GODDARD
GODFREY
GODIN
GODMAN
GODSELL
GODWIN
GODDARD o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-08-10 published
WATERTON,
Bernard
Owen
(Veteran of World War 2)
Passed away at the South Bruce Grey Health Centre, Durham on
Thursday,
August 9th, 2007. Bernard Owen
WATERTON, of R.R.#3
Durham, in his 82nd year. Beloved husband of the former Joyce
GODDARD.
Loving father of Janet and her husband Jim
MANN of Owen
Sound, and Paul
WATERTON and his wife
Teri of Durham. Fondly
remembered by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren: Jesse,
Kelly and Charlie, Julie and Jeff, and Jill, Travis and Marley.
A memorial service will be held at Trinity Anglican Church, Durham
on Sunday, August 12th at 2 p.m. As an expression of sympathy,
memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated
by the family. Arrangements entrusted to the McCulloch-Watson
Funeral Home, Durham.
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GODDARD o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-14 published
COXON,
Howard
Woodrow
Howard died peacefully in his sleep at the family farm, in his
92nd year, on Sunday, July 8th, 2007. Pre-deceased by his wife
Paula, loving father to Marcus, Brian, Graeme and Carol. Father-in-law
to Jonna and Bruce and grandfather to Sara-Katherine, Hanna,
Sam, William and Nicholas. Loving brother to Jean Richmond
WATSON
and brother-in-law to Margot and Roberto
GUALTIERI and uncle
to Eric, Inger and Domenic. Loving partner to Helga
GODDARD.
Howard was very connected to his roots in Mexico, where he was
born, in Tampico, in 1915. Returning with his parents to England,
Howard went on to receive an M.A. in History from Cambridge.
Howard left the United Kingdom after World War 2, having served
in the Royal Air Force as Squadron Leader, and with a spirit
of adventure, arrived in Ottawa, where he married Paula
PETERS
in 1950. Finding Canada exciting and full of promise, Howard
began his career with Imperial Oil Ltd. in Toronto, and subsequently
moved to British Columbia, where he encountered some of the greatest
challenges of his career. Howard moved back to Toronto, and then
to New York City in 1967, where he worked as Deputy Vice President
of Marketing, Exxon Corporation, until his retirement in 1975.
In 1979, Howard and Paula settled in Northumberland County, Ontario,
on the farm chosen by Paula to be the family gathering point
and base for their many travels in retirement. A man of great
integrity, his wisdom, constancy, patience, and commitment will
be greatly missed by all of us who knew and loved him. A remembrance
gathering for Howard was held at the farm on July 12th. Condolences
received at www.MacCoubrey.com.
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GODFREY o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-08-02 published
HARVEY,
Gladys▼ “Glady” Elizabeth (née
GERARD)
Retired from Scarrow's Shoes, Owen Sound. Formerly of Peterborough,
Toronto (1943-1955), Bayview Village (1955-1967), Owen Sound
(1967-1985), Mississauga “Streetsville” (1985-1994), and finally,
Peterborough. Peacefully, with her family at her side, on Tuesday,
July 31, 2007 at Peterborough Regional Health Centre Hospital
Drive,▼ in her 92nd year. Gladys, ex-wife of Herbert A.
HARVEY.
Loving▼ mother of Linda-Jayne “Jayne”
HARVEY of Victoria, British
Columbia and the late Gerard A.
HARVEY (surviving wife
Elizabeth.▼)
Grandmother of Jennifer and Nicholas. Sister of the late Alma A.
GERARD. Dear cousin of Helen
GODFREY of Peterborough and her
daughter Brenda
MESSERVEY.
She▼ will be missed by many Friends.
Visiting will be held at Comstock Funeral Home and Cremation Centre,
356 Rubidge Street, Peterborough on Friday, August 3, 2007 from
10 a.m. to 12 noon, with a funeral service to follow in the chapel
at 2 p.m. Interment Little Lake Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the Alzheimer's Society of Peterborough would be
appreciated by the family.
