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GURLAND,
Albert
After a lengthy illness, on Tuesday, June 20, 2006 at Cummer
Lodge. Albert
GURLAND, beloved husband of Betty. Loving father
and father-in-law of Paul and Erella
GURLAND,
Karen and Mark
COHAN, and Jennifer
GURLAND. Dear brother of Ben and the late
Bernie GUROFSKY.
Devoted grandfather of Lauren, Daniel, Alexandra,
Jordana, Brittany, and Adriana. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel,
2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin), for service
on Wednesday, June 21st at 12 noon. Interment Community Section
of Pardes Shalom Cemetery. Shiva 117 Yorkminster Road. If desired,
memorial donations may be made to Na'Amat Canada 416-636-5425.
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LEBEDEW,
Evelyn
Louise
(GRAHAM)
Passed away July 5th, at University Hospital, peacefully and
with Ky and Deb by her side. Evelyn was born June 7, 1934 in
London, Ontario. She is predeceased by her parents and husband,
Paul LEBEDEW.
She will be sadly missed by her children; Paul
and Glenda
WADDELL, Ky
WADDELL and Deb
ELLIOT/ELLIOTT, and Alexander
and Corry LEBEDEW.
Zack
WADDELL will never forget the time spent
together playing games and talking with his "Meme". Jan (Brad),
Mike (Kim), and Chris (Natasha) have many years of laughter and
fun to remember Evie by. Dawson
LEBEDEW, and his sister Fiona
(yet to be born), will learn of their Grandma through stories.
Evelyn is survived by her siblings; Ken
GRAHAM,
Cheryl and Fred
SMALL and Marrianne and Marvin
MAGILL, John and Burt Ann
WARD
were special Friends, and their presence in her life these past
few years was greatly celebrated by Evelyn. Evelyn spent most
of her adult life in London and then Exeter where she raised
her three children with unconditional love and support. During
her time in Exeter, she started the first "Beavers" pack and
served for many years as a leader. These were happy times for
Evelyn and nothing pleased her more than watching children, her
own and others enjoying themselves. She returned to London 15 years
ago, when her first diagnosis of breast cancer was received.
Thankfully, she had been symptom free since that early treatment,
and only very recently began the battle again. She spent her
last weeks at home, as was her wish. Her family offer sincere
thanks to Doctor Irene
COHEN for her skilled and compassionate care
of Evelyn during these last weeks. The Community Care Access
Centre team and the Victorian Order of Nurses palliative team
were also instrumental in supporting her stay at home. Special
thanks to University Hospital palliative team, especially Carolyn.
Family and Friends will be received at the Westview Funeral Chapel,
709 Wonderland Road North on Friday, July 7th from 3 p.m.-5 p.m.
and 7 p.m.-9 p.m. The funeral service, officiated by The Rev. Sylvia
BRIGHTWELL, will take place at Christ Anglican Church, 138 Hill
Street, at Wellington, at 4: 30 p.m. on Saturday, July 8th. If
so desired, rather than flowers, Evelyn has requested donations
to Christ Anglican Church in her memory.
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COHEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-08 published
OEFFER,
Rachel "
Ray"
On Tuesday, March 7, 2006 in Toronto. Ray
OEFFER beloved wife
of the late Edward (Eddie)
OEFFER.
Loving mother and mother-in-law
of Beverly and Harold
SHIFMAN, and Wendy
DRAPER. Dear sister
of Anne ERLICK, Mildred
SCHWARTZ, Rose
STEIN, Ralph
EDSON and
the late Eva
URMAN, and Sara
SCHWARTZ.
Devoted grandmother of
Jeffrey and Jean
SHIFMAN,
Ellie and Cara
SHIFMAN, Debbie and
Michael GLOGAUER, Aimee
DRAPER and Jay
STOLBERG, Russell
DRAPER,
and the late Susan
COHEN.
Devoted▼ great-grandmother of Amanda,
Josh, Eliana, Aaron, Judah, Baila, Daniel, Hannah, Mira, Naomi,
Benjamin, Ruthie, Shayla, and Aleeza. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin)
for service on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment
Pride of Israel Section of Mount Sinai Memorial Park. Shiva strictly
private. If desired, memorial donations may be made to The Ontario
Heart and Stroke Foundation 416- 499-1417 and The Canadian Cancer
Society 416-961-7223.
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MUROFF-
COHEN,
Pauline
Surrounded by her loving family on Friday, March 17, 2006 at
Humber River Regional Hospital - Church Site. Pauline
MUROFF-
COHEN,
beloved wife of David
COHEN, and the late Ruben
MUROFF.
Loving▼
mother and mother-in-law of Helen and Jerry
FISHMAN, and Edith
and Arthur
MAJER and step-mother of Ron and Marilyn
COHEN.
Dear
sister and sister-in- law of Abraham and Millie Golinker, and
the late Minnie and Lou Brown, Joe and Selma
GOLINKER,
Sally
and the late Harry
GALLINGER.
Devoted grandmother of Mark and
Doreen FISHMAN,
Gary and Sheryl
RUBINOFF, Marcy
SUSMAN, Martin,
Steven and Marlene, David and Tami, and Joel and Dina
MAJER.
Devoted great-grandmother of 17. Services were held on Sunday,
March 19, 2006. Interment Shaarei Shomayim Section of Mt. Sinai
Memorial Park. Shiva 70 Blue Forest Drive. If desired, memorial
donations may be made to Doctor Steven
GALLINGER, G.I. Cancer Research
Fund at the Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mt. Sinai Hospital,
416-586-8290 or Pioneer Woman Organization 416-636-5425.
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COHEN,
Molly▼
Shapiro▼
Peacefully in her 94th year on Wednesday March 29, 2006 at Toronto
General▼
Hospital.▼
Molly▼ Shapiro
COHEN beloved wife of the late
Al COHEN.
Loving▲▼ mother of Sondy and Bobby. Grandmother of Pam
and Hilarie. Great-grandmother of Emma, Max, Allison and Matthew.
Sister of Bernard and Harold
SHAPIRO. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin)
for service on Friday March 31, 2006 at 10: 30 a.m. Interment
Montreal. If desired, memorial donations may be made to Doctor Sheila
Cohen Endowment or Women's Health, North York General Hospital
Foundation at 416-756-6829
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COHEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-04-14 published
Magnus GUNTHER,
Professor And Activist (1934-2006)
Raised in South Africa, he left to escape apartheid and eventually
settled in Canada where he regrouped and mounted a private war
on the racist regime in Johannesburg. He later became an expert
on Inuit land claims
By Douglas
McARTHUR,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S7
Toronto -- The cut and thrust of politics fascinated Magnus
GUNTHER.
