McCOY o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2006-12-09 published
SOLINGER,
Veronica
Teresa (née
MYATT)
Passed away peacefully at the Grey Bruce Health Services in Owen
Sound on Friday December 8, 2006. In her 79th year, Veronica
Teresa SOLINGER (née
MYATT,) the beloved wife of the late Laurence
SOLINGER (died December 9, 1999.) The loving mother of Frank
SOLINGER and his wife Claudia and Patricia
BAYLEY. Proud Gramma
of Noah and Hana
SOLINGER,
Mijka and her husband Bobby
HOOPER,
and Petra and her husband Scott
BALLANTYNE.
Special great Gramma
Soli of Bayleigh
HOOPER,
Nolan and Paige
BALLANTYNE. Loving sister
of Gwen (Mrs. Harold
MURPHY.)
Sister-in-law of Naomi (Mrs. Clem
MYATT) and Katie (Mrs. Cy
MYATT). Special Aunt Moni will be fondly
remembered by her many nieces and nephews. Predeceased by her
parents Peter
MYATT and his wife
Agnes, her grand_son Jason
BAYLEY,
her four brothers Leonard, Cyril, Clement and Harold, and by
two sisters Irene (Mrs. Melvin
McCOY) and Winifred
MYATT.
Friends
may call at the Breckenridge-Ashcroft Funeral Home on Sunday
from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated
at Saint Mary's Church on Monday morning at 10 a.m. Interment in
Saint Mary's Cemetery. A Vigil service will be held at the funeral
home on Sunday evening at 8: 30 p.m. As an expression of sympathy,
memorial donations to either the Alzheimer's Society or to the
Grey Bruce Regional Health Centre Foundation would by appreciated
by the family. Veronica's family extend sincere appreciated to
family and Friends for their care and support that allowed Veronica
to stay in her home.
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McCOY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-08 published
McCOY,
Helen
(COOPER)
In loving memory of Helen who passed away April 9, 2005.
Don't think of her as gone away
Her journey's just begun,
Think of her as living in the hearts
Of those she has touched.
For nothing loved is ever lost
And she was loved so much.
Loving husband Bill and family.
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McCOY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-03 published
MARTIN,
Gaynor
Joan
Peacefully at Victoria Hospital on Monday, May 1st, 2006, Ms. Gaynor
Joan MARTIN, of London, in her 63rd year. Loving friend of Mike
and Stephanie
SINCLAIR,
Bill and Carol
HUYS, Allyson and Shawne
NEAL,
Leslie
McCOY, Alan and Wendy
JOHNSTON and her many Friends
and family at Dale Downie Pontiac Buick. Predeceased by her parents
George and Audrey
MARTIN.
Friends may call at the Needham Funeral
Chapel, 520 Dundas Street, London (434-9141) on Wednesday, May 3rd
from 7-9 p.m. Service from the chapel on Thursday, May 4th at
11 a.m. Interment Saint Peter's Cemetery. Memorial donations to
the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated. Tributes may
be left at www.mem.com
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McCOY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-05-05 published
SHEARME,
Sherry
Anne
(SULYMA)
At University Hospital, London on Wednesday, May 3, 2006, Sherry
Anne (SULYMA)
SHEARME of London in her 55th year. Beloved wife
of David R.
SHEARME. Dear mother of Paul
SHEARME of Yellowknife
and Sandra
SHEARME of Windsor. Dear sister of Margaret
BOUDREAU
and her husband Bob of London, Cathy
COOK and her husband Tom
of Saint Thomas, Jim
SULYMA and his wife
Lynn of Lindsay, Gerry
SMALE of Iowa, Wayne
SMALE and his wife
Susan of Sarnia and Wendy
McCOY and her husband Ron of Camlachie. Dear sister-in-law of
Dennis SHEARME and his wife
Anne of London and Gary
SHEARME of
Barrier, British Columbia. Also loved by several nieces and nephews.
Friends will be received by the family from 7 to 9 p.m. Saturday,
and 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the A. Millard George Funeral
Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London where the funeral service
will be conducted in the chapel on Monday, May 8th at 1: 00 p.m.
Cremation with interment of cremated remains in Forest Lawn Memorial
Gardens, London. As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations
may be made to the charity of your choice. On line condolences
accepted at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca
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McCOY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-09-22 published
BLAKE,
Margaret McMurdo (née
WOOD)
89, of New Hamburg (formerly of London, Ontario), died Wednesday,
September 20th, 2006 at Bluewater Health, Sarnia. Born May 30,
1917 in Newarthill, Scotland. Predeceased by loving husband Bert
(1991), a John Labatt retiree. Survived by devoted daughters
Margaret BLAKE of Sarnia and Janet
BEGER
(Wayne) of New Hamburg
treasured grandma of Colleen
SIM
(Sarnia,)
Jennifer
BEGER (Goderich)
and Cameron
BEGER; devoted great granny of Lynden
EVERS
(Sarnia.)
