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VAL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-08-01 published
McKEE,
Rosalind▼
Stuart▼ (née
WIGGS)
On Monday, July 30th after a valiant 33 year struggle with cancer,
beloved wife and traveling companion of Fraser M.
McKEE of Toronto.
Mother,▼ mother-in-law and grandmother of Ross and Wilma
ALEXANDER,
Rosanna and Simon in Toronto; Gillian and Erik
VAL,
Amy▼ and Hana
in Whitehorse; Allison, Tom
CONKLIN and Jamie in Ottawa; and
Hugh and Hillary
POUNSETT,
Sean,▼
Ian▼ and Madeleine in Toronto.
Daughter▼ of the late Col. C.W. and Margaret
WIGGS of Quebec City.
Proud of her Quebec heritage, Roz attended school there and at
St Helen's in Dunham, Quebec, and attended MacDonald College
of McGill University B.Sc.-H.Ec.). Over a career of volunteering
she was President of the North York University Women's Club,
the Evening Auxiliary of the Women's College Hospital, and of
the Washington of Glenview Presbyterian Church where she also
served as an Elder; she was a member of the Church's National
Board of Congregational Life as Chair for Leadership Development.
Roz also volunteered in various other similar organizations in
Toronto, Beaconsfield, Quebec, and Markdale, Ontario Her motto
was "I don't want to just be a member I want to run the organization."
The family will receive Friends at a reception at Trull Funeral
Home, 2704 Yonge Street, Toronto on Thursday, August 2nd, 7-9 p.m.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, August 3rd at 2 p.m.
at Glenview Presbyterian Church, 1 Glenview Ave., Toronto. Cremation
has taken place. In lieu of flowers, Friends may wish to make
donations in Roz' name to the Canadian Cancer Society or Glenview
Presbyterian Church.
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McKEE,
Rosalind▲
Stuart▲ (née
WIGGS)
On Monday, July 30th after a valiant 33 year struggle with cancer,
beloved wife and traveling companion of Fraser M.
McKEE of Toronto.
Mother,▲ mother-in-law and grandmother of Ross and Wilma
ALEXANDER,
Rosanna and Simon in Toronto; Gillian and Erik
VAL,
Amy▲ and Hana
in Whitehorse; Allison, Tom
CONKLIN and Jamie in Ottawa; and
Hugh and Hillary
POUNSETT,
Sean,▲
Ian▲ and Madeleine in Toronto.
Daughter▲ of the late Col. C.W. and Margaret
WIGGS of Quebec City.
Proud of her Quebec heritage, Roz attended school there and at
St. Helen's in Dunham, Quebec, and attended MacDonald College
of McGill University B.Sc.-H.Ec.). Over a career of volunteering
she was President of the North York University Women's Club,
the Evening Auxiliary of the Women's College Hospital, and of
the Washington of Glenview Presbyterian Church where she also
served as an Elder; she was a member of the Church's National
Board of Congregational Life as Chair for Leadership Development.
Roz also volunteered in various other similar organizations in
Toronto, Beaconsfield, Quebec, and Markdale, Ontario. Her motto
was "I don't want to just be a member I want to run the organization."
The family will receive Friends at a reception at Trull Funeral
Home, 2704 Yonge Street, Toronto on Thursday, August 2nd, 7-9 p.m.
A memorial service will be held on Friday, August 3rd at 2 p.m.
at Glenview Presbyterian Church, 1 Glenview Ave., Toronto. Cremation
has taken place. In lieu of flowers, Friends may wish to make
donations in Roz' name to the Canadian Cancer Society or Glenview
Presbyterian Church.
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RODA,
Lillian "
Lulu" (formerly
LANDELL, née
VALACHOS)
(April 24, 1922-June 11, 2007)
Passed away peacefully, at the Toronto General Hospital, in her
86th year. Lillian was one of the three beautiful daughters of
the late James and Mary
VALACHOS, well-respected owners of the
original Olympia Candy Store and Restaurant in Brantford, Ontario.
She is also predeceased by her brothers George, Peter, William
VALACHOS, sister Kathleen
HAWKEN and husbands Gordon
RODA and
Stanley LANDELL.