As a youth in Johannesburg and later in the Netherlands, he played
active roles in the international student movement and in the
struggle against apartheid. When those activities left him without
a South African passport, he brought his passion for political
science to Canada, where he taught at York and Trent Universities,
and took on a number of fact-finding missions for the federal
government.
As a student leader, he lobbied for democracy in Franco's Spain,
for an end to French rule in Algeria and for black rights in
South Africa. Yet he steered clear of Communist groups that had
similar aims. As an opponent of apartheid, he gave support from
abroad to the African Resistance Movement's campaign of sabotage
against property within South Africa. Although always to the
left of the political centre, he became a target of leftist critics
himself in 1992, over a report he wrote for the federal government.
It took the side of Ottawa over Inuit villagers who claimed they
had been relocated to the high Arctic against their will.
For more than three decades, Prof.
GUNTHER suffered from Crohn's
disease, undergoing major surgery and periods of hospitalization.
Yet he continued to be involved in international political causes
even into his retirement.
"He was a very skillful backroom politician," says John Shingler,
a former South African student leader and now a financial consultant
in Montreal. "He knew the dynamics of a group and how to garner
a majority of support."
Magnus GUNTHER, an only child, was born in Germany in 1934. When
he was 2, his parents, Johann and Katerina
GUNTHER, moved to
Johannesburg to escape the Nazi regime and ensure a Catholic
education for their son. But the father was soon interned in
his new homeland because of his German nationality. He moved
to South-West Africa (now Namibia) when Magnus was 12, leaving
the mother to raise the boy.
After dropping out of medical school at 19, Magnus
GUNTHER worked
underground in a Johannesburg mine. But he hated having to supervise
black workers who were more experienced than he was. Later, while
attending the University of the Witwatersrand, he served as president
of the Student Representative Council in 1957-58 and led a highly-publicized
march through the streets of Johannesburg to protest apartheid
at the university. He went on to become vice-president of international
relations with the National Union of South African Students.
From 1959 to 1964, he worked in Leiden, the Netherlands, with
the Co-ordinating Secretariat of the International Student Conference,
which represented national student organizations from a number
of countries. While there he gave speeches, organized conferences,
wrote articles and travelled extensively, working to further
the group's fights against racism and colonialism.
A rival organization, based in Prague, was believed to be directed
from Moscow. But it was years later before he found out that
his own group had been largely financed by the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency. Despite the revelation, he continued his Friendship with
an American student leader who had known all along. Friends cite
that as an example of his forgiving nature.
Michael Stevenson, now president of Simon Fraser University,
was involved in student politics at Witwatersrand in the early
sixties. He recalls Magnus
GUNTHER returning to South Africa
from Holland at great personal risk to speak at a student conference.
He showed up "like the Scarlet Pimpernel" with no advance publicity
and was greeted as legendary hero.
By then, he was giving support from outside the country to the
National Committee of Liberation, later the African Resistance
Movement, a clandestine anti-apartheid organization of mostly
white Liberals. It was founded in 1960 after 250 unarmed blacks
were killed or wounded by police during a rally in the Township
of Sharpeville. The group supported bombings and sabotage against
property and government installations, as long as no people were
killed or injured. African Resistance Movement was crushed by
the South African government in 1964 after one member, Adrian
Leftwich, testified against his associates under threat of execution.
By then a professor at the University of York in England, he
was disowned by most African Resistance Movement supporters.
But Magnus
GUNTHER continued to keep in touch.
"His view was there but for the grace of God go I," says Prof. Leftwich.
In his retirement, Prof.
GUNTHER chronicled the history of African
Resistance Movement in a chapter written for Vol. I of The Road
to Democracy in South Africa, published in 2004. He writes there
of his personal involvement in a failed attempt to use a Second
World War torpedo boat to transport arms and explosives into
South Africa and to bring exiles out. He also cites his various
unsuccessful attempts to raise money and obtain explosives for
African Resistance Movementusing his international student contacts
in Algeria and elsewhere.
Leaving his post in Holland, he obtained a doctorate in political
science at the University of North Carolina in the mid-1960s.
While there he married his first wife, Phyllis
SHAFER.
With
South
Africa refusing to issue him a new passport, he was admitted
to Canada in 1966 on a laissez-passer permit, which allowed him
to teach at York University in Toronto.
Before long he had bought a 60-hectare farm near Keene, Ontario,
with a friend and lived on it for a while with his wife and children.
He loved ploughing fields with a tractor because it was one place
where he could see instantly the results of his labours, says
Phyllis GUNTHER.
The professor believed he could teach himself
to do anything, she says. So he took a course in plumbing and
then installed running water and a bathroom in the dilapidated
farmhouse.
In 1975, after Prof.
GUNTHER was diagnosed with Crohn's disease
at 40, he moved from York University to Trent in Peterborough,
which was closer to the farm. Otherwise he refused to slow down.
Few people were aware of his suffering, says Derek
COHEN, a colleague
at York. As always Prof.
GUNTHER was the centre of attention
at any social gathering. Friends say he had an infectious sense
of humour, a love of conversation and a sincere concern for the
problems of others, as well as a passion for books. While at
Trent, Prof.
GUNTHER supported many aboriginal and environmental
causes, says Bruce
HODGINS, then a history professor. The two
were among dozens charged with mischief in 1989 for blocking
a logging road in the Temagami wilderness in a bid to protect
an old-growth forest. He was detained and fingerprinted, but
the charges were dropped before trial.
From 1980 to 1983, Prof.
GUNTHER took a leave from Trent to serve
as a senior policy adviser with the federal ministry of social
development in Ottawa as part of an executive exchange. Contacts
he made then helped him win a number of future contracts with
the federal government. In 1980, the professor separated from
his first wife. Six years later, he married Jan DE
CRESPIGNY,
an Ottawa psychologist who had been born in South Africa.
In 1990, he wrote a report for the federal department of Indian
affairs on the overlapping land claims of the Inuit, Métis and
Dene in Canada's Arctic. John Parker, a former Northwest Territories
Commissioner, used the research as source material when he advised
Ottawa on the boundary line that would separate the new territory
of Nunavut from the Northwest Territories. He calls Prof.
GUNTHER's
report "an important piece of work, well-done."
In 1992, the professor found himself embroiled in controversy
after he was commissioned to write a report for the same department
on the relocation of Inuit families in the early 1950s from Northern
Quebec to the high Arctic. The Inuit were seeking compensation
from Ottawa, claiming they were dumped and abandoned in order
for Canada to assert sovereignty in the far north. Prof.
GUNTHER's
400-page report, along with testimony he gave the following year
at a royal commission into the issue, asserted that the Inuit
were moved to an area where game was abundant, that the government
had not acted maliciously and the relocation was actually a success
story.
One critic of his stand was Andrew J. Orkin, a McGill professor.