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GODFREY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-24 published
GODFREY,
Frank
Passed away on Sunday, July 22, 2007 at the age of 80. Survived
by his loving wife
Gwen of 56 years, one daughter Elizabeth
GODFREY-
DROUGHT
(Brenton) of Winfield, two sons, Dan
GODFREY
(Irene) of Langley,
Robert GODFREY
(Dawn) of England and five grandchildren, Shannon,
Joshua, Megan, Casey and Ciran. The family wishes to express
their sincere thanks to the home care team and nurses and a special
thanks to Doctor Tim Murphy. Funeral Mass will be celebrated Saturday,
July 28, 2007, 1: 00 p.m., at St. Edwards Roman Catholic Church,
11123 Okanagan Centre Road E., Winfield, British Columbia. In
lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Central Okanagan Hospice
Association, #202-1456 St. Paul Street, Kelowna, British Columbia
V1Y 2E6 or Canadian Diabetes Association, #204-1755 Springfield
Rd., Kelowna, British Columbia V1Y 5V5. A gift, in living memory
of Frank GODFREY will be made to "Holding Hands for Hospice"
by Springfield Funeral Home. 250-860-7077. Condolences may be
sent to the family by visiting www.springfieldfuneralhome.com
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GODFREY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-27 published
PARKINSON,
Margaret
Surrounded by people who loved her, on Thursday, July 26, 2007
at Mount Sinai Hospital. For 58 years the beloved partner of
Richard David
PARKINSON and mother of David (Susan,) Linda
CASEY
(Michael), Nancy
GODFREY (David), Bruce (Karen
SEARLE) and Donald
(Wendy). Cherished 'Grandy' to Jennifer, James, Nicole, Stephanie,
Callum, Neil, Emma, Abby and Shawn. Loving Great-grandmother
to Rene. Passing away in her 82nd year, Margaret will be remembered
for her strength, humour, intelligence, dignity and devotion
to family and Friends. Margaret's family wishes to express its
gratitude to the staff of Mount Sinai Hospital and Sunrise Senior
Living of Unionville, with special thanks to Ezmena and Roberta,
who brought sunshine, love and laughter to Margaret's last days.
Visitation will be held Friday, July 27,5-8 p.m. at Pine Hills
Cemetery, 625 Birchmount Road, Toronto. Memorial Service at same
location Saturday, July 28, 2 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
to the Canadian Cancer Society would be greatly appreciated.
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FRASER,
Katharine
Mary (née
LYTLE)
At Woodingford Lodge, Woodstock on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, Katharine
Mary FRASER (née
LYTLE) of Woodstock and formerly of Toronto,
in her 89th year. Wife of the late Philip
FRASER (1985.) Much
loved mother of Sue
JONKER of Woodstock, Lucy
FRASER of Chilliwack,
British Columbia, and the late Simon
FRASER.
Grandmother of Vikki,
Nick, Marcy, Morgan, Jeff (Jen), Myles, and Bronwyn, and great-grandmother
of Katherine and Noah. Also survived by her brother William
LYTLE
of Toronto, and predeceased by her sisters Anne
LYTLE and Esme
GODFREY. "
Tad" will be remembered for her wonderful sense of
humour, her appreciation of The New Yorker (especially the cartoons),
and her commitment to social justice and environmental causes.
A family service will be held in Toronto with cremation followed
by interment at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. If desired, memorial
donations to Doctors Without Borders or The Owl Foundation would
be appreciated and may be made through the Smith-LeRoy Funeral
Home, Woodstock (519) 537-3611. Personal condolences may also
be sent at
www.smithleroy.com
"Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horsemen, pass by."
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GODFREY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-02 published
HARVEY,
Gladys▲
Elizabeth▲ "
Glady▲" (née
GERARD)
Retired from Scarrow's Shoes, Owen Sound. Formerly of Peterborough,
Toronto (1943-1955), Bayview Village (1955-1967), Owen Sound
(1967-1985), Mississauga "Streetsville" (1985-1994), and finally,
Peterborough. Peacefully, with her family at her side, on Tuesday,
July 31, 2007 at Peterborough Regional Health Centre Hospital
Drive,▲ in her 92nd year. Gladys, ex-wife of Herbert A.
HARVEY.
Loving▲ mother of Linda-Jayne "Jayne"
HARVEY of Victoria, British
Columbia and the late Gerard A.
HARVEY (surviving wife
Elizabeth.▲)
Grandmother of Jennifer and Nicholas. Sister of the late Alma A.
GERARD. Dear cousin of Helen
GODFREY of Peterborough and her
daughter Brenda
MESSERVEY.
She▲ will be missed by many Friends.
Visiting will be held at Comstock Funeral Home and Cremation Centre,
356 Rubidge Street, Peterborough on Friday, August 3, 2007 from
10 a.m. to 12 noon, with a funeral service to follow in the chapel
at 2 p.m. Interment Little Lake Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the Alzheimer Society of Peterborough would be appreciated
by the family.