She will be sadly missed by her sister Evelyn
COULOS, all her loving nieces and nephews, extended family and
special Friends. Lillian's long career spanned several decades
with Seagram's Distillers in Toronto and throughout her life
she continued an active role in the modeling profession. Lillian
lived her life with grace, dignity, elegance, unconditional love
and a contagious zest for life and laughter, qualities we will
carry proudly with us and forever make us smile. We extend our
heartfelt thanks to Doctor
SCULLY, the excellent staff at Toronto
General Hospital and the caring nurses in Cardiovascular Intensive
Care Unit. A celebration of Lillian's life will be held at the
Humphrey Funeral Home - A.W. Miles Chapel, 1403 Bayview Avenue
(south of Eglinton Avenue East), at 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 16th,
with a reception to follow in the Leaside Room. If desired, donations
to the Salvation Army or the Red Cross would be greatly appreciated.
Condolences and memories may be forwarded through www.humphreymiles.com
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VALBA,
Elena
Peacefully, in her sleep, in her 95th year, on September 8, 2007,
at the Grenadier Retirement Residence. Beloved mother of Katrin
and Ele-Tiiu. Much loved mother-in-law of Martin
SOWDEN and the
late Hans GASTEIGER.
She will be sadly missed by her grandchildren
Erik, Kerstin, Martin and Devin and his wife Kristi. She was
born in Estonia and began her life in Canada in London, Ontario,
in 1950 and then Toronto in 1981. Friends may call at the Turner
and Porter Yorke Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. W., at Windermere, east
of the Jane subway, on Tuesday, September 11, 2007 from 1 p.m.
until the Funeral Service in the Chapel at 3 p.m.
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Fire victim identified
By Canadian Press, Thurs., June 21, 2007
Markham -- Tenants in an alleged illegal rooming house in this
town just north of Toronto have identified the man killed in
yesterday's early-morning blaze as the building's landlord.
Thirty-four-year-old Roberto
VALDINI was pronounced dead on scene
when firefighters carried his body out of a second-floor room
of the three-level house.
Markham fire Chief Don
McCLEAN said the building is currently
the subject of a court fight in a dispute over its use as a multi-unit
dwelling. The landlord had been in court with York Region since
September 2006, facing charges of breaking the fire code in a
house that was zoned to be a single-family home.
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VALE 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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VALE,
Inez
Lorraine (née
BUTLER)
Peacefully at Allendale Long Term Care Facility, Milton, Ontario
on Saturday, October 13, 2007 in her 92nd year. Beloved wife
of the late Bruce Winston
VALE.
Loved mother of John (Donna)
and Eric. Dear grandmother of Janet (Chris), Jenny, Michael,
Laura, Robin and Victoria. Predeceased by her siblings Gordon,
Reg, John, David and Louise. A special thanks to the staff of
both Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital and Allendale for their
care and concern. A private graveside service will be held at
Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto. If desired, donations may
be made to the Veteran's Comfort Fund, Sunnybrook Health Sciences
Centre, 2075 Bayview Avenue, Toronto, M4N 3M5.
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BRYDE,
Ruth
Winnifred (née
VALE)
Peacefully in her 81st year at Plantation General Hospital, Florida
on December 5, 2007, Ruth Winnifred
BRYDE passed from this life.
Daughter of the late George and Winnifred
VALE; widow of the
late Warren
BRYDE (1975;) beloved mother of Noël
HOLLIDAY,
Hollywood,
Florida; dear sister of Jean
VALE,
Toronto.
Born in Toronto in 1927, Ruth graduated from Victoria College,
University of Toronto in 1949. She became a partner in Gloria
Vale Gifts in the new Nortown Shopping Centre, Willowdale. Later
Ruth and her husband Warren
BRYDE ran a marina on the Trent Waterway
near Coboconk. Moving to Florida in 1968, they operated a year-round
motel at Hollywood Beach, Florida.
Following cremation, a memorial service to honour Ruth's memory
will be arranged in Coboconk at a later date.
