LEA
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH
LEADBETTER
LEAHY
LEAKE
LEAL
LEAN
LEANDRO
LEARMONTH
LEATHERDALE
LEAVER
LEAVITT
LEA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-09 published
KIRKPATRICK,
Mary
Elizabeth (née
LEA)
Peacefully in Ottawa, on Wednesday, June 6, 2007 in her 94th
year. Beloved wife of the late Clare
KIRKPATRICK.
Loving mother
of John KIRKPATRICK
(Montreal.) Survived by her sister Frances
LAVERTY
(Ottawa.) Dear aunt of Mary Ann DE
CHASTELAIN, Lea
RUTHERFORD,
Ann FIFE, John LEA, Ted
LEA,
Tony
LEA, Don
LEA, Patricia
DEVERAUX
and Frances
TRIGG.
Missed also by many great nieces and nephews.
The family will receive Friends at the Robert J. Reid and Sons
Funeral Home, 309 Johnson Street, (at Barrie Street), Kingston,
Ontario on Monday, June 11, 2007 for a memorial service in "The
Chapel on The Corner" at 1 p.m. Interment following at Cataraqui
Cemetery. Memorial donations, for those wishing, may be made
to the Alzheimer Society, 175 Rideau Street, Kingston or to the
Canadian Cancer Society.
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LEA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-18 published
LEA,
Beryl
(MULLINS)
Peacefully on June 15, 2007. Beloved wife of the late John C.
LEA and dear sister of Gertrude, Louise, Bert and Harry. Resting
at the Murray E. Newbigging Funeral Home, 733 Mount Pleasant
Road (south of Eglinton). A Chapel service will be held on Tuesday,
June 19, 2007 at 1 p.m. with visitation one hour prior to service
time. Interment to follow at Mount Pleasant Cemetery. In lieu
of flowers donations to the Christian Blind Mission, Billy Graham
Evangelical Association or the Anglican Church of the Transfiguration,
would be appreciated by the family.
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LEA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-20 published
TRIGG,
Frances
Elizabeth (née
LEA)
Of Sundridge. Born June 17, 1957, she died unexpectedly on August
21, 2007, at Huntsville and District Memorial Hospital. Daughter
of the late Edgar and Adrienne
LEA of Toronto and Magnetawan.
She was educated at Havergal College, Toronto. She is survived
by her spouse Ken
BOTHAM, her daughter Laura
TRIGG and two sons,
James and Andrew
TRIGG.
She will also be sadly missed by her
four siblings: Ted
LEA
(Barbara) of Toronto, Tony
LEA (Joanne)
of Toronto, Don
LEA
(Kathy) of Alberta, and Pat Lea
DEVEREAUX
(Michael) of Barrie. She will be fondly remembered by her many
nieces, nephews, Friends and
by Brian TRIGG, father of the children.
She had been working as a personal support worker in Sundridge.
Interment was at Spence Cemetery, Magnetawan. Memorial donations
may be made to the Heart and Stroke Foundation or charity of
your choice.
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LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-09-26 published
SAWCHUK,
Elizabeth
(CHRISTIAN)
Of Chatsworth and formerly of Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, passed
away peacefully surrounded by the love of her family on Saturday,
September 22nd, 2007 at Country Lane Nursing Home in Chatsworth
in her 86th year. The former Elizabeth
CHRISTIAN was the beloved
wife of the late Matthew
SAWCHUK.
She was the loving mother of
Jane (Dick)
TURNER,
Ron
(Wendy)
SAWCHUK, and Carol Anne (Bob)
WAITE.
Elizabeth was the dear sister of Walter, Joe (Jackie,)
Fred, Mary
YORK, Alice (John)
LAWRENCE, Kay (John)
NAPOLIC and
Elsie (Bob)
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH.
Grams will be missed by her grandchildren:
Terri, Tammy, Ricky (Tammy), Trevor, Jill-Ann (Tony), Jonathan,
John (Jen), Ben and Andy as well as by her 5 great-grandchildren.
Friends will be received at the Currie Funeral Home 239 Garafraxa
Street, Chatsworth (519) 794-2631, for visitation on Thursday from
1 p.m. until service time at 2 p.m. Pastor Howard
RITTENHOUSE
will officiate. Interment: Hillside Cemetery, Portage la Prairie,
Manitoba. If so desired, memorial contributions to the Children's
Aide Society Sunshine Fund would be appreciated by the family.
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LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-11-26 published
BIRRELL,
Edith
Mabel (née
ROUTLEDGE)
At the South Bruce-Grey Health Centre, Chesley, on Friday, November 23rd,
2007 at the age of 91 years, the former Mabel
ROUTLEDGE of Elgin
Abbey Lodge, Chesley and formerly of Pinkerton. Wife of the late
Harold BIRRELL.
Beloved mother of Judy and her husband Dennis
REANY of Port Elgin, Don and his wife
Ainslee of Strathroy, Doug
of Hanover, James and his wife Grace of Pinkerton and Susan of
Nanaimo, British Columbia. Grandmother of eight grandchildren,
eleven great-grandchildren, and one step great-grandchild. Sister
of Jean and her husband George
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH of Don Mills, Robert
ROUTLEDGE
and his wife
Afifa of Arizona, Harold
ROUTLEDGE and his wife
Maureen of Atlin, British Columbia. Sister-in-law of Elizabeth
(Betty) WILLIAMS of London. Aunt of many nieces and nephews.
She is predeceased by her parents John and Edith
ROUTLEDGE.
