MAJER
MAJERNIK
MAJEWSKI
MAJKA
MAJOR
MAJOROSI
MAJOUREY
MAJURY
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MAJER,
Loui
In loving memory to a wonderful husband, father, grandfather,
and friend, Loui
MAJER, 1937-2001.
Always loved, always remembered and forever missed. The Majer
family.
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MAJER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-09-20 published
Missing London boater's body pulled from lake near Erieau
By Patrick
MALONEY, Free Press Reporter, Wed., September 20,
A body found in Lake Erie has been identified as a missing Londoner
who disappeared while boating with a friend last month.
Bill HENDERSON, 61, who owned his own renovations company, cast
off from the Port Glasgow Yacht Club with longtime friend Joe
MAJER on August 20 in
HENDERSON's five-metre fibreglass boat.
Soon afterward, marina owner Carol
WOLF received a distress call,
which triggered a huge police search.
But after four days -- during which the body of
MAJER, 73, was
found 13 kilometres offshore -- police called off the search
for HENDERSON.
Last weekend, a boater found a body floating near
the small Chatham-Kent town of Erieau.
Police recovered the body Saturday about three nautical miles
from shore and later identified it as
HENDERSON,
Ontario
Provincial
Police
Const.
Michelle
SCOTT said yesterday.
That investigators, who scoured along the coast near Erieau on
August 24, didn't find
HENDERSON sooner underscores the difficulties
of marine searches, she added.
"We have no control over the water and weather,"
SCOTT said,
adding the original search grid didn't cover the eventual discovery
spot. "That's what takes over the investigation."
HENDERSON, who had been Friends with
MAJER since they were neighbours
in the 1970s, was an experienced boater and hunter.
One day after the disappearance,
HENDERSON was described by family
as a "very, very experienced boater, fisher (and) hunter," who
saw leisurely boat trips as "his escape."
"It was what he did when he could when he wasn't working," daughter
Kara HENDERSON said. "His life was working, fishing and hunting."
The disappearances of
HENDERSON and
MAJER came almost exactly
seven years after a 1999 boating mishap off Port Glasgow that
killed five people. In that case, it was more than three months
before all the bodies were recovered.
While this week's discovery was disappointing, police expressed
some relief for
HENDERSON's relatives.
"Obviously we always want to keep our hopes high (for) a positive
ending," SCOTT said.
"It's unfortunate that it wasn't a positive conclusion, but at
least it wasn't as long a wait for the family."
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MAJER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-11-30 published
MANAK,
Milous
Formerly of Tupperville, passed away at Riverview Gardens, Chatham
on Wednesday, November 29, 2006 at the age of 73. Born in Lethbridge,
Alberta, son of the late Thomas and Marian
(BITTNER)
MANAK.
Loving
father of Debbie and Bill
WILMOTT of Wallaceburg, Jeanne and
Doug HOUSTON of Chatham, Sherry and Jeff
CRAIG of Saint Thomas,
Susan and Terry
MAJER of Woodstock. Loving grandpa of Amy, Meghan,
Alicia, Steven, Dylan, Alex, Allyson, and Kayla. Dear brother
of Rose and Paul
MANIK of Oak Park, Michigan. Also survived by
three nieces and their families. The Manak family will receive
Friends at the Badder Visitation and Reception Centre, 679 North
Street, Dresden on Saturday, December 2, 2006 from 12: 30 p.m. until
the time of the Memorial Service at 1: 30 p.m. with Fr. Greg
BONIN
officiating. Interment of the urn in Dresden Cemetery. Donations
may be made at the funeral home by cheque to the Chatham-Kent
Health Alliance Foundation (Dialysis Unit). Online condolences
and donations may be left at our website www.badderfuneralhome.com
Arrangements entrusted to Badder Funeral Homes, Thamesville.
" A Tree will be planted in memory of Milous Manak in the Badder and
Robinson Memorial Forest, Mosa Twp."