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GODFREY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-11 published
MITCHAM,
Elsie
Isabelle (née
GODFREY)
With great sadness we announce the passing of our beloved Mother
at Extendicare Kawartha Lakes in Lindsay, Ontario on September 5
in her 87th year. Loving wife of the late Fred
MITCHAM, cherished
Mom and Nana of Marilyn, Don, Scott and Meghan
VAN
WYCK and Donna,
David (MORTON,)
Lindsay and Lauren
(KINNEAR,) Parker and Corrie
(MORTON,) Great-Nan to 4 great-grandchildren. Predeceased by
sisters, Lillian, Trudy, Beth, Gene and brother, Reg.
A Memorial Service will be held at Humber Valley United Church,
76 Anglesley Blvd., in Etobicoke on Sat., September 22 at 1 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, a donation may be made to the Heart and Stroke
Foundation by contacting Wise Choice Funeral Home at 1-888-299-9058.
The family extends grateful appreciation to the staff at Extendicare
and ParaMed, for their care of Mom during her final days, and
their support to our family during this difficult time.
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GODFREY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-20 published
He was the voice of the Blue Jays and 'a producer's dream'
Blessed with a rich voice and split-second timing, he covered
Toronto's major-league baseball team for decades. Over the years,
he also manned microphones for ABC, NBC and the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation,
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, with files from
Canadian Press, Page S8
Toronto -- Don
CHEVRIER had two things going for him. He was
born with one of them; he learned the other.
The deep voice booming out from his 6-foot-2-plus frame made
his life easier as a sports announcer, and he came to use it
like an instrument. And he had split-second timing, which is
essential in live television. That was a trick he learned. When
the word came from the control room to stretch a broadcast, he
could keep talking without losing a beat. If things had to be
shorter, he could do language arithmetic in his head and cut
words on the fly.
"His great gift was that wonderful deep voice, but he also knew
how to use it," said Tom McKee, who first worked with Mr.
CHEVRIER
as an announcer covering the Toronto Blue Jays, and then as a
producer who called the shots from the control room.
"Chevy was a producer's dream. When you asked him to shave seven
seconds off, he could do it without the audience ever knowing.
If you needed some fill, he added as much time as you wanted.
He was unique," said Mr. McKee, who directed Mr.
CHEVRIER for
about 10 years.
On April 7, 1977, he became the announcer on the first Toronto
Blue Jays broadcast. The game was one of the most interesting
he ever called. Not only was it the start of major-league baseball
in Toronto, but it snowed that day at the old Canadian National
Exhibition stadium.
Then the Blue Jays beat the Chicago White Sox 9-5, and an excited
Mr. CHEVRIER described two home runs by Doug Ault that helped
win the game. The rest of the season was nowhere near as thrilling,
as the Blue Jays finished in last place.
Jays president Paul
GODFREY described Mr.
CHEVRIER as one of
the pillars of the organization's early days. For one thing,
he managed to make the games more exciting than they really were
in that inaugural season. "When the team loses 100 games in its
first year, the television broadcaster has to make sure the fans
keep coming back, even though they were outclassed by most of
the opposition," he said.
Mr. CHEVRIER went on to broadcast Blue Jays games until about
1990, returning from time to time to make guest appearances.
By all accounts, his last Jays broadcast was made for CTV
in 1996.
Don CHEVRIER was raised in Edmonton. Despite a lifelong fascination
with sports, he was never much of an athlete, by his own admission.
"I decided when I was 15 there was an easier way to earn a living
than by running up and down a field or skating in a rink, so
I became a sportscaster," he once told The Globe and Mail.
He started broadcasting while still a teenager, describing the
action of live high-school sports on the radio. Neighbour Robert
Goulet, the future Broadway star, helped him land his first real
job, with radio station CJCA in Edmonton, where he was paid
about $30 a week to write the sports program and announce scores.
For a while, he had plans to attend university but somehow stayed
glued to the microphone. "The manager of the station talked my
mother out of it, saying, 'He'll learn far more on the job here
with us if he goes full-time than he would at college.' He was
exactly right," Mr.
CHEVRIER once said. "I wasn't quite 17 when
I started. I got $125 a month to start and when I went full-time
I got $225, and thought I had all the money in the world."
By the time he was 20, he was the voice of the Canadian Football
League's Edmonton Eskimos, doing play-by-play for home games.
After
Edmonton,
Mr.
CHEVRIER began the wandering minstrel act
of the young broadcaster, jumping from station to station and
city to city in pursuit of bigger paycheques and a bigger market.
He worked at CFRA in Ottawa, where along with doing daily
sportscasts he called live coverage of the Ottawa Roughrider
games.
His next stop was CJAD in Montreal, where he was given the
rather grand title of sports director. It was a fancy job description
for announcer.
In 1966, Mr.