Private
family Interment. Memorial contributions to Westminster Presbyterian
Church, Paisley or Elgin Abbey Lodge, Chesley would be appreciated
as expressions of sympathy. Portrait and memorial online at www.milroyfuneralhomes.com
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LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-22 published
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH,
Doctor▼
Christopher▼
E.▼
October 13, 2007, in his 62nd year. Survived by his children
Ned, Cameron and Gratia. Brother to John, Tom (dec.), Anne, Ruth
and Jim. Memorial Sunday, October 28, Inn at Christie's Mill,
Port Severn, Ontario, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations to Crone's and
Colitis Foundation or Canadian Cancer Society gratefully accepted.
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LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-25 published
LEACH/LEECH/LEITCH,
Doctor▲
Christopher▲
E.▲
October 13, 2007, in his 62nd year. Survived by his children
Ned, Cameron and Gratia. Brother to John, Tom (dec.), Anne, Ruth
and Jim. Memorial Sunday, October 28, Inn at Christie's Mill,
Port Severn, Ontario, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Donations to Crone's and
Colitis Foundation or Canadian Cancer Society gratefully accepted.
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LEADBETTER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-10 published
HARPER,
Lois
Marjorie
Age 77, of Agincourt, Ontario. On Thursday, November 8, 2007
at Centenary Hospital, Toronto. She was the daughter of the late
Gordon HARPER and Laura Harper
EDWORTHY.
She will be sorely missed
by her sister and brother-in-law Eleanor and Norman
TAILOR/TAYLOR, her
longtime friend and companion Elaine Conner, nieces Laurie
LEADBETTER
and Laurel
PRYDE, nephews David
TAILOR/TAYLOR,
Norman and Brian
SHORE
and their families.
A graduate of McMaster University and University of British Columbia
School of Library Science. Lois taught school in Hamilton and
Scarborough an then became Assistant to the Co-ordinator of Learning
Resources for the Scarborough Board of Education. As a teacher
and librarian, she avidly promoted Canadian literature for which
she was honoured at her retirement.
Lois served her church and community in various capacities, active
in Knox Presbyterian Church, Agincourt as an elder and choir
member. She also volunteered teaching English as a second language
to new Canadians. As a member of the Markham-Stouffville Parkinson
Support Group, she lead a campaign to update Parkinson material
in public libraries in the Markham and Scarborough areas, She
also gave generously to Parkinson Community Outreach projects
and research.
Friends will be received at the Ogden Funeral Home, 4164 Sheppard
Ave. East, Agincourt (east of Kennedy Rd.), from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
on Tuesday. Funeral Service will be held on Wednesday at 11 a.m.
in Knox Presbyterian Church, 4156 Sheppard Ave. East, Agincourt.
Interment in Grove Cemetery, Dundas, Ontario at 3 p.m. In lieu
of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Parkinson
Society of Canada or a preferred charity.
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LEAHY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-03 published
DEWAR,
Barbara
Ann (née
SWEENEY)
In hospital on Sunday, July 1, 2007, from injuries incurred in
a fall, Barbara Ann
DEWAR of Kanata, Ontario. Daughter of the
late William James
SWEENEY and Bessie Beatrice
SWEENEY of Pembroke,
Ontario.
She is survived by her loving husband Daniel Bevis
DEWAR,
son Peter DEWAR and daughter Sarah
LEAHY
(Stephen.)
Cherished
grandmother of Daniel
DEWAR and Kevin and Kira
LEAHY.
Friends
may call at the Carp Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes, 115 Rivington
Street, Carp on Wednesday, July 4, 2007 from 7 to 9 p.m. and
on Thursday, July 5, 2007 from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. A memorial
service will be held at Saint Mary's Anglican Church, Dunrobin
Ontario on Friday, July 6, 2007 at 3 p.m. Those wishing may make
donations to the Ontario Brain Injury Association, P.O. Box 2338,
St. Catherine's, Ontario, L2R 7R9 Condolences, tributes or donations
may be made at www.tubmanfuneralhomes.com
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LEAKE o@ca.on.grey_county.artemesia.flesherton.the_flesherton_advance 2007-09-26 published
QUARRIER,
Lucy
The family of Lucy
QUARRIER hearts are filled with gratitude
at the number of family, Friends, neighbours, and former students
who came to pay their last respects to their mother. She would
have been so glad to meet all of you one more time. The floral
tributes were out of this world - mom would have been so proud
of them. The donations made in her memory are graciously accepted.
For the cards, food and flowers sent to our homes we are truly
thankful and blessed. To Grey Gables Staff - you could not have
done more. To Rosanne
JUDGE - your way of combining mom's little
tidbits of information was amazing and comforting. To Pat
KALAPACA
a dear friend who so graciously delivered the eulogy for us a
big thank you. To Bernice
HATTLE who spoke on behalf of colleagues.
To Hendricks Funeral Home Staff who went above and beyond being
helpful when their own roster was filled to the brim. To Neville
LEAKE who at the last minute was able to play so beautifully
one of mom's favourite pieces "Star of the East." May God Bless
You One and All.
- Betty, Diane and Peter and families.
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LEAL o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-10-26 published
CARLSON,
Caroline “Cora“ (née
CLARKE)
At Grey Bruce Health Services in Meaford on Wednesday October 24,
2007. The former Caroline Edna
CLARKE of Heathcote, in her 94th
year. Daughter of the late Alfred and Bertha
(PERRYMAN)
CLARKE.
Beloved wife of the late Glenden Oscar
CARLSON (2002.) Loving
mother of Clarke (Torch)
CARLSON and his wife
Carol, of Heathcote.