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FRANKE,
Wolfgang
E., B.A., M.Sc. (1915-2007)
Educator And Writer
Peacefully at home of natural causes on November 13, at the age
of 92. With a lifetime spanning a remarkable time in history
for Europe and Canada, he was born in Lünen-Horstmar, Germany
on April 14, 1915 during the First World War, and grew up on
the Baltic Sea in the city of Kiel during the years of the German
Revolution of 1918 and the hyper-inflation of the 1920's. His
early education was in Kiel where he sold his first short story
to the Kieler Zeitung at the age of fifteen. After teaching elementary
school in Duisburg in the Rhineland, he served in the Navy and
by the end of the war was a Lieutenant Commander, in charge of
radio communications in Trieste, Italy. After the war he survived
four years of hardship in a concentration camp in former communist
Yugoslavia, living proof of his oft quoted adage from Nietzsche
'That which does not kill us makes us stronger'. Upon his return
to Germany in 1949 he resumed his doctoral studies in biology
at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, but decided
to emigrate with his first family to Canada in 1951. Part of
a large wave of immigrants willing to work hard at any job available,
his first employment was as an illustrator in the Botany department
of the University of Toronto. He obtained his B.A. at the U of
T, and later an M.Sc. in genetics at the University of Ottawa,
and worked for a period in plant pathology prior to his career
as an inspiring teacher of Biology. He became principal in high
schools in Morrisburg and then in Essex where he established
an innovative co-op 'Occupations Program' in 1963, which liaised
between education and industry, providing high school students
with valuable work experience. In 1966 he pioneered in Ontario's
fledgling community college system when he became founding president
of Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology in Sarnia.
There he developed an innovative curriculum, hired faculty and
interviewed students. Similarly, he was then founding president
of the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, B.C. in 1969.
Toward the end of his career he was founding principal of a private
high school in Toronto. A naturally talented amateur sculptor,
artist and musician, he passionately promoted the Arts in all
his educational endeavours. In retirement from formal education,
he returned to his love of writing, producing numerous stories
and essays published in many newspapers and periodicals, as well
as nine novels in English and German. Always a man of conviction,
he held himself and others to a high personal standard. A tireless
social critic in his writings, he was nevertheless totally committed
to his adopted country and recalled the glow of pride upon the
induction of the Canadian flag in 1965. His description of the
character Hans in his fifth novel, Over the Threshold, can be
aptly applied to the author: '…a Jack of all trades, a biologist
by training, but with a technical bent, a portraitist with leanings
to the caricature, a teacher and perpetual student, a music lover
and dreamer.' He is survived by his loving wife of 51 years,
Rose (née
VALENTI,) also a teacher, who tirelessly dedicated
herself to his publishing efforts and provided devoted personal
care in his final years. He was also very proud of daughter Sylvia
(Andrew), sons Dean (Susan) and Norman (Carolyn), grandchildren
Laura, Xavier, Dix, Egan, Natalie and Nina, and from a previous
marriage his daughter Regina and son Ingo. Predeceased by his
sister Lotti. Interment will be at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in
Toronto. The family will welcome relatives and Friends to a private
reception at a future date.
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PATERSON,
Thomas
William
At home, on November 14, 2007, at 71 years of age. Loving father
of Sandra PELTIER and husband Gary
CURRIE of Cambridge, Ontario
Thomas of Vancouver, British Columbia; Robert and wife Monique.
Cherished grandpa of Jeffrey and Tina
PELTIER, the late Thomas
Robert PELTIER (1980,) Genevieve, Stephanie, Ryan, and Nicole.
Treasured great-grandpa of Tristan
PELTIER. Dear son of the late
Drucilla (1968) and Thomas
PATERSON (1989.) Beloved brother of
Ralph and Jeanette
PATERSON; the late Rosemary, survived by husband
Michael DUFRESNE; the late Criss Ann
VALENTI; the late James,
survived by wife
Leslie
PATERSON;
Patrick and Suzann
PATERSON
and Gerry and Marilyn
PATERSON.
Will be sadly missed by many nieces,
nephews and Friends. Tom was a retired Detective with the Windsor
Police Service. Tom was a past member of Windsor Minor Football,
coached Riverside and Windsor Minor Hockey. Tom was a very gifted
athlete in a variety of sports including hockey, baseball and football
and was the #1 Fan, supporter and unofficial coach of his grandchildren.
If you so desire, donations to, Windsor and Essex County Cancer
Centre Foundation or Hospice Village or Windsor and Essex Cardiac
Rehab Program would be appreciated by the family. Visitation
Friday 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Prayers Friday at 7: 30 p.m. at Families
First Funeral Home and Tribute Centre (519-969- 5841) 3260 Dougall
Ave. On Saturday, Friends are invited to join the family after
9 a.m. at Assumption Church (350 Huron Church Rd.) followed by
Funeral Mass at 10 a.m. Cremation at Heavenly Rest Cemetery.