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MAJER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-20 published
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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MAJER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-05-10 published
FIELDING,
Carman
92 years, Monday, May 8, 2006 at the Meadowbrook Residence, Lively,
with his loving family at his side. Husband of Gerda
(ISRAELSON)
FIELDING (predeceased 2000.) Father of Carman Jr. (wife
Sandra)
and Myrna (husband Ross
CUDNEY,) both of Lively, Douglas (wife
Gaye) of Sudbury, Barbara (husband Robert
MAJER) of Lively, Karen
(husband Ken
SHAW) of Whitefish, Dan (wife
Joanne) and Michael
(wife Elise,) both of Lively, Kathy (husband Michael
CULL) of
Sudbury,
Laurie of Hawaii, and Lynda
BENNETT of Worthington.
Cherished grandfather of 24 grandchildren Dean, Stacie, Kent
and Shelli; Kimberly, Dana and Meredith; Sheldon, Tara and Sharilyn,
Andrea and Nathan, Lori, Jennifer and Michelle; Shayne and Brent,
Jonathan, Jason and Ryan, Jesse, Lauren and Jordan and Davina,
23 great-grandchildren Alexander, Gillian, Yasmin, Kenyan, Duncan,
Olivia, Kendra and Darria; Parker, William, Fielding and Benjamin
Graham, Grant, Kory, Kayleigh and Mykaila; Christine, Blake and
Jack, McKenzie, Anton and Georgia. Dear son of George Parker
and Agnes
(CEASAR)
FIELDING predeceased. Dear brother of Clifford,
Cecil,
Stanley,
Garnet, Sidney, George and Frank
FIELDING, and
Amy MATSON all predeceased. Sadly missed by many nieces and nephews.
Resting at Jackson and Barnard Funeral Home, 233 Larch Street,
Sudbury. Funeral Service in Saint_John the Divine Anglican Church,
Copper Cliff Friday, May 12th, 2006 at 11 a.m. Interment in the
family plot at the Parklawn Cemetery. Donations to the Carman
Fielding Bursary Fund would be appreciated. (Friends may call
2-9 p.m. Thursday)
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MAJERNIK o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-03 published
THORNTON,
Wayva
Irene (née
BROOKS)
Peacefully at Trillium Retirement Home, Norwich on Sunday April 2,
2006, Wayva Irene
THORNTON (née
BROOKS,) formerly of R.R.#3 Scotland
in her 88th year. Beloved wife for 62 years of the late H. Ralph
THORNTON (1998.) Dear mother of Joyce and husband Raymond
WHEELER
of Paris, Marlene and husband Ed
MAJERNIK of Norwich, Gail and
husband Phil
GRAVELLE of Scotland, Dan and wife
Connie of Regina,
Cheryl and husband Kal
WAHTRAS of Lynden, the late Neil (2000)
and wife Diane of London, Wallace and wife Nancy of Jarvis, Lynne
and husband Tony
VAN
BERLO of Wilsonville, Patty Anne and husband
Chris VAN
RAVENSWAY of Burgessville. She will be sadly missed
by her 24 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren.
Survived by sister Marion
McKAY of Woodstock, brother Wallace
BROOKS and wife
Myrtle of Woodstock. Predeceased by brothers
Donald and Ronald, sister Wanda, and granddaughter Debbie
GRAVELLE.
Wayva was a lifetime member of K.T.V. (Kelvin United Church),
lifetime member of Kelvin U.C.W., pianist and choir leader for
over 40 years. Mom and Dad's door was always open and the coffee
pot was always on. Friends will be received at The Arn-Lockie
Funeral Home, 45 Main St. W., Norwich on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
Funeral service will be held at K.T.V. United Church, Kelvin
on Wednesday April 5th at 11: 00 a.m. with Rev. Robert
PARR officiating.
Interment Kelvin Cemetery. As expressions of sympathy, donations
may be made to K.T.V., Neurofibromatosis Society or charity of
your choice. Arn-Lockie (519) 863-3020.
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MAJEWSKI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-06-20 published
WINTER,
Barbara (née
JEFFERIES)
Passed away peacefully on Thursday, June 19 at Sunnybrook Health
Sciences Centre in her 77th year, with her family close by. Beloved
wife of the late Ronald C.