Ironically Prof. Orkin was also a South African and an opponent
of apartheid, although the men were not aware of this link. In
an opinion article in The Globe and Mail, Prof. Orkin wrote:
"In short, the government-commissioned report is a systematic
assault on the veracity and understanding of the Inuit who have
testified about the event and its effects on their lives and
society. As a result, it compounds the profound wrong done to
them by the relocation itself."
But Sheila Meldrum, a former bureaucrat in the Indian affairs
department, says Prof.
GUNTHER produced a thorough and competent
report, and was criticized only because opinion was polarized
on the issue. The royal commission's findings were that Canada's
attempt to restore "the natural state of the Inuit" had been
"dishonest, inhumane and illegal." Eventually Ottawa paid $10-million
in compensation.
After taking early retirement from Trent in 1998, Prof.
GUNTHER
continued to travel widely in pursuit of his political interests.
He attended a United Nations summit against racism in Durban
in 2001, was a member of Oxfam Canada's observer mission to the
fist post-apartheid elections in South Africa in 1994, and travelled
to Ukraine over Christmas in 2004 to monitor elections there.
Magnus GUNTHER was born on September 17, 1934, in Munich. He
died in Ottawa on March 7, 2006, two months after being diagnosed
with cancer of the pancreas. He was 71. He is survived by his
wife Jan de Crespigny, and by his children David, Katherine,
Julian and Harriet. He also leaves his first wife Phyllis and
three grandchildren.
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SOLOMONS,
Carolyn (née
KLEINBERG)
Peacefully, surrounded by her loving husband, children and sister,
following a courageous battle with cancer, it is with great sadness
that we announce the passing of our dear wife, mother, grandmother,
daughter and sister, Carolyn
SOLOMONS, on May 27, 2006. Carol
will always be lovingly remembered by her husband of 45 years,
Syd SOLOMONS, by her children, Susie (Ephraim)
DLOOMY,
Hayden
(Robyn) SOLOMONS, Lesley (Stephen)
COHEN and Lori (Shawn)
GOLDENBERG,
by her adoring grandchildren, Josh, Zack, Dean, Brooke, Michelle,
Madison, Max, Stephanie, Carly, Jordana and Halle, by her dear
mother, Gertie
KLEINBERG and her predeceased father Irving
KLEINBERG,
and by her sister, Simmy (Robert)
SHNIER.
Bubby
Carol's energetic
spirit is and will always be felt in our hearts forever. At Benjamin's
Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west
of Dufferin) for service on Monday May 29, 2006 at 12: 00 noon.
Internment at Pride of Israel Section of Mt. Sinai Memorial Park.
Shiva at 20 Simeon Court. If desired, donations may be made to
The Carolyn Solomons Memorial Fund c/o The Benjamin Foundation,
3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario M6A 2C3 (416) 780-0324.
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COHEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-06-19 published
COHEN,
Stan▼
On Saturday, June 17, 2006 at his home. Stan
COHEN, beloved husband
of Sheila and the late Susan. Beloved father, father-in-law,
and step-father of Dana and Adam, Jonathan and Simone, Alysa
and Mitch, and Josh and Dori. Dear brother and brother-in-law
of Hushy and Estelle, Ava and Bernie, Sy and Carrol, and Bea
and Joe. Devoted grandfather of Sophie, Jenna, Liam, Marlie,
and Noah. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue
W., (three lights west of Dufferin) for service on Monday, June 19th
at 12: 00 noon. Interment Pardes Shalom Cemetery, Holy Blossom
Temple section. Shiva 415 Bedford Park Avenue. In lieu of flowers,
memorial donations may be made to the charity of your choice.
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COHEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-07-04 published
LEVINE,
Freda (formerly
FINKELSTEIN, née
ROSNER)
(4 January 1904-3 July 2006)
Dedicated daughter of Priscilla and Samuel
ROSNER, loving sister
of Saidye BRONFMAN, O.B.E., Leah Monica
AMDUR and Frances
GROSSMAN,
devoted wife of Doctor Manly
FINKELSTEIN (1898-1949) and Moe
LEVINE
(1903-1978). She will be especially missed by her immediate family,
Tom FINKELSTEIN and his wife
Pamela
MADALENA of Comox, British
Columbia, Sue and Bernie
PUCKER of Boston, Massachusetts, Roselle
ABRAMOWITZ of Stowe, Vermont and Harvey
LEVINE and his partner
Louise Trudel of Montreal. She adored and was adored by her grandchildren:
Cara FINKELSTEIN,
Marcie and Bill
SCUDDER, Joseph and Melanie
ABRAMOWITZ,
Naomi and Michael
COHEN, Michael and Gigi
PUCKER,
Ken and Leslie
PUCKER,
Jon and Marcie
PUCKER. Her great grandchildren
were a great source of joy and focus for her. Daniel, Jeremy
and Elana SCUDDER,
Allison
EDEN and Isaac
ABRAMOWITZ, Loren and
Adam COHEN, Abby Maggie and Jessica
PUCKER, Oliver
PUCKER and
Hannah and Isabella
PUCKER will miss having her in their lives
- always remembering their birthdays and their special desires.
She was a devoted aunt and great aunt to Edgar
BRONFMAN,
Charles
BRONFMAN, Phyllis
LAMBERT, Barbara
BRONFMAN and Jean
DEGUNZBURG
who often traveled from France to visit with her; Jeff
GROSSMAN
and Nancy GIDWITZ,
Cynthia
GROSSMAN and Nancy
GROSSMAN. Freda
was loved and honoured by the entire Levine family as represented
by Michael and Donna
LEVINE of Toronto, Allan and Suzie
LEVINE
of Israel, Ruth and Arthur
PENN of Boston. So many around the
world counted Freda as a friend and many others adopted her as
family because she cared so much about the well-being of so many.
The family is eternally grateful to her assistant, Marie-Claire
Freeme DE WALLENS and her loving and attentive caregivers for
their attention and support. May she find peace in her passing
as she did joy in her living. Funeral service from Paperman and
Sons, 3888 Jean Talon St. W., Montreal on Tuesday, July 4th at
2: 00 p.m. Burial in Montreal. Shiva at 4300 de Maisonneuve St. W.
#328, Westmount, Québec through Thursday evening, shiva daily
from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. In lieu of flowers, Freda can be remembered
with support for Birthright Israel Foundation in Canada, (416) 398-7785
Ext.: 2, in the U.S. - (212) 457-0040.
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COHEN,
Edgar▼
Horace▼
Peacefully at home in Montreal in his ninety-third year surrounded
by his loved ones on Thursday, July 13, 2006. Husband of Ruth
GOLDBERG for 57 years. Father and father-in-law of Lenore and
Paul HARRIS,
Judy and Michael
JACOBS, Andrew and Mary
COHEN.
Grandfather of Michelle, Kenny, and Andrew
HARRIS;
Jesse▼
JACOBS
Alexander and Rachel
COHEN.