Predeceased by parents John and Catherine
WOOD
(RANKIN,) siblings
Elizabeth (Betty)
McCOY,
Agnes
FIDLER, Catherine
(Cathy)
DEAN,
Isabella (Isa)
AITKEN, Minnette
CHURCH, Archibald (Archie)
WOOD
and William (Bill)
WOOD. Survived by brothers John, Tom, and
Hugh WOOD and many nieces and nephews. Cremation has taken place.
Private burial at a future date. A memorial visitation will be
held on Saturday, September 23rd, 2006 from 2: 00-4:00 p.m. at
the Westview Funeral Chapel, 709 Wonderland Road North, London,
Ontario. In lieu of flowers, donations in Margaret's memory may
be made to the Alzheimer Society of Canada, or to the Parkinson
Society Canada.
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McCOY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-11-09 published
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Kevin
Avery
Born November 20, 1956, in Timmins, Ontario,
son of Lorne (1972)
and June TAILOR/TAYLOR
(AVERY;) passed away on November 8, 2006, at
Saint Thomas Elgin Hospital. Kevin is survived by his devoted wife
Johanne TAILOR/TAYLOR
(OUELLETTE,) loving sons Seth and Joshua
TAILOR/TAYLOR
of Saint Thomas; mother June
AVERY
(TAILOR/TAYLOR,
HOELDKE,) brother Kirk
TAILOR/TAYLOR
(Lesley,) sister Kimberley
McCOY (David.)
Lovingly remembered
by niece Sheila
McCOY, nephews Calvin
McCOY,
Jesse,
Kyle and
Ryan TAILOR/TAYLOR, all of London, uncle Doctor George
TAILOR/TAYLOR
(Margaret)
of Ottawa, aunt Julie
MAHAFFY
(Frank) of Bewdley, many cousins
and close Friends. Pre-deceased by step-father Bert
HOELDKE (1997.)
Kevin was employed at T.R.W., Tillsonburg as Electrical Process
Engineer, for past 14 years. Kevin enjoyed nature and outdoor
activities. He served as president of Elgin Hiking Club. With
his love of family and devotion to his faith, Kevin passed away
peacefully. A memorial service will be held at Trinity Anglican
Church, 55 Southwick, Saint Thomas, Saturday, November 11, 3 p.m.
Donations to Canadian Cancer Society or Elgin Hiking Club would
be appreciated.
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McCOY o@ca.on.simcoe_county.nottawasaga.stayner.stayner_sun 2006-03-08 published
McCOY,
Cletus
In loving memory of a dear husband, father and grandfather who
passed away on March 5, 2001.
He had a sense of humour,
And a sparkle in his eye,
A helping hand in times of need,
On that you could rely.
Maybe we can't touch his hand,
Or see his smiling face,
Maybe we can't hear his voice,
Or feel his warm embrace.
But something we will always have,
Tucked safely in our hearts,
Our love for him, his love for us,
Will never let us part.
Dearly loved and sadly missed by his wife Joan, daughter Linda
& grandchildren Michael and Kimberly
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McCOY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-07 published
CHRISTO,
John,▼ B.A.Sc., P.Eng.
Peacefully passed away at home in Oakville on Thursday, March
2, 2006 at the age of 92. Survived by his wife Norma. Predeceased
by his first wife
Margaret▼
Elinor▼ (née
HUGHES.) Dear father of
Claire CHRISTO and Paula
DIAMOND.
Proud▼ grandfather of Bonnie
McCOY, Erin
MacCOY and husband Steve
NOYES, Michael
DIAMOND and
wife Nicole,▼ and Kelly
DIAMOND.
Loving▼ great grandfather of Kyle
Jordan, Trinity and Brennen
DIAMOND.
John▼ will be greatly missed
by his extended family and Friends. Cremation has taken place.
A celebration of his life will be at the Glen Oaks Memorial Chapel
& Reception Centre, 3164 Ninth Line (403/Dundas) in Oakville,
905-257-8822 on Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 2 p.m. (the family
will receive Friends from 1-2). In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Oakville Salvation Army or to the charity
of your choice. Special thanks to those who sent messages and
came to visit in the last few weeks.
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McCOY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-07 published
CHRISTO,
John,▲ B.A.Sc., P.Eng.