WINTER. Dear mother of Cynthia
MAJEWSKI,
Becky, Jeff and Mike
WINTER.
Proud grandmother of Alicia, Julian,
Riley, Katana, Liam and Jonah. A memorial service will be held
on Thursday, June 22 at 11: 30 a.m. at St. Clement's Eglinton
Anglican Church, 59 Briar Hill Avenue, Toronto. In her memory,
donations to the Canadian Diabetic Association or charity of
your choice would be greatly appreciated.
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MAJKA o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-09-12 published
MARZEC,
Wanda
At her residence on Sunday, September 10th, 2006, Wanda
MARZEC
in her 50th year. Beloved husband of Walter
MARZEC of London.
Dear mother of Agata
INCH
(Ryan) of Windsor. Loving grandmother
of Maximillian and Michalek. Survived by her brother John
MAJKA
and family of London. Loved, respected and missed by many Friends.
Visitors will be received on Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. in the O'Neil
Funeral Home, 350 William Street (between King and York). Funeral
Mass on Wednesday at 11: 00 a.m. in Our Lady of Czestochowa Church
(419 Hill Street). Interment Saint Peter's Cemetery. Prayers Tuesday
8: 00 p.m. "Always in Our Hearts"
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MAJOR o@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2006-11-15 published
PRENTICE,
Euphemia "
Phemie"
The family of the late Euphemia (Phemie)
PRENTICE would like
to express our sincere thanks to the Fawceft Funeral Home and
for all the calls, cards, flowers, donations, food, prayers and
for all expressions of sympathy. Special thanks to Doris
MAJOR,
to the nursing staff in E Wing at Headwaters Health Care Centre
for the care and kindness shown to Mom. Lunch by the Honeywood
ladies was excellent. Thank you all.
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MAJOR o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-01-12 published
THORNTON,
Joyce
Victoria
Jessie (née
HUGHES)
At the Meaford Long Term Care Centre on Tuesday January 10th,
2006. Joyce
THORNTON of Meaford, beloved wife of the late William
Frederick THORNTON (2001,) in her 89th year. Longtime member
of the Order of the Eastern Star. The former Joyce Victoria Jessie
HUGHES, daughter of the late George and Victoria
(MAJOR)
HUGHES
of England. Loved mother of Clifford
THORNTON and Gena of Meaford,
Kenneth THORNTON and Bonita of Stoney Creek, Louise
BRUCE-
PAYNE
and Dave of Guelph, Lynda
ARMSTRONG of Meaford, Paul
THORNTON
and Carolann of Smithville, and Edward
THORNTON and Sharon of
Enniskillen. Sadly missed Grandma of eleven grandchildren and
20 great-grandchildren. Predeceased by a brother George
HUGHES
and a sister Joan
HAMILTON and remembered by several nieces and
nephews and their families. Also predeceased by sons-in-law James
BENEDICT and Angus
ARMSTRONG.
Funeral services, officiated by
Reverend Gary
PARKER, will be conducted at Christ Church (Anglican)
in Meaford on Friday January 13th, 2006 at 11: 00 a.m. with interment
and committal services following at Lakeview Cemetery, Meaford.
Joyce's family will receive Friends for a time of remembrance
in the Fellowship Hall of the church following services. As your
expression of sympathy, donations to the Meaford General Hospital
Foundation or Christ Church Anglican would be appreciated and
may be made through the Ferguson Funeral Home, 48 Boucher St.
E., Meaford N4L 1B9 (519-538-1320) to whom arrangements have
been entrusted.
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MAJOR o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-02-09 published
HANES,
Robert
William
Passed away peacefully on Sunday, February 5, 2006 at Victoria
Hospital in his 53rd year. Dear brother of Laurie
HANES of Participation
House. Predeceased by his much loved brother David (1995). Loving
cousin of Wendy (Earl)
McGUFFIN,
Elizabeth
(Doug)
JAMES, Ronald
(Helen) JOHNSON, Anthony (Gusta)
JOHNSON, Deborah (Geoff)
ANTHONY.