Brother of Elsa and the late Bernard
RUBIN, the late Arthur E.
COHEN, the late Riva and the late Harvey
GOLDEN and brother-in-law of Sol
GOLDBERG,
Rita and the late
Archie WOLFSON.
Mourned by his nephews and nieces. The family
thanks his loyal secretary of twenty-five years, Hyacinth
MOULTON,
and our other family - Marieta, Venus, Cynthia and Amapola --
who cared for him in his later years with affection and devotion.
Funeral service from Paperman and Sons, Montreal, 3888 Jean Talon
St. W.on Sunday, July 16 at 12 noon. Burial at the Shaar Hashomayim
Congregation Cemetery, Mt. Royal Blvd. Shiva private. Contributions
in his memory may be made to the "Ruth and Edgar H. Cohen Endowment
Fund", c/o Jewish General Hospital Foundation (514) 340-8251
or to the "Ruth and Edgar H. Cohen Fund," c/o Congregation Shaar
Hashomayim (514) 937-9471.
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COHEN,
Edgar▲
Horace▲
Died peacefully at home, on July 13, in Montreal. Ruth Goldberg
COHEN, his beloved wife of 57 years, was at his bedside. He was
92 years old. Edgar
COHEN was born in Montreal on October 28,
1913. He was the
son of Abraham Zebulon
COHEN, a coal merchant
and scion of the Jewish Montreal, and Malca
(VINEBERG)
COHEN,
an erudite and witty conversationalist. He was the brother of
Arthur, Riva and Elsa. He attended Roslyn School and Westmount
High School. He went to McGill University and graduated with
an Honours Bachelor of Arts in 1934. Upon the sudden death of
his father in 1937, he abandoned plans to study medicine and
became president of L. Cohen and Sons Ltd., founded by his grandfather,
Lazarus COHEN.
There he introduced innovations such as profit-sharing
and rebuilt a struggling business. He sold the company in 1959 and
entered real estate as a consultant, running Yarco Building Corp.
and LJA
Investments; he successfully represented a consortium
of investors in the United States and Western Canada. His real
loves, though, were travel, writing and learning. After 13 trips
to Europe and extensive archival research, he wrote Mademoiselle
Libertine: A Portrait of Ninon de Lanclos, the 17th century French
libertine. It was published in 1970 in Canada, the United States
and Britain. He also wrote poems, limericks, short stories, commentary
and satire, which appeared in publications including The Canadian
Forum and The Montreal Star, as well as a novel and a memoir
(unpublished). From 1977 to 1980 he was president of The Canadian
PEN
Centre. He was a member of the Board of Governors of Jewish
General Hospital, a trustee of Congregation Shaar Hashomayim,
chair of his McGill class reunion, and a member of the Friends
of the McGill Library, the Writers Union of Canada and World
Federalists. A student of history, biography and the Bible, he
was a lover of opera and the outdoors, a sailor, a skier and
tennis player, a wry and funny observer, a loving husband, an
attentive father and unfailing friend. He is survived by his
wife, Ruth, and his sister, Elsa
RUBIN; his children Lenore,
Judy and Andrew, and their spouses Paul
HARRIS,
Michael
JACOBS
and Mary GOODERHAM; and his grandchildren Michelle, Kenny and
Andrew HARRIS,
Jesse▲
JACOBS, and Alexander and Rachel
COHEN.
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COHEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-09-12 published
Herbert WHITTAKER,
Theatre
Critic And Writer: (1910-2006)
He discovered theatre in London as a boy during the First World
War and was forever smitten by a love for the stage
By Alex DOBROTA with files by the late Donn
DOWNEY and Jan
WONG,
Page S9
Toronto -- He imagined himself a war correspondent on a battlefield,
writing about costumed soldiers that bled emotions on a stage.
But the struggle that Herbert Whittaker documented and supported
for almost half a decade was a real one. As The Globe and Mail's
emeritus drama critic until 1975, Mr.
WHITTAKER found himself
on the front lines of the creation of a distinct Canadian theatre.
And much like the war correspondent who sometimes feels compelled
to pick up a rifle in the thick of battle, Mr.
WHITTAKER never
shied away from using his pen to forward the cause he embraced
since early childhood.
"Canadian critics tend to be crusaders," he wrote in a 1985 article.
"Their very occupation determines this."
Indeed, when Mr.
WHITTAKER, a tall and courtly man, started his
career at the Montreal Gazette in 1935, theatre was not high
on the national agenda. The country had to survive the rest of
the Depression and the Second World War before Canadian theatre
came of age in 1953 with the Stratford Shakespearian Festival.
It opened in a big tent and Mr.
WHITTAKER was there on behalf
of The Globe. He had been with the paper for just four years.
"The most exciting night in the history of Canadian theatre,"
he wrote after the festival's first production, Richard III.
His enthusiasm did not diminish over the years. When he retired,
Mr. WHITTAKER was invited to Stratford to accept a gift from
the festival. He was offered a prop from any of its productions
and, in a rare moment of practicality, he chose the sword used
by Alec Guinness, who appeared as Richard in 1953. "I knew his
sword, being a hard object, was likely in good repair," Mr.
WHITTAKER
said. He also wanted something that was closely associated with
the event.
Some said Mr.
WHITTAKER's reviews were too kind -- less than
satisfactory for the theatregoer who wanted to know if a play
was worth the price of a ticket. But Toronto readers had the
advantage of placing his review alongside the one in The Toronto
Star.▲
Its critics, most notably Nathan
COHEN, had the reputation
of being cold and analytical, and the intelligent reader learned
how to strike a balance between the two.
Mr. WHITTAKER offered further reasons to explain the differences.
The Star was then an afternoon paper so it could not echo The
Globe's review, which appeared in the morning. And Mr.
WHITTAKER
tended to put positive impressions in his first paragraphs. The
Star tended to do the reverse. "I was trying to build up Canadian
theatre," Mr.
WHITTAKER said in a 1999 interview.
He covered drama with the zeal of an evangelist, showing up at
The Globe in the early afternoon to write a chatty, name-dropping
column or a weekend feature. He would then return in the evening,
Sundays included, to write a thoughtful review for a deadline
usually less than an hour away.
The computer had not come of age and his typewritten copy looked
like a crossword puzzle with unreadable inserts scribbled in
by hand. The reviews were the dismay of the copy editors but
represented, given the time constraints, a minor journalistic
miracle.
While he covered the theatrical mainstream, he paid equal attention
to the smaller theatres, where he would see untried, but promising,
Canadian performers and, quite frequently, a play that was making
its Canadian debut. He also drew no distinction between amateur
and professional performances. "In certain instances, some of
the best work is done by amateurs," he said.
