POLACK
POLACOK
POLAKOW
POLAND
POLANSKI
POLCI
POLE
POLFUSS
POLICARPO
POLIS
POLISKY
POLITI
POLL
POLLAK
POLLARD
POLLOCK
POLONSKY
POLSON
POLUSA
POLACK o@ca.on.grey_county.hanover.the_post 2007-11-02 published
TANNER,
Lillian (née
FOERSTER)
Lillian TANNER, of Hanover, passed away at Hanover Care Centre,
on Monday, October 29, 2007. She was 92. Lillian was born in
Normanby Township, daughter of the late Norman and Margaret (nee
BENDER)
FOERSTER. Survived by daughters Margaret (James)
ELDER
of Kitchener, Susan (Vincent)
WEBER of Hanover, grandchildren
Jeremy (Martha)
WEBER of Guelph, Katherine
WEBER
(Rob
RYAN) of
Mississauga, great-granddaughter Mia
WEBER, brothers Milton (Marie)
FOERSTER of Hanover, Paul (Barb)
FOERSTER of Ayton, brothers-in-law
Fred SEIM of Hanover, Francis
TONE of Hanover, sisters-in-law
Doris FOERSTER of Neustadt and Isabelle
(TANNER)
KIRSTINE of
Hanover.
Predeceased by husband George
TANNER, sisters Mabel
SEIM and
Gertrude TONE and brother Carl
FOERSTER.
Visitation was held at Mighton Funeral Home, Hanover, on Wednesday,
2-4 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Service was held Thursday, November 1,
2007 at 1: 30 p.m. at St. Matthew's Ev. Lutheran Church, Hanover.
Rev. John POLACK officiated. Interment in Hanover Cemetery. Memorial
donations to the Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Bible Society
or the Arthritis Society were appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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POLACK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-28 published
HAGERMAN,
Heather (formerly
PITEL, née
McALISTER)
Passed away in the early morning of Monday, June 25th 2007, after
a short but courageous fight. Beloved daughter of the late Merle
HOUSTON and Robert
McALISTER, sister of Marilyn
McALISTER, loving
mother to Jennifer
HAGERMAN and Lisa
PITEL and adored grandmother
of Meaghan and Alison
POLACK.
You'll be there on all our walks,
Mom, sharing the pleasures of the journey. If desired, donations
may be made to Sunnybrook's Bayview Cancer Clinic or the charity
of your choice. Condolences and memories may be forwarded through
www.humphreymiles.com
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POLACOK o@ca.on.grey_county.hanover.the_post 2007-08-03 published
FROOK,
Isabel▼ (née
JACKLIN)
Isabel FROOK of R.R.#4 Kincardine passed away at Hanover and
District Hospital on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. She was 74.
Born in Bentinck Township, daughter of the late Victor and Anna
(née HOERLE)
JACKLIN.
Survived by her daughters Carol
HUSK and Don
HODGINS of R.R.#2
Kincardine, Sandy and husband Leo
LEROUX of Hanover and Gale
and husband John
POLFUSS of R.R.#1 Ayton, son Grant and wife
Catherine FROOK of Kincardine, grandchildren Rod
HUSK,
Tammy▼
FORSYTH, Connie
REID, Tracey
LEROUX, Carrie
LEROUX, Dean
LEROUX,
Marcia TEATHER, Gordon
POLFUSS, Adam
POLFUSS, Martin
POLFUSS,
Tyler FROOK,
Ryan▼
FROOK and eight great-grandchildren.
Isabel▼ is also survived by her brother Warren (Pauline)
JACKLIN
of R.R.#2 Holland Centre. Predeceased by her husband Ronald “Ron&rdquo
FROOK and great-grand_son Jesse
HUSK.
Visitation was held at Mighton Funeral Home, Hanover, on Thursday
from 7-9 p.m. where a funeral service was held on Friday, July 27,
2007 at 2: 30 pm. Rev. John
POLACOK officiated. Interment in Hanover
Cemetery.
Memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Hanover
and District Hospital were appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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POLAKOW o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-16 published
YUDELMAN,
Cynthia
Harriet (née
POLAKOW)
Was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on February 11, 1926.
She was the second of six girls, Rhoda, Kiki, Joyce, Lorna and
Thelma.
Her mother was Dorothy
POLAKOW (née
SALMON,) and her
father was Jack Ruby
POLAKOW.
Cynthia lived a full and active life. After serving in the South
African Air Force during the Second World War, she was awarded
a scholarship to the University of California, Berkeley, California,
where she was the first in her family to obtain an undergraduate
degree. It was at Berkeley, particularly at International House,
where she formed many Friendships that lasted throughout her
life. Cynthia frequently remembered the kindness of total strangers
and was a lifelong proponent of helping others. Moving to Rome
with her new son, John, and her first husband, Monty, she gained
a life-long appreciation of design and of things Mediterranean
and European in style. Her daughter, Jane, was born in Johannesburg
her son, Paul, in New York; and her daughter, Tanya, by her second
husband, Ian, was born in London.
Cynthia maintained residences in Portugal and London, England
and at various times was active in the antique and real estate
trades. Passionate about maintaining her family relationships
and Friendships, she frequently visited South Africa, Europe
and North America. On becoming a grandmother, she wished for
her grandchildren to have the same opportunities for travel and
education that she experienced, and she worked hard to that effect.
Her last years were spent in Fort Myers, Florida receiving care
for Alzheimers. Cynthia died on October 11, 2007. She will be
missed by her surviving sisters, Kiki and Lorna; her children,
John, Jane, Paul and Tanya; her daughters- and son-in-law, Linda,
Rachel and John and her grandchildren, Erica, Eleanor, Emma,
Julia and Adam; as well as her many nieces and nephews, Friends
and acquaintances world-wide.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that gifts be made to
International House Open Gateway Scholarship Fund, University
of California, Berkeley, 2299 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, California,
94720-2320 (http://ihouse.berkeley.edu/a/giving).
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POLAND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-06 published
SLAWSON,
Eileen (née
GARLAND)
Peacefully at Lincoln Place, Toronto on August 31, 2007. Predeceased
by her husband, Bud (Norwood) in 1970. Loving mother of Nicholas
James SLAWSON and grandmother to Marc and Christopher. Sister
of Patricia
POLAND. A private service was held followed by cremation
and interment at Mount Hope Cemetery, Toronto. Condolences and
memories may be forwarded through www.humphreymiles.com
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POLANSKI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-07-20 published
POLANSKI,
Adam
Passed away at Hamilton Henderson Hospital on Tuesday, July 17,
2007 at the age of 52. Beloved husband of Lidia. Much loved father
of Anna, and Natalie. Loving
son of Stefan and the late Aniela.
Friends may call at the Turner and Porter 'Peel' Chapel, 2180 Hurontario
St. (Hwy 10, North of Queen Elizabeth Way) on Sunday from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. Funeral Mass to be held at St. Maximilian Kolbe Church,
4260 Cawthra Road on Monday, July 23, 2007 at 10: 00 a.m. Interment
Springcreek Cemetery.