Loved nephew of Maxine
MAJOR and family in Nova Scotia. Rob will
be sadly missed by very close Friends Gail
BARCLAY,
Fin
ANTONE,
Kevin CLONEY,
Bev and Dave
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON and Friends of Bill W. A special
thanks to the care and consideration of Dr. Martyn
JUDSON and
also the Critical Care Trauma Centre at Victoria Hospital, Bay
5 nurses and Dr.'s. A Memorial Service will be held at 10 a.m.
on Saturday, February 11, 2006, at First Baptist Church, 568
Richmond Street, London. Interment Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens.
Donations to Participation House, 215 Optimist Park, London,
Ontario, N6K 4M1 would be gratefully appreciated. Arrangements
entrusted to Memorial Funeral Home 452-3770.
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MAJOR o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-03-11 published
MAJOR,
Ilene
In memory of Ilene
MAJOR who passed away March 14, 1997.
Never more than a thought away.
Forever remembered each and every day.
We will never forget you.
Lovingly remembered by Jean, Jim and family.
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MAJOR o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-03-14 published
WHITE/WHYTE,
Betty
Cordelia (née
GARDENER)
Peacefully at Woodstock General Hospital on Monday, March 13,
2006 Betty Cordelia
WHITE/WHYTE (née
GARDENER) of Woodstock in her
78th year. Daughter of the late William
GARDENER and Winnifred
BENTLEY.
Beloved wife for 58 years of Alfred. Dear mother of
Deborah JACKSON
(Cliff
LANGFORD) of Woodstock and Karen
LEMON
(Dave TINLINE) of Cambridge. Loving "Nana" of Sean
JACKSON,
Jeremy
JACKSON (Melissa
LANGDON), Nicholas
LEMON and Jordan
LEMON (Kyle
JACKSON) and
"G-Nan" of Jaylen
JACKSON. Dear sister of Audrey
GIROLDI (Victor), Lillian
PARK (Frank) and Roberta
HENDERSON
(Dan,) all of Woodstock and sister-in-law of Arthur
WHITE/WHYTE
(Barbara,)
Doreen HOUSEWORTH
(John,) all of Woodstock and Laura
SAPWELL
(George) and Nora
MAJOR, all of Stratford. Also lovingly remembered
by numerous nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at the
Smith-LeRoy Funeral Home, 69 Wellington St. North, Woodstock
on Wednesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service at the Church
of the Good Shepherd, Anglican, 1023 Devonshire Ave., Woodstock
on Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 10: 30 a.m. with Rev. Eleanor
CARUANA
officiating. Interment later at the Anglican Cemetery. If desired,
memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or The Arthritis
Society would be appreciated. Smith-LeRoy, (519) 537-3611. Personal
condolences may be sent at www.smithleroy.com
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MAJOR o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-09-13 published
DAWDRY,
Jeffrey
Wayne
Suddenly in Sarnia on Monday, September 11, 2006. Jeffrey Wayne
DAWDRY of Ingersoll in his 38th year. Beloved husband of Jennifer
DAWDRY (née
KIPP.) Cherished father of Ryan. Loved
son of Garry
and Diane DAWDRY of Ingersoll. Dear brother of Sheri
MAJOR and
her husband Jeff and their children Tyler and Geneva of Woodstock,
and brother-in-law of Jeff
KIPP of Eastwood. Sadly missed by
several aunts, uncles, cousins and numerous Friends. Jeff was
a member of the Waterloo Regional Police Service Auxiliary Unit,
member of Horseshoe Ontario where in 1997 placed third in his
division in the World Horseshoe Tournament held in Kitchener,
and played three pitch baseball in the Woodstock league. Friends
may call at the R.D. Longworth Funeral Home, 845 Devonshire Avenue,
Woodstock (519-539-0004) Thursday 7-9 p.m. and Friday 2: 30-4:30 and
7-9 p.m. where the complete funeral service will be held in the
chapel Saturday at 11: 00 a.m. Interment later in the Ingersoll
Rural Cemetery. Contributions to a trust fund in his son Ryan's
name would be greatly appreciated. Online condolences at www.longworthfuneralhome.com
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MAJOR o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-12-21 published
Mavor MOORE,
Actor,
Producer And Writer: (1919-2006)
A 'one-man cultural conglomerate,' he went from a job as youngest
producer at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to being appointed
the first artist to become head of the Canada Council, with many
stops in between, writes Sandra
MARTIN
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page S7
As multitalented as he was prolific, as romantically restless
as he was artistically ambitious, Mavor
MOORE worked all sides
of the cultural street as an actor, director, producer, dramatist,
impresario, composer, writer, critic, cultural commentator and
academic. It is hard to believe that he was only one person.