Herbert WHITTAKER fell under the spell of stage performance as
a boy growing up in London, England. With his family, he moved
there before the outbreak of the First World War and events had
transpired to keep them on the wrong side of the Atlantic until
peace returned. Pantomime fascinated him, as did the antics of
Elsie Janis, the musical comedy star who entertained British
troops.
After the war, Mr.
WHITTAKER's family returned to Montreal, where
the theatre scene offered little or no Canadian content and most
productions were imported from England or the U.S. With great
delight, Mr.
WHITTAKER discovered John Martin-Harvey's rendition
of Hamlet, an experience that would leave an indelible mark on
the rest of his life.
"Young as he was, these experiences shaped his critical standards
throughout his career and it is remarkable how often his reviews
harken back to Martin-Harvey…" Anton Wagner wrote in Establishing
Our Boundaries -- English-Canadian Theatre Criticism.
But for all his love of drama, Mr.
WHITTAKER shunned the stage,
opting instead for positions as speech writer and art director
during his school years at Strathcona Academy in the Outremont
neighbourhood of Montreal. As a boy growing up in Outremount,
he once played the Toff, a crime solver, in a performance staged
in the hall of a local church -- an experience he qualified as
the peak of his acting career. He was never seen on a theatre
stage again. "I was too shy," he said. "Then I got tall and gangly
and started wearing these glasses."
He dropped out of school around the age of 16 to help his family
make a living during the harsh years of the Depression. He took
up a job as an office clerk with the Canadian Pacific Railway
in Montreal's Windsor Station.
But his fascination with theatre never subsided.
"I'm afraid I cheated the Canadian Pacific Railway, for I eventually
discovered that by going down to the stacks to search out invoices,
I could find time to design costumes for church plays," he would
later write in a book about the Montreal theatre scene.
He quit his job in 1935. That same year, he started working at
the Gazette as a junior critic who was responsible for just about
everything.
And by the late 1930s, he was directing plays in Montreal, taking
some of them to the Dominion Drama Festival. He was also designing
sets for Montreal productions.
When the Second World War broke out, the army rejected him for
military service, mainly because of his less-than-perfect eyesight
and because of his somewhat frail physical condition,
"As WHITTAKER recalls, he was rejected for military service,"
University of Waterloo English professor Rota
LISTER once wrote.
"[He] did not much care whether it was because he had diminished
eye sight, a weak heart or varicose veins; he was simply relieved
and let his soldier brother defend the values of civilization
while he battled on for Canadian theatrical culture."
For all that, he viewed his work as a theatre critic for The
Gazette as a contribution to the war effort. He praised the verve
of two Canadian troop shows meant to entertain Allied soldiers,
Meet the Navy and Army Show. "His wartime reviews do not seem
out of place in The Gazette of the time, rubbing shoulders with
news flashes from the front and wartime propaganda," Mr. Wagner
wrote.
In 1949, Mr.
WHITTAKER joined The Globe as its theatre and film
critic and began his long association with the University of
Toronto as a director and designer.
At times, he reviewed the plays he directed. In 1950, for instance,
he worked on the set design for Going Home, a play written by
Morley Callaghan and performed by the New Play Society. He later
reviewed the performance for The Globe and Mail. The article's
last line read: "The settings were adequate."
He might have chosen either critic or designer as a career but
thoughts of a regular pay cheque decided the issue. The remuneration
for a designer or director was, at best, a modest honorarium,
while newspapers put their contributors on a payroll -- $35 a
week to start, in Mr.
WHITTAKER's case.
His salary must have improved over the years because when he
arrived in Toronto he discovered there were few restaurants that
matched what he had grown accustomed to in Montreal. Winston's
was one of the few exceptions and Mr.
WHITTAKER adopted it. The
actors who were appearing at the Royal Alexandra Theatre down
the street followed suit and it became the restaurant of the
celebrities.
The names of the theatrical giants fell easily from his lips.
He said the actor Sir John Gielgud helped him get the job with
The
Globe by describing Mr.
WHITTAKER as "the only intelligent
theatre critic in Canada." The favourable notice from Sir John
came after Mr.
WHITTAKER had bestowed a favourable notice for
one of Sir John's performances.
In 1961, Mr.
WHITTAKER designed the sets for the 1961-62 season
of the Canadian Players, an offshoot of the festival that toured
Canada with the classics and provided winter work for some Stratford
performers.
King
Lear was included in the company's season and Mr.
WHITTAKER,
who had designed Lear productions twice before, decided to move
the play out of ancient Britain into a Far North setting. The
set design was serviceable, a bare-bones portable affair that
relied on colour to match the mood of the play.
Over the years, Mr.
WHITTAKER's name was attached to countless
productions as either the director or designer. He had a separate
career as an adjudicator with the Dominion Drama Festival's regional
festivals and other productions. The Encyclopedia Britannica
and the Encyclopedia Americana both asked him for special articles
which he supplied.
He was also a frequent recipient of theatrical awards and picked
up honorary doctorate degrees in arts from York University and
McGill University in Montreal.
In 1976, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. The accompanying
citation read: "actor, adjudicator, director and drama critic,
whose contributions to the theatre in Canada are legion."!
Long after he retired, Mr.
WHITTAKER continued writing theatre
reviews and other various articles for The Globe and Mail, The
New York Times and the Herald Tribune. He also authored or co-authored
as many as six books, including one about Winston's, the restaurant
he so often frequented.
And, in the early 1980s, he shouldered the task of founding the
Theatre Museum of Canada. "Nobody could talk to him for more
than 30 seconds without talking about the theatre museum," recalled
Kate Barris, now the museum's president.
The museum was established in 1992 and, over the following years,
Mr. WHITTAKER would donate much of his memorabilia collection
hundreds of items that included play bills, portraits of artists
and even Alec Guinness's sword.
"Theatre was his life," said Kate Barris, the museum's president.
"He had many Friends but his main love was the theatre."
In 1999, Mr.
WHITTAKER wrote Setting the Stage, which documents
Montreal English theatre from 1920 to 1949. The book opens with
a sentence that could very well encapsulate the driving force
behind its author's career: "In many countries, no matter how
thinly populated, no matter how widely scattered across a continent,
people must eventually produce their own theatre, as objects
on a landscape must produce their own shadows."
But for all his love for Canadian theatre, Mr.
WHITTAKER also
enjoyed Western European productions. In his free time, he travelled
to England, France and Spain in search of the local flavour producers
and theatres bring to classical plays there. In one 1978 adventure
unrelated to theatre, he visited China at a time when outsiders
were seldom seen. His experiences left him somewhat rueful: "A
much-travelled man may be a well-travelled man but not necessarily
a man who travels well," he later wrote in an article in The
Globe that appeared under the headline "What went wrong."