CHEVRIER joined Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
in Toronto, working in radio and then television. The next year,
he became a front-line network sportscaster and never looked
back. He was 29 and making $60,000 a year, a phenomenal amount
of money at a time when Statistics Canada put the average annual
male salary at $5,334.
The bulk of Mr.
CHEVRIER's earnings came not from the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation, but from ABC in the United States,
where he was the anchorman on the weekend radio show, World of
Sports. He commuted to New York, leaving Toronto every Friday
night and arriving home before midnight on Sunday.
At ABC, Mr.
CHEVRIER didn't do play-by-play, the kind of
work he liked best. Instead, he was the anchor of five-minute
segments, talking to sports personalities and reporters in the
studio or on the phone. Every weekend, he did doing 22 separate
segments. It was hard work and he earned his money.
By 1970, he was doing play-by-play commentary for Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation-television games in the eastern division of the Canadian
Football League.
When the Olympics were in Montreal in 1976, he served as the
commentator for boxing events, including the gold-medal win by
(Sugar) Ray Leonard. He also worked with renowned American sportscaster
Howard Cosell.
Over the years he covered every sport imaginable, including synchronized
swimming. (He joked to one of his colleagues that in general,
swimming wasn't difficult - you just had to put one arm in front
of the other.) If he had one disappointment, it was that he never
got to do Hockey Night in Canada - for sports broadcasters, the
biggest job in the country.
By all accounts, his punishing schedule and peripatetic, sportscasting
lifestyle put a strain on personal relationships. Along the way
he met a young woman named Donna, and fell in love. They married,
but later divorced.
He also had few hobbies outside of sports. Unlike many of his
colleagues, he seldom played golf. Chevy, as he was known to
his Friends and his fans, did love to visit Las Vegas to play
the slot machines. "He actually won a lot of money in Vegas,"
said a friend.
In 1992, he retired and moved to Florida, but liked to keep his
hand in broadcasting. At first, he hoped to land an on-air spot
for the Tampa Bay Lightning when they were an expansion team
in the National Hockey League. It would have been an easy commute
his home in Palm Harbor was just a half-hour drive from Tampa.
Instead, he became one the first announcers to cover the games
of the Ottawa Senators, which was also new to the league. It
turned out to be a much longer commute.
Semi-retirement suited him. Even though he went without full-time
gigs, he had always been a hustler and managed to make a good
living. He resumed his old association with ABC radio and
the network put a special line into his house that allowed him
to broadcast from there -- to listeners, it sounded as if he
was in a studio. He did much the same work he had done in New
York 25 years earlier, but without ever leaving home.
"He was making more money working weekends than he did full-time
back in Canada," said friend and colleague Steve Armitage.
Mr. CHEVRIER's great voice and fluid commentary, along with his
connections in sports broadcasting, meant his name was always
on the radar when someone was needed. In 2002, he was back broadcasting
at the Olympics. "He made a comeback of sorts in television,"
said Mr. Armitage, a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation sportscaster
based in Vancouver. "Don was NBC's curling commentator at
Salt Lake City. They didn't realize curling would be so popular."
Many colleagues credit Mr.
CHEVRIER's commentary for that popularity.
Four years later, he returned to NBC to cover curling at
the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. The network was planning to
use him again at the 2010 Games in British Columbia.
Donald Barry
CHEVRIER was born in Toronto on December 29, 1937.
He died on December 17, 2007, in Florida of complications from
a blood condition. He was 69. He is survived by son, Jeff, and
daughter, Melanie.
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GODFREY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-21 published
GODFREY,
Mary
Elizabeth (née
MORIN)
Passed away peacefully with family at her bedside after a courageous
battle with cancer on December 19, 2007, at the age of 86, at
West Oaks Long Term Health Care Facility, where she resided since
August 2007. Beloved wife of the late Gordon M.
GODFREY, P.Eng.
(mining), June 2, 1973. Devoted and loving mother of Gordon (Carol),
Elizabeth EVERARD (Michael), Patricia, John (Vicki). Cherished
nana to Ryan (Erin), Colleen, Steven, Kevin (Alaina), Dylan and
Patrick.
Born
March 13, 1921 in Toronto to Harold (Harry)
MORIN
and Mary (Molly) (née
BOURKE.)
Predeceased by her two sisters
Margaret PEACOCK and Katrine
CURTIS.
Mary lived in Timmins until
1956, before moving to Elliot Lake where she resided until 1967.
For the last 29 years, Patricia lived with Mary in Oakville.