For five decades in this country beginning in the 1940s, he was
the happening person for most cultural enterprises, including
the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Spring Thaw, the Stratford
Festival, the Charlottetown Festival and the St. Lawrence Centre
for the Arts in Toronto.
In all, he wrote more than 100 works for stage, radio, television
and film, including the book lyrics and music for Sunshine Town,
the book and lyrics for Johnny Belinda and the librettos for
Louis Applebaum's opera Erewhon and Harry Somers's opera Louis
Riel.
"He had great knowledge about the theatre and a great sense of
history," said opera and theatre director Leon
MAJOR, who succeeded
Mr. MOORE as general director of the St. Lawrence Centre for
the Arts. "He took risks with young directors and then let young
directors do what they wanted to do, guiding them as they went."
After commenting on how much he had learned from Mr.
MOORE, not
only about the theatre but also about dealing with actors and
writers, Mr.
MAJOR said yesterday: "In his heart, I think that
he was a teacher more than anything… because he took a lot of
time with young people to talk to them and listen to them and
explain."
Mr. MOORE was a man who truly believed in the development of
Canadian theatre, he added.
"As I was growing up [in the 1950s and 1960s], he and Lister
Sinclair were the two real Renaissance figures in Canada, the
two people who were sophisticated and civilized," said Peter
HERNDORF, president of the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. "Nobody
in the country has ever been so accomplished and as effective
in doing all of these art forms over a career." And yet, "for
a man who had all of these talents and all of these accomplishments,
he was very rooted" in Canada.
"He was a very, very likeable individual who didn't change over
the 40-odd years that I knew him," he said, pointing out that
the jobs Mr.
MOORE took on as an administrator were fraught with
peril and that he always managed to avoid controversy and resentment
without ever giving up what he was trying to achieve artistically.
"He had a very good emotional quotient" that made him "comfortable
enough in his own ego that it was easy for him to encourage younger
artists," he said.
"He did everything," lyricist Elaine Campbell said yesterday.
"He knew what was happening all over the world. He wrote so many
musicals and they were all good, but he was always there encouraging
people by saying, 'We're Canadians, we can do it.'"
James Mavor
MOORE was the middle of three sons of John, an Anglican
cleric, and the indomitable Dora (née
MAVOR)
MOORE.
His
Toronto
childhood was culturally enriched because his mother was an actor
and theatrical producer. He watched her play Viola in Shakespeare's
Twelfth Night when he was only 7 and she returned the favour
five years later by producing his first play for a girls' dramatic
club.
By the time he was 10, he and his brothers were producing neighbourhood
puppet shows (drawing heavily on the Bard for their plots) and
he had made his first radio broadcast as part of a choir singing
Christmas music. His parents separated in 1929 after his father,
who appears to have been a bounder, left his mother to raise
their three sons on her own. Young Mavor helped augment the family
finances by acting in The Crusoe Boys, a daily radio serial.
After elementary school, he went to the University of Toronto
Schools, then a boys only, academically elite institution. He
expanded his theatrical range to play Falstaff and Macbeth in
school productions. From University of Toronto Schools, he entered
the University of Toronto in 1936, where he studied philosophy
and English and participated in theatricals, becoming the first
student director to win the University Drama Festival, serving
as president of the Players' Guild and the Philosophical Society,
as drama critic for the student newspaper The Varsity, and as
literary editor of The Undergraduate. After failing a year because
of his heavy complement 1 with a first-class honours degree.