Fondly remembered by grandchildren Adam (Terri)
CARLSON,
Mark
(Michelle)
CARLSON, April (Michael)
McLEAN, Tracy (Shane)
KING,
Lisa (Brad)
LEAL and by her ten great-grandchildren. Cremation
will be followed by private family arrangements. As your expression
of sympathy, donations to a charity of your choice would be appreciated
and may be made through the Ferguson Funeral Home (The Valley
Chapel), 20 Alice Street East, Box 556, Thornbury, Ontario N0H 2P0
(519-599-2718) with whom arrangements have been entrusted.
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LEAN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-11 published
BAXTER,
John
Scott
Professor Emeritus, Department of English, Queen's University.
December 7, peacefully at Saint_Joseph's Villa, Dundas, Ontario.
John is survived by his wife, Jean Rae
(FOX,) his daughter Elizabeth
and her husband Kevin Peter
CLARKE, his daughter Alison and her
husband Marc
LEAN, and by his son John and his wife
Anne
HABERL.
John was the proud grandfather of Trevor, Riley and Patrick
CLARKE,
Nathan and Naomi
LEAN, and Karen, Jay and Thomas
BAXTER. At
John's
request, his body has been donated to the Faculty of Medicine,
McMaster University. Family members extend their thanks to the
dedicated and caring staff at Saint_Joseph's Villa. There will
be no memorial service. Private celebration of John's life to
follow at a later date. In memory of John, donations may be made
to Saint_Joseph's Villa, 56 Governor's Road, Dundas, Ontario, L9H 5G7,
or to the Office of Advancement, Queen's University, 99 University
Avenue, Kingston, Ontario, K7L 9Z9.
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LEANDRO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-30 published
McHALE,
John
Wilfred "
Jack"
Retired from The Globe and Mail. Passed away peacefully, at the
Uxbridge Cottage Hospital on Wednesday, November 28, 2007. Jack,
beloved and loving husband for 50 years to Noreen
DOYLE.
Devoted
father to Theresa
BERRY, Nora
WEBB, Anne
LEANDRO, Stephen
McHALE,
Helen MIETA and the late Jim
McHALE.
Fondly remembered by his
sixteen grandchildren. Survived by his brother Paul and sister
Carol. Friends will be received at the Low and Low Funeral Home,
Uxbridge, 23 Main Street South (905) 852-3073 on Friday, November 30,
2007 from 2: 00-4:00 and 7:00-9:00 p.m. Funeral Mass to be held
on Saturday, December 1, 2007 at 11: 00 a.m. from Sacred Heart
Roman Catholic Church (70 Toronto Street North, Uxbridge). Interment
Uxbridge Cemetery. In Jack's memory, donations may be made to
the charity of your choice. On- line condolences can be made
at www.lowandlow.ca.
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LEARMONTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-08 published
BENNETT,
Roy▼
F.,▼ F.C.A.
Former Chief Executive Officer Ford Of Canada
With deep sadness we announce that Roy F.
BENNETT, cherished
husband of Gail
COOK-
BENNETT, adored father of Bruce (Susan
BLACK,)
Brenda (Bob
LEARMONTH,)
Lynne▼ and Christopher, died at home with
his family present on Monday June 4th, 2007. He also leaves his
much loved grandchildren, Tyler and Myles; Carolann, Christine
and James; Shannon and Cody. Predeceased by his beloved brother
Ken. He will be greatly missed by the extended Bennett and Cook
families. A chartered accountant, Roy joined Ford of Canada and
advanced rapidly to Chief Executive Officer at age 42. He continued
as a director for 14 years after his retirement, until the company
was privatized. Roy founded Bennecon, now in its 25th year of
operation, to provide specialized cash flow advice to large corporations.
He served as Chair of the Board of major corporations including
BP Canada (now Talisman Energy), Midland Walwyn, Jannock, Metropolitan
Life Holdings Company and as a director of Bell Canada, Inglis
and several other organizations. He also served as Chair of Cougar
Global and Innings Telecom and as special advisor to CAI Capital
until his death. His commitment to the community was exemplified
in his roles as founding Chair of the Better Business Bureau
of Canada Advisory Council, cofounder of the Business Council
on National Issues, Chair of the Director's Advisory Committee
of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, ViceChair
Executive Council Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Chair of Niagara
Institute; and member of the Royal Commission on Unemployment
Insurance, Premier's Economic Advisory Council, Board of Governors
York University, Board of Mississauga Hospital and a director
of the Scouts Canada Foundation. For his contributions, he was
honoured with an F.C.A. by the Institute of Chartered Accountants,
with an honourary doctorate of laws (LL.D) by York University,
and as an honourary elder by his church. Roy lived a very active
life. Among his passions were skiing, tennis, squash, golf, classical
music, art, and spending time with family at the cottage on Lake
of Bays. He was a devoted husband and father, and admired friend
to many. He will be dearly missed. Friends may call at the Turner and
Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street West (at Windermere, East
of the Jane subway), June 14, 2007, 5 to 9 p.m. A memorial service
will be held June 15, 2007 at 1 p.m., Humber Valley United Church.
If desired, charitable donations may be made to the Roy F. Bennett
Memorial fund by cheque payable to Toronto Community Foundation,
33 Bloor St. E., Suite 1603, Toronto, M4W 3H1. The family would
prefer not to receive flowers.
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LEARMONTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-12 published
BENNETT,
Roy▲
F.,▲ F.C.A.
Former Chief Executive Officer Ford of Canada
With deep sadness we announce that Roy F. Bennett, cherished
husband of Gail
COOK-
BENNETT, adored father of Bruce (Susan
BLACK,)
Brenda (Bob
LEARMONTH,)
Lynne▲ and Christopher, died at home with
his family present on Monday June 4th, 2007. He also leaves his
much loved grandchildren, Tyler and Myles; Carolann, Christine
and James; Shannon and Cody. Predeceased by his beloved brother
Ken. He will be greatly missed by the extended Bennett and Cook
families. A chartered accountant, Roy joined Ford of Canada and
advanced rapidly to Chief Executive Officer at age 42. He continued
as a director for 14 years after his retirement, until the company
was privatized. Roy founded Bennecon, now in its 25th year of
operation, to provide specialized cash flow advice to large corporations.