Fr. Mike PARENT officiating. You may share your cherished memories
online at www.FamiliesFirst.ca
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HOFFMAN,
Anne
On Tuesday, June 26, 2007 at North York General Hospital. Anne
HOFFMAN, beloved wife of the late Meyer
HOFFMAN.
Loving mother
and mother-in-law of Deanie and Sid
RUMACK,
Gloria
VALENTINE,
Linda and Seymour
HOFFMAN,
Rabbi
Howard and Elaine, and Franklin
and Annabelle. Devoted Buby and Baba of Cara-Lynn, Sue-Ann, Michael,
Neil, Michol, Jonathan, Merav, Tirtzah, Shira, Eve, and Jesse.
Devoted great-grandmother of Jordan, Avalon, Matan, Noam, and
Elior. At Benjamin's Park Memorial Chapel, 2401 Steeles Ave. W.
(3 lights west of Dufferin) for service on Wednesday, June 27th
at 1: 00 p.m. Interment, Kehillas Jacob section of Dawes Road
Cemetery. Shiva 130 Neptune Dr., #301. Memorial donations in
memory of Anne
HOFFMAN may be made to the North York General
Hospital Foundation, 4001 Leslie St. Toronto M2K 1E1, 416-756-6944.
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LAWS,
Ruth MacKenzie (formerly
CLUGSTON, née
THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON)
Peacefully in hospital on Tuesday, November 20, 2007 in her 90th
year. Beloved mother of Catherine
BLAKE of Almonte, Michael
CLUGSTON
of Hong Kong, Mackenzie
CLUGSTON
(Paula) of Ottawa, John
CLUGSTON
(Kuniko) of Tokyo and James
CLUGSTON
(Jane) of Ottawa. Loving
grandmother of Sarah, Megan, Russell, Richard, Alexander, Robin,
Angus, Duncan and great-grandmother of Mackenzie and Zoe. Sister
of Murray THOMPSON/THOMSON/TOMPSON/TOMSON and Muriel
VALENTINE.
Predeceased by sisters
Jean, Elizabeth, Margaret and brother MacKay; by husbands Robert
Bollin LAWS and Donald
CLUGSTON.
Ruth lived a life rich in family,
Friendship, travel and art spanning many years in China, Japan,
Britain and Canada. A graduate of Victoria College, University
of Toronto; attended Canadian Academy in Kobe, Japan. Friends
may call at the Almonte Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes, 154 Elgin
Street, Almonte, Ontario, on Thursday from 3 to 5 p.m. Memorial
service will be held in the chapel on Friday at 2 p.m. Those
wishing may make memorial donations to the Council of Canadians,
170 Laurier Ave. West, Suite 700, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5V5 or
Peace Fnd Canada, 145 Spruce Street, Suite 206, Ottawa, Ontario,
K1R 6P1.
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LOOPSTRA,
Doctor
Lawrence
W., M.D., (F.R.C.S.C)
It is with great sadness that the family of Larry
LOOPSTRA announce
his passing on June 22, 2007 in Hamilton, Ontario after a brief
illness. Larry will be greatly missed by his wife Pamela (nee
ROSS,) his four children, Alyssa
ALKEMA
(Tom,)
Emily
(Nick,)
Jonathan (Amanda), and Benjamin, his brothers, Chuck (Claudia),
Allard (Margaret) and Bert (Willy), his mother-in-law, Betty
ROSS, his sister-in-law, Susan
KILNER, his brother-in-law, Robert
ROSS
(Jill,) his nephews and nieces and numerous other relatives,
Friends, colleagues, and patients too many to mention. Larry
was born in The Netherlands in 1941 and grew up in Groningen
and The Hague until immigrating to Canada with his parents, the
late Rev. Willem and Ekelina
LOOPSTRA in 1951. He obtained his
elementary and high school education in Hamilton, Ontario and
attended the University of Western Ontario in London between
1960 and 1966 with a degree in medicine. Larry interned at St.
