a stylish hostess, she was often asked
to donate her talents to fundraising events. A dinner party for
four catered by Dorothy
THOMAS was always a hot ticket at silent
and not-so-silent auctions for the New Democratic Party. She
was generous with her money as well as time, donating to 60 charities,
including the Canadian Marmot Foundation (because she thought
no one else would, her son said).
Her dinner table was a natural gathering place for Friends and
their families. For 10 years she met one Wednesday night every
other month with a group of powerful women such as June
CALLWOOD,
Doris ANDERSON and Sylvia
OSTRY, and for twice as long as that,
she was part of a poker player gang of Friends that included
fellow activist Ethel
TEITELBAUM, who often travelled with
THOMAS.
"She was a complicated woman who attacked a lot of people who
loved her. But we hung in there because she was loyal and wonderful
company -- witty, generous. I always thought she was beautiful,"
said TEITELBAUM.
Last fall they had travelled to Sicily, one of
THOMAS's must-see
destinations. "We had a ball," said
TEITELBAUM.
But THOMAS, who disliked doctors, was in pain and in fact had
been suffering for some time. When she was finally diagnosed
with cancer at Christmas, it was too late.
THOMAS was admitted
to Princess Margaret Hospital, where she had hundreds of visitors.
"They said they had never seen anything like it," said
CAPLAN,
who was soon sending out regular emails about
THOMAS to 125 recipients.
In recent years,
THOMAS had moved to Port Hope and had been immersed
in developing the Port Hope Ecology Garden.
THOMAS never got home again: she spent 17 weeks in hospital,
latterly at the Toronto Grace where she celebrated her 67th birthday
with Friends. She wasn't in pain, but she was unable to read
or watch much television, and every morning she would wake up
and be angry that she was still around. "She wanted to leave
the arena,"
CAPLAN said.
She insisted both Nye and his wife, Karen, go to China on a long-awaited
trip to bring home Mei Leigh, their adopted daughter and her
first grandchild. She died two days after they left Canada.
Her many Friends are gathering tonight at 7 p.m. at the Gladstone
Hotel for her memorial. There will be good food, wine, Friends
reuniting, laughter and only four speeches. Her son says it is
where and how she would have wanted it.
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JAFFARY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-17 published
JAFFARY,
Joyce (née
BARBEAU)
Peacefully on Saturday, October 15, 2005 at Toronto in her 79th
year. Beloved mother of Lynn
METZLER,
Helen
JAMES, Chris
JAFFARY
and Barbara
PARTRIDGE.
Loving grandmother of Jules and the late
Amber. Dear sister of Reta. Fondly remembered by many nieces
and nephews. Predeceased by numerous family members. Memorial
Service to follow at a later date in her hometown of Sault Ste.
Marie. "You're home Mom" "We love you"
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JAFFE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-09-24 published
WOOLLEY,
David
Arthur
Passed away peacefully, surrounded by family, on the morning
of September 16, 2005, after a long and courageous battle against
cancer. He was 61. Born in Tillsonburg, Ontario, July 5, 1944,
Dave grew up in Lambeth, before moving to Castlegar, and then,
in 1979, became an active member of the North Vancouver community.
He was predeceased by his son Robbie, and infant brother Robert.
He is survived by wife
Susan, parents Jean and Art
WOOLLEY, sister
Barb WILLSIE
(Jim,) sons Kevin, Martyn (Pieta,) Geoff, Joel
JAFFE,
and Rick DE
ATAIDE, extended family, and dear Friends. A celebration
of his life will be held at Lambeth United Church, Friday, September
30th, at 1 p.m. For those who wish, a donation to the Lions Gate
Hospital Foundation, Oncology or Palliative Care Fund, 231 East
15th Street, North Vancouver, British Columbia V7L 2L7 would
be appreciated, in lieu of flowers.