He served as Chair of the Board of major corporations including
BP Canada (now Talisman Energy), Midland Walwyn, Jannock, Metropolitan
Life Holdings Company and as a director of Bell Canada, Inglis
and several other organizations. He also served as Chair of Cougar
Global and Innings Telecom and as special advisor to CAI Capital
until his death. His commitment to the community was exemplified
in his roles as founding Chair of the Better Business Bureau
of Canada Advisory Council, cofounder of the Business Council
on National Issues, Chair of the Director's Advisory Committee
of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants, ViceChair
Executive Council Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Chair of Niagara
Institute; and member of the Royal Commission on Unemployment
Insurance, Premier's Economic Advisory Council, Board of Governors
York University, Board of Mississauga Hospital and a director
of the Scouts Canada Foundation. For his contributions, he was
honoured with an F.C.A. by the Institute of Chartered Accountants,
with an honourary doctorate of laws (LL.D) by York University,
and as an honourary elder by his church. Roy lived a very active
life. Among his passions were skiing, tennis, squash, golf, classical
music, art, and spending time with family at the cottage on Lake
of Bays. He was a devoted husband and father, and admired friend
to many. He will be dearly missed. Friends may call at the Turner and
Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor Street West (at Windermere, East
of the Jane subway), June 14, 2007, 5 to 9 p.m. A memorial service
will be held June 15, 2007 at 1 p.m., Humber Valley United Church.
If desired, charitable donations may be made to the Roy F. Bennett
Memorial fund by cheque payable to Toronto Community Foundation,
33 Bloor St. E., Suite 1603, Toronto, M4W 3H1. The family would
prefer not to receive flowers.
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LEARMONTH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-26 published
Ford Canada president recognized the value of a free-trade auto
pact
Described as a youthful financial whiz when he took over at 42,
he also persuaded head office to build a engine plant in Canada
after twisting the arms of Pierre Trudeau and Bill Davis
By Douglas
McARTHUR,
Special▼ to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Toronto -- Roy
BENNETT helped his buddies set up the "Friday
Night Poker Club" while attending North Toronto Collegiate Institute
in 1945. He would continue to attend its monthly sessions for
more than 60 years.
During that time, he became a chartered accountant, rose through
the ranks of the Ford Motor Co. of Canada to become its president
at age 42 without having gone to university, and held executive
and board positions with many of the country's leading businesses
and institutions. But he never abandoned the regular poker-and-beer
nights with his old Friends, many of whom also became business
leaders.
"Whatever he did, he was committed," said Jim Hunter, who worked
with him on a number of financial projects and is now president
of NexGen Financial. "Whether it was business, tennis or poker,
those commitments were life-long," he said. He was also very
bright, affable and "a counter-thinker, who would look at a problem
and come up with a different conclusion than everyone else."
Ken
Harrigan, who followed Mr.
BENNETT as president of Ford Canada,
said his predecessor's main contribution was convincing government
officials in Ottawa to negotiate a free-trade auto pact with
Washington. The Canada-United States Automotive Agreement, signed
in 1965, allowed free movement across the border of vehicles
from Big Three auto plants in both countries. For Canada, this
meant lower car prices and an increase in Canadian production,
which created new jobs.
While heading Ford's Canadian subsidiary from 1970 to 1981, Mr.
BENNETT
worked to build a profitable operation independent of the U.S.
head office. He also made relations with employees a priority
and reached out to find common ground with both government and
organized labour. After stepping down as president in 1981, he
founded and ran Bennecon, a firm that provides cash-flow advice
to large companies. At the same time, he served terms as chairman
or director with BP Canada, Midland Walwyn, Jannock, Metropolitan
Life Holdings Co., York University, the Mississauga Hospital,
Scouts Canada and a host of other companies and organizations.
Ron
Osborne, chairman of Sun Life Financial, called Mr.
BENNETT
a role model for accountants who want to make other contributions
- "to go straight," as he put it. "He was the model director
big picture, strategic, not prone to sweat the details, rigorous
in his questioning, but, after the decisions were made, very
supportive."
Mr. BENNETT and his wife, Gail
COOK-
BENNETT, were one of corporate
Canada's power couples. When they were married in 1978, he was
president of Ford Canada and she was executive vice-president
of the C.D. Howe Institute of Research in Montreal. They met
at a Canadian-American Committee meeting in Washington. At the
end of one session, Dick Schmeelk, an American who served as
co-chair of the group, invited them for a ride in a Cadillac
to go and get a nightcap. The irony, Mr. Schmeelk said, was that
the president of Ford Canada had that "first date" in a General
Motors vehicle.
Over the years, they twice served on the boards of competing
corporations - once in the petroleum field, once in insurance.
No discussion of their respective companies was allowed at home,
said Ms. COOK-
BENNETT, who is now chair of the Canada Pension
Plan Investment Board.
While president of Ford Canada, Mr.
BENNETT persuaded the U.S.
head office to build a $535-million engine plant in Windsor,
Ontario, instead of Ohio, which was offering state subsidies.
He alerted Queen's Park and Ottawa to the urgent need for their
involvement, and arranged a meeting between prime minister Pierre
Trudeau and Ontario premier William Davis while both were attending
the Calgary Stampede. On the spot, the two agreed to a $68-million
cash incentive plan that helped seal the deal.