Bonifice in Winnipeg, Manitoba and thereafter served 3 years
as a medical doctor with the Royal Canadian Air Force in Germany
pursuing his passion for medicine, travel, and skiing. On his
return to Canada, he completed his residency in Obstetrics and
Gynaecology and established his practice in Hamilton. Larry was
an accomplished surgeon, obstetrician and respected clinical
professor with the Hamilton Health Sciences Centre at McMaster
University, delivering thousands of newborns during his career,
as well as performing as a skilled surgeon. He pursued his career
with dedication, professionalism and caring, while at the same
time maintaining a balanced life style through family, church
and his new found love for golf. His loving, caring and selfless
nature shone through all his relationships (Galatians 5: 22-23).
Larry was an avid sailor who loved his boat Sonic Boom, winning
many Lake Ontario races. He last sailed his boat with his family
on June 10, 2007. Many thanks to Leslie
GAUTHIER,
Doctor
S.
KOZIAK,
Dr. N. VALETTAS, and Doctor J.D.
SCHWALM. If so desired, expressions
of sympathy may be directed to Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation.
Visitation at Bay Gardens Funeral Home, 1010 Botanical Dr., Burlington,
Ontario (905) 527-0405 on Monday, June 25, 2007 between 2 and
4 p.m. and 7 and 9 p.m. A funeral service will take place at
the Ancaster Canadian Reformed Church, 575 Shaver Road, Ancaster,
Ontario on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 commencing at 11 a.m. Private
interment to follow the service. Please sign the Book of Condolence
@BayGardens.ca
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HABICHT,
Tea
Peacefully at home on Thursday, January 4, 2007 aged 81 years.
Beloved wife of the late Hans
HABICHT.
Loving mother of Martin
(Lorraine) and Thomas (Barbara). Loving grandmother of Jennifer
(Brian McCAMBRIDGE), Michelle, Diana, Martin Jr., Mark and Stephan.
Aunt of Andres
KOHLER.
Predeceased by sister-in-law Reeta (Juhan)
KOHLER.
The family extends heartfelt thanks to Doctor Bhavna
VALIA,
Dr. Louise
COULOMBE, Community Care Access Centre and visiting
nurse Carol
FITZGIBBON.
Friends may visit at the Central Chapel
of Hulse, Playfair and McGarry, 315 McLeod Street, on Tuesday,
January 9th, 2007 from 10 a.m. until time of the Service in the
Chapel at 11: 30 a.m. Donations can be made to the Champlain Community
Care Access Centre or the Cancer Research Society.
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VALLANCE,
Murray
Allan
Jr. (1917-2007)
It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our
father, Murray
VALLANCE.
Dad passed away in his home Sunday,
June 17, 2007 with his family by his side. He fought hard to
maintain his dignity and quality of life, but after a year and
a half of failing health due to a heart condition, he succumbed
to his illness. He wanted to pass in his own home with his wife
and children and grand children with him. He took his leave on
his own terms and waited until Fathers day to say goodbye. He
was born in Hamilton, Ontario on March 28, 1917 to Murray Allan
VALLANCE and Phyllis Marie
McINTYRE. He had one brother, Walter
Henry VALLANCE who pre-deceased him on June 16, 2006. He enlisted
in the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and after the war he
came home and moved to Toronto in 1950. He became a Chartered
Accountant and eventually went to work for Ontario Hydro where
he met his future wife
Theresa
O'CONNOR. He is survived by his
wife Theresa, his son Andrew and his daughters Kathleen
BOICE
and Carolyne
McMAHON. He will be fondly remembered and dearly
missed by his brother-in-law Thomas
O'CONNOR, his son-in-laws
Richard BOICE and Quinn
McMAHON and daughter-in-law Rachel
VALLANCE.
Dad has six beautiful grand children, Maria-Rose, Micaela, Amelia,
Saffron, Olivia and Max whom he adored immensely and was very
proud to have had enrich his last years on this earth. Dad loved
classic literature and poetry and we wish to leave this little
poem as a parting thought&hellip
No one knew that day
God was going to call your name
In life we loved you dearly
In death we do the same
It broke our hearts to lose you
For you did not go alone
For part of us went with you
The day God called you home
You left us beautiful memories
Your love is still our guide
And though we cannot see you
You will always be by our sides
Our family chain is broken
And nothing seems the same
But as God calls us one by one
The chain will link again
Visitation will be held on Friday June 22 at Highland Funeral
Home from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m. (3280 Sheppard Ave E., Scarborough,
416-773-0933). Funeral Mass on Saturday June 23 at Holy Spirit
Catholic Church at 10 a.m. (3526 Sheppard Ave E., Scarborough).
