GIRARDIN
GIRGIS
GIRLING
GIRNYS
GIRODAY
GIRONA
GIRONES
GIROUX
GIRVAN
GIRARDIN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-28 published
HORNSBY,
Mary "
Bernice" (née
SCHWEYER)
Peacefully, at Maple Manor Nursing Home in Tillsonburg, on Monday,
May 26, 2008 with her family at her bedside, Mary "Bernice"
HORNSBY
of Tillsonburg age 84 years. Beloved wife of the late James
HORNSBY.
Dear mother of Ronald (Sharon)
HORNSBY of Toronto; Robert (Joyce
SHORT)
HORNSBY of Huntsville; Brenda (John)
RIBICH of Sunderland
Glen HORNSBY of Dryden; Janet
BROWN of Tillsonburg. Dear sister
of Irene FITCH of Woodstock; Blanche
GLOVER of North Carolina
Ethel "Mae"
PALMER of Tillsonburg; Eleanor (Robert)
GIRARDIN
of Saint Thomas; Douglas
SCHWETER of Tillsonburg; Gordon (Terry)
SCHWETER of London. Loving grandmother to 10 grandchildren, and
13 great-grandchildren. Also, survived by her sister-in-law Ruby
SCHWEYER of Tillsonburg. Bernice was predeceased by her brother
John "Mansell"
SCHWEYER, sister Helen
HARRIS, brother-in-law
Terry SCHWEYER, and her parents Oscar and Ethel (nee:
McDONALD)
SCHWEYER.
The family welcome Friends, family, and neighbours
to visit with them at Ostrander's Funeral Home 43 Bidwell St.
Tillsonburg (519) 842-5221 on Friday, May 30, 2008 from 2-4 and
7-9 p.m. Funeral service for Bernice will be held in Ostrander's
Funeral Home Chapel on Saturday, May 31, 2008 at 11 a.m. Rev. Father
Bill WARD of Saint_John's Anglican church, Tillsonburg officiating.
Interment Tillsonburg Cemetery where Bernice will be laid to
rest next to her beloved husband James. At Bernice request memorial
donations (payable by cheque) may be made to the Lung Association,
or the Parkinson's Association. Personal condolences may be made
at www.ostrandersfuneralhome.com
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GIRGIS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-06-18 published
JANIK,
Cezaria "
Czarusia"
Died peacefully at home on Monday, June 16, 2008 at the age of
82. Survived by her husband of 53 years, Jan (Zbyszek). Loving
mother of Teresa and her husband Steven, and Andrew and his wife
Colleen. Beloved grandmother (Babcia) of Claire, Mickie, Aaron,
Matthew and Laura, and sister of Regina
OLSZEWSKI and family
in Poland. Always thinking of others before herself, she was
a dedicated Registered Nurse and hardworking volunteer in her
parish and Polish community. We will all miss her positive attitude
and relentless drive to make people happy. Our heartfelt thanks
to Doctors M.
GIRGIS,
A.
KIRSHEN and
J. DOWNAR and her many caregivers.
Friends may visit at R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge Street
at Goulding, south of Steeles) Wed., June 18, 2008 3-5 p.m. and
7-9 p.m. prayers at 7: 15 p.m. Funeral Mass on Thurs., June 19
at 10: 30 a.m. Blessed Trinity R.C. Church (3220 Bayview Ave.,
north of Finch) followed by interment at Holy Cross Cemetery.
Donations may be made to The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative
Care or The Adam Mickiewicz Foundation in Canada. Condolences
www.rskane.ca. R.S. Kane (416) 221-1159
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GIRLING o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-19 published
SHEPPARD,
Inez
Willine
Born September 14, 1913-Died February 16, 2008.
Retired teacher at Watford High School. Late of Kingsville, Ontario.
Daughter of the late Luvia and James
SHEPPARD.
Sister of Myrtle
and husband Byron
BROADWELL
(Sr.,) and the late Wilbur
SHEPPARD
and aunt of the late Byron
BROADWELL
Jr. and Inez
BROADWELL.
Great aunt of Mary Ellen and Cory
DEMERIS;
Nancy and Scott
SHEPPARD
Tom and Liz
BROADWELL; Ben
BROADWELL; Joel
BROADWELL; Beth
BROADWELL
and Darren
DICKSON/DIXON;
David and Jodi
BROADWELL. Great-great-aunt
of Jonathan
DEMERIS and wife Lesley; B.J.