Peacefully passed away at home in Oakville on Thursday, March
2, 2006 at the age of 92. Survived by his wife Norma. Predeceased
by his first wife
Margaret▲
Elinor▲ (née
HUGHES.) Dear father of
Claire CHRISTO and Paula
DIAMOND.
Proud▲ grandfather of Bonnie
McCOY, Erin
MacCOY and husband Steve
NOYES, Michael
DIAMOND and
wife Nicole,▲ and Kelly
DIAMOND.
Loving▲ great grandfather of Kyle
Jordan, Trinity and Brennen
DIAMOND.
John▲ will be greatly missed
by his extended family and Friends. Cremation has taken place.
A celebration of his life will be at the Glen Oaks Memorial Chapel
& Reception Centre, 3164 Ninth Line (403/Dundas) in Oakville,
905-257-8822 on Saturday, April 29, 2006 at 2 p.m. (the family
will receive Friends from 1-2). In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to the Oakville Salvation Army or to the charity
of your choice. Special thanks to those who sent messages and
came to visit in the last few weeks.
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McCOY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2006-03-22 published
John Creighton
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS,
Engineer: (1924-2006)
Unsung hero of Canada's Imax success story knew how to make the
big-screen technology work
By M.J. STONE,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Montreal -- He was the man in the engine room of the good ship
Imax.
John
Creighton
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS was an engineering guru, a genius
at tinkering who was the brains behind making the Imax corporation's
giant-screen technology work as well as it did. Years before,
he was the wizard who helped keep Expo 67's Labyrinth film project
going. And when it was all over, Mr.
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS went back to his
first love -- the humble train.
In the meantime, his other passion remained electronics. As a
teenager during the Depression, Mr.
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS's future in telecommunications
was foreshadowed when he plied his talent for radio repair in
the small town of Sutton in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Neighbours
and customers paid 25 cents to have their wonky Radiolas,
RCA
Victors and Silvertones tinkered back into working order.
At 18, poor eyesight disqualified him from serving in any of
the Canadian armed forces during the Second World War. At the
suggestion of doctors who advised he spend less time in libraries
with his head buried in books, he worked for a year with the
Canadian Pacific Railroad and then enrolled at McGill University.
It was while earning his degree in science that he met his wife,
Althea McCOY, a likeminded student who became his life-long collaborator.
They were both involved in the McGill drama department. Mr.
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS
was in charge of lighting and his future wife was the costume
co-ordinator. Their initial collaboration at the McGill Red and
White Revue revealed a symbiotic relationship that would often
find the couple working side by side."The smartest thing I ever
did was to marry him," said writer and archivist Althea
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS.
"Creighton was my favourite proof reader and copy editor."
The couple married in 1948 and the following year he departed
for a career in the Quebec wilderness repairing radio transmitters
for Canadian Marconi. He later travelled to England, sent by
Marconi, to study the emerging world of television.
When the couple returned to Canada, Mr.
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS began demonstrating
the principles of television at trade fairs. With both of them
operating a camera, the duo wowed Toronto audiences at the Canadian
National
Exhibition in 1950. Althea
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS recalled how aiming
the camera at the crowds delighted visitors, who, through closed-circuit
monitors, discovered themselves on television for the first time.
Commercial television was still a few years away and she lays
claim that the experience at the Canadian National Exhibition
made her Canada's first female operator of a television camera.
Mr. DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS's cutting-edge knowledge of the new medium resulted
in work as a consultant with the Canadian Broadcasting Company
when it first went on the air in 1952. Later, he returned to
Canadian
Marconi as the engineering manager for Montreal's
CFCF
radio and in 1961, he supervised the construction of a television
transmission tower. Erected at the top of Mount Royal, it broadcast
the first television signals when
CFCF-television at last went
on the air.
Regarded as a technical genius, Mr.
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS was the go-to person
hired by the National Film Board of Canada to orchestrate the
Labyrinth project for the 1967 world's fair in Montreal. A multiscreen
film, In the Labyrinth, was a smash hit at Expo and is considered
the precursor to today's large-format films. Using a complicated
projection system with three synchronized viewing chambers, it
featured stereo sound and a mirrored maze.
Colin Low, the National Film Board of Canada's former head of
animation, said that Mr.
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS possessed the right mix of flexibility
and vigour necessary to handle the madness that In the Labyrinth
inspired. "A lot of things, we had never tried before. Creighton
was intrigued by it. He made it work. Labyrinth was one of the
starting points for Imax technology."