He immediately joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as
its youngest producer. He was 22. His poor eyesight made him
ineligible for active service overseas during the Second World
War, so, instead, he produced wartime radio features for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Later, he served as a psychological
warfare officer in Canadian Army Intelligence attached to the
Canadian High Commission in London. At the same time, he married
Darwina (Dilly)
FAESSLER on October 14, 1943. They eventually
had four daughters: Dorothea (Tedde), Rosalind, Marili and Charlotte.
From 1944 to 1945, Mr.
MOORE worked in the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation's international service, becoming senior producer
for the Pacific region in 1946. In the late 1940s, he also did
summer stints in the information division of the newly formed
United Nations Secretariat in New York, and with the United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization seminar on
education, writing and directing documentaries, three of which
won the Peabody Award.
Meantime, he was directing plays for Spring Thaw, the annual
Toronto revue that his mother had created under the auspices
of the New Play Society (which they had jointly founded in 1946).
He directed the first Spring Thaw, which opened on April 1, 1948,
and ran for three performances at the theatre in the Royal Ontario
Museum. His mother produced the revue until 1961, when she sold
the production rights to her son. He bumped up the production
values and the performance schedule, extending the annual run
at the height of Spring Thaw's success into midsummer and across
the country. In 1966, he began leasing the production rights
to younger producers.
Always in the centre of the cultural action, Mr.
MOORE was chief
producer in television's fledgling days at the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation from 1950 to 1954, having turned down an offer from
CBS to direct its top television drama series, Studio One.
One of the people who answered to him at the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation was Norman Campbell, who had been working in radio
in Vancouver. In 1952, he reported for duty as a television director,
along with his wife, Elaine Campbell.
"I will always remember him as the first person I met at the
Canadian
Broadcasting
Corporation," she said yesterday of Mr.
MOORE.
"He was wonderful. He was so full of ideas." She remembers the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as expansive and accommodating,
with nobody vacillating about productions by worrying about audience
numbers or reactions. "If you had an idea, you went to Mavor,
and said: 'I want to do this show or that show and you did it.'"
The Mavor MOORE show she remembers best from that time is Sunshine
Town, based on Stephen Leacock's classic Sunshine Sketches of
a Little Town. Mr.
MOORE wrote the book, lyrics and music for
the show, which aired first on radio as The Hero of Mariposa
on March 31, 1954, and then on television as Sunshine Town that
December. It was also performed on stage in Toronto and Orillia,
Ontario (Mr. Leacock's home town), and later revived at the Charlottetown
Festival and the Mariposa Festival. "He had beautiful songs and
it was a funny script based on Stephen Leacock's humour," said
Mrs. Campbell. "He didn't miss a bit of it."
In 1954, Mr.
MOORE quit the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
to join Tyrone Guthrie at the new Stratford Festival, to act
and to produce his own plays and musicals. His tenure was brief,
but he did appear as Escalus in Measure for Measure in the festival's
inaugural season.
His richest creative period was probably his years as the founding
artistic director of the Charlottetown Festival, from 1964 to
1968. Mrs. Campbell tells a charming story about Mr.
MOORE's
reprising some songs about Anne of Green Gables from a television
show that Mr. Campbell had produced, at the gala performance,
in front of the Queen, at the opening of the Confederation Centre
for the Arts in Charlottetown in 1964. Apparently, the Queen
loved the songs but wondered where the rest of the show was.
Mr. MOORE interpreted these comments as a "command" from the
monarch and issued an invitation to the Campbells to come up
with a musical about Anne.
And that was the genesis of the musical Anne of Green Gables.
Mr. Campbell wrote the music, Don Harron adapted the book and
Mrs.
Campbell wrote many of the lyrics. In the end, Mr.
MOORE
contributed two key songs, The Words and Open the Window, which
opens the second act. "He has been part of our trio ever since,"
she said.