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POLCI o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2007-01-11 published
HUSBAND,
Mary
Helen (née
POLCI)
Peacefully at London Health Sciences Centre University Hospital
on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 Mary Helen (née
POLCI)
HUSBAND, in
her 87th year. Beloved wife of the late Jack S.
HUSBAND.
Cherished
mother of John and his wife Linda and Dan and his wife Mary Anne.
Proud grandmother of Brad, Jamie and Ted and great-grandmother
of Leila. Dear sister of Loretta
ROELOFSEN.
Predeceased by her
brothers Louie, Eddie, Joe and Orville
POLCI and her sisters
Amelia CRAWFORD and Pauline
SMYTHE.
She will be missed by several
nieces and nephews and good Friends. Visitors will be received
at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo Street at King
Street, on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 o'clock. Funeral Mass will
be held at Saint Peter's Basilica, 196 Dufferin Avenue, on Saturday
morning at 10: 30 o'clock. Interment in Saint Peter's Cemetery.
Parish prayers and C.W.L. prayers will be held Friday afternoon
at 3 o'clock. In lieu of flowers, donations to the charity of
your choice would be appreciated.
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POLE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-16 published
FROST,
John
James
Born August 10, 1947. Passed away while playing squash on Thursday,
June 14th at the age of 59. Much loved by his wife
Robin
KINGSMILL,
and family: Brenna
FROST,
Kim
AGAR, Jim and Wendy
FROST, Max
and Frances
FROST,
Karen and David
BARRETT, Patti and Mike
EAST,
Carol KINGSMILL and Dave
POLE, and kindred sporting spirit Ruth
KINGSMILL.
Friends may call at Neweduk Funeral Home, (1981 Dundas
St. W. Mississauga) Monday, June 18th 7-9 p.m. A memorial service
will be held in the chapel on Tuesday, June 19th at 10: 30 a.m.
If desired, memorial donations can be made to World Wildlife
Fund, 245 Eglinton Ave. E. Suite 410, Toronto, Ontario M4P 3J1.
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POLFUSS o@ca.on.grey_county.hanover.the_post 2007-08-03 published
FROOK,
Isabel▲▼ (née
JACKLIN)
Isabel FROOK of R.R.#4 Kincardine passed away at Hanover and
District Hospital on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. She was 74.
Born in Bentinck Township, daughter of the late Victor and Anna
(née HOERLE)
JACKLIN.
Survived by her daughters Carol
HUSK and Don
HODGINS of R.R.#2
Kincardine, Sandy and husband Leo
LEROUX of Hanover and Gale
and husband John
POLFUSS of R.R.#1 Ayton, son Grant and wife
Catherine FROOK of Kincardine, grandchildren Rod
HUSK,
Tammy▲
FORSYTH, Connie
REID, Tracey
LEROUX, Carrie
LEROUX, Dean
LEROUX,
Marcia TEATHER, Gordon
POLFUSS, Adam
POLFUSS, Martin
POLFUSS,
Tyler FROOK,
Ryan▲
FROOK and eight great-grandchildren.
Isabel▲ is also survived by her brother Warren (Pauline)
JACKLIN
of R.R.#2 Holland Centre. Predeceased by her husband Ronald “Ron&rdquo
FROOK and great-grand_son Jesse
HUSK.
Visitation was held at Mighton Funeral Home, Hanover, on Thursday
from 7-9 p.m. where a funeral service was held on Friday, July 27,
2007 at 2: 30 pm. Rev. John
POLACOK officiated. Interment in Hanover
Cemetery.
Memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or the Hanover
and District Hospital were appreciated as expressions of sympathy.
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POLFUSS o@ca.on.grey_county.hanover.the_post 2007-11-02 published
MONACO,
Silvano
Passed away at the Hanover and District Hospital on Saturday,
October 27, 2007. Silvano
MONACO, of R.R.#1 Neustadt, at the
age of 67.
Beloved husband of the former Vani
GRATTONI.
Loving father of
Nella and her fiancée Tim
WELLS, and Silvia and her boyfriend
Martin POLFUSS. Survived by one brother and one sister in Italy.
Fondly remembered by the Grattoni family.
Cremation has taken place. A Celebration of Silvano's Life was
held at the McCulloch-Watson Funeral Home, Durham on Tuesday
afternoon at 1 o'clock, with visitation one hour prior to the
service.
As an expression of sympathy, memorial donations to the Lung
Association would be appreciated by the family.|
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POLFUSS o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2007-07-26 published
FROOK,
Isabel▲
Of R.R.#4 Kincardine, passed away at Hanover and District Hospital
on Tuesday, July 24, 2007. She was 74. Survived by her daughters
Carol HUSK and Don
HODGINS of R.R.#2 Kincardine, Sandy and husband
Leo LEROUX of Hanover and Gale and husband John
POLFUSS of R.R.#1
Ayton, son Grant and wife
Catherine
FROOK of Kincardine, grandchildren
Rod HUSK, Tammy
FORSYTH, Connie
REID, Tracey
LEROUX, Carrie
LEROUX,
Dean LEROUX, Marcia
TEATHER, Gordon
POLFUSS, Adam
POLFUSS, Martin
POLFUSS,
Tyler
FROOK, Ryan
FROOK and 8 great-grandchildren. Isabel
is also survived by her brother Warren and wife
Pauline
JACKLIN
of R.R.#2 Holland Centre. Predeceased by her husband Ronald “Ron&ldquo
FROOK and great-grand_son Jesse
HUSK.
Visitation at Mighton Funeral
Home, Hanover, on Thursday 7-9 p.m. where a Funeral Service will
be held on Friday, July 27, 2007 at 2: 30 p.m. Interment in Hanover
Cemetery. Memorial donations to the Canadian Cancer Society or
the Hanover and District Hospital Foundation would be appreciated
as expressions of sympathy. Further information and register
book available at www.mightonfuneralhome.ca.
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POLICARPO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-09-01 published
Mother's actions saved child from certain death, police say
By Unnati GANDHI with a report from Tim
SHUFELT,
Page
A14
Simply put, Jackie DO
VALE-
AVELAR lived for her daughter.
From play dates to cooking, drawing to shopping, the 25-year-old
mother's every breath was for her three-year-old baby girl, Orbela.
That included her last.
As Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR drove home early yesterday morning to her
waiting husband in Brampton, her Dodge SX collided with a tractor-trailer.
Police say the truck driver fled the scene, and Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR's
badly damaged car came to a stop across two lanes of the eastbound
401 near Cambridge.
Police later found the semi near Napanee, and arrested the driver
for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR grabbed Orbela and put her in the ditch beside
the highway's shoulder. But she returned to her totalled car,
probably for her cellphone, police say.
As she tried to get in through the driver's door at about 4: 45 a.m.
with her back to oncoming traffic, another rig plowed into her.
She was pinned.
Ontario
Provincial
Police Constable David
WOODFORD said she likely
died on impact.
He said Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR did the right thing by immediately
getting her daughter to safety, preventing what could have been
an even greater tragedy.
"She got her child out. She saved her child's life, because the
child would have been killed," he said.
To her closest Friends, the act of bravery sounded every bit
like Jackie.
Candice SHERRETT, who said her Friendship with Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR
dates back to elementary school, remembers the day Orbela was
born.
"Jackie's life had been fulfilled," she told The Globe and Mail.