FORD; Sarah
SHEPPARD,
Hope and Hailey
BROADWELL;
Kristen and Katie
BROADWELL. With
respect for Ms.
SHEPPARD's wishes, cremation has taken place
in Windsor and there will be no visitation. A Memorial Funeral
Service will be held at the C. Stuart Sykes Funeral Home, 91 Division
St. S., Kingsville on Thursday, February 21st at 3 p.m. Rev. Bryan
GIRLING officiating. Interment of ashes in Hillview Cemetery
in Woodstock, Ontario If desired, donations to the Church of
Epiphany, Kingsville or charity of choice would be appreciated.
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KISKUNAS,
Teresa
With her family at her side on Saturday, May 10, 2008, at the
Toronto Grace Hospital. Beloved wife of Jurgis. Cherished mother
of Dale and her husband Normand
JANELLE,
Vidas and his wife
Christina
and Rasa and her husband Victor
SEVERINO.
Proud grandmother of
David and his wife Sara, Paul, Mark and Mathew; Lina, Tomas and
Michael; Alexandra and Victoria. Dear sister of Neda
GIRNYS and
Frank STANKEVICIUS.
Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Yorke
Chapel 2357 Bloor Street W., at Windermere, east of the Jane
subway from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Monday. Rosary prayers 8 p.m. Monday.
Funeral Mass will be held at the Church of the Resurrection,
1 Resurrection Road, Toronto on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 at 10 a.m.
Interment Saint_John's Lithuanian Cemetery. In lieu of flowers,
donations to the Toronto Grace Hospital, Palliative Care Unit
would be appreciated.
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GIRODAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-03 published
McWILLIAM, Rev. Dr. Joanne E., M.A., PH.D., D.D.
Professor Emerita, the University of Toronto and Trinity College,
Toronto, born December 10, 1928, died of cancer, nine years after
the first diagnosis, on July 1, 2008. Cherished wife of C. Peter
SLATER and beloved mother of Leslie
GIRODAY
(Philip,)
Elizabeth
DEWART (George
McLAUCHLAN), Sean
DEWART (Lori
NEWTON), Gonzalo
DUARTE, and grandmother of Gabrielle, Genevieve, James, Christopher,
Alison, Karen, Geoffrey, Nora, George, Anne Marie, Joanna and
Marc Francis. Fondly remembered stepmother of Lynne
SLATER (Robert
ARPIN), Ruth
SLATER (Jim
VIVIAN) and Claire
SLATER (Ken
RIDLEY).
Joanne was the first woman to earn a doctorate in theology from
Saint Michael's College, the first ordained woman to be tenured
on the Faculty of Divinity at Trinity College, and the first
woman holder of the chair in dogmatic theology at the General
Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church, U.S.A., in New
York. She served terms as Chair of the Department for the Study
of Religion in the University of Toronto and as president of
the American Theological Society, the Canadian Theological Society
and the Canadian Society for Patristic Studies. A longtime director
of Advanced Degree Studies for the Toronto School of Theology,
she was an internationally acknowledged expert on the theology
of Saint Augustine, and always very highly rated as a teacher
by generations of students in both arts and theology and by her
family. Ordained in 1988, she was, with her husband, an honorary
assistant at Christ Church Deer Park. She loved her books, her
dogs, and her garden. The family wishes to thank Doctor Amrit
OZA
and staff at the Princess Margaret Hospital and those from the
Mount Sinai Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care and related
services, who made it possible for her to die at home. Visitation
will be at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton Avenue
West (2 lights west of Yonge Street) on Sunday, July 6 from 3-5 and
7-9 p.m. The funeral service will take place at Christ Church
Deer Park, 1570 Yonge Street (at Heath Street) on Monday, July 7
at 11 a.m. with reception to follow in the Parish Hall. Donations
in her memory may be made to Médecins Sans Frontières or Street
Haven.
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GIRODAY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-16 published
Academic became a religious triple threat
Denied the voice she sought in Catholicism, she converted, then
mentored hundreds of other women
By Ron CSILLAG,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S8
Joanne McWILLIAM felt she was outside her