The youngest of two sons of English-born parents, William Charles
BENNETT and Gladys Mabel
(MATTHEWS), Roy Frederick
BENNETT spent
his early years in Winnipeg. Roy was 10 when his father, a manufacturing
agent in the woollens industry, moved the family to Toronto.
In 1941, while attending Maurice Cody Public School, Roy played
on the team that won the Toronto school soccer championship.
Athletics were to play an important role in his life. He enjoyed
hockey, golf and squash. As a young man, he once won a tennis
match against Don Fontana, who later became one of Canada's top-seeded
players.
After high school, Mr.
BENNETT chose a fast-track route to become
a chartered accountant. He apprenticed directly with the accounting
firm Lever and Hoskin, rather than attending university. He worked
with the firm until 1954, when he joined Kelvinator.
Two years later, he moved to Ford Canada as supervisor of financial
planning. He was made marketing manager in 1964 and vice-president
of finance in 1965. In the early years at Ford, Mr.
BENNETT was
offered a posting in South Africa and was told it could help
his chances of becoming president. He declined, preferring not
to uproot his family, according to daughter Brenda
BENNETT-
LEARMONTH.
He had married Laurie
McDERMOTT in 1955 and they had three children,
Bruce, Brenda and Lynne. The couple later separated and were
divorced. Laurie McDermott
BENNETT later died.
But opportunities knocked again at Ford Canada. Mr.
BENNETT had
won the admiration and backing of Ford Motor Co. chairman Henry
Ford II by making himself the company expert on free trade, and
on November 16, 1970, he was given the job of president.
Heading one of Canada's largest companies at 42 won Mr.
BENNETT
the reputation of being a wunderkind. In a profile, The Globe
and Mail described him as a "youthful financial whiz who never
graduated from university." Two years later, he was given the
additional title of Chief Executive Officer.
When he was made president, Mr.
BENNETT said he would take the
job for no less than five years and no more than 10, says his
son Bruce, now president of Bennecon. "He felt if you couldn't
do what you wanted in 10 years, it was time for someone else
to take charge."
So in 1981, he stepped down as president, although he served
a brief period after that as chairman. He turned down an executive
job offer at the U.S. head office because he didn't want to leave
Canada. He continued to serve on the Ford Canada board until
the subsidiary was privatized in 1995.
Claude Lamoureux was an executive at Metropolitan Life Holdings
when Mr. BENNETT was named chair of the company's board. He went
to their first meeting together prepared to answer questions
about sales and finances. Instead, Mr.
BENNETT wanted to know
about the human resources department. "He put real emphasis on
people, on having the right human resources department… on having
the right team," said Mr. Lamoureux, now president and Chief
Executive Officer of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Fund.
In 1986, Mr.
BENNETT served on the Royal Commission on Unemployment
Insurance and issued a minority report saying that plans to remove
seasonal benefits would be too Draconian a measure for chronically
depressed regions. He argued that an income-supplement program
should be put in place before any move was made to base unemployment
benefits on a full year's income. That strong sense of fair play
was demonstrated again in February, 1995, when he wrote a critical
letter to Ford's U.S. head office. It charged that the parent
company's transfer pricing policy was suppressing profits at
the Canadian subsidiary.
He called the low earnings "an embarrassment for management,
employees and dealers as well as Canadian directors." The letter
suggested that Ford Motor Co. buy out the minority shareholders
if it was not prepared to let the Canadian operations become
more profitable. A buyout plan was announced two months later.
A focal point for the
BENNETT family's time together was a cottage
on an island in Lake of Bays, in the Muskoka area, north of Toronto.
Mr. BENNETT installed "the smallest car ferry in the world" to
transport his Ford Explorer to the island, said Keith
HILLYER,
who had a cottage nearby. A motorized cable system pulled the
ferry across. "To get on the ferry, the car had to go down a
precipitous incline," Mr.
HILLYER said. "He had to be careful
it didn't slide off the other side."
Mr. BENNETT pursued his busy lifestyle of business, charitable,
athletic and social endeavours into his late 70s - it was just
last year when a diagnosis of bladder cancer forced him to slow
down.
A year ago, he attended his last session of the Friday Night
Poker Club and lost $120. David
FLEMING/FLEMMING, one of four founding
members still living, says the group plans to carry on its six-decades-old
tradition.
Roy Frederick
BENNETT was born in Winnipeg on March 18, 1928.
He died at his Toronto home of bladder cancer on June 4, 2007.
He was 79. He leaves his wife, Gail Cook-
BENNETT; children Bruce,
Brenda, Lynne and Christopher; and seven grandchildren. He was
predeceased by his brother, Ken.
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MALONEY,
Helen or “Lena” (née
PHILLIPS)
Passed away, surrounded by her family at Meaford Hospital on
Friday, June 29, 2007 in her 87th year. Survived by her loving
husband of 64 years, Larry (Lawrence Owen), her sons, Peter and
partner Jin
ZHE
(Meaford,
Ontario and
Changchun,
China,) Denny
and wife Lyn (London, Ontario and Naples, Florida), Terry (London,
Ontario), and Murray and wife Joani (Meaford, Ontario). Predeceased
by her sons Larry, Jr. and Philip. Grandmother of Kevin and fiancée
Nicole (Dallas, Texas), Craig and wife Sherry (Toronto, Ontario),
Karen ZIMMERMAN and husband Craig (Oakland, Iowa,) Kelly (Pickering,
Ontario), Michael (London, Ontario), Chris and Brendan (Meaford,
Ontario,) and Andrea
FISCHER and husband Chris (Wasaga Beach,
Ontario.)
Great-grandmother of Haley Navaisha
MALONEY and Ava
FISCHER.