Mary's joy for travel took her around the world. Cruising, accompanied
by her daughter Patricia, was a favorite pastime over the last
15 years. Mary is fondly remembered by many nieces and nephews
in eastern and western Canada, especially Margaret Ann
ANDES,
her Friends, neighbours and life long friend Mary (Everard)
LAST
also from Timmins. Mary lived a quiet life dedicating time to
enjoy her family. According to her wishes, only immediate family
will preside at the cremation at Glen Oaks Crematorium, Oakville
followed by a private interment at Spring Creek Cemetery, Clarskson,
Ontario. A memorial service celebrating her life to be held in
spring, 2008. Her family thanks Doctor Debra
FELDMAN and Staff on
the 3rd floor, East and West Wing, Oakville Trafalgar Memorial
Hospital as well as Doctor Ling
HUANG and the staff at West Oaks
Long Term Care Home for providing wonderful care, compassion
and support to Mother and her family. We also express our deepest
gratitude to Patricia, daughter and life companion for her devoted
care giving to Mother in her final years. Mother's courage, strength,
wisdom, unselfish ways, wonderful sense of humour, will live
on in our hearts. Your family is so proud and blessed to have
you as our beloved Mother. Donations if desired may be directed
to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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GODIN o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-10-15 published
NUTTALL,
Orland
At the Southampton Care Centre on Saturday, October 13th, 2007
at the age of 84 years, Orland
NUTTALL of Port Elgin. Husband
of the late Margaret
McGILLIVRAY and the late Jeannine
CHARPENTIER.
Father of Larry of Waterloo and Gary and his wife Ellen of Etobicoke.
Grandfather of Fraser, Spencer and Heather. Brother of Margaret
LEIGHTON,
Mima and her husband Mac
McGILLIVRAY, Les and his wife
Muriel, Wallace, Sherwood “Bud” and his wife Leona, Shirley and
her husband Carm
SWEIGER,
Marlene and her husband Harvey
DAVIDSON,
Don and his wife
Eleanor, and Alexina and her husband Mike
ATKINSON.
Stepfather of Norman
DESMARIAS, Raymond
DESMARIAS, Leo
DESMARIAS,
and Rita GODIN. He is predeceased by his sister Lenore
KING.
Friends may call at the W. Kent Milroy Port Elgin Chapel, 510 Mill
Street, Port Elgin, (Town of Saugeen Shores) from 7: 00-9:00 p.m.
on Monday. Funeral services will be conducted in the chapel on
Tuesday at 1: 00 p.m. with the Rev. Robert
WIDDOWSON officiating.
The Royal Canadian Legion Branch #340, Port Elgin will hold a
memorial service in the funeral home on Monday evening at 6: 45 p.m.
Interment Resurrection Cemetery, Oshawa. Memorial contributions
to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Arthritis Society would
be appreciated as expressions of sympathy. Memorial online at
www.milroyfuneralhomes.com
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GODIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-29 published
'Country gentleman' doubled as the gravel-voiced Nose of Algonquin
Disarmingly direct, he kept a close eye on his resort's decorum
and his campers' secrets
By Charles
OBERDORF,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S12
For 30 years, most people met Eugene
KATES as the proprietor
of Arowhon Pines, the luxury resort in Ontario's Algonquin Park.
Although sometimes disarmingly direct, he had the manners and
style of what an earlier generation called a "country gentleman."
In charge but at ease, he made a very reassuring host.
Mr. KATES's gentlemanly side often came as a revelation to the
two generations of summer campers, more than 5,000 children and
adolescents, who knew him in the 30 years before 1975 as the
fearsome, gravel-voiced autocrat who owned and ran Camp Arowhon,
two lakes away from "the Pines."
Seth GODIN, a former Arowhon camper and counsellor who is now
a widely read marketing guru, wrote recently that, "In an age
of 'the customer is king,' Eugene was an anachronism. He never
said things to make people happy, didn't sugarcoat his point
of view and didn't compromise. He stood up to the government,
to rangers, to staff and even to his customers, the parents.
He wasn't afraid to tell you what he thought, and it didn't take
long to guess what he expected."
Behind his back, campers called him The Nose. That hurt, but
as his daughter Joanne, now Arowhon's camp director (and in winter,
this newspaper's restaurant critic), tried to tell him, it was
really a backhanded compliment. Although he rarely dealt with
campers individually - that was the counsellors' job - he always
seemed to know everything that went on, including each child's
most embarrassing secrets. The full phrase was "The Nose knows."
And so he did. When two counsellors-in-training got caught smoking
marijuana, Mr.
KATES immediately began arranging to send them
home. Not an easy decision; one of the two was very popular and
also a close relative. Within hours, one senior counsellor had
begun organizing a resistance: "If those two have to go home,
we should all quit."