Interment at Christ the King Cemetery.
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GARIGUE,
Robert
John
Peacefully on Wednesday January 10, 2007 in Montreal, Robert
John GARIGUE, in his 55th year. Vice President for Information
Integrity and Chief Security Executive, Bell Canada. Chief Information
Security Officer, Bank of Montreal, retired. Lieutenant Commander,
retired, of the Canadian Forces. PhD in Management (Carleton)
M.Sc. (Claremont); B.A.A. (Montreal). Beloved husband of Carol
Ann (née
ROSE.)
Loving father of Alexandra and Francesca. Survived
by brother Pierre and sister Vivian
VALLARINO
(Victorio.)
Devoted
son of Philippe and Amalia Maria
GARIGUE.
Friends may call at
the Garden Chapel of Tubman Funeral Homes, 3440 Richmond Road,
Nepean (between Bayshore Doctor and Baseline Rd.), on Sunday 7-9 p.m.,
Monday 2-4 p.m., and Tuesday from 9: 30 a.m. until time of service.
Funeral Service will be held in the chapel on Tuesday at 11: 00 a.m.
In lieu of flowers, a donation to the Jane Goodall Institute
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VALLEE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-12 published
McWILLIAMS,
David
Ireland, Q.C., LLB, B.Sc. (Mil.,) Lieutenant
Colonel (Ret'd)
In London, Ontario, on October 9, 2007 at Longworth Long Term
Care in his 85th year. Predeceased earlier this year by his beloved
wife Beverly
Jane (née
BROUGH.)
Will be sadly missed by his children,
Melanie of Windsor, Wendy (Scott
McNIE) and Sheila (Michel
VALLEE,)
both of Nanaimo, British Columbia, Holly (Paul
BERTON) of London,
Ontario, and David of Hoboken, New Jersey, and grandchildren:
Nicholas, Stephen and Alexandra
VALLEE,
Harris and Heidi
BERTON,
and Liam and Robin
McNIE.
Also survived by his brother Peter
of Oakville, Ontario. Born in Toronto 1922, David attended Upper
Canada College, then Royal Military College (#2721) and finally
Osgoode Hall. He met Beverly while articling in Windsor, and
there they made their home. For 47 years, he practised law and
committed himself to his adopted community, chairing and/or sitting
on boards of numerous local organizations, including Essex County's
Children's Aid Society, Essex Law Association and Ontario Legal
Aid Plan, the District Health Council and Essex County Hospital
Planning Council. He was a former chair and founding member of
St Clair College, Canterbury College (U. of Windsor), and the
Greater Windsor Community Foundation. David's war service took
him to the U.S.A., the North Pacific, Britain, Italy, and Northwest
Europe with the Lord Strathcona's Horse (RC), Canadian Armoured
Corps, The First Special Service Force, (2nd Canadian Parachute
Battalion), First Infantry Brigade, and mustering out as captain
and company commander with the Royal Canadian Regiment. Postwar
service was with the Essex and Kent Scottish Regiment, where
he was appointed Honourary Lieutenant Colonel in 1998. Funeral
service in Windsor at Saint Mary's Anglican Church (Walkerville)
on 15 October 2007 at 11: 30 a.m. followed by interment of his
ashes along with those of his beloved Beverly. No flowers at
his express request. In lieu, donations may be made to the Canterbury
College (U. of Windsor) Community or to the David and Beverly McWilliams
Endowment Fund for Saint Mary's Church (Walkerville).
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VALLENTYNE,
John
R.
On Saturday, June 16th, 2007, Jack (aka Johnny Biosphere) died
peacefully at home of colon cancer. He had had severe intestinal
problems for the last six months but his cancer was only recently
diagnosed. After cremation, his ashes will be scattered in Lake
Superior. He is survived by his wife, Ann, children, Peter, Stephen,
Jane, Anne-Marie, and Geoffrey, and grandchildren, Jade, Corben,
Spencer, Jenna, and Tessa. In keeping with Jack's life-long work
on promoting environmental awareness, donations may be sent to
Greenpeace or other environmental organizations.