"… I think some comfort can be taken knowing that Jackie died
knowing her daughter was safe and out of harm's way."
Yesterday, Orbela was told, "Mommy has gone to heaven," she said.
Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR's husband, parents, and younger sister, Ligia,
were too distraught to comment yesterday.
Jackie DO VALE married her high school sweetheart six years ago
after graduating from Saint_Joseph's College School in downtown
Toronto. The couple moved to Brampton and their daughter was
born three years later.
Ms. DO VALE-
AVELAR worked two jobs so Orbela could have whatever
she wanted, said one of her best Friends, Alex
POLICARPO, 25.
During the week, she was a secretary at a local car dealership.
On weekends, she worked at a laundromat.
"She liked to do everything in life. She was always the first
to try things out," Ms.
POLICARPO said.
When Ms. POLICARPO had her baby shower in July, Ms. DO
VALE-
AVELAR
was the first to give her advice. "She told me to tell my husband
to do all the work. I was supposed to just sit back and relax,"
Ms. POLICARPO said.
The Ontario Provincial Police also investigated another serious
collision yesterday, in which a 70-year-old woman visiting from
Trinidad was killed and three others were injured.
The four were travelling in the Niagara-bound lanes of the Queen
Elizabeth Way near St. Catharines with a house trailer in tow
just after 7 a.m. As their truck approached a construction zone,
it suddenly veered off into a grassy shoulder at highway speed
and struck a tree, Constable
WOODFORD said.
The Ontario Provincial Police says 295 people have been killed
in traffic accidents in the province so far this year, up from
280 in the same period in 2006.
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POLIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-30 published
STARASTS,
Gundega
Peacefully at York Central Hospital on August 28, 2007 after
a lengthy struggle with Parkinson's Disease. Gundega beloved
wife of the late Hermanis. Loving mother of John (Dale) and Ivars
(Lilian). Cherished Nana of Andras, Anna and Tamara. Dear sister
of Andras and predeceased by brothers Mintauts
UZANS and Janis
POLIS.
She will be sadly missed by her family in Latvia, U.S.A.
and her many Friends around the world. A private family service
was held on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 2 p.m. at Saint_James'
Crematorium Chapel. If so desired, donations to St. Andrew's
Latvian Lutheran Church 383 Jarvis St. Toronto, Ontario M5B 2C7
would be appreciated by the family.
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POLISKY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-05-29 published
BROWNS,
Morris, C.G.A.
Peacefully at the Queensway Carleton Hospital on Friday, May 25,
2007 at age 85. Beloved husband of Dorothy (née
POLISKY.)
Loving
father of Shmuel (Bonna
HABERMAN), Baruch (Rabbi Elyse
GOLDSTEIN)
and Jonathan (Cindy
STELMACKOWICH.) Cherished grandfather of
Tiferet, Uriel, Bezalel, Amatai, Adir Chai, Noam, Carmi and Micah.
Funeral Service and interment was held in Ottawa. Toronto Shiva
at 66 Hove Street, Thursday p.m. through Sunday a.m.
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POLITI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-01-13 published
SAGMAN,
Sadok
(Febrary 2, 1927-January 7, 2007)
Passed away peacefully in his 80th year, at the Jewish General
Hospital in Montreal. Devoted husband of Carmina Araujo
SAGMAN.
Beloved father of Sara and Ruth, Uri (Sandra), Doron (Yolanda),
and Shaul. Grandfather of Gabriel, Reuben and Nathaniel; Aaron,
Joel and Evan; Irene and Christine, Daniel and Stephanie. Survived
by his brother Ezra. Predeceased by his parents, Flora and David
SAGMAN, his brothers Eliyahu and Chaim, and by his first wife,
Arlette Politi
SAGMAN.
Reflecting his Biblical name, meaning
"the righteous," Sadok believed in justice and dedicated himself
to the values important to him: family and education. The second
of four brothers, he was born and raised in Baghdad. In the 1940s,
after his family was forced to flee Iraq, he fought for the new
State of Israel. In Israel, Sadok married Arlette
POLITI, studied
economics at the University of Tel Aviv, and became a banker.
In 1966, seeking greater opportunities, he emigrated with his
young family to Canada, where he worked as an economist for the
Federal Government in Ottawa and established himself as a chartered
accountant and subsequently as a real estate entrepreneur in
Montreal. After the sudden death of his first wife in 1969, he
raised three sons alone and later also cared for his aging parents,
who joined the household. In 1979 Sadok married Carmina
ARAUJO,
whom he cherished, and enjoyed a new round of fatherhood with
his adored daughters Sara and Ruth. With these blessings came
renewed energy and purpose. Throughout his life he remained disciplined,
active and optimistic, a fighter to the end. He was truly a self-made
man, whose remarkable focus and determination will continue to
inspire. The family is grateful to the caring staff of the Jewish
General Hospital in Montreal, with particular thanks to Doctor Harvey
Chang of the Palliative Care Unit, and also to Doctor Paul
GREIG
and Doctor Eric
CHEN of the University Health Network in Toronto.
A memorial service was held on January 7 in Montreal. If desired,
memorial donations may be made to the Jewish General Hospital
Foundation, (514) 340-8251 or www.jgh.ca
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POLL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-12-22 published
KNIGHT,
David
Anthony
Born in Ottawa, Ontario, on December 14, 1961. After a battle
with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, passed away peacefully on
December 20, 2007 at the age of 46. Survived by his wife Karen
(née CORMIER) of Brampton, Ontario. Devoted father to Thomas
and Stewart. Loving brother to Patricia
POLL, of New Minus, Nova
Scotia, and John (Tammy) of Navan, Ontario. Predeceased by his
parents Donald and Mary Frances
KNIGHT and his sister Elizabeth.
Dave will always be remembered by his nephews and extended family.
Employee for Primus Telecommunications and previous employee
for Nortel for 14 years. Dave was an avid golfer, member of Chinguacousy
Curling Club, helped behind the bench with his son's hockey team
and enjoyed trailer life at Pike Lake. Family and Friends will
be received at Andrews Community Funeral Centre 8190 Dixie Road,
Brampton (North of Steeles Avenue) 905-456-8190 on Sunday, December 23,
2007 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Funeral Mass to be held on Monday,
December 24, 2007 at 10: 30 a.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Roman
Catholic Church (940 North Park Drive, Brampton.) Memorial donations
to the ALS Society of Ontario, 265 Yorkland Blvd, Suite 300,
Toronto, Ontario M2J 1S5 would be appreciated by the family.
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POLLAK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-17 published
POLLAK,
Fred
A., CD
Maj. (Ret'd) Royal Canadian Dragoons
Peacefully at the Elizabeth Bruyere Palliative Care Centre in
Ottawa on October 16th, 2007 in his 89th year. Beloved husband
of Ann (GUTHRIE.)
Wonderful dad of Susan, Catherine (Eric
SLONE,)
Nancy,
Robin
(Tim
VERSTER) and his late daughter, Elizabeth.
Loving grandfather of David, Christopher and Matthew
SCHULTZ,
Ted and Laura
SLONE, and Desiree
POLLAK-
GARCIA.