Mr. KATES called a staff meeting for 11 p.m. His decision was
final, he said, adding that he had heard talk about quitting.
"I'm going into my office now," he said. "If any of you want
to leave, meet me there and we'll do the paperwork." No one took
him up on it.
However, he was less hard-hearted than his young charges thought.
His second wife, Helen, remembers a pale yellow bathrobe in which
he would patrol the grounds when he thought some campers were
staying up too late. Helen, new and conscientious, took a walk
herself one night, caught a boy in one of the girls' cabins and
marched the miscreants to the director's cabin. Later, he told
her gently that the idea wasn't really to catch anyone. It was
enough that campers saw the yellow bathrobe and got scared back
to where they belonged.
Eugene KATES was born in Toronto, the elder child and only son
of Max KATES, a dentist, and his wife, Lillian. He grew up on
Edgar Avenue in Rosedale, attended St. Andrew's College, Elm
House School and Upper Canada College until his final school
year, 1932-33, when he transferred to the University of Toronto
Schools. At the university itself, he studied math, physics and
chemistry. He then went for a short time to Rochester, New York
to learn film editing, hoping to work in the industry.
But the Depression was cutting deeply into his father's income,
and to eke things out, Lillian
KATES determined to open a children's
camp in Algonquin Park. She took over the lease on a bankrupt
family campground, renamed it Arowhon (from Samuel Butler's utopian
novel Erewhon - and "arrow"), and in 1934, signed up her first
60 campers, recruiting them through the sisterhoods of Reform
synagogues within one day's drive of Toronto. Mr.
KATES, then
20, dealt with logistics.
"The cabins had no lights, no running water," he later recalled.
"There was a smelly central toilet system and a kitchen with
a couple of old wood-burning stoves. To keep food cold, we had
to cut ice from the lake in wintertime, carry it to the icehouse
and pack it in sawdust. I was as much trouble as I was a value,
but I installed a small 32-volt generator, which allowed a 25-watt
bulb in each of the camper cabins. Almost every time there was
a play, we would overload the generator and there'd be a mad
rush up the hill to restart it while the camp waited in the dark."
In 1940, he and friend Tommy Walker joined the armed forces.
He trained at Camp Borden and in 1941 was commissioned a second
lieutenant with the 10th Armoured Regiment. By mid-1942, in England,
he had been seconded to the Royal Air Force, interpreting aerial
photographs and, it seems, spending many evenings at London's
Savoy Hotel.
He always spoke fondly of his time in England, but hardly at
all about later tours in Europe and North Africa, except to imply
that what he witnessed there turned him forever against the idea
of war. His last long conversation with his daughter was about
the folly, as he saw it, of Canada's involvement in Afghanistan.
At war's end, he had a job offer in the British film industry
but decided to help out for one season at the camp. The war years
had left it with a staff more interested in having fun than in
their charges, and his mother was giving it only partial attention,
having also built and opened Arowhon Pines, for visiting parents.
"That season was so unsuccessful and so unhappy" he wrote, "that
I had to come back to prove that I could beat it. I certainly
had no experience as an educator, but I had trained men in the
army and had become used to having my directions unquestioned.
That first postwar year at camp hooked me on the life."
He abhorred the thought of running a babysitting service, though.
He cleared a baseball diamond and an archery range, built stables
and a riding ring, expanded the docks for canoeing, sailing and
swimming. They could choose what skills to master, but they were
expected to set goals, state them and meet them. "His philosophy,"
his daughter says, "was that the drive toward excellence and
the pursuit of learning forged lifelong character - for both
the child attaining the skill and the staff member teaching it."
He was also passionate about the wilderness, even though, as
his son, Robert, an expert outdoorsman, points out, he never
hiked in the bush, never paddled a canoe and hardly ever sailed.
"But he loved Algonquin Park, loved being in business in Algonquin
Park."
From the start, Camp Arowhon had been co-ed - one of the first
such camps in North America. After the war, Mr.
KATES set about
diversifying it in other ways, reaching outside the Jewish community
to replicate the rich mix of cultures he had experienced in the
army. Soon enough, Arowhon was mixing not only Jews and gentiles,
Americans and Canadians, but also campers from Europe, the Caribbean
and Latin America.
His off-season life in Toronto went less well for a while. In
1949, he had married Ruth
GROSS,
Joanne and Robert's mother,
but the pair divorced in 1962. In 1968, he married Helen
DAY,
an English-born businesswoman. In 1971, the two took over Arowhon
Pines, the resort hotel, which had been fading under Mr.
KATES's
mother's management.