After the breakup of his first marriage in the mid-1960s, Mr.
MOORE
married literary biographer Phyllis
GROSSKURTH in May of 1968.
Nathan Cohen announced their nuptials by writing in the Toronto
Star: "
Double congratulations to Mavor
MOORE. He married literary
historian Phyllis
GROSSKURTH on Sunday, and
on Monday Toronto
City Council finally gave the go-ahead signal for the building
of the St. Lawrence Centre." As general director, Mr.
MOORE saw
the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts opened and passed on the
reins to Leon
MAJOR in 1970.
The two men had met in the early '60s because Mr.
MAJOR had directed
a couple of Spring Thaws. Mr.
MAJOR went to Halifax in 1963 to
start the Neptune Theatre and invited Mr.
MOORE to play Undershaft
in Major Barbara. "It was very important to me to have him there
because he was so knowledgeable and he could bring some weight
to Neptune," Mr.
MAJOR said.
Mr. MOORE also directed plays for Neptune in subsequent seasons.
The two men worked together years later when Mr.
MAJOR directed
the opera Louis Riel, for which Mr.
MOORE had written the libretto.
"Working with him on that was a joy because he was a writer who
didn't think every word he wrote was sacrosanct and he was supportive
about the production," said Mr.
MAJOR.
From the St. Lawrence Centre, Mr.
MOORE accepted an appointment
in the faculty of arts at the newly established York University
in Toronto. While teaching at York, he took on yet another responsibility
as the first artist appointed head of the Canada Council, a position
he held from 1979 to 1983. York designated him professor emeritus
in 1984 when he reached 65.
By now, his second marriage had ended. In 1979, he and Harry
Freedman attended the Courtney Summer Youth Camp in British Columbia,
supervising the production of the opera Abracadabra -- Mr. Freedman
wrote the music and Mr.
MOORE the libretto. Soprano Alexandra
(Sandra) BROWNING was also there as a teacher and singer. "It
was instant attraction," she said yesterday from Victoria. "Our
eyes met in the cafeteria and we clicked." They were married
the following year and have one daughter, Jessica.
He moved to British Columbia, settling first in Vancouver, then
in Victoria in late 1980s. He made his presence known in the
best possible way by teaching at the University of British Columbia,
serving as co-chair of the World Conference on Arts, Business
and Politics at Expo 86 in Vancouver, as founding chair of the
British Columbia Arts Council from 1996 to 1998, and as an adjunct
research professor in fine arts and humanities at the University
of Victoria.
He published his aptly named memoirs, Reinventing Myself, in
1994 when he was 75, although he largely limited himself to the
first 50 years of his life. In reviewing the book for The Globe
and Mail, Martin Knelman called Mr.
MOORE a "one-man cultural
conglomerate." He praised the book as "a lively and informative
memoir almost preposterously crammed with incident," but he chastised
Mr. MOORE for his frustrating lack of disclosure and introspection
not only about his own life, but his relationship with his formidable
mother. But then that was one of Mr.
MOORE's more charming qualities
his diplomacy and his amicability that enabled him to get
along with almost anybody, including his three wives, all of
whom were on friendly terms with him until the end of his life.
James Mavor
MOORE was born in Toronto on March 8, 1919. He died
in Victoria after a period of declining health on December 18,
2006. He was 87. He is survived by his wife, Alexandra (Sandra)
Browning, his five daughters and their families, five grandchildren
and one great-grandchild. A tribute to his life will be held
at the University Club in Victoria on January 6, 2007, at 2 p.m.
Another celebration will be held in Toronto at a later date.
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CULLEN,
Clare
Ann (née
TURNER)
(November 14, 1941-January 22, 2006)
It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of our
much loved Mom, who passed away peacefully surrounded by her
family and close Friends. Devoted Mom to Nicola and Rick
MAJOR
and Liam and Kathryn
CULLEN.
Adored
Grandma to Zachary, Sydney
and Sabrina
MAJOR.