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VALVERDE o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-11-19 published
Criminologist identified boredom as the policeman's greatest
enemy
University of Toronto expert on crime and punishment took police
officers to task for pushing too much paper, for doing little
more than maintaining the status quo and for picking on 'pukers'
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S10
Is being a police officer boring? Consider the startling research
on policing in Canada carried out in the 1980s by University
of Toronto criminologist Richard
ERICSON.
He found that the average number of reported crimes per police
officer in Canada was 30 in 1962, rising to 45 in 1977 - or about
one a week. He reported that officers on average spent about
half their time on the job doing paperwork, and reporting to
superiors about what they did with the other half.
He repeated what has virtually become an adage about police work
- that the worst part of being a police officer is boredom. The
police themselves, in his study, rated fewer than 7 per cent
of incidents they dealt with as "exciting."
In a subsequent book, he examined what policing really is about
in Canada and concluded that it is "concerned with the reproduction
of order." In other words, maintaining the status quo.
To illustrate (and here he probably won few police Friends),
he reported that a common diversion among officers was to pick
on "pukers" - young males of lower socioeconomic background -
and minorities of any sort. Patrol officers, Prof.
ERICSON said,
seemed to go out of their way to stop such people, run their
names through the national database and look for ways of laying
charges.
"The police sell themselves as crime fighters," Prof.
ERICSON
said in a 1984 interview, "but do not spend much time on this
activity, per se." The bulk of the patrol officer's time was
spent "doing nothing other than consuming the petrochemical energy
required to run an automobile and the psychic energy required
to deal with the boredom of it all."
Public Misinformed
Partly, he blamed a "relatively misinformed public" for buying
into the belief that cops are around-the-clock crime busters.
"The general feeling is that crime is under the control of the
government as long as you keep giving tax dollars," he said.
The public's acceptance of this "creates a view among citizens
that they should be deferential to the police."
A year-long study done by his department of an Ontario police
force seemed to support that claim. It found "an amazing compliance"
by more than 400 citizens, who dutifully turned over files to
officers, remained in their presence even though not under arrest,
and rarely objected.
Complaining can be risky. In 1981-1982, he found that about one
third of all those who filed charges against Metro Toronto Police
officers were taken to court by the municipality's lawyers for
malicious prosecution. Only two were spared civil damages.
The time had come, he believed, for police officers to be treated
just as human beings, with citizens "criticizing them, questioning
them and resisting them."
A world-renowned criminologist who challenged assumptions, ruffled
feathers and put U of T's Centre of Criminology on the map, Prof.
ERICSON
was described by colleague David Garland of New York University
as "a serial specialist with the broadest of visions, a continually
curious scholar who became expert in one field after another."
Indeed a polymath, he became authoritative in several fields
relating to crime and society: Young offenders, detective work,
policing, defendants in the criminal process, crime reporting
in the media, risk, insurance and the regulation of financial
institutions, and surveillance. Lauded by scholars around the
world as creative, innovative, critical and highly rigorous -
and by students as a warm, wise and nurturing teacher - Prof.
ERICSON
authored, co-authored or edited 17 books on crime and punishment,
the first two when he was 27.
"He was a sociologist who took criminology as his chosen specialty
but who had an expansive view of what criminology should be and
whose work transformed the scope of that discipline," eulogized
Prof. Garland, who is considered the English-speaking world's
top criminal theorist. "He paid attention to complexity and to
detail. His research projects were large, ambitious undertakings
intended to address big theoretical questions."
Prof. ERICSON was educated at the Universities of Guelph and
Toronto, and received his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
Most of his career was spent at U of T's Centre of Criminology,
where he became director in 1992. For a decade, he was the first
principal of Green College and professor of law and sociology
at the University of British Columbia, and then won an appointment
as professor of criminology at Oxford University, where he was
a fellow of All Souls College, among other foreign postings.
He returned to University of Toronto in 2004.
His work may have been big and theoretical, but it had real-world
relevance. He was known for offering a shocking new vision of
police work in which data gathered by law enforcement using surveillance
and other technologies is not only not protected, but brokered
to other institutions.
Links To Insurance
The police, he noted, have become information dealers to insurance
companies and health-and-welfare organizations whose operations
are based on knowledge of risk. These institutions, in turn,
influence the ways in which police officers think and act.