Herb WHITTAKER never married. Before he moved into a retirement
home in 2003, he spent two years at Toronto's Performing Arts
Lodge on The Esplanade, where married couples are allocated to
two bed-room apartments. Mr.
WHITTAKER was hoping for an extra
room to use as his study. He argued his case, telling staff that
he was married to his work. "He only got one bedroom," said Ms. Barris.
"It didn't work."
And, as Mr.
WHITTAKER's living quarters shrank, the museum's
collection swelled with his donations. He kept his typewriter,
though, which often clanked away in his room as he crafted letters
to Friends and acquaintances the world over.
Well into his 90s, Mr.
WHITTAKER continued to attend theatre
performances. He was a familiar sight at Toronto premieres and
at theatre festivals in Stratford and Niagara.
In 2002, when he attended a Chekhov play at SoulPepper Theatre
Company, director Albert Shultz led the crowd in a standing ovation
to mark Mr.
WHITTAKER's 91st birthday.
"He was quite moved," Ms. Barris said.
By all accounts, he last saw a play the following year when he
watched Richard McMillan perform in Through the Eyes at The Factory
Theatre Company. Soon thereafter, his frail health confined him
to his retirement home on St. George Street, where he continued
reading theatre reviews.
"Herb's passing really marks the end of a certain generation
in Canadian theatre," Phillip
SILVER,
Dean of the Faculty of
Fine Arts of York University wrote in a statement. "He had a
view of our history that no one else will ever have. And on top
of that all, he was truly a gentleman."
Herbert WHITTAKER was born in Montreal September 20, 1910. He
died of natural causes in Toronto on Saturday.
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SOLOWAY,
Pearl
Peacefully on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 at her home. Pearl
SOLOWAY, beloved wife of Irving. Caring daughter of the late
Bella and Zelig
SCHWARTZ.
Loving mother and mother-in-law of
Lavi SOLOWAY of New York, Zelig
SOLOWAY, and Rachelle
SOLOWAY
and Rick HENDERSON. Cherished sister and sister-in-law of Rhea
and the late Tom
COHEN,
Sylvia and Charles
SMITH, and the late
Abraham SCHWARTZ, all of Montreal. Devoted grandmother of Brandon,
and Ethan. Dear niece of Donald
AXELROD.
Remembered by her nephew
and nieces. A graveside service will be held at the All For One
section of Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park on Friday, September 29th
at 12: 00 noon. Shiva 149 Steeles Avenue East. If desired, memorial
donations may be made to the Soldiers of Israel Fund 416-783-3053.
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WRIGHT,
Doctor▼
Alexander▼ McBride
81, of Brookline, Massachussetts, formerly of British Columbia,
died on September 27, 2006. Former chief of spinal surgery at
New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachussetts. Survived
by his beloved wife, Marcia
WRIGHT, daughter, Marissa
WRIGHT
of Toronto, son, Alistair
WRIGHT of Sudbury, Ontario, brother,
Richard WRIGHT of Vancouver, British Columbia, mother-in-law,
Hortense COHEN of Indianapolis, Indiana and his loving Airedale,
Daisy. Preceded in death by his parents, Alexander and Kathleen
McBride WRIGHT, and father-in-law, Charles Philip
COHEN. A memorial
service will be held at 11: 00 a.m., Saturday, October 7, at Newton
Cemetery Chapel, Newton, Massachussetts. Memorial contributions
may be directed to the American Heart Association, 20 Speen Street,
Framingham, Massachussetts 01701, www.americanheart.org
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FRIEDLICH,
Lewis
In his 106th year, and 80th year of marriage, left us peacefully
in his sleep at Baycrest Hospital on October 2, 2006. The patriarch
of the Friedlich family survived the first and second world wars
and nazi persecution with most of his family in Hungary, escaped
from the communist regime and started a new life from scratch
in Canada with his wife and two sons. He leaves behind a legacy
of a large family of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. He
was a great humanitarian, who no matter how short of funds always
wanted to help the less fortunate. Family had always been the
focus of his life to pave the way for the next generation at
often great personal sacrifices. He will be sadly missed by his
beloved wife
Aurelia. He was a loving father to Steven
FRIEDLICH,
Georgine FRIEDLICH-
ROSMAN, Claire
FRIEDLICH-
MARKUS and Doctor Tom
FRIEDLICH (deceased) and cherished his grandchildren Joey and Linda
FRIEDLICH;
Marty and Janice
FRIEDLICH; Michele and Stuart
POLLOCK
Diane BETEL;
Ruthie and Chad
BAYNE and Monica and Michael
COHEN.
He was a devoted great-grandfather to Jessica, Joshua, Justin,
Jaclyn and Tommy
FRIEDLICH;
Michael,
Jordan and Hannah
BETEL; Matthew and
Sarah POLLOCK and Will
COHEN.
Lewis also leaves behind his sister
Sara KAVENSTOCK and her family in Israel; the Kepecs/Fixler families
in Hungary and the Sardi family in Budapest and is predeceased
by his brother Tibor
FRIEDLICH
(Mauthausen) and his sisters Iren
SZABOVSZKI and Aranka
BAN.
Services were held at Beth Tzedec
Synagogue on Tuesday October 3 at 2: 00 p.m. Interment Beth Tzedec
Memorial Park. Shiva at 355 St. Clair Avenue West, Apt. 605,
afternoons only. If desired, donations may be made to the Lewis
Friedlich Memorial Fund, c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst
Street, Toronto, Ontario M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324. Thank you for
the loving care to all the staff at Baycrest giving quality to
his last days.
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WRIGHT,
Doctor▲
Alexander▲ McBride
81, of Brookline, Massachussetts, formerly of British Columbia,
died on September 27, 2006. Former chief of spinal surgery at
New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachussetts. Survived
by his beloved wife, Marcia
WRIGHT, daughter, Marissa
WRIGHT
of Toronto, son, Alistair
WRIGHT of Sudbury, Ontario, brother,
Richard WRIGHT of Vancouver, British Columbia, mother-in-law,
Hortense COHEN of Indianapolis, Indiana and his loving Airedale,
Daisy. Preceded in death by his parents, Alexander and Kathleen
McBride WRIGHT, and father-in-law, Charles Philip
COHEN. A memorial
service will be held at 11: 00 a.m., Saturday, October 7, at Newton
Cemetery Chapel, Newton, Massachussetts. Memorial contributions
may be directed to the American Heart Association, 20 Speen Street,
Framingham, Massachussetts 01701, www.americanheart.org
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MARTIN,
Ruth
Marion (née
ORMSBY)
Ruth died peacefully at home with her children at her side, on
October 16, 2006 at the age of 81. Daughter of Helen M.
MacDONELL
and Gerald Y.
ORMSBY.