Delighted great-grandfather
of Isabelle
FULFORD and Anne-Elise
SCHULTZ.
Fred will also be
greatly missed by his brother, John
POLLAK
(Zdena) and sister
Gerta McLEAN; cousins Hannah
SPENCER (Elvins), Mimi
ROSENBLUTH
(Gideon,) Eva
LIPA (the late Michael,) and Margit
SMITH
(Lloyd)
nieces Patsy, Andra and Carla, and nephew Jan; other family members,
and many good Friends. Fred was born to Anna and Otto
POLLAK
in Brezno, Czechoslovakia, on May 20, 1919. His family came to
Canada as refugees in 1939. Fred enlisted in the Canadian army,
served four years overseas and then settled into a long and colourful
career in military intelligence. Fred was a charming, disarming
and mischievous man, passionate about history, his family and
Friends, and the great outdoors. He and Ann were a splendidly
matched duo of world travellers and bon vivants. Fred made us
laugh, and the many pleasures of his company will not soon be
forgotten. Friends are invited to visit at the Central Chapel
of Hulse, Playfair and McGarry, 315 McLeod Street, Ottawa, on Thursday
from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A Memorial Service will be held in the Chapel
on Friday, October 19, 2007 at 11: 30 a.m. with a reception to
follow. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Fred's
memory to the Friends of the Canadian War Museum or a charity
of your choice. The family wishes to thank the care providers
at Elizabeth Bruyere and the Ottawa General for their kindness
and skill. Condolences/donations at www.mcgarryfamily.ca
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POLLAK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-07 published
Refugee fled his Nazi persecutors to become a top-secret eavesdropper
Fluent in German and Czech, he was identified by the Canadian
Army as someone who could listen in on enemy signals. It was
the first step in a long military career, in both peace and war
By Buzz BOURDON,
Special to the Globe and Mail, Page S8
Ottawa -- When Fred
POLLAK arrived in Canada in 1939 as a fresh-face
young man of 19, he was a penniless refugee who could barely
speak English. Scarcely more than two years later, he found himself
in a top-secret unit where he spent the rest of the Second World
War eavesdropping on the Germans.
Having fled his native Czechoslovakia just one step ahead of
the Nazis, Mr.
POLLAK resolved to fight the Germans and, in August,
1941, he joined the Canadian army. However, it didn't take long
for the brass to notice his special skills as a linguist. Fluent
in Czech and German - he was born in Bohemia, the German-speaking
part of Czechoslovakia - he was also proficient in shorthand
and typing.
Barely six weeks after enlisting and undergoing very little basic
training, he was "hijacked" by the army. For once, the brass
decided to put a round peg in a round hole and assigned him to
a wireless intelligence unit. He was sent to England to learn
Morse code, and then to a top-secret radio post on the English
Channel to listen in on German-occupied France.
"There, I monitored, copied, collated, analyzed and reported
on German military signals traffic across the water in France,"
Mr. POLLAK wrote decades later. "At this time, literally no one
in the Canadian forces had any experience in tactical signal
intercept, nor did we possess recording devices. As a result,
everything important was copied by hand. We were given some help
by the British, but mostly it was on-the-job training."
The hours were long and the work tedious, but Mr.
POLLAK and
his fellow signalers knew their work was vital to the war effort.
If Allied commanders knew what the enemy was up to, then they
could plan their operations on the battlefield with greater confidence.
After a quick promotion to the dizzy heights of lance corporal,
sadly without extra pay, he soon heard that he was to be made
a sergeant. "But the authorities felt this was too much responsibility
and sent me to officer cadet training instead," he said, tongue-in-cheek.
In June, 1944, Mr.
POLLAK landed in France as a newly minted
lieutenant, just weeks after the D-Day invasion of Normandy.
From the rear lines, he donned his headset and listened to the
stream of enemy signals, even coming to know the voices of individual
German operators. "You listen to them for three years, and you
get to know who they are," he told The Ottawa Citizen in 2005.
He also began to be able to read between the lines, picking up
all sorts of useful information from little verbal tidbits and
indiscretions. For example, radio operators talking about vacations
or girlfriends could indicate the location of a unit, or an impending
troop movement; a shower of Iron Cross medals intended to boost
morale were "dead giveaways" that a unit was about to surrender
so, too, did lots of "Heil Hitlers" meant to demonstrate loyalty.
Fred POLLAK was born Bedrich Juri
POLLAK into a middle-class
Jewish merchant family - his father dealt in grain and building
supplies, and his mother ran a general store - that had long
assimilated into Christian Bohemia. "Religion was not a huge
part of their lives," said his daughter, Susan
POLLAK. "It was
their cultural identity more than anything else. They participated
in both Jewish and Christian ceremonies."
But time was running out for all the Jews of Europe. After Nazi
Germany took total control of Czechoslovakia in March, 1939,
the POLLAK family knew they had to get out. "A neighbour knocked
at the door late at night and told grandfather, 'You have to
leave now, tonight. Go and get your exit papers, it's still possible
- it won't be possible tomorrow,' Susan
POLLAK said.
The following day, after paying a huge bribe, the
POLLAKs boarded
a train bound for uncertain exile. They were penniless and took
only what they could carry. After a brief stay in Britain, the
family was accepted by Canada. They arrived in August, 1939,
only to encounter a bemused immigration official who blinked
when Mr. POLLAK told him his complete name. "You have a new first
name now - Fred Allen, after the radio personality."
With his parents, and with brother John and sister Gerta, he
settled on a farm near Prescott, Ontario "I was a city slicker,
and my performance as a farmer could best be described as flawed,"
he wrote. "I helped local farmers with their chores, and the
bane of my existence was a team of horses that had previously
pulled a milk delivery wagon. The horses were trained to stop
at the slightest sound. I am a gassy individual and, suffice
to say, the horses constantly misinterpreted my signals."
After the war, Mr.
POLLAK decided to remain in the army. His
war-time work, plus his knowledge of history, politics, current
events and geography led to his transfer to the Canadian Intelligence
Corps. He later became a cavalryman with the Royal Canadian Dragoons,
Canada's senior armoured regiment.
The post-war era was an exciting time to be in the army and Mr.
POLLAK
made the best of it, serving in Laos in 1956 on a United Nations
peacekeeping mission. In 1963, he landed "the best posting a
soldier could wish for: a two-year term with the British Commander-in-Chief's
Mission to the Soviet Forces in East Germany, based in West Berlin
and Potsdam."
This was a super job for a Canadian major, he wrote. "There was
never a dull moment, with constant friction and confrontation
between the Soviet and North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces.
Enduring Friendships were made with British, American and French
officers."
It helped, too, that Berlin also offered fine museums, good symphony
and opera, and excellent restaurants.
His daughter Nancy
POLLAK remembers picking mushrooms with her
father in the Grunewald forest when she was 10. "We'd run into
local people also picking mushrooms. I would listen as my father
spoke impeccable German with them, and then afterwards… I felt
him wrestling with a kind of disbelief, and grief, at the enormous
and calculated brutality of the Nazis," she said. "He returned
to the subject often, to put it mildly."
In 1968, he retired. In a half-serious tribute, an army general
described Mr.