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JAFFE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-03-26 published
GERTLER,
Jeffrey
Lee
January 18, 2005
After a recurrence of brain cancer, despite the best of care
at the Clinique de Genolier, Switzerland, and the constant support
of family, colleagues and Friends, his courage and morale undiminished,
on January 18, 2005 he was taken from his wife, Ann Stewart
GERTLER
their sons Marin (fiancée Rocio
LASTRAS) and Joshua; his parents,
Maynard and Ann Straus
GERTLER; brothers and sisters-in-law,
Michael (JoAnn
JAFFE,)
Alfred
(Kathryn
MacRAE,) Franklin (Catherine
OLIVER) and Edward (Mary-Jo
LOW/LOWE/LOUGH;) sisters-in-law, Cynthia
VON
MAERESTETTEN and Rowena
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART; mother-in-law, Thisbe
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART
nieces, Lisa and Jardena; nephews, Mark, Maxim, Will, Leo, Nicholas,
John Nathaniel and Theo; beloved family member, Doris
WINKLER
and his extended family in Ottawa, Toronto, New York, California,
England and Scotland who survive him to celebrate his 51 productive
years. He was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, among the
Plain People, where his college-teaching parents chose to farm.
But his education was to begin at Darwin House, Cambridge, England
(when they resumed research interrupted by service in the wartime
administrations and army (Maynard) of Franklin D. Roosevelt and
Harry S. Truman) -- to be continued largely at St. George's School,
Montreal. His further development was associated with training
institutes in non-violence and peace research, fostered by the
Canadian Peace Research Institute and sponsored by the Canadian
Friends Service Committee and the Canadian National Commission
of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
He was a "resource person" for the 1970 and 1971 high school
peace workshops which took place at Grindstone Island on Big
Rideau Lake, Portland, Ontario, the former summer home of Admiral
Sir
Charles
Edmund
KINGSMILL (first director of the Royal Canadian
Navy) and his family, and loaned by his heirs for that purpose.
Jeffrey's professional skills were acquired at Swarthmore College,
Pennsylvania, by a B.A., with emphasis on contemporary political
economy, history and French (Université de Grenoble), by study
at the Institute of Comparative International Law, Paris, on
Regulation of International Business Transactions, by a J.D.
at the University of San Diego, California, an
LLM from Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C., and by work with the Commonwealth
Secretariat, London, the U.S. International Trade Commission,
and the Office of the United States Trade Representative, among
others. A member of the California and District of Columbia bars
and of the American Society for International Law, he entered
his latest field of activity through applications to United Nations
and United Nations-affiliated agencies. Invited to Geneva by
the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, he was employed by
them in 1988, and stayed on when the General Agreement on Tariffs
and Trade evolved into the World Trade Organization in 1995.
As Senior Counsellor in the Legal Affairs Division, he was active
in the elaboration of dispute settlement procedures, in panels
pertaining to the admission of countries, such as China, to the
World Trade Organization, in work, duty travel and conferences
on four continents, including university-sponsored speaking engagements
on various aspects of globalization: human rights, labour, environment
and living conditions, as well as trade. Jeffrey gravitated toward
work in the public interest by an early internship with the Environmental
Defense Fund of Washington, D.C., and by a spell as Special Assistant
to the Rector of the United Nations University of Tokyo. Not
incidentally, his two non-professional affiliations in 1988 at
the time of joining the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
were with the Lawyers Alliance for Nuclear Arms Control, and
Friends of the Earth. He delighted in sailing off Norfolk, England,
on Lakes Ontario and Champlain, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean,
the Chesapeake with his wife Ann and boys, from their first home
at Shady Side, near Annapolis, Maryland, and Lake Geneva (Léman).