Predeceased by Douglas, her loving husband
of 56 years. Survived by her children Ned and his wife Judy of
Manitoulin
Island,
Sue and her husband David
GARSKEY of Lindsay,
Tom and his wife Margaret of Toronto and Mary and her partner
Tim TOPPER of Whitehorse. Sister of Anthony J.
ORMSBY of Kilrie,
Scotland and Diana B.
COHEN
(Williams) of Micanopy, Florida.
Ruth was a very supportive wife and strong character model for
her children. She was a loving and devoted grandmother of Oona
(Matthew FRENCH,)
Janet
(Scott and Rebecca
CHALLENGER,) Jay,
Adam, Matthew, Grace, April, Frank, Molly, Sophie and Helen,
and was recently thrilled to be the great-grandmother of Everett
FRENCH.
Her grand-dogs Perdy and Iris will miss her ready supply
of welcoming ginger-snaps. She was born in Toronto and educated
at Miss Wyn Roberts' School, Brown Public School, Bishop Strachan
School and Trinity College, Toronto. She proudly signed up for
the Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service, trained at HMCS Conestoga
(Galt) and was posted to HMCS Stadacona (Halifax) until her
discharge in 1945. Ruth was a supporter of Humewood House, the
Church of the Messiah and, especially, the Toronto Branch of
the Needlework Guild of Canada. She also greatly enjoyed the
meetings of the Current Events Club. Ruth will be sadly missed
by her family and network of Friends and cousins, especially
those she grew up with during the summers of her youth in Nares
Inlet, Georgian Bay, a place she loved and enjoyed all her life.
Funeral service followed by a reception at the Church of the
Messiah, 240 Avenue Road, Toronto on Friday, October 20, at 11: 00 a.m.
Committal of ashes will be at the family cemetery, Saint_John's
Cemetery on the Humber. If desired, memorial donations may be
made to the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, 60 Murray
Street, Box 13, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3L9, or a charity of your
choice.
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GOLDFARB
Avi and Rachel
GOLDFARB lovingly welcome Anna Ruth
GOLDFARB,
born November 13, 2006, weighing 6 lbs 12 ozs. Overjoyed grandparents
are Ron and Ellen
COHEN and Marty and Joan
GOLDFARB; great-grandfathers
Ike COHEN and Harry
BAIN; uncles and aunts David, Alonna, Michael,
Baila, Rebecca, Paul, Daniel, and Marianna; nieces and nephews
Sarah, David, Lee, Jacob, Matthew, and Ellie. We love you Anna.
You're wonderful.
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GROSS,
Solly
On Thursday, January 26, 2006, at Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Centre. Solly
GROSS, beloved husband of Ida
GROSS, and the late
Lillian GROSS.
Loving father and father-in-law of Fran and Alan
LUBORSKY, and Ferne and Paul
SWARTZ. Dear brother and brother-in-law
of Doris and Eddie
COHEN.
Devoted▲▼ grandfather of Lindsay, Andrew,
Adam, Nicole, and Bryan. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel,
2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin), for service
on Friday, January 27, 2006 at 1: 30 p.m. Interment Sons of Abraham
section of Lambton Cemetery. Shiva 21 Rosemount Avenue, Thornhill.
If desired, donations may be made to Solly Gross Memorial Fund,
c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst Street, Toronto, M6A
2C3, 416-780-0324.
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SHADNEY,
Pearl (formerly
BOLJKOVAC, née
SUZACK)
Unexpectedly, at the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Burlington,
Ontario on Wednesday, January 25th, 2006. Beloved wife of Owen
SHADNEY of Burlington, Ontario and the late Dr. Nicholas
BOLJKOVAC.
Dearest mother of Chris (Catherine
ROSS) of Maitland, Ontario,
Craig
(Maria
Cristina Cárdenas
FISCHER) of Geneva, Switzerland,
Kim PEITCHINIS of Hamilton, Ontario, Kathy (Dr. Kim
PARLETT)
of Bracebridge, Ontario, and Karen (Mrs. Scott
WEAR) of Hamilton,
Ontario.
Beloved step-mother of April (Mrs. Mark
KLEIN) of Thornhill,
Ontario, and Carol-Ann
COHEN of Thornhill, Ontario. Will be missed
by her sister Sylvia of Toronto. Beloved Grandma/Nana of Alicia
Maria Boljkovac
CÁRDENAS,
Adam and Ryan
BOLJKOVAC, Brittney and
Blake PARLETT, and Samantha and Nicole
WEAR.
Beloved
Step-grandmother
of Alana and Matthew
KLEIN.
Pearl will be missed by several nieces
and nephews and many Friends in the Hamilton and Burlington area.
Visitation at Bay Gardens Funeral Home, 1010 Botanical Drive
(across from the Royal Botanical Gardens), Burlington, Ontario
(905-527-0405) on Sunday, January 29, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.,
where Funeral Prayers will be held in the Chapel on Monday, January
30, 2006 at 11: 00 a.m. Interment Holy Sepulchre Cemetery. Reception
to follow at Bay Gardens Reception Centre. If so desired, expressions
of sympathy to the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario would
be sincerely appreciated by the family. The family would like
to express special appreciation to the Intensive Care Unit staff
at the Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital. Please sign the Book of
Condolence at baygardens.ca or you may email the family at baygardens@cogeco.net
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FIDLER,
Ruby (née
COHEN)
On February 3, 2006. Beloved wife of the late Sonny
FIDLER.
Loving
mother of Michael
JESSEL (Diana), Steven
JESSEL and Jamie
JESSEL
(Kirsten.)
Adoring "
Grandma Ruby" of Julia and Zachary
JESSEL.
Cherished Aunt of Marc and Ivy
DAVIS,
Elli
DAVIS and Paul
WISE,
Joni HENDLER and Barbi and Ellie
FIDLER and great-aunt of Neely
and Lauren
DAVIS,
Matthew and Zachary
HENDLER and Alex Fidler
WENER.
Dearest sister to the late Myrtle
DAVIS (Murray,) devoted
daughter of the late Bertha and Sam
COHEN.
Deeply loved by her
whole family and huge circle of wonderful Friends. Call Benjamin's
416-663-9060 for details. Shiva 473 Spadina Rd. (from 2 p.m.
daily). Donations to Camp Oochigeas 416-961-6624 or charity of
your choice.
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SALINAS,
Eva
On Saturday, February 4, 2006 at Mount Sinai Hospital. Eva
SALINAS
beloved wife of Armando. Loving mother of Liliana
MORAIS, and
Jacqueline
COHEN.
Devoted▲ grandmother of Robert and Rochelle,
Jennifer and Doug, Danielle, Alanna, and Michael. Devoted great-grandmother
of Sarah, Noah, Yael, Nathan, and Matthew. At Holy Blossom Temple,
1950 Bathurst Street, (south of Eglinton) for service on Monday,
February 6, 2006 at 10: 00 a.m. Interment Holy Blossom Temple
Section of Pardes Shalom Cemetery. Shiva 153 Tansley Road, Thornhill.