POLLAK's war record: "Freddy was able to predict:
a, the Fall of Paris; b, the defeat at Arnhem; c, the Ardennes
offensive; d, the end of the war. Unfortunately it took so long
to decode, translate and disseminate these scoops that Eisenhower
had already got the news from collateral sources."
From 1970-84, Mr.
POLLAK joined the department of national defence
and worked in an intelligence division that monitored Eastern
European armies. After that, he continued his love affair with
the military by conducting tours of the Canadian War Museum in
Ottawa.
A strong family man who doted on his four daughters - he needed
a sense of humour to put up with all those nylons drying in the
only bathroom, a friend once quipped - Mr.
POLLAK loved skiing,
dogs, travelling and gardening. He was always up to something,
from organizing family trips to making his own miniature soldiers.
Fred Allen
POLLAK was born Bedrich Juri
POLLAK on May 20, 1919,
in Brezno, Czechoslovakia. He died of cancer in Ottawa on October 16,
2007. He was 88. He leaves Anne, his wife of 57 years, and by
daughters Susan, Catherine, Nancy and Robin. He also leaves a
brother and a sister. He was predeceased by his daughter Elizabeth.
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ROSS,
Joan
(HANNAY)
Formerly of Toronto, passed away at London, Ontario, on Wednesday
January 10th 2007 in her 96th year. Beloved wife of the late
Douglas ROSS. Dear mother of Nancy
POLLARD and her husband Bill
of London and Ian
ROSS and his wife
Norma of Smiths Falls. Predeceased
by her daughter Jan
KENNEDY (wife of Doug
KENNEDY of Coboconk.)
Loved by her 7 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren. A service
to celebrate Joan's life will be held in the chapel of the A. Millard
George Funeral Home, 60 Ridout Street South, London, Ontario
(1-877-246-7186) on Saturday January 13th at 1 p.m. As expressions
of sympathy, memorial donations would be appreciated to the Alzheimer
Society, 555 Southdale Road East, Suite 100, London, Ontario
N6E 1A2, or the charity of your choice. On line condolences accepted
at www.amgeorgefh.on.ca
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HAM,
Anne (née
DINSMORE)
Anne HAM died at her home in Jupiter, Florida on Friday, October 26,
2007 after a long and courageous fight with breast cancer. Anne
was born in Montreal, Quebec on August 18, 1930 to Catherine
and Charles
DINSMORE.
She attended West Hill High School and
McGill University. Anne married Leslie
HAM, also of Montreal,
on June 12, 1954. Anne and Les subsequently lived, worked and
played in Toronto, New Canaan, Paris, Hong Kong, London and Jupiter.
Anne will be missed by her many Friends throughout Canada and
the United States and by her husband Les, three children, Keith
HAM of London, England, Susan
HALSTEAD of Jupiter, Florida and
Candy POLLARD of Nanaimo, British Columbia, her seven grandchildren
and brother Robert
DINSMORE of Picton, Ontario. Anne had a wonderful
smile and kept on smiling throughout her illness. A Memorial
Service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 3, 2007 at
the Taylor and Modeen Funeral Home, 250 Center Street, Jupiter, Florida
with Chaplain David Miller, officiating. The family suggests
contributions to Hospice of Palm Beach County, Inc., 5300 East
Ave., West Palm Beach, Florida 33407 in her memory. Taylor and
Modeen Funeral Home Family Owned and Operated (561) 744-2030, Jupiter,
Florida.
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WAYLAND,
Harold
Peacefully at home on Monday, January 1, 2007 Harold
WAYLAND
of Thorold in his 79th year. Beloved husband of Valeria
WAYLAND
and the late Priscilla
WAYLAND. Dear step-father of Frank and
David COLLAR of Niagara and Ronald and his wife
Brenda
COLLAR
of London. Loving Papa to Terri, Brad, Ryan, Rachel and Alex.
Dear brother of Margaret
TODD of London, Gordon and his wife
Shirley WAYLAND of Kincardine and Earlma and her husband Wally
VINES of Port Elgin. Predeceased by sisters Merle, Jean, Millie,
Mary and Sadie and brothers George Jr., Frank, Melvin and Grant.
Loved by many nieces and nephews. Friends will be received at
the Logan Funeral Home, 371 Dundas St. (between Waterloo and
Colborne St.) on Thursday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral service will
be held in the chapel on Friday, January 5, 2007 at 1 p.m. with
Rev. Murdo
POLLOCK officiating. Interment Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
Friends who wish may make memorial donations to Heart and Stroke
Foundation. Online condolences www.loganfh.ca A tree will be
planted as a living memorial to Harold
WAYLAND.
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HULL,
Geoffrey
David (1959-2007)
Geoffrey David
HULL died of cancer in Vancouver at the Cottage
Hospice on July 21, 2007. He was a graduate of Lakefield College
School, Queen's University and the School of Architecture at
the University of British Columbia, and, a practising architect
in Vancouver. He is survived by his wife, Fleur
PALLIARDI, his
son, Aidan, his parents, Margot Finley (Maurice
PIGEON) and Ralph
HULL
(Sherri,) his sister, Susan
POLLOCK (Bill) and brother,
Andrew HULL
(Shaan
SYED.)
A tribute to Geoff will be held at 1: 00 o'clock on Sunday, September 23rd,
2007 at Cecil Green Park, 6251 Cecil Green Park Road, Vancouver.
Please R.S.V.P. at ghull@shaw.ca
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POLLOCK,
Samuel
Patterson
Smyth, O.C., C.Q.
After a courageous battle and many lives touched, he left this
world on August 15 at the age of 81. 'That Man is a Success who
has lived well, laughed often and loved much; who has gained
the respect of intelligent women and men and the love of children
who never lacks appreciation of the earth's beauty or fails to
express it; who follows his dreams and pursues excellence in
each task; and brings out the best in others, and gives only
the best of himself.' He leaves behind his loving wife
Mimi
(KINSELLA,)
his beloved children Mary (Darren), Sam, Rachel (Andrew); his
cherished grandchildren James, Sammy and Katherine; Emma and
William; Elizabeth and Drew; his brother Robert (Anne) and many
relatives in Ottawa; and his faithful Friends Laddie and Snowflake.
He was predeceased by his sister Ruth. Special thanks to his
good friend Doctor David Mulder. A mass will be held on Monday,
August 20th at Ste Elizabeth Parish in North Hatley, Quebec at
5 p.m. A private funeral service will be held at St. Barnabas
Anglican Church in North Hatley on Tuesday, August 21st at 1 p.m.
with burial following at North Hatley cemetery. An open reception
will be held at Hovey Manor on Tuesday August 21st at 3 p.m.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Mary Mother of the
Poor Charitable Foundation, c/o St. Maurice Parish 4 Perry Street,
Ottawa, Ontario K2G 1K5. 'See, I am sending an angel before you
to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.'
Exodus 23: 20 Funeral Arrangements entrusted to the Steve Elkas
Funeral Home 601, Conseil St Sherbrooke, Quebec J1G 1K4 Phone 819-565-1155
Fax 819-820-8872 For messages of condolences www.steveelkas.com
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Prolific and brilliant Ojibwa painter was called 'the Picasso
of the North'
Like the great Spanish artist, he could draw spontaneously, never
lifting his pencil until the image was complete. He is the only
native artist to have held a solo exhibition at the National
Gallery of Canada
By Donn DOWNEY,
Page S8
This obituary was prepared by Donn
DOWNEY (who died in April,
2001,) with files from James
ADAM/ADAMS.