He loved life and knew well what to do with it, was an enthusiastic
skiier and swimmer, an accomplished photographer, a keen gardener
and family farmer, in Ontario, and an excellent cook. At various
times he played the recorder, violin and guitar. Family meant
the world to him, and his children were his greatest joy. Facing
final illness, his supreme regret was the prospect that he might
not be around to share in their lives, to support them, and to
help celebrate their accomplishments. The warmest of farewells
were given him at the Temple de Genolier above Lake Geneva, January
24, on a sunny day, emblazoned by fresh snow and invigorated
by the mountain air. In addition to his wife, sons and brothers,
some 150 Friends and colleagues were in attendance, many from
the World Trade Organization, the United Nations family, the
International School of Geneva, the United Nations High Commission
for Refugees, Femmes Pour la Paix, and the International Peace
Bureau. Following cremation, Jeffrey's remains will be interred
near his home in Divonne les Bains, France. Contact with the
family in Montreal may be had through Franklin
GERTLER, at Aldred
Building, 507 Place d'Armes, Suite 1200, Montreal, Québec, Canada
H2Y 2W8; telephone (514) 842-0748; e-mail: franklin@gertlerlex.ca,
or Maynard and Ann
GERTLER, at 482 Strathcona Avenue, Westmount,
Québec, Canada H3Y 2X1; telephone (514) 933-7913; fax (514) 933-1702
e-mail: ann.maynard.gertler@videotron.ca (and Box #58, Williamstown,
Ontario, Canada K0C 2J0; telephone (613) 347-3505.
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JAFFEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-19 published
RONAN,
Jane
Marie
Peacefully at her home, in Toronto, on Thursday September 15th,
2005. Jane
RONAN, in her 47th year. Beloved daughter of the late
Patrick and Patricia
RONAN,
Colgan.
Loving sister of Marie and
her husband John
JAFFEY, Michael and his wife Cheryl, Judy
SHAW,
Neil and his wife
Terry,
Teresa
RONAN,
Frances and her husband
Dave McDONELL,
Joanne and her husband Brian
MUNRO, John and his
wife Anita,
Joseph
RONAN, and Kevin and his wife Trudy. Sadly
missed by her 18 nieces and nephews. Resting at Rod Abrams Funeral
Home, 1666 Tottenham Road, Tottenham, 905-936-3477 on Monday
September 19th, 2005 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Mass of Christian
Burial will be held in St. James Church, Colgan, 11: 00 a.m. Tuesday
September 20th, 2005 followed by cremation.
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JAFFRAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-27 published
ANDERSON,
Jack▼
Alexander▼
Edward▼
Passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 25, 2005 in his 81st
year at Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga. Beloved husband
of Davina and loving father of Karen, Bob and Susan. Proud Papa
to Nolan and Lauryn. Cherished brother to Gwen
JAFFRAY and Doreen
ZAVITZ.
Jack▼ will be fondly remembered by many nieces, nephews
and Friends. The family will receive Friends at the Lee Funeral
Home, 258 Queen St. South, Streetsville on Tuesday evening 7-9
p.m. and Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Services to be held
at Trinity Anglican Church, 69 Queen St. South on Thursday, September
29, 2005 at 2 o'clock p.m. Cremation to follow. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the Salvation Army or a charity of your choice would
be appreciated.
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JAFFRAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-27 published
ANDERSON,
Jack▲
Alexander▲
Edward▲
Passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 25th, 2005, in his
81st year, at Credit Valley Hospital, Mississauga. Beloved husband
of Davina and loving father of Karen, Bob and Susan. Proud Papa
to Nolan and Lauryn. Cherished brother to Gwen
JAFFRAY and Doreen
ZAVITZ.
Jack▲ will be fondly remembered by many nieces, nephews
and Friends. The family will receive Friends at the Lee Funeral
Home Limited, 258 Queen Street South, Streetsville (Mississauga
Road, south of 401) on Tuesday evening 7-9 p.m. and Wednesday
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral services to be held at Trinity Anglican
Church, 69 Queen Street South, Streetsville on Thursday, September
29th, 2005 at 2 p.m. Cremation to follow. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the Salvation Army or a charity of your choice would
be appreciated.
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