Predeceased by her sister, Evangeline, and her brothers,
Dimitri (Jimmy) and Cyril (Carl), she is missed by sister, Nadejda
(Annie) RAINVILLE
(Toronto,
Ontario,) her brother, Methody (Ted)
PHILLIPS (Lackawanna, New York), daughter-in-law of Suzanne
MALONEY.
sister-in-law, Wynn (Newmarket, Ontario) and nieces and nephews,
Dianne PAPADOPOLOUS,
Gerry
RAINVILLE, Sharon
RAINVILLE, Stacey
DELMONT, Shelley
VRANJES, Peter
PHILLIPS, Johnny
PHILLIPS, Ed
PHILLIPS, George
MALONEY, Mike
MALONEY, Mary
MALONEY, Mark
MALONEY,
Bridget MALONEY, Carole
BEST, Tommy
BEAUVAIS, Peggy
BEAUVAIS,
Brian BEAUVAIS, Diane
PIRIE, Cathy
BEAUVAIS, Paul
MALONEY, Tim
MALONEY, Pat
MALONEY, Helen
HUTCHINGS, Fred
RAPLEY, Penney
BROWN,
Elizabeth LEATHERDALE, and Georgea
WAFFLE.
Born
May 27, 1921
in Toronto, eldest of six children born in Canada to Dina and
Petre FILEFF, former Greek and Turkish subjects, from Western
Macedonian mountain village of Trsye, who immigrated after World
War I and adopted the anglicized name
PHILLIPS.
Lived on Wilkins
Avenue in Cabbagetown area of Toronto. Attended Sackville Street
School and Central Tech. Attended St. Cyril and Methody Macedonian
Orthodox Church. Lifetime member of Daughters of Macedonia and
Trsye Benevolent Society. Raised through the depression, she
worked as a housekeeper and seamstress, for room and board and
going dancing with sisters “Vee” and “Annie” at the Palais Royale
or Masonic Temple. During the early years of World War 2 she
met, and fell in love with a gentleman of the Air Corps, then
Royal
Canadian
Air Force Airman L.O.
MALONEY, to whom she was
wed in 1943, after he returned from radar duty in England. Helen
joined Larry when he was stationed at Royal Canadian Air Force
Station
Bagotville in 1944. After Sgt.
MALONEY's demobilization,
they started a family, living in a flat on Balsam Avenue in the
Beach area of Toronto. While in Toronto, the family were members
of Saint Michael's diocese. In 1951 the family moved to Point-aux-Trembles
area of Montréal and later to St. Michel (1953-1972) at the northeast
end of Montréal Island. While in Montréal, the family were members
of St. Brendan's diocese. In 1972, moved to Scarborough, Ontario.
Following Larry's early retirement in 1978, Helen and Larry wintered
in Largo, Florida for 28 years of well-earned recreation and
leisure time. In 2003, Helen and Larry moved to the family estate
near Meaford, Ontario. Helen was the consummate homemaker, a
skilled manager, budgeter, purchaser, chef, knitter, sewer, clothier,
seamstress, launderer, cleaner, practical nurse and psychologist.
She made it all seem easy. To children she was a cub and scout
organizer, protector, comforter, supporter and healer. To her
peers she was a graceful dancer, astute bridge partner, champion
bowler, occasional golfer and good fun to be with at social events.
To her husband, Larry, she was a lifelong friend, companion,
partner and counsellor. Larry says that Helen saved him from
an unstable life pursuing impractical daydreams. Between 1945
in Toronto and 1963 in Montreal, Helen gave birth to six sons.
It was the great regret of her life that she never had a daughter,
and so it was that she had a special affection for her nieces,
grand-daughters and great-granddaughters. Helen was, in a category
she herself sometimes applied to people, a “giver”. She was a
good person with commendable standards of conduct and morality.
Helen was always concerned about the feelings of others, always
ready to lend a helping hand, always ready with a kind word.
There are very few like her. She will be missed. Service held
at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, 3 July 2007 at Gardiner-Wilson Funeral
Home, 60 Denmark Street, Meaford, Ontario. (519) 538 2550 Visitation
begins at noon. The family receives visitors at home following
service. In lieu of flowers, please donate to the Alzheimer Society.
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HERBERT,
Georgia
Beryl
Suddenly at the North Bay General Hospital on Thursday September 13,
2007 at the age of 82. Beloved wife of William of Tara. Dear
mother of Mark and Renate of Tara and Merren of Kitchener. Loving
Nana to Angela, Steven (Cathy), Dana (Jon), Mark Jr. (Julie),
and Kelly (Rene). Great Nana to Britney, T.J., Payton and Evan.
Dear sister of Clifford
SWEEZEY of Pembroke, Dreana
LEATHERDALE
and Dehlia
FINCHEN, both of North Bay. Predeceased by sister
Ruth LOMAS.
She will be missed by many nieces and nephews as
well as all her Friends she played bridge with. Georgia had a
special place in her heart for Special Needs Children and Seniors
with whom she volunteered regularly. Friends may call at Paul H.
Eagleson Funeral Home in Tara on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. Funeral
service will be held in the chapel on Monday, September 17, 2007
at 2 p.m. Cremation to follow. In lieu of flowers, donations
to the Canadian Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Lung Association
would be greatly appreciated. Condolences may be expressed online
at www.paulheaglesonfuneralhome.ca
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Gerry LEAVER, 89: Engineer
By Buzz BOURDON,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S8
Ottawa -- Gerry
LEAVER was so traumatized by what he went through
as a gunner during the Second World War that he seriously considered
becoming a Roman Catholic priest when he was demobilized at the
end of 1945.
Serving in Italy and Northwest Europe as a battery captain with
1st Canadian Survey Regiment, he was present at all its battles,
both large and small. Spending more than a year in action, including
leave and rest periods, he saw the full horror of warfare up
close. A reserved man who almost never spoke of his experiences,
he was appalled at the tremendous waste and never forgot the
suffering he witnessed.