Toronto -- The descriptions are spectacular and too generous,
perhaps. Norval
MORRISSEAU was "the Picasso of the North," according
to some, and "the most important painter Canada has ever produced,"
to quote his Toronto art dealer.
Such descriptions, of course, ignore the likes of Tom Thomson,
Emily Carr and the Group of Seven and place Mr.
MORRISSEAU in
a league with the most innovative artist of the 20th century.
The hyperbole is forgivable. They are part of the legend - the
story of a true primitive who emerged from the Northern Ontario
wilderness to awe the sophisticates in the major art centres
of the world. Indeed, Mr.
MORRISSEAU remains the only native
artist ever to have had a solo exhibition (for three months,
starting in February, 2006) in the 127-year history of the National
Gallery of Canada.
Art dealer Jack
POLLOCK, one of the many who claimed to have
discovered Mr.
MORRISSEAU, was also part of the legend but had
a better grasp on his contribution. "He invented a visual vocabulary
that never existed before him," Mr.
POLLOCK said before his death
in 1992. "He gave the demi-gods of his people an image."
Mr. MORRISSEAU could properly lay claim to being the creator
and spiritual leader of the Woodland Indian art movement, not
only in Canada but in the northeast United States. He developed
his style independent of the influence of any other artist and
was the first to depict Ojibwa legends and history for the non-native
world.
He broke the taboos of his people by revealing sacred stories,
but believed it was his mission to put his heritage before the
modern world so it could be kept alive. He was "a living bridge
to the past," said Donald
ROBINSON of Toronto's Kinsman Robinson
Galleries, his major dealer for more than 15 years.
Three generations of native artists have followed in his footsteps,
producing variations of the
MORRISSEAU style using heavy black
outlines to enclose colourful, flat shapes. Many of these artists
have become wealthy in the process but such success was denied
Mr. MORRISSEAU, who never quite escaped the poverty into which
he was born.
"To this day, I don't know how we made a living," he wrote in
an article published in The Globe and Mail in 1979. "You see,
that sense of real necessity is not a thing that most people
in white society know anything about." He was raised by his grandfather
who was "the most influential person in the whole of my life
and also a good provider. We always had moose meat in the house.
Also oranges, but no bananas."
Born near Thunder Bay to a family living on the Ojibwa Sand Point
Reserve on Lake Nipigon, he was baptized Jean-Baptiste Norman
Henry MORRISSEAU.
The oldest of five sons, he went to school
for six years, but only finished Grade 2. "You see, the first
year you get there, they put you in kindergarten," he once wrote.
"The next year you come back and they put you in kindergarten
again. Next thing you know, you are in Grade 1. Then, the following
year, you start Grade 1 all over again. Maybe you stay in Grade 1
three or four years."
He was brought up by both his maternal grandparents. His grandfather
was a shaman who schooled him in the traditional ways of his
culture while his grandmother, a Catholic, made it her business
that he was familiar with Christian beliefs. By all accounts,
it was the conflict between the two cultures that influenced
his outlook and what would later become his art.
Over the years, legends have developed around Mr.
MORRISSEAU.
According to one story, he became perilously ill at 19. A visit
to the doctor did nothing and a medicine woman was summoned.
A renaming ceremony was performed (Anishnaabe tradition holds
that a giving powerful name to someone near death can rally strength
and save a life). He was renamed Copper Thunderbird, and recovered.
Later, he would use it to sign his paintings.
Somewhere along the way, he developed a fondness for alcohol.
When Mr. POLLOCK first met him in the summer of 1962, he was
drunk. The artist demanded that Mr.
POLLOCK look at his work.
Mr. POLLOCK was impressed and was interested in mounting an exhibit,
but Mr. MORRISSEAU wanted to sell his works on the spot for $5 each.
Mr. POLLOCK talked him out of it and a subsequent showing at
the Pollock Gallery sold out within 24 hours, netting the artist
$3,000. Time magazine declared that "few exhibits in Canadian
history have touched off a greater immediate stir than
MORRISSEAU's"
and predicted that he would launch "a vogue as chic as that of
the Cape Dorset Eskimo's prints."
He continued to live in the area north of Lake Superior and apparently
squandered much of his money. In 1978 - a year in which he was
appointed to the Order of Canada - when someone jokingly suggested
that he throw a garden party, just like the Queen, he bought
an antique silver tea service and a set of Royal Crown Derby
china to entertain 21 of his Friends, colleagues and admirers
in his chair-filled wilderness garden. Each was given a rare
American buffalo nickel as a gift and a
MORRISSEAU original drawing.
Over the years, he remained a master of the primitive school
of art. In 1981, Globe and Mail art critic John Bentley
MAYS
described Mr.
MORRISSEAU's as wholly appropriate to the context
of his background. "His styles, situations and subjects are exactly
what we would expect in the work of a self-taught artist who
has lived most of his life in northern Ontario. There is little
attention to figurative modelling in these pictures, no delving
into the problems of perspective or pictorial depth. Using his
small repertoire of techniques, he presents stylized versions
of what he knows: the bears, loons, fish and turtles that live
in the forests and ponds, and the people in the town around him.
"But these are not ordinary forests, ponds and people.
MORRISSEAU's
art transports us into a shadowy archetypal realm where ordinary
things are wonderful. In his visionary lakes swim mighty fish,
armed with bolts of spiritual lightening. A bear spirit -- a
dragon-like chimera spangled with bright eyes and brilliant colours
suddenly stands in your path."
For all his success, Mr.
MORRISSEAU allowed his career and his
life to descend relentlessly. In 1987, he was discovered wandering
the downtown streets of Vancouver, sleeping in alleys and selling
his sketches for the price of a bottle of booze. "To get drunk
in Vancouver is the most beautiful thing there is," he was quoted
as saying.
Years later, after he had dried out, Mr.
MORRISSEAU told The
Globe that his drinking binges in part reflected his resentment
over "never getting my fair share." Still, he said he enjoyed
life on the Vancouver streets: "I met a lot of nice people. I
might even do it again - without the booze - so I can remember
them all clearly."
Around that time, he met Gabor
VADAS, a young man with problems,
and the two formed a bond. Mr.
MORRISSEAU believed that Mr.
VADAS
was his son and the younger man presents himself as such. However,
the relationship was never ratified "through the legal courts,"
according to Mr.
VADAS's wife, Michele, "but certainly as far
as from a traditional native and spiritual point of view [Mr.
VADAS
was his son] because they take their adoptions very seriously&hellip
They never lost faith in each other and have always been very
loyal to each other."
In 1989, Mr.
MORRISSEAU was the only Canadian painter invited
to exhibit at the Georges Pompidou Centre in Paris during the
bicentennial of the French Revolution. After seeing the works
of Van Gogh and Picasso, he decided they were "all greys" and
returned home to paint "some real colour."
He first exhibited with the Kinsman Robinson Galleries the following
year. Wearing a new silk suit, he arrived for the opening in
a white limousine. The exhibition sold out.