The hotel's lease then had only six years to run, and government
policy called for an end to all private leaseholds in the park.
Mr. KATES brought his full-bore energy and single-mindedness
to bear on Queen's Park. "A park the size of Algonquin can't
be the exclusive preserve of canoeists and backpackers," he argued.
"Three hotels in a 3,000-square-mile park exclude no one."
The minister he addressed was impressed, and even more that the
Pines had stayed solvent for 30 years with no liquor licence
(guests bring their own) and operating only 18 weeks a year.
Its lease was renewed, and the government was soon promoting
it in its tourism brochures.
The KATESes set about upgrading on all fronts. As Mr.
KATES put
it with typical directness in a 1976 interview, "We're in the
business of selling three things: a bedroom, a dining room and
a setting. The setting is superb, but it's beyond our control,
so we have to do our best with the other two." In 1987, Arowhon
Pines was invited to join Relais and Châteaux, the very selective
luxury hotel association.
By that time, it was already attracting guests from Europe. It
has since seen them arrive from as far as Peru, Vietnam and Senegal.
Mr. KATES delighted over the foreign guests, but when his staff
was abuzz over serving Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, William
Hurt, Frances McDormand or Martin Short, he would ask, "Who?"
And, while he fretted over decorum in the stately dining room,
whenever hydro crews worked on lines to the camp or the hotel,
they got invited to lunch, sweaty work clothes and all.
Until late in his 70s, he went skiing for three weeks each year
in the Alps. In his 80s, he and Helen were beating couples 30 years
his junior at doubles tennis. About five years ago, though, he
was diagnosed with emphysema. Still, one afternoon in April,
sitting in his Toronto garden with the management team, talking
about reopening, he offhandedly said, "I don't know if 92 is
the right time to retire."
He spent his final weeks in his cabin at the camp, amid the shouts
and laughter of children. He died on the final day of camp, but
not until after the last bus had left.
The Nose knew.
Eugene KATES was born in Toronto on October 14, 1914. He died
at his cabin in Algonquin Park on August 21, 2007. He was 92.
He is survived by wife Helen, children Joanne and Robert, and
four grandchildren.
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ASLING,
Joseph
Louis
Born
March 9, 1952, to John and Viola (née
GODMAN,)
Joe died
peacefully, December 17, 2007, surrounded by his family, after
a year-long battle with cancer. Joe leaves his wife of 34 years
Doreen, his sons Matthew and Stephen, and his grandchildren Emily
and Joseph. His family would especially like to thank Doctor Andre
Bedard for his compassionate care. A memorial service to celebrate
Joe's life will be held at the Stroud Curling Club in Stroud,
Ontario, on Saturday, December 22, 2007 at 2: 30 p.m. In Joe's
memory, donations to the Simcoe - Muskoka Regional Cancer Centre
would be appreciated.
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GODSELL,
Henry
John "
Harry"
Suddenly on Tuesday June 26, 2007 at the General and Marine Hospital,
Collingwood in his 84th year. Harry of Wasaga Beach, dearest
husband of Doris for 53 years.
son of the late Harold and Janet
GODSELL. Dear brother of Loretta
JACKSON of Stayner. Cherished
uncle of Wayne, the late Dennis, Martin, Ken (Karen), Gary, Myrna
(Joey), Karen (Val) and Marion (Colin). Harry will be dearly
missed by his many, many Friends. Friends were received at the
Carruthers and Davidson Funeral Home, 7313 Highway 26, Stayner
(705-428-2637) from 6-9 p.m. Thursday. Funeral Service was held
in the Chapel on Friday June 29, 2007 at 1 o'clock. Cremation
with interment St. Patrick's Cemetery, Stayner. Remembrances
to the Canadian Wildlife Federation, 350 Michael Cowpland Drive,
Kanata, Ontario, K2M 2W1 would be appreciate by Harry's family.
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OLIVER,
Reverend
Stephen
M.
(Former Rector of Saint Margarets Anglican Church, North Toronto
and St. Davids, Hardington; World War 2 Naval Veteran)
Peacefully on Thursday December 20, 2007 at Sunnybrook Hospital
in his 84th year. Survived by his loving wife, Valerie
HUME-
OLIVER.
Dear father of Stephen (Dr. Jenny
TURNER) of Gurnsey; Philip
(Mary NOBLE); Peter (Rose
ZANETTI) and Susan (Jim
GODSELL)and
grandchildren Kate, Becky, Julia, Vicky, Diane, Genevieve, Emily,
Alexandra and Oscar. Lovingly remembered by his brother Paul
and his wife
Marion of Bobcaygen and niece Eden (Scott
FAIRLEY)
and nephew Mark
OLIVER of Vancouver. Fondly remembered by Marion
Harris. Friends my call at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton
Ave. W. (2 stoplights west of Yonge St.) on Thursday December 27,
from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. A funeral service will be held on Friday
at Saint Margarets Anglican Church, North Toronto, 53 Burnaby Blvd.