Imax was a revolution in the movie industry. What made it arrestingly
different was the sheer size and crispness of the projected image,
combined with resonant, multitrack sound systems. No matter what
the subject, watching can be viscerally intense -- a fact that
directors have exploited with roller-coaster intensity ever since
the first Imax title, North of Superior, lit up the media. The
format uses the largest film frame in movie history, 10 times
the size of conventional 35-mm film. The screens, too, were oversized,
as tall as eight storeys.
The system was the brainchild of five Canadian visionaries who
toiled for more than a quarter of a century to make Imax Corp.
a household word in entertainment. Graeme
FERGUSON,
Robert
KERR,
Roman KROITOR,
Bill
SHAW and Bill
BREUKELMAN founded Imax and
pioneered the giant-screen, large-format film medium before selling
the technology in 1994 to a group of American investors for about
$100-million (U.S.).
All the same, few knew the system better than Mr.
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS. In
1981, Mr. DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS found himself in France supervising the installation
of a new generation of Imax screens. His final Imax project was
to co-ordinate the installation of the company's theatre at the
Museum of Civilization.
In retirement, he returned to the much less complicated technology
of locomotives, and the tracks they travelled down. His interest
also left its mark on his marriage, for his wife possessed railway
roots of her own ("My father worked for the Canadian National
Railway," she said), and together they co-wrote Canadian Railway
Records: A Guide for Genealogists, a resource for families with
rail connections going back about 150 years.
The DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS manual, composed for family historians, offers tips
and resources for recovering historical records of family members
via ticket sales and the vast network of railway payrolls, journals,
magazines and subsidiary companies. In the introduction, the
couple wrote, "this book has been a joint effort but we each
have our own areas of expertise. Creighton wrote much of the
material on the railway way of life, working conditions and so
on. Althea did the archival work checking documents and bibliographical
data and wrote about libraries and archives so, inevitably, on
occasion we wrote in the first person singular and at other times
in the first person plural."
Mr. DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS also added a consumer warning: "The railway offers
such a variety of intriguing information and experience that
there is some aspect that will intrigue almost everyone." In
other words, railways are highly addictive and can absorb all
your free time and available money.
John Creighton
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS was born on August 15, 1924, in Cowansville,
Quebec He died of a congestive heart failure on February 6, 2006
in Ottawa. He is survived by his wife.
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McCOY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-01 published
RIXHAM,
Robert
Simon
The family of Simon
RIXHAM sadly announces his passing at Georgetown
Hospital, on Thursday, March 30, 2006, at age 45. Robert Simon
RIXHAM, loving
son of the late Brenda
RIXHAM, and Kathy and Harry
RIXHAM of Rodney. Dear brother of Jayne and Brian
MERCURE of
Mississauga, and Erica and Brad
THOMAS of Brampton. Great and
fun uncle of Brendan, Keirra, Seamus and the late Brittany. Special
friend of Mardie
McCOY and her son Adam. Also missed by many
extended family and Friends. Friends will be received at the
funeral home Sunday 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. (No visitation Monday)
Funeral Service will be in the funeral home chapel 11 a.m. Tuesday,
April 4, 2006. Cremation to follow. Remembrances may be made
to the Canadian Cancer Society, the Georgetown Hospital Palliative
Care Unit or the Brampton Hospital Palliative Care Unit. Blue
Springs Funeral Home 12 Church Street East, Acton 519-853-2399
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McCOY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-18 published
McCOY,
Ada
Alice
On Thursday, April 13, 2006 at Southlake Regional Health Centre,
Newmarket in her 89th year. Beloved wife of the late Eugene
McCOY.
Predeceased by her sisters Violet, Florence and Hilda. Ada will
be lovingly remembered by many dear nieces, nephews, family and
Friends. Friends will be received at the Taylor Funeral Home
"Newmarket Chapel", 524 Davis Dr., Newmarket, 905-898-2100 from
1-2 p.m. on Wednesday, May 3, 2006. A celebration of Ada's life
will follow in the chapel at 2 o'clock. For those who wish, donations
to the Arthritis Society would be appreciated.
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McCOY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2006-04-24 published
WALSH,
Mary
Passed away, after a lengthy illness, at Trillium Health Care
Centre, Mississauga, on Saturday, April 22, 2006, in her 76th
year. Mary, beloved wife of James for 57 years. Loving mother
of Mary Ann and her husband Kevin
HEALEY,
Jimmy and his companion
Sandy, Kathleen and her husband Bill
McCOY, and Jo-Anne
KINSLOW.
Proud Grandma of Teddy, Sean, Shanna, Molly and Christina. Dear
sister of Betty
TAIT/TAITE/TATE and her late husband Bill, and Margaret
RAE and her husband Bill. At Mary's request, private visitation
and funeral will be held. If desired, donations made to the Heart
and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated by the family.
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