"It's fairly obvious, as any homeowner who's had a break-in knows,"
explained Mariana
VALVERDE, acting director for the Centre for
Criminology. "The only reason you call the police is to get a
report that you can then submit to the insurance [company]. You
don't actually expect the police to really find your lost CD
player."
It wasn't that Prof.
ERICSON had broken new ground. "It's just
that nobody studied how it works, and the tremendous importance
the police have by way of generating information for all sorts
of agencies," Prof.
VALVERDE said. "He put the work of police
forces in broader context."
Prof. ERICSON also conducted the first major sociological study
of the insurance industry, examining how it controls our institutions
and daily lives in ways that are largely invisible, and how it
functions as a kind of government beyond the state.
One alarming conclusion was that there's a lot less certainty
than people may think in the insurance business - the very industry
that is charged with transforming uncertainty into manageable
risk.
Post 9/11 security measures, he argued, include disturbing new
forms of "counter law" or "law against law," which criminalize
not only those who actually cause harm, but also those merely
suspected of being harmful.
Words such as vandalism are always being applied to youngsters
breaking windows but almost never to "large corporations polluting
the atmosphere… which in the aggregate is far greater."
Critical Of Media
And there's the matter of how the media report crime. After six
months of studying how three Toronto newspapers - including The
Globe and Mail - covered some high-profile sexual assaults in
1982, he found the news outlets rarely questioned the prevailing
belief that it was up to women to curb their activities if they
wanted to avoid sexual attack.
The articles presented a central image that sexual assault "was
best controlled by having women take precautions that restricted
their freedom," the study said.
"By locating the problem with the victim and by not questioning
the cultural and social structures in general, and gender relations
in particular, the news accounts functioned to acknowledge the
existing order of values and social relations which perpetuate
the subordinate place of women. The newspapers arguably perpetuated
the views that it is something women do that contributes to attacks."
He rejected the old saw that journalists are mere observers.
"I don't see the media as being in any way outside the process
they are reporting on. The reporters, in the way they use sources,
are active players. They don't reflect reality, they help to
constitute the reality."
It seems incongruous that someone who tackled such bold subjects
was described as not especially outgoing, often to the point
of shyness. And despite being critical of police, his own son
became an Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer. "It was a very
proud moment in Richard's life when Matthew was sworn in," Prof.
VALVERDE
noted. "So it's not as though he disrespected police, or didn't
have an understanding of [their] day-to-day realities. I think
his sympathies were always with the rank and file."
Don't tell that to the Peel Regional Police force on Toronto's
western flank.
Perhaps the biggest stink Prof.
ERICSON raised was in one of
his books, Making Crime: A Study Of Detective Work, in which
he accused the police he was observing of routinely forging,
or "left-handing" the signatures of justices of the peace on
search warrants.
Force Not Named
The force he observed was unnamed in the book (though he dropped
one juicy hint by mentioning 19th-century British prime minister
Robert Peel in the first sentence). Peel Regional Police revealed
it was them, and went on the offensive.
"It wasn't a big deal because at that time, even when real signatures
were placed on warrants, the warrant approval process accomplished
little," recalled colleague Anthony Doob. "That was Richard's
point: Real signatures, fake signatures… it didn't matter."
It did to police in Peel, who called the book "a crock of garbage"
and said the force "seriously questions Prof.
ERICSON's bias
in policing." They also found evidence they said totally contradicted
his allegations.
As Prof. Doob recalled, one Wednesday afternoon in August, 1980,
two senior police officers visited the centre "and delivered
what we saw as a serious threat to get additional details about
activities described in the book. After Richard refused to answer
most of the questions that were put to him, we made the decision
that in order to protect the identity of the police officers
he had observed, his data had to be placed somewhere secure."
That somewhere was in the attic of Prof. Doob's ex-wife's grandmother's
cottage in rural New Hampshire. And Prof.
ERICSON, despite the
intimidation, stood his ground. "I'm not revealing sources,"
he said, "and if I did, I might as well pack in my books."
Richard Victor
ERICSON was born in Montreal on September 20,
1948. He died in Toronto on October 2, 2007, after succumbing
to multiple health problems. He was 59. He leaves Diana, his
wife of 38 years, and their son Matt. He also leaves his brother
John, and sisters Elizabeth and Kristine.
A memorial will take place at University of British Columbia's
Green College on Friday, November 23, at 2: 30 p.m.
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