After slogging up the Italian peninsula in a series of hard-fought
battles in 1944, he and his regiment arrived in the Netherlands
in February, 1945, for almost three more months of fighting before
Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945.
Although Mr.
LEAVER quickly dropped his plan of studying for
the priesthood - he went back to Queen's University in Kingston,
finished a degree and got on with his life by building a career
and a family - his memories of war profoundly affected his life
for the next 60 years, his daughter Maureen
LEAVER said. "He
suffered for his entire life from post traumatic stress syndrome,
but he suppressed it until the last years of his life, until
the demons became too strong."
Those demons appeared during the summer of 2004, when he started
suffering nightmares. They upset him greatly, so he asked his
caregiver, Carol
GOLDENBERG, if she would write them down in
diary form. The result is a valuable record of war-time experience.
The entries, which began on January 4, 2005, describe various
incidents that took place during his life, both military and
civilian, from the routine to the dangerous. A week later, he
dreamed about charging up a hill during an attack with his batman
and personal servant beside him. The batman was seriously wounded
and soon died in his arms, he told Ms.
GOLDENBERG. "
Gerry holds
him, but does not know or remember how he was feeling or what
happened next," she said.
The torment continued unabated. The emotion, suppressed for decades,
was not unique to Mr.
LEAVER.
Thousands of Canadian servicemen
experienced the similar trauma. Some carried on, no matter what,
and elected to suffer in silence. For some, the pressure was
released through excessive drinking. Others took it out on their
families.
Gerry LEAVER grew up in a post-First World War Ottawa of horse-drawn
delivery wagons. Considered pretty much a backwater at the time,
it was known for lumber, civil servants and the Stanley Cup-winning
Ottawa Senators.
Besides delivering the Ottawa Journal, a daily newspaper that
folded in 1980 after 95 years, young Gerry spent a lot of time
at his father's store in the Byward Market, just down the street
from Parliament Hill. After school, he would sweep the floor,
stock shelves and do whatever else needed to be done. "He would
help out by standing out in front and calling out either 'cold
milk' or 'meat' so people would come to
LEAVER's store," Ms.
GOLDENBERG
recorded.
Some days, he and his sister, Betty, would walk to the Carnegie
Library and check out books. However, their father disapproved
of reading and told them books would "burn your eyes out."
In 1937, Mr.
LEAVER matriculated at Queen's University, electing
to study civil engineering. Perhaps with an eye to the war clouds
then gathering over Europe, he joined the Canadian Officers'
Training Corps and gained a commission in the army. Not long
after that, on September 10, 1939, Canada declared war on Germany.
Nine months later, on July 5, 1940, Mr.
LEAVER volunteered for
the Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery, joining 1st Field Brigade,
Royal Canadian Artillery, in Ottawa. His prewar training proved
valuable, since the brass gave him the rank of lieutenant, one
step up from second lieutenant. He was soon transferred to 1st Canadian
Survey Regiment. He shipped out to Britain for more training
and landed in Sicily with his unit in July, 1943.
What followed -- particularly after the Italians surrendered
that September -- was some of the hardest fighting that Canadian
soldiers endured during the war. For his gallantry during an
action in February, 1944, he was made a Member of the Order of
the British Empire (MBE) for displaying "great devotion to
duty at all times… He completely disregarded his own safety and
by his skillful handling of the situation, safeguarded that of
his men," the official citation said.
By March, 1945, Mr.
LEAVER and the rest of 1 Canadian Corps were
in France, moving up to the fighting in the Netherlands as the
German army fought tenaciously to keep the Allies from crossing
the Rhine. On May 6, 1945, Mr.
LEAVER's war was over.
There was one more event to come, though. In October, 1946, he
was summoned to Ottawa's Rideau Hall to accept his MBE from
the governor-general, Lord Alexander.
After graduating in 1947, Mr.
LEAVER joined the department of
mines, energy and resources two years later. Working in surveying
and mapping, he retired in 1977.
Fond of playing tennis, and reading history, politics and current
events, Mr.
LEAVER devoted his retirement to volunteering. "He
helped people all his life," said Ms.
LEAVER. "He was a man for
all men."
Although he attended few regimental reunions after the war, Mr.
LEAVER
never missed the annual Remembrance Day parade at Ottawa's National
War Memorial.
Gerald Joseph
LEAVER was born November 24, 1918, in Ottawa. He
died of natural causes in Ottawa on October 22, 2007. He was
89. He is survived by his daughter, Maureen, and by sons Frank
and Garrett. He also leaves his sister, Betty, and grand_son Stephan.
He was predeceased by his wife, Ruth.
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LEAVITT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-27 published
Hospital physiotherapy pioneer was a 'tough but sympathetic'
taskmaster
For more than 25 years, she was a force to be reckoned with at
Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children, where she helped polio
victims and treated Canada's first separated conjoined twins
By Douglas
McARTHUR,
Special▲ to The Globe and Mail, Page S9
Toronto -- Isabel
BRODIE was a pioneer physiotherapist who played
a key role in rehabilitating children crippled by a polio epidemic
that swept across North America, and treated the first set of
Canadian conjoined twins to be successfully separated. For more
than 25 years, she headed the physiotherapy division at Toronto's
Hospital for Sick Children, where she was a force to be reckoned
with.
She was variously described by Friends as outspoken, feisty,
loud, compassionate and caring. Doctor Barry
SHANDLING, the former
pediatric surgeon at Sick Kids, called her "tough but sympathetic"
- exactly the qualities needed for treating infants whose heads
were bent to one side because of wry neck.