At 65, Mr.
MORRISSEAU developed Parkinson's disease but continued
to paint. "My hands don't shake when I hold a brush," he told
Chris Dafoe of The Globe in 1999.
He had a healthy respect for his own talent. Doctor Henry
WEINSTEIN,
a doctor in Northern Ontario's Red Lake district who in the 1950s
was among the first to recognize Mr.
MORRISSEAU as a true original,
was a friend of Pablo Picasso and once gave a
MORRISSEAU drawing
to the Spanish master. On the back, Mr.
MORRISSEAU had written,
"From one great artist to another." Picasso, after looking at
the drawing is said to have remarked: "Well, you never know,
do you?" - meaning that great art surfaces in unlikely places.
The comparison of the two artists was not entirely inappropriate.
Mr. MORRISSEAU, like Picasso, could draw spontaneously, never
lifting his pencil from the paper until the image was complete.
"Very few artists in the world have this ability," Doctor
WEINSTEIN
said.
Mr. MORRISSEAU's early work was created on birch bark or animal
hides. Mr.
ROBINSON said he at first punched holes in the bark
or hide but was later given paints by Doctor
WEINSTEIN.
Mr. MORRISSEAU believed he was a "born painter" and said that
when he started to paint, the images "just come." He created
his designs to beautify the world with colour. "The world needs
it," he said. Colour was a key resource in Mr.
MORRISSEAU's repertory
of symbols. He used connecting lines to depict interdependence.
"These paintings only remind you that you're an Indian," the
artist said. "Inside somewhere, we're all Indians. So now when
I befriend you, I'm trying to get the best Indian, bring out
the Indianness in you to make you think everything is scared."
Less inviolate were his family relationships. Mr.
MORRISSEAU
has six (some say seven) adult children from his marriage in
1957 to Harriet
KAKEGAMIC, and has claimed at times to have fathered
as many as 14 sons and daughters. Over the years, this has resulted
in conflict with some of the children. Three months ago, for
instance, one of Mr.
MORRISSEAU's sons, Christian, also an artist,
announced the creation of the Morrisseau Family Foundation to,
in part, "ensure my family's heritage and the integrity of my
father's legacy." A month after this, Mr.
MORRISSEAU issued through
Mr. VADAS a press release declaring that he had "not been consulted
or in any way involved" with the Morrisseau Family Foundation,
"nor do I support it in any way."
Mr. MORRISSEAU was a prolific artist before illness slackened
his output - it's been estimated he produced more than 10,000 works
in his lifetime. Aided by Mr.
VADAS, he battled in recent years
against what they alleged were a spate of fakes.
In the meantime, Mr.
VADAS and his wife cared for Mr.
MORRISSEAU
after the onset of Parkinson's and Mr.
MORRISSEAU doted like
a grandfather on their two children, Kyle and Robin. Earlier
in this decade, he spent some time in an extended care facility
on Vancouver Island, but for most of this year, he lived with
the VADAS family in their house in Nanaimo, B.C.
All things considered, Mr.
MORRISSEAU was proud of his place
in Canadian art history. "I may not have a Ferrari, but I'm the
first Indian to break into the Canadian art scene and I have
forever enriched the Canadian way of life," he said. "I want
to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love...
If I can do that, I can paint for 100 years."
He spent much of his last years in a wheelchair, deprived of
intelligible speech. He suffered at least two strokes.
In October, Mr.
MORRISSEAU travelled to Northern Ontario to receive
an honorary degree from the University of Sudbury, and had planned
to go to New York to attend the opening of his one-man show at
New York's George Gustav Heye Center, which is part of the National
Museum of the American Indian. Instead, he became ill in Toronto
and was admitted to hospital.
Norval MORRISSEAU was born Norman Henry
MORRISSEAU at Beardmore,
Ontario, on March 13, 1931. He died yesterday in Toronto General
Hospital of complications from Parkinson's disease. He is survived
by numerous children.
The public may visit Mr.
MORRISSEAU's open casket Thursday and
Friday this week from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. each day at
Jerrett Funeral Homes, 1141 St. Clair Ave. W., Toronto. It is
anticipated that he will be buried near Beardmore, Ontario, or
Thunder Bay.
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Fighter pilot became college president and put education in his
sights
Royal Canadian Air Force flyer returned from the Second World
War determined to get a university degree. He found success in
business and passed on his lust for knowledge to a generation
of students
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S7
Mel GARLAND was a man who did well at everything he did, and
he did an awful lot. A fighter pilot, a businessman and a civil
servant, he was also a visionary who helped develop community
colleges and trade schools in Ontario.
Mr. GARLAND was the second president of Durham College, a community
college at Oshawa, east of Toronto, from 1980 to 1988.
It was a time when the community college system was vigorously
expanding. Set up by the Ontario government in 1967, Durham was
one of about 20 new tertiary-level schools. The object was to
provide students with a practical education that would lead to
good jobs, and to improve the province's standard of living.
That is why Mr.
GARLAND promoted two- and three-year applied
engineering programs, and worked to get Durham College - the
school closest to a large auto plant - to set up a robotics lab.
"He was a strong believer that a modern society needed knowledge
workers above all else, and in particular, leaders in technology,"
said Gary POLONSKY who succeeded him as president of Durham College.
"Mel expanded programs in engineering technology and trades."
As part of running Durham College, he worked at establishing
the Skilled Trades Centre in nearby Ajax, Ontario A part of Durham
College, it now has about 2,000 students learning to become everything
from electricians and plumbers to millwrights and metal fabricators.
Mel GARLAND grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, where the family
lived in the same house for 60 years. Both his parents were immigrants
from Glasgow, and his father worked as a maintenance foreman
at Thompson Products. As a boy, young Mel and his best friend,
Pete BELFORD, liked to sneak onto the local tennis courts to
play. The president of told them they could play for free if
they performed odd jobs around the club. Eventually, the two
of them played at the St. Catharines Tennis Club, where one year
they won the doubles championship. Later, they went on to win
the Niagara District championship.
Mr. GARLAND and Mr.
BELFORD did a lot of things together, and
remained Friends for life. As youngsters, they joined the Boy
Scouts, and once shared first place in a competition. Mr.
GARLAND
eventually became a King's Scout, the top honour a Scout can
earn. They once hitchhiked to Montreal and, when they were old
enough, went to Hamilton together to enlist in the Royal Canadian
Air Force and serve in the Second World War.
In 1942, Mr.
GARLAND was selected for pilot training. At flight
school, the same things that had made him a good tennis player
- sharp eyesight and quick reflexes - singled him out as a fighter
pilot. Just before he went overseas, he went to a tennis club
dance and met a young woman named Marguerite
ALLEN.
They saw
each other every night before he left.
He arrived in England in February of 1944, at the age of 21.
At that stage in the war, fighter pilots had two main jobs: protecting
bombers on their way to Germany, and preparing for the Allied
invasion of France. Almost as soon as he arrived, 403 Squadron
moved to Tangmere, a Royal Air Force station in West Sussex,
to be closer to the English Channel.
By this point, Mr.