(one block north of Eglinton and Avenue Rd.) at 1: 30 p.m. In
lieu of flowers, a donation to Saint Margarets Anglican Church
Memorial Fund would be appreciated.
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LEPPARD,
Leon
Bruce
Peacefully at home on December 20th, 2006, in his 100th year.
Beloved husband of the late Jean
KINNEAR; loving father of Libby
BURTON
(Merrill,)
Mary
TOWNLEY (John;) dear grandfather of Caroline
GODWIN (Kevin), Edgar
BURTON (Liz Smart), Peter
BURTON, John
TOWNLEY,
William
TOWNLEY (Nathalie) and Christina
TOWNLEY (Chris
VINCENT;) adoring great-grandfather of Jeanne
GODWIN.
Doctor
of Physics (Göttingen and U of T, 1933); senior radar officer
serving in the Mediterranean aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth
Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve Commander, Ottawa and
Halifax; senior officer with the Radiation Protection Unit of
Ontario's Department of Industrial Hygiene and Atomic Energy
Canada. Active member for 60 years of Trinity-Saint Paul's United
Church. Lover of music, supporter of the arts, humanitarian,
linguist and English scholar, with an impish wit and an impeccable
turn of phrase. Our heartfelt thanks to Carmelita and all his
caregivers, and
to Doctor Sydney Smart for his compassionate support.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, January 5th, 2007,
at Trinity-Saint Paul's United Church, 427 Bloor Street West at
11 a.m.. If desired, donations may be made to Trinity-Saint Paul's
United Church or to a charity of your choice.
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DE WEERDT,
Linda
Anne (née
HADWEN)
Died on Wednesday, September 19th, 2007 at Braddan Private Hospital
in Vancouver, British Columbia. She joins her husband Mark, beloved
mother Aulden
HADWEN and father Isaac Seymore Andre and brother
John Gaylard. She is survived and remembered by her 4 sons, 11 grandchildren
and her brother: son Simon and his children Anthony, Clair, Benjamin
and Angela, son Murray and his children Ina and Isaac, son David
and his daughter Kyela, son Charles and his children Julia, Marc,
Alain and Chloe, and by her brother Theodore. Anne lived a passionate
life marked by kindness and generosity to others, by life-long
commitment to and support of her mother, children, husband and
beyond these, to her community. She was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
on December 4, 1924 and grew up in Toronto. She greatly admired
her father Isaac Seymore Andre
HADWEN, the pioneering Canadian
veterinary scientist, and her mother Alden (neé
GODWIN,) a true
lady of great gentility. Linda Anne was from her earliest days
fiercely independent, not one to accede to any suggestion that
a girl could not do something. She excelled at climbing trees.
In the 1930s with parents she traveled Ontario to Vancouver Island
in a Model-T, before the TransCanada Highway was built. She loved
the colour red, and loved to dance. The Son's of the Pioneers'
"Cool Clear Water" was one of her favourite songs. She served
in the Women's Royal Naval Service during World War 2, and after
the war helped restore Berlin. She studied painting in London
and Paris. She had graduated from St. Clement's School in Toronto,
then completed a degree in Occupational and Physical Therapy.
In 1955 she met Mark DE
WEERDT.
They married in 1956, and raised
four sons in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and then later
in Vancouver, British Columbia. In Yellowknife, Anne was among
those who helped found the Abe Miller School for people with
developmental disabilities. She worked as an Occupational Therapist,
and later, served as Executive Director of the Canadian Red Cross
in the Northwest Territories. At 65, she returned to university
for her Master's degree in Educational Psychology. Anne was the
sort of person who would meet you one day, and take you cranberry
picking the next. She loved to sing. She could whistle 12 different
birdsongs. She would ride her bicycle in a dress, Judge's wife
or no. She made the best ever English Plum Pudding. She did everything
she could for her children, though she never thought she had
done enough. It was, Mom; it was so much more than enough. Her
strong legacy will endure in the warmth, creativity, courage
and kindness passed through her to her children, grandchildren
and theirs. She dared, and lived. A service to celebrate the
life of Anne will be held Friday, October 5, 2007 at 1: 00 p.m.
Church of Saint_John the Evangelist, 154 Somerset Street W., Ottawa,
Ontario. All are welcome.
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