The condition, which is caused by a shortened muscle, can be
corrected in small babies provided someone has the skill and
tenacity to twist the head to its proper position. Most parents
and physiotherapists do a "wishy-washy" job of this because they
are too concerned about being gentle, he says. Not so Ms.
BRODIE.
In 1972, she performed physiotherapy on Heather and Kristen,
the first set of Canadian conjoined twins to be successfully
separated. Doctor
SHANDLING performed the surgery and she helped
to keep them active and to mobilize their joints.
Early in her career, she had treated scores of children who had
been crippled by polio. Successive epidemics had affected thousands
of children across the continent until Doctor Jonas Salk of the
University of Pittsburgh developed a vaccine in 1955.
"Ms. BRODIE was a very dedicated, compassionate physiotherapist
who was very effective in treating of children with paralysis,
particularly those who suffered from poliomyelitis in the years
before the vaccine was developed," said Doctor Robert
SALTER, a
professor emeritus of surgery at Sick Kids.
But her contributions at the children's hospital went beyond
simply treating young people. She also became involved in their
lives. She invited numerous children and their families to live
at her home while the youngsters were undergoing treatment.
As director of physiotherapy, however, she was a strict taskmaster
who asked her staff to address her as Ms.
BRODIE, recalled Anne-Marie
HAMILTON, a former co-worker. Later, after stepping down for
health reasons and rejoining the front-line therapy team, she
asked them to call her by her nickname, Skip. "Then we got to
see her soft side," Ms.
HAMILTON said. "We saw she had a sense
of humour."
Isabel BRODIE grew up in Oakville, Ontario Her Scottish-born
father, Robert
BRODIE, had travelled around the world as a ship's
carpenter before building the family home. Her mother, also from
Scotland, was a homemaker who often returned to the old country
to visit relatives.
Ruth MacDONALD, who also grew up in Oakville, remembers bicycling
along the shore of Lake Ontario with Ms.
BRODIE to visit Friends
in the nearby village of Clarkson when both were girls. After
the outbreak of the Second World War, Ms.
BRODIE joined the Royal
Canadian
Air
Force and convinced Ms.
MacDONALD to do the same.
They were among 17,000 Canadians who enlisted in the Royal Canadian
Air Force to serve in the Women's Division, which trained those
who joined in more than 40 trades. Ms.
BRODIE, who enlisted in
1942, worked as an equipment assistant and achieved the rank
of leading air woman. She was posted to a number of places in
Canada, as well as Torbay, Newfoundland., which at the time was
considered to be "overseas."
She used to talk about the snow in Newfoundland being so high
that she had to go in and out through an upstairs window to get
to the mess hall, said Marion
LEAVITT, a close friend and frequent
travel companion over the years years. She also told about talking
an air force chef into cooking up some steaks so she could organize
a party. After the war, but while still in uniform, she was sent
to England and posted to an Royal Canadian Air Force airbase
in Topcliffe, Yorkhire.
After returning to civilian life, Ms.
BRODIE used her military
allowance to take a three-year physical therapy course at the
University of Toronto. She graduated in 1950 and practised for
about four years at Toronto's Saint Michael's Hospital before moving
to Sick Kids, where she worked for more than a quarter of a century.
Mary SAURIOL, who worked with her at Saint Michael's, said: "She
was wonderful with children. If they wanted to run around, she
ran around with them." She often took outpatients on excursions
to the Canadian National Exhibition or on day camping trips.
Next to her work, Ms.
BRODIE's greatest love was travelling,
both within North America by camper van, and abroad, including
Russia, China and several times to India. She sponsored a number
of children through the Christian Children's Fund and visited
some of them overseas.
Her most constant companion for travel, sports and pastimes was
Mable STUBBS, a Revenue Canada employee who had also served in
the air force. After the war, the two women shared an apartment
and later bought a house in Clarkson. In 1988, when Ms.
STUBBS
was quite ill with cancer, they took their final trip together,
a Mediterranean cruise. Ms.
STUBBS died shortly after their return.
Friends said Ms.
BRODIE took a long time to recover her bounce
after the loss.
Their relationship was one of Friendship and convenience, but
nothing more, said her niece, Heather
HEAPS.
Ms.
BRODIE was engaged
to a man who was killed during the Second World War, and later
to a second man, but she broke that relationship off when she
realized she still loved the first.
A woman of eclectic interests and athletic prowess, she filled
her leisure time with camping, canoeing, cross-country skiing,
bird-watching, photography, wood-carving, dressmaking, gardening,
playing the organ, folk dancing, and playing bridge. She took
up golf in her early 70s, and went on to win three hole-in-one
trophies.
Isabel BRODIE loved entertaining, said Marilyn
BRODIE, a niece
by marriage. "The first time I met her was at a corn roast in
her backyard. She had a giant pot like a witch's cauldron."
In her early 80s, she began to develop Alzheimer's disease and
could no longer drive. But that didn't ground her. She would
jump on her bicycle and ride to a favourite restaurant for ribs
and a rum and Coke, Ms.
HEAPS said.
As her health deteriorated, she began using a cane. "Unfortunately,
the cane became a lethal weapon," Ms.
HEAPS added. "When dining
in a restaurant, she thought nothing of smacking the waitress
with the cane to get her attention."
Isabel BRODIE was born in Oakville, Ontario, on May 31, 1920.
She died of complications of Alzheimer's disease at the King
Nursing Home in Bolton, Ontario, on June 1, 2007, one day after
her 87th birthday. She is survived by a nephew and five nieces.
She was predeceased by her older brothers John, a former Mountie,
and Robert, who died in Walkerton, Ontario, in 2000 when the
municipal water supply there became contaminated with E. coli
bacteria.
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