Mom is survived by her loving family in England:
Duncan and Leslie
TURNER,
Diana and Alan
STAINTON, Elaine and
Claude BAKER and many nieces and nephews. A wonderful friend
to so many. A special thank you to Dr. Nicole
DEVOST,
Catharine
PLUE, and the entire Palliative Care Team. Also to Marg and Heather
from Care Partners and Tammy, Cindy, and Cathy who were so caring
until the end. Friends may call at Oshawa Funeral Service "Thornton
Chapel", 847 King St. West (905-721-1234) for visitation on Wednesday,
January 25th from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be held
in the Chapel on Thursday, January 26th at 11: 00 a.m. At Mom's
request in lieu of flowers, donations made to the Durham Regional
Cancer Centre would be greatly appreciated.
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POLCZ,
Maria
Passed away, at Sunnybrook Hospital, on Friday, March 10, 2006,
in her 82nd year, after a short battle with cancer. Beloved wife
of the late Charles
POLCZ, dear mother of Anna and Zoltan
SIMON,
Laszlo and Agnes
MESZAROS of Hungary. Grandmother to Kathy and
Dave KINGHORN, George
MAJOROSI and Laurie
GILES, Laszlo, Jozsef
and Beatrice
MESZAROS of Hungary. She is survived by great-grandchildren
Scott, Melissa, Leslie, Nicole, Andrew, Rita, Daniel, and Dorotha.
Funeral Mass will take place on Saturday, March 25, 2006, 11: 30 a.m.
at St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church at 432 Sheppard Ave. East.
Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be greatly appreciated.
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ENGEL,
Edna
Victoria
(McRAE) (July 1, 1928-January 20, 2006)
Peacefully in her sleep surrounded by the love of family at Mount
Sinai Hospital, Toronto. Loving wife of 54 years to James Allan
ENGEL and loving mother to Jim (Mary,) David (Lorna,) Katherine
(Robert BELISLE), Bill (Ruth) and John (Lisa). Cherished Grandmother
to Khrisstina, Jason, Graham, Owen, Lauren, Katrina and Caitlin.
Beloved sister to Fred
McRAE of Port Colborne, Graham
McRAE of
Allenford, Annie
LYNN of Southhampton, Janet
GARK of Sarnia and
Mary Lou MAJOUREY of Paisley and loving aunt to many nieces and
nephews. Friends may call at the Steckley-Gooderham Funeral Home
(Clapperton and Worsley St.) Barrie on Monday from 2-4 and 7-9
p.m. Service from Grace United Church, Barrie on Tuesday January
24th at 1: 00 p.m. Interment Barrie Union Cemetery. As dedicated
member of Grace United Church, James and Edna would request in
lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Grace Memorial Fund.
Condolences may be forwarded through www.steckleygooderham.com
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MAJURY,
Douglas
H.
(Retired C.N.R., Mason, Shriner)
After a brief illness on Friday, December 30, 2005 at the Humber
River Regional Hospital, Church Site in his 81st year. Beloved
husband of Violet for 57 years. Loving father to Donna Arlene
CARRINGTON. Dear brother of Marion
LOWTHER "Aunt Pidge". Douglas
will be deeply missed by all his family and Friends. Friends
may call at the Ward Funeral Home, 2035 Weston Rd. (north of
Lawrence Ave.), Weston from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday. A
private family funeral will be held on Thursday. Interment Prospect
Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Salvation Army
would be appreciated by the family. Condolences may be sent to
douglas.majury@wardfh.com
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MAJURY,
Alice
Peacefully, with her daughters by her side, on Friday, February
3, 2006, at the Humber River Regional Hospital - Finch Site,
in her 82nd year. Predeceased by her beloved husband James Dean
MAJURY.
Loving mother of Colleen (Norm)
CROSS of British Columbia
and Charlleen
BOLTON of Toronto. Dear grandmother of five grandchildren
and ten great-grandchildren. At Alice's request, a private family
funeral will take place. In lieu of flowers, donations to the
Children's Wish Foundation would be appreciated by the family.
Arrangements entrusted to the Ward Funeral Home (Weston), 416-241-4618.
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