If desired, memorial donations may be made to Mazon Canada 416-783-7554
or to the charity of your choice.
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HANIFORD,
Edythe (née
DIAMOND)
Passed away Friday, February 24, 2006, peacefully after a lengthy
illness at the age of 91. Beloved wife of the late Leo
HANIFORD.
Devoted mother of Trudi and Les
NIRENBERG and Gayl
HANIFORD.
Grandmother of Melissa and Morley
NIRENBERG.
Loving sister of
Lillian COHEN.
Sister-in-law of Bessie
WILKS and Irving and Minabel
HANEFORD.
She was the daughter of Pearl and Morris
DIAMOND. Special
friend of Yitz and Bernice
PENCINER.
Services at Steeles Memorial
Chapel on Sunday. Please call for time, 905-881-6003. In lieu
of flowers, donations in honour of Edythe
HANIFORD can be sent
to Baycrest Foundation. Shiva at 107 Clifton Ave., Downsview.
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COHEN,
Lewis
On Monday, March 6, 2006 at the North York General Hospital.
Lewis COHEN, beloved husband of the late Zelda
COHEN.
Loving▲▼
father and father-in-law of Marvin and Marilyn, Moishe and Alaine,
Aaron and Sheila, Stephen, Sandra, Myrna
COHEN-
DOYLE and Steven
DOYLE. Dear brother and brother-in-law of Mary
GAINES, and Ralph
and Helen. Devoted grandfather of Sherri and Alan, Lyndsey, Allisson,
Sherri and Dion, Alexander, Vanessa, Adam, and Tara. Devoted
great-grandfather of Hayley. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel,
2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin) for service
on Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at 12: 30 p.m. Interment Shaarei Shomayim
Section of Bathurst Lawn Memorial Park. Shiva, 257 Cocksfield
Avenue. If desired, memorial donations may be made to the Lewis
Cohen Memorial Fund c/o The Benjamin Foundation, 3429 Bathurst
Street, Toronto, M6A 2C3, 416-780-0324.
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CALVERT,
Phoebe (née
COHEN)
On Thursday, March 9, 2006 at Princess Margaret Hospital. Phoebe
CALVERT born in Glasgow, Scotland. Beloved wife of Sidney. Loving
mother and mother-in-law of Angela and Doug
GRAHAM,
Adam and
Sarah, and Andrew and Tami. Dear sister of Edna, and Brian. Devoted
grandmother of Matthew, Carly, and Jacob. For a graveside service
on Sunday, March 12th at 3: 00 p.m. in Solel Congregation section
of Pardes Shalom Cemetery. If desired, memorial donations may
be made to The Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation 416-946-6560.
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COHEN,
Martha
On Wednesday, March 8, 2006 at her home. Beloved wife of Harry
for 63 years. Loving mother and mother-in-law of Donna and Art
SIEGEL,
Mel▼ and
Ann,▼
Richard▼ and Mina, and Terry and Randi, and
the late Michael. Dear sister and sister-in-law of Sidney and
Shirley, and Harvey and Charlotte. Devoted grandmother of Rebecca
and Michael, Laurel; Stephanie and Ted, Erin and Nathan; Daniel,
Yuki and Rafael; and Jeremy, Brandon, and Michael. Devoted great-grandmother
of Hyla, Lauren, and Nicolas. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel,
2401 Steeles Ave W. (3 lights west of Dufferin) for service on
Sunday, March 12th at 1: 30 p.m. Interment Farband Labour Zionist
Section of Mt. Sinai Memorial Park. Shiva 29 Regina Ave. If desired,
memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society
1-888-939-3333 or to The Parkinson Society of Canada 416-227-9700.
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COHEN,
Molly▲
Shapiro▲
Peacefully in her 94th year on Wednesday, March 29, 2006 at Toronto
General▲
Hospital.▲
Molly▲ Shapiro
COHEN beloved wife of the late
Al COHEN.
Loving▲ mother of Sondy and Bobby. Grandmother of Pam
and Hilarie. Great-grandmother of Emma, Max, Allison and Matthew.
Sister of Bernard and Harold
SHAPIRO. At Benjamin's Park Memorial
Chapel, 2401 Steeles Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin)
for service on Friday, March 31, 2006 at 10: 30 a.m. Interment
Montreal. If desired, memorial donations may be made to Doctor Sheila
Cohen Endowment for Women's Health, North York General Hospital
Foundation at 416-756-6829.
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COHEN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-03-31 published
COHEN,
Harry
On Thursday, March 30, 2006 at his home. Beloved husband of the
late Martha for 63 years. Loving father and father-in-law of
Donna and Art
SIEGEL,
Mel▲ and
Ann,▲
Richard▲ and Mina, and Terry
and Randi, and the late Michael. Dear brother of Jeannette
COHEN
and Geoff SCOTT,
Shirley and the late Al, and the late Esther.
Devoted grandfather of Rebecca and Michael, Laurel; Stephanie
and Ted, Erin and Nathan; Daniel, Yuki, and Rafael; and Jeremy,
Brandon, and Michael. Devoted great-grandfather of Hyla, Lauren,
and Nicolas. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles
Avenue West (3 lights west of Dufferin) for service on Sunday,
April 2nd at 12: 00 noon. Interment Farband Labour Zionist section
of Mount Sinai Memorial Park. Shiva 29 Regina Avenue. If desired,
memorial donations may be made to the Canadian Cancer Society
1-888-939-3333 or to the Parkinson Society of Canada 416-227-9700.
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COHN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-07-20 published
COHN,
Peggy (née
MAY)
On Wednesday, July 19th, 2006, Peggy
COHN passed away in Toronto,
while visiting her family. Beloved daughter of the late Celia
and the late Louis
MAY,
Peggy was predeceased by her husband
Simon COHN.
She will be lovingly remembered by her children Jonathan
and Heather
COHN,
Roberta and Mitchell
OSAK, and by her grandchildren,
Shawn and Matthew
COHN, and Simon and Summer
OSAK. Dear sister
and sister-in-law of Norman and Gloria
MAY.
Peggy was a kind
and gentle soul, who devoted her life to her family. To her grandchildren,
she was more than a grandmother, she was "Peggy", a truly special
friend. We will forever miss her warmth, love and wisdom. Funeral
service from Paperman and Sons, 3888 Jean Talon St. W., Montreal
on Friday, July 21st at 11: 30 a.m. Burial in Montreal. Shiva
in Montreal Friday only, continuing Sunday at 102 Roxborough
Lane, Thornhill, Ontario L4J 4T4. Donations in her memory may
be made to the Children's Wish Foundation, 4220 St. Laurent,
Montreal Québec, (514) 289-1777 or (800) 267-9474.
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