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PIM o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-12-17 published
Leonard GERTLER,
Urban
Planner (1923-2005)
University of Waterloo teacher was a founding father of town
planning in Canada, writes Sandra
MARTIN.
His environment-first
strategy 'made a difference to the quality of our lives and our
communities'
By Sandra MARTIN,
Saturday,
December 17, 2005, Page S11
A holistic and strategic thinker, Leonard (Len)
GERTLER was one
of the founding fathers of urban planning in this country. He
became interested in cities as a researcher and scriptwriter
for the National Film Board in the late 1940s and went on to
write a landmark report on protecting Ontario's Niagara Escarpment
and to serve as a policy adviser to Pierre Trudeau's Ministry
of Urban Affairs. A pioneer in co-operative and sustainable development
abroad, he involved his students, beginning in 1970, in projects
in Indonesia, Jamaica, India, Japan and Uzbekistan.
Historically, planning in Canada was undertaken and taught by
people trained in Britain or the United States. Prof.
GERTLER,
who worked as a planner in Edmonton, Toronto and the Saint John
River Valley in New Brunswick before he became the founding director
of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University
of Waterloo, brought a Canadian perspective to the classroom.
"Len was Canada's guru of environment-first planning for broad
geographic regions. He wanted our cities to be cities [and to
work for people's well-being] and he wanted the countryside --
the farmlands, woodlands and wetlands -- to stay countryside,"
said Linda
PIM, a conservation policy analyst with Ontario Nature.
"He was able to connect the key elements of planning theory and
practice in a way that resonated with me [and many other students]
and stayed with me throughout my career," said David
WITTY, who
studied with Prof.
GERTLER at U of W in the early 1970s and is
now dean of architecture at the University of Manitoba. Prof.
GERTLER "brought social, ecological, economic and physical components"
to planning in a way "that demanded respect."
Mark SEASONS, who was a doctoral student in the mid 1980s and
is now an associate professor of planning and associate dean
at the U of W, described him as "a man of few but very carefully
chosen words," with "a keen intellect and insights." He did not
"suffer fools gladly," but "if you gained his respect, he became
a loyal friend and life-long supporter."
Prof. GERTLER's passion for planning infected not only his students,
but one of his own sons. "Len never cajoled or coaxed me," Meric
GERTLER, now professor of geography and planning at the University
of Toronto, said in a eulogy at his father's funeral. Instead,
he felt an "inexorable pull" toward planning because his father's
work was "so damned interesting." It made "a difference to the
quality of our lives and our communities at a time when public
interest in 'the environment' and all things 'urban' was enjoying
its first real flowering in this country."
Leonard
Oscar
(Len▼)
GERTLER was the youngest of three children
of Carl Hiam
GERTLER and his wife Gertrude
(SLOVER). The
GERTLERs
and the SLOVERs had immigrated before the First World War from
what was then Austro-Hungary, with the
SLOVERs settling in Ottawa
and the GERTLERs working on farms in an Irish settlement outside
Montreal.
Gertrude and her brother had opened a store in the market in
Ottawa and Hiam and his brothers started a furniture manufacturing
company called Atlas Bedding in Montreal. Mr.
GERTLER always
hoped one of his sons would join in the family business, but
it didn't work out that way.
His eldest son, Maynard
GERTLER, a Roosevelt New Dealer, studied
and taught economic history in the United States and Britain
before returning to Canada and founding Harvest House, a Montreal
publishing firm that specialized in translating the fiction of
Québécois writers (such as Jacques Ferron, Anne Hébert and Yves
Thériault) and in producing books on social and economic topics.
Len was seven years younger. Still, he was "my best friend from
the time he was 12 years old," said Maynard
GERTLER in a telephone
conversation from his home in Montreal. Len was both artistic
and athletic. He wrote plays, but he also played baseball and
football, skied and trained as a long-distance swimmer.
Like his older brother, Len went to Queen's University to study
economics and political science. In his third year, he became
the founding editor of a publication called Public Affairs, soon
renamed the Queen's Commentator. He emerged with an honour's
degree in 1946 and an active interest in socio-economic and political
issues.
During summers he found work (through a Montreal friend) with
John GRIERSON at the National Film Board, which was then headquartered
in Ottawa. After graduation, he joined the staff of the World
in Action unit directed by Mr.
GRIERSON's
Disciple,
Stuart
LEGGE.
He was researcher and scriptwriter for The Challenge of Housing
and another film on the evolving National Capital Plan for Ottawa.
His script was too outspoken for the National Capital Commission
and he was banished from the project.
Dejected, he headed back to Montreal, where fate changed his
future both romantically and professionally. In his parents'
house, he met Anicka (Anita)
BIRNBAUM, a Holocaust survivor from
the tiny town of Svalava, Slovakia. In early teens she had been
incarcerated in Auschwitz with the rest of her family. Anita
and one sister were all that was left of their family when the
Russians liberated the camp. She made her way to England, where
she worked as a dental technician and used leftover bits of medical
modelling clay to make sculptures.
Len's father, who was on the board of the Jewish Immigrant Aid
Society, sponsored her to come to Canada. "She only weighed about
60 pounds," recalled Maynard
GERTLER. "My family sent her to
l'École des métiers du meuble, which was the famous art school
in Montreal. She studied sculpture and graduated at the top of
the class and went on to be an excellent sculptor."
Anita and Len were married in the summer of 1948. The following
year, discouraged by the National Capital Commission debacle
at the film board, Len
GERTLER went back to school and enrolled
in a master's program in economics at the University of Toronto,
studying under Harold
INNIS and Tom
EASTERBROOK. He was thinking
of going further in his studies, but his older brother said:
"Don't go into economics, that's theology. Go into planning."
Coincidentally, McGill had opened its graduate department of
planning in 1950, the year he graduated from the University of
Toronto. Encouraged by a friend who was already in the program,
he enrolled and graduated with a diploma in 1951 and went on
to a job in Edmonton as a senior planner (1951), and then as
director of the Edmonton District Planning Commission (from 1952
to 1957), one of Canada's first regional planning agencies. He
helped develop a workable concept of regional development during
the exploration/development boom of the 1950s.
Next stop was Toronto, where he was senior planner and then deputy
commissioner of planning from 1957 to 1964, working on a waterfront
development plan among other projects. He left municipal government
to establish a planning consultancy practice for Acres Research
and Planning Ltd. in Niagara Falls.
Two years later, he was invited to help establish the School
of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Waterloo
and became its founding director. The university administration
decided that he couldn't be a full professor because he lacked
a doctorate, "the magic ticket," as Len
GERTLER described it.
If he were good enough to be the founding director of the school,
he should be qualified enough to deserve a full professorship,
he wrote in his memoir Radical Rumblings: Confessions of a Peripatetic
Planner (2005). "Now I know that this betrayed ignorance of the
ways of academia," he wrote. "But that very ignorance stiffened
my back and the University conceded."
In 1967, the Ontario government of John Robarts, worried about
the effects of urban sprawl, mining and recreational skiing on
the natural habitat, asked him to carry out a study of the Niagara
escarpment. A year later, Prof.
GERTLER produced a "seminal report,"
according to the Federation of Ontario Naturalists, that "not
only laid out a plan for a continuous undeveloped corridor along
the escarpment, but also shifted the emphasis from recreation
to conservation... prompted provincial legislation to restrict
quarry development and, later, to regulate all land uses." The
study led to the passage of the Niagara Escarpment Act, the formation
of the Niagara Escarpment Commission, and the designation of
the escarpment as a World Biosphere Reserve by United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1990. Now,
if you look at a satellite photograph of southern Ontario, you
can see a green ribbon of natural habitats running from Niagara
Falls to the tip of the Bruce Peninsula.
Prof. GERTLER took a two-year leave (from 1972 to 1974) to serve
as director general of research and policy for prime minister
Trudeau's Ministry of State for Urban Affairs. "His breadth of
practice and involvement spoke to the notion that the national
government should have an interest in the well-being of cities,
because as cities go, so goes the country, and he saw that so
early on," said Prof.
WITTY. "He had the ability to see ahead
of his time, but I never came to appreciate it until I was out
and gone from the university [of Waterloo]."
Prof. GERTLER loved to work and continued writing the second
volume of his memoirs even when his health was failing precipitously.
In hospital, only days before he died, he reacted with pleasure
when his son Kim brought him a book on international development
for which he had written the foreword.
Leonard
Oscar
(Len▼)
GERTLER was born in Montreal on October 10,
1923. He died in Toronto of throat cancer on December 9, 2005.
He was 82. His wife, Anita, predeceased him in June of 2004.
He is survived by four sons, a daughter, four grandchildren and
his brother Maynard.
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GERTLER,
Len▲ -- I Remember
By Linda PIM,
Thursday,
December 29, 2005, Page S9
Montreal -- Conservationist Linda
PIM of Montreal writes about
Len GERTLER, whose obituary ran on December 17.
Len's 1968 Niagara Escarpment study is so legendary in conservation
circles that it is referred to simply as "the Gertler report."
A few years ago, a citizens group I work with was fighting a
development proposal on the escarpment and sought the influence
that Len could bring to bear. I asked him to write a letter to
an Ontario cabinet minister, and from that contact emerged our
Friendship. A pacifist, humanist and environmentalist, Len cared
deeply about the fate of the Earth and about the welfare of the
world's people. He was well-read, had eclectic tastes in music,
and had a mischievous sense of humour. At the same time, he was
often an enigma -- a great friend, yet also cautious about how
much of himself he revealed.
Intriguingly, Len also wrote about a dozen unpublished short
stories of fiction on the theme of socially progressive international
development. Richly descriptive of people and environments, they
were all set in Indonesia and drew on his experiences with United
Nations assignments there.
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PIMBERT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-12-10 published
FUNNELL,
Dudley▼
Died at home in Venice on December 6th, he was 79 years old.
Born August 5th, 1926 in Surrey England. He served in the Royal
Navy for two years. A fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries in Scotland,
the Institute of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute of Actuaries,
chairman for the I.A.C.A. as well as an associate of the Society
of Actuaries. He practiced in England and Scotland before moving
to Canada in 1959. He was the past president and chairman for
Tomenson-Alexander and later a Director for William M. Mercer
until his retirement in 1987 when he moved to Venice, Florida.
He was an accomplished athlete with many honors in cricket, soccer,
field hockey, golf and tennis. A member of the Mission Valley
Country Club, Courtside Tennis Club, Venice Stamp Club and the
past president of the Oakville Club. He is survived by his wife
Barbara;▼ three daughters, Alison (Ted)
PIMBERT,
Louise▼
(Rob)
BULL and Celia
BRAZIER all of Toronto, Canada; his son Eric (Erika)
FUNNELL also of Toronto; two step-sons, David
RUTHERFORD of Toronto
and Ian (Pam)
RUTHERFORD of Kingston, Ontario; his brother Barrie
FUNNELL of Australia and his twelve grandchildren. A celebration
of life was held Friday December 9th at the Mission Valley Country
Club, 1851 Mission Valley Blvd Laurel, Florida at 12 noon. Memorial
donations may be made to Hospice of Southwest Florida or to your
favorite charity. Farley Funeral Homes and Crematory is in charge.
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FUNNELL,
Dudley▲
Died at home in Venice, Florida on December 6th, 2005; he was
79 years old. Born August 5th, 1926 in Surrey, England. He served
in the Royal Navy for two years. A fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries
in Scotland, the Institute of Actuaries and the Canadian Institute
of Actuaries, chairman for the I.A.C.A. as well as an associate
of the Society of Actuaries. He practiced in England and Scotland
before moving to Canada in 1959. He was the past president and
chairman for Tomenson-Alexander and later a Director for William
M. Mercer until his retirement in 1987 when he moved to Venice,
Florida. He was an accomplished athlete with many honours in
cricket, soccer, field hockey, golf and tennis. A member of the
Mission Valley Country Club, Courtside Tennis Club, Venice Stamp
Club and the past president of the Oakville Club. He is survived
by his wife
Barbara;▲ three daughters, Alison (Ted)
PIMBERT,
Louise▲
(Rob) BULL and Celia
BRAZIER all of Toronto; his son, Eric (Erika)
FUNNELL also of Toronto; two step-sons, David
RUTHERFORD of Toronto
and Ian (Pam)
RUTHERFORD of Kingston, Ontario; his brother Barrie
FUNNELL of Australia and his twelve grandchildren. A celebration
of life was held Friday, December 9th at the Mission Valley Country
Club, 1851 Mission Valley Blvd., Laurel, Florida at 12 noon.
Memorial donations may be made to Hospice of Southwest Florida
or to your favourite charity. Farley Funeral Homes and Crematory
is in charge.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-08-11 published
ARRUDA,
Rita
Marques
At University Hospital on Wednesday, August 10, 2005, Rita Marques
ARRUDA in her 83rd year. Beloved wife of the late Antonio
ARRUDA
(1994). Dear mother of Fernando of The Azores, Odilia of London,
Teresa of The Azores, Maria, and Lucia of London and Maria
PIMENTEL
of Kitchener. Loving grandmother of 16 grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren.
Also survived by two sisters in Portugal and one sister in California.
Visitors will be received on Thursday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. in
the O'Neil Funeral Home, 350 William St. The Funeral Mass will
take place on Friday at 10 a.m. in Mary Immaculate Church (1980
Trafalgar St. at Admiral). Interment St. Peter's Cemetery.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-09-23 published
DENNIS,
Mark▼ "
Sparky▼"
(Director and Partner of Orion Securities, head of Agency Training)
It is with great sadness that the family announces Mark's sudden
death on Wednesday, September 21, 2005 in Oakville. Mark is the
beloved husband of Filomena and amazing father of Bradley and
Mitchell. Loving
son of Bill and Grace
DENNIS. He will be deeply
missed by his brothers, sisters and their children: Pat and her
husband Gord, and their children Angela and her husband Rob and
their son Sammy; Michael and Matthew; Paul and his wife Lynn
and their children Chris and Stephen; Marie; Mike and his wife
Julie and their children Sean and Jennifer; Gerry and his wife
Amelia and their children Adam and Andrew; Peter and his wife
Sarah and their children, Sarah, Robin, Scott and Beth; Cathie
and Terry and his wife Shelley and their children Zack, Katie,
Meggie and J-Man. Son-in-Law of Venilde and Jose
PIMENTEL. Brother-in-Law
of Olivia and her husband John, and their children Samantha and
Kianna; Rui and his wife Chantel and their children Brittney
and Allison; Gilbert and his wife Shirley and their children
Kevin and Nikki; Dianne and her husband Marco and the late Joseph.
Spark will also be missed by his many cousins, aunts, uncles,
Friends and business associates. Mark's energy, professionalism
and enthusiasm was instrumental in building Orion into one of
Canada's largest independent securities firms. In his family
life, Spark was larger than life. He was passionately devoted
to Fil, Brad and Mitch and enthusiastically encouraged, taught
and coached his boys every step of the way. He will be sadly
missed in Oakville Hockey circles both as a coach and player.
Visitation will be held at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral
Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville, (905-844-2600) from 3-5
and 7-9 p.m. Friday. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held
10: 00 a.m. Saturday, September 24, 2005 at St. Andrew's Roman
Catholic Church, 47 Reynolds Street, Oakville. Interment to follow
at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery. A reception will be held after the
interment service at the Oakville Golf and Country Club. If desired,
memorial contributions to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Ontario, P.O. Box 693, Oakville, Ontario L6J 5C1 would be
appreciated by the family. E-mail condolences may be sent to
kopriva@eol.ca; please place
DENNIS on the subject line.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-04-21 published
PRIDHAM,
Alexander
James
Edward
Passed away peacefully at his home in Lisle, Ontario on Tuesday,
April 19, 2005, in his 79th year. Beloved husband of the late
Marie Ethel
ROBSON.
Loved father of Tom and Kelly, Debbie and
Ed PIMENTEL,
Nancy
PRINCE, Gloria and Grant
DONALDSON, Eddie,
Mary PRIDHAM,
Kathy and Will
BROWN, Kelly and Scott
MacDONALD.
Loving grandpa of Natalie, Hayley, Amie, Cassidy, Melissa, Michael,
David, Steven, Eric, Duante, Meadow and predeceased by Franklin
PRIDHAM. son of the late James and Hazel
PRIDHAM. Dear brother
of Eric, Frank, Earl, Norman, Jean, Linda, Hazel, Elva and predeceased
by Allan and George. Alex will be fondly remembered by his nieces,
nephews, Friends and neighbours. Resting at the W. John Thomas
Funeral Home, 244 Victoria St. E., Alliston from 2-4 and 7-9
p.m. on Friday, April 22, 2005. Funeral Service will be held
in the Chapel on Saturday, April 23, 2005 at 1: 30 p.m. Interment
Alliston Union Cemetery. If so desired, memorial donations to
Stevenson Memorial Hospital Foundation, 200 Fletcher Crescent,
Alliston, Ontario L9R 1W7 would be appreciated.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-16 published
PIMENTEL,
Manuel▼
(September▼ 14, 1918-June 15, 2005)
Of Castleview Wychwood Towers. Visitation 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Friday
at the Ryan and Odette Funeral Home, 1498 Dundas St. W., at Dufferin,
Toronto. Mass 9: 30 a.m. Saturday at St. Anthony's Church to Prospect
Cemetery. Mr.
PIMENTEL, who died at Toronto Western Hospital,
was predeceased by wife Irene, and is survived by children Berta
PAIVA (Eduardo), Tony (Enelia), Tina
CARNEIRO (Manuel), Ginette
ISIDORI
(Massimo,)
Luis; 9 grandchildren; 4 great-grandchildren.
Parking is no problem - simply enter from Dufferin, just north
of Dundas.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-18 published
PIMENTEL,
Manuel▲
(September▲ 14, 1918-June 15, 2005)
Of Castleview Wychwood Towers. Mass 9: 30 a.m. today at St. Anthony's
Church to Prospect Cemetery.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-07-04 published
PIMENTEL,
Maria
Angelina
On July 2, 2005 at Toronto. Predeceased by husband Joao
PIMENTEL.
Loving▼ mother of Jose
PIMENTEL,
Eduardo and wife
Tracy and Angie
and husband Jaime. Dear grandmother of Jimmy and wife Melissa,
Jonathan, Jessica, Jennifer, Daryll and Melissa. Survived by
sisters Amelia DE
MELO,
Lurdes
LOPES and brother Jose
PIMENTEL
in Rabo de Peixe, St. Miguel. Friends may call at the Cardinal
Funeral Home, 366 Bathurst St. (near Dundas) on Monday from 2-9
p.m. Funeral Mass on Tuesday 9: 00 a.m. at Santa Cruz Church.
Entombment at Queen of Heaven Mausoleum.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-17 published
MOLATALAB,
Faye
(LUMILAN)
Suddenly at her home on September 12, 2005. Faye, beloved sister
of Nora, Ely
LORENZANA and Wilfredo and his wife
Cherry.
Dear
cousin to Delia
PIMENTEL.
Loving▲ aunt to Edgar (Christel,) Patrick
(Neri), Marichu
BUENDIA (Danny), Ferdinand (Ingrid), Cas Jr.
(Laura,) Cecile
MORRIS
(Jeff,)
Cheryl
TEIXEIRA (Alex,) Christine
and Ted. Sadly missed by her many great-nieces and nephews. Faye
was a long time employee with Canada Post. Friends may visit
at the Jerrett Funeral Home, 660 Kennedy Road, Scarborough (between
Eglinton and St. Clair Aves. E.) on Friday, September 23 from
5-9 p.m. Funeral Mass on Saturday, September 24 at 10 a.m. at
Saint Maria Goretti Catholic Church, 717 Kennedy Road. Interment
Pine Hills Cemetery.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-09-23 published
DENNIS,
Mark▲ "
Sparky▲"
(Director and Partner of Orion Securities, head of Agency Training)
It is with great sadness that the family announces Mark's sudden
death on Wednesday, September 21, 2005, in Oakville. Mark is
the beloved husband of Filomena and amazing father of Bradley
and Mitchell. Loving
son of Bill and Grace
DENNIS. He will be
deeply missed by his brothers, sisters and their children: Pat
and her husband Gord and their children Angela and her husband
Rob and their son Sammy, Michael and Matthew; Paul and his wife
Lynn and their children Chris and Stephen; Marie; Mike and his
wife Julie and their children Sean and Jennifer; Gerry and his
wife Amelia and their children Adam and Andrew; Peter and his
wife Sarah and their children Sarah, Robin, Scott and Beth; Cathie
and Terry and his wife Shelley and their children Zack, Katie,
Meggie and J-Man. Son-in-law of Venilde and Jose
PIMENTEL.
Brother-in-law
of Olivia and her husband John and their children Samantha and
Kianna; Rui and his wife Chantel and their children Brittney
and Allison; Gilbert and his wife Shirley and their children
Kevin and Nikki; Dianne and her husband Marco and the late Joseph.
Spark will also be missed by his many cousins, aunts, uncles,
Friends and business associates. Mark's energy, professionalism
and enthusiasm was instrumental in building Orion into one of
Canada's largest independent securities firms. In his family
life, Spark was larger than life. He was passionately devoted
to Fil, Brad and Mitch and enthusiastically encouraged, taught
and coached his boys every step of the way. He will be sadly
missed in Oakville Hockey circles both as a coach and player.
Visitation will be held at the Kopriva Taylor Community Funeral
Home, 64 Lakeshore Road West, Oakville (905-844-2600) from 3-5
and 7-9 p.m. Friday. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held
10: 00 a.m. Saturday, September 24, 2005 at St. Andrew's Roman
Catholic Church, 47 Reynolds Street, Oakville. Interment to follow
at Trafalgar Lawn Cemetery. A reception will be held after the
interment service at the Oakville Golf and Country Club. If desired,
memorial contributions to the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation,
P.O. Box 693, Oakville, Ontario L6J 5C1 would be appreciated
by the family. E-mail condolences may be sent to kopriva@eol.ca
please place
DENNIS on the subject line.
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PIMENTEL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-16 published
PIMENTEL,
Joao
Luis
Passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday, December 13th, 2005
at the age of 74. Beloved husband of Maria
CONCEICAO, loving
father of Luis and his wife Tina, and cherished grandfather of
Jonathon. Survived by sisters Fernanda and Maria. He will be
sadly missed by all his family and Friends. Family and Friends
will be received at the Cardinal Funeral Home, 366 Bathurst St.
on Friday from 5-9 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be held on Saturday,
December 17th at 9 a.m. from Saint Mary's Church, 589 Adelaide
St. W.
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PIMLOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-11-01 published
McKENZIE,
Hon.
Lloyd
George, Q.C.
Was born August 20, 1918, died October 29, 2005, at Lion's Gate
Hospital, North Vancouver, after suffering a stroke. He was born
in Penticton, British Columbia, moved to Victoria with his family
at age 10 when his father became Minister of Mines and Labour
in the Tolmie Administration, and except while on military service
and at law school lived there for 46 years. After two years at
Victoria College, he enlisted in the Westminster Regiment and
married Betty (née
MAHAREY) before leaving for Europe, where
he served as an infantry officer throughout the Italian campaign.
On his return, in 1945, he enrolled in the first class at the
University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, of which he became
class President, articled to J. Howard Harman, Q.C., and thereafter
practised for 26 years with the Harman firm. He was President
of the Victoria Bar, a Bencher of the Law Society of British
Columbia and for 19 years a Governor of the University of Victoria,
including a term as Chairman. He had a widely-varied practice,
appearing for the Crown or accused in numerous criminal prosecutions
and acting for the Province in notable civil suits, including
the British Columbia Electric takeover litigation and several
major taxation cases, before being appointed in 1974 to the British
Columbia Supreme Court, which required that he move to Vancouver.
During 1977-78 he was Chairman of the Royal Commission on the
British Columbia Railway. After retirement from the bench, in
1993, he acted for 10 years as Information Officer for the Court
of Appeal and Supreme Court, a position without precedent in
which he dealt daily with the media, often on important issues
about which sitting judges cannot speak. He is survived by Betty,
his treasured companion for more than 60 years; also by Anthony
McKENZIE, nephew, Barbara (Mark)
PIMLOTT, cousin, and extended
family: Frank and Patricia
SMITH,
Andrea
SMITH, Clyde
(Linda)
SMITH, Kathleen (Lyn)
BROOKS and Frances (Ian)
MURRAY. In accordance
with Lloyd's wishes there will be no service. The family asks
that no flowers be sent.
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PIMPINELLA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-26 published
TOTA,
Giuseppe
Passed away on Friday February 25, 2005, at Humber River Regional
Hospital Church Site. Beloved husband of Pia. Dear son of Maria
and the late Tomasso. Loving father of Renata and her husband
Joe PIMPINELLA,
Tom and
Vera.
Nonno to Robert, Stefanie, Ashly,
Victoria and Melanie. Giuseppe will be dearly missed by his many
brothers and sisters. Family and Friends will be received at
the Ward Funeral Home, 4671 Highway 7, Woodbridge (just west
of Pine Valley Drive), 905-851-9100, from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday
and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Sunday. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated
on Monday February 28 at 10 a.m. from Saint Margaret Mary Church
(8500 Islington Ave.)Entombment Glendale Memorial Gardens. If
so desired, donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be
appreciated.
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SUMAR,
Gaspar "
Frank"
(June 25, 1924-September 17, 2005)
Died peacefully after a courageous battle against Amyotrophic
Lateral Sclerosis surrounded by his loving family, his books,
and his art. He leaves behind his beloved wife and loyal companion
of fifty years Audrey (née
LEHMAN,) his daughter Caroline Angela
(Nigel RICHARDS,) his son Peter
GASPARD
(Cheryl née
SKORY,) his
adored grandchildren Melissa Audrey and Michael
GASPARD, his
sister Rosi
PARDI of Paris and numerous nieces and nephews in
Canada, Rome, Barcelona, Brussels and Luxembourg. Predeceased
by his parents and his brother. Friend to many, gentleman to
all, medievalist, nature lover, world traveler, passionate art
and book collector. Enthusiastic fundraiser for numerous charities
and cultural institutions. Dedicated volunteer to many community
projects and worthwhile causes. Born in Scutari he was raised
and educated in Vienna, Paris and Pisa. He joined the Italian
Resistance in 1943 with a Christian-Democratic group and after
the war was awarded a gold medal for actions in support of U.S.
General Mark W. Clark's 5th Army in Tuscany, 1944. After two
and a half years with a United Nations agency in Milan helping
refugees from Eastern Europe he left Italy and came to Canada
in 1951. He immediately started volunteer work with immigrant
and community associations. In 1954 he co-founded Corriere Canadese
and in 1955 Corriere del'Quebec. In 1956 he joined the Sorbara
Group and began his insurance career with Adriatic Insurance.
In 1965 he became associated with Manulife Financial and enjoyed
a brilliant career which lasted 40 years. He continued to meet
the insurance needs of his Friends and clients until a few months
before his death. A proud and zealous member of Rotary since
1959 he was most grateful for the opportunity it gave him to
serve the local and international community. Rotary always played
a very important part in his life. Early supporter and fundraiser
for Villa Colombo (1971), Vice-Chairman of the Board of Trustees
of the McMichael Gallery (Kleinberg) 1982-1988, co-founder of
the Mississauga Art Gallery (1987). In 1989 he raised the funds
and helped bring to completion the first Public Art Partnership
Sculpture Program for the Mississauga Art Gallery. This monumental
sculpture was later dismantled and temporarily displayed in Atlanta
commemorating Canada's participation in the 1996 Olympic Games.
Promoter of the fundraising development committee at the Pontifical
Institute of Mediaeval Studies
(PIMS.) A substantial financial
contribution in his honour was made by Manulife Financial towards
the purchase of the Rotary Health Care Bus which serves underprivileged
and homeless people in downtown Toronto. Lately, Gaspar was also
instrumental in having Manulife finance the construction of five
buildings for Habitat for Humanity. O Divine Master, grant that
I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood
as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving
that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And
it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen. Respects
may be paid at Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Ave.W.
(2 stoplights west of Yonge St.) on Wednesday, September 21st
from 6 to 9 p.m. A funeral mass will be celebrated Thursday September
22nd at, 10: 30 a.m. at St. Basil's Church, 50 St. Joseph St.
(at Bay St.) A reception will be held after the funeral mass
and a private interment in Mississauga will follow. In lieu of
flowers, donations to the charity of your choice or to the Library
of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies would be appreciated.
La Commedia E Finita.
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