GARLAND was a flying officer. He and the rest
of the squadron were equipped with the latest version of the
Spitfire fighter. Armed with cannons and machine guns, this version
was a much more deadly weapon than the one that flew in the Battle
of Britain. Flying low-level missions over France was also deadly
for the pilots.
The squadron moved to an airfield at Dieppe, France, on June 16,
just 10 days after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Almost exactly
a month later, Mr.
GARLAND's plane was hit by flak while on a
mission. At first he thought he could land the plane, but a fire
broke out and he was forced to bail out. For a few seconds, he
was trapped up in the cockpit and feared his parachute would
not open but managed to alight in a field, convinced he was safe.
To his surprise, he was soon surrounded by German soldiers.
He spent three weeks as a prisoner of war, though never in a
camp. The Germans were in retreat and marched Mr.
GARLAND and
the other prisoners across France, sometimes covering as much
as 40 kilometres a day. In the confusion of the retreat, Mr.
GARLAND
escaped. He slept in the barns of sympathetic French farmers
and slowly made his way back to the Allied lines.
He soon found himself home in Canada, since the Royal Canadian
Air Force never sent an escaped PoW back into service, fearing
they would be shot if recaptured. But the war in Europe was soon
over, and Mr.
GARLAND resolved to make use of veterans scholarships
and get an education. Before the war, he had finished high school
but lacked the money to go to university. The scholarships allowed
him to go to Queen's University in Kingston and he graduated
in the class of 1948½ (to speed up their schooling and catch
up with life, veterans were allowed fall graduation).
While at Queen's, he married Marguerite (with Mr.
BELFORD as
best man) and the couple set off for Boston. He been accepted
to the Harvard Business School, even though he had already used
up most of his credits under the veterans' scholarship scheme.
To make ends meet, Marguerite found work and he got a night job
at the Harvard Library.
After
Harvard, they returned home. Mr.
GARLAND started work at
General Electric Canada. He later worked at General Bakeries
and Ford Canada, during the period when the auto maker was building
its assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario
Even then, he was concerned about Ontario's ability to compete
in the world. In 1967, he became chairman of the education committee
of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the same year the community
college system was founded.
In 1974, Mr.
GARLAND joined the Ontario government as executive
director of industry and then executive director of trade. It
was the beginning of two decades of devotion to fine-tuning Ontario's
industrial infrastructure. He carried on with the same mission
at Durham College.
"The lack of skilled people to fill the manpower needs of industry
is a real problem," he said in 1980, the year he was appointed
president. "It's in the schools that we can turn attitudes around
to make these skilled jobs desirable careers."
Under his leadership, the school began expanding its industrial
facilities.
"He focused on bringing the latest technology to the classroom
and constructing a new state-of-the-art robotics lab, the precursor
to our Integrated Manufacturing Centre on campus today," said
Leah MYERS, president of Durham College. "Mel was known as an
entrepreneurial and consummate professional who set high standards
for himself and those around him."
Although he was a man with many careers, his neighbours in the
Toronto suburb of Etobicoke remember him as a strong family man
who was devoted to his six children. Neighbour and close friend
Ron Quick said his biggest success was raising his brood and
a marriage that lasted 60 years.
His oldest daughter, Linda, said he had an easy manner with both
his own children and others on the block. "Much can be said for
my father's many achievements, but he was the kind of dad who
says after dinner, 'Let's play some ball,' " she said. "We would
troop out to the side of the yard for a pickup game of baseball
and, within minutes, kids from up and down the street would be
joining us. Dad would be the only adult out there."
The flags at Durham College flew at half-mast the week Mr.
GARLAND
died. His friend Mr.
BELFORD, who never left Port Dalhousie,
attended the funeral.
Melvin Lloyd
GARLAND was born in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, on
October 19, 1922. He died on September 3, 2007, in Ancaster,
Ontario, of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 84.
He is survived by his wife, Marguerite. He also leaves daughters
Linda, Jane, Jennifer and Pat, and sons David and Greig.
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POLSON,
Ethel
Georgina
Helmer
In celebration of her life, but with deep sorrow, we announce
the sudden passing of Ethel Georgina Helmer
POLSON, beloved wife
of 60 years to Anthony Frank (Tony); dearly loved mother of Toni
(Barb) ASHTON
(Mrs.
Robert
MORRISON,) Donald (wife, Valerie,)
Rory (wife, Vicki) and Kirk; loving grandmother to Ryan, Jordan,
Kara and Alex
POLSON, and Meredith and Courtney
ASHTON.
Ethel
lived a life of love, passion, hard work and charity, treasuring
each and every day. A prairie girl, she joined the air-force
during World War 2 where she met Tony and began a long and inspirational
life of adventure and great happiness. Together, she and Tony
raised a family, which included all manner of animals and birds,
built a camp on One Island Lake, and volunteered in their Thunder
Bay and British Columbia communities. Ethel took pleasure in
golf, travel, baking, arts and crafts, and gardening. She cherished
her Friends and family, always showing great affection and generosity.
She fought a courageous battle with Alzheimer's with the same
grace and strength that marked her life. The family wishes to
thank Sunrise of Unionville, and especially the staff on the
Reminiscence floor, for their wonderful care over these last
few challenging months. If desired, memorial donations can be
made to the Alzheimer's Society, Canadian Cancer Society, or
the Toronto Humane Society. The family will receive Friends at
the Humphrey Funeral Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue
(south of Eglinton Avenue East), from 7: 00 to 9:00 p.m. Thursday.
A memorial service to celebrate Ethel's life will be held in
the chapel on Friday, November 2, 2007 at 2: 00 p.m. Condolences
and memories may be forwarded through www.humphreymiles.com.
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MOYER,
John
John MOYER, of Hanover, passed away at Hanover and District Hospital
on Monday, November 12, 2007. He was 88.
Born in Mount Forest,
son of the late Henry and Annie née
RUETZ)
MOYER.
John farmed on his own farm until retiring and was a 3rd
Degree Knights of Columbus.
Survived by wife
Mildred
(ZETTLER)
MOYER, children Harvey (Rene)
MOYER of Mount Forest, Thelma (Jospeh)
VAN
OSCH of Lucknow, Doris
CAUGHLIN
(Steve
POLUSA) of Pinewood, Percy (Kathy)
MOYER of Ayton,
13 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
Also survived by a brother Peter
MOYER of Walkerton. Predeceased
by brothers Leo, Joe, Tony, sisters Cecilia
SCHNURR,
Marie
DIEMERT,
son-in-law Harold
CAUGHLIN and great-grand_son Jordan
YOUNG.
Visitation was held at Mighton Funeral Home, Hanover, on Wednesday
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. with Vigil Rites at 8: 30 pm.
A Funeral Mass was held on Thursday, November 15, 2007 at 10: 30 a.m.
at Holy Family Church, Hanover. Father Mervin
PERERA officiated.
Interment Holy Family Cemetery, Hanover.
Pall bearers were Perry VAN
OSCH, John
VAN
OSCH, Brian
MOYER,
Brandon MOYER,
Kyle
MOYER and Kevin
CAUGHLIN.
Memorial donations to the Hanover and District Hospital Foundation
or the Canadian Cancer Society were appreciated as expressions
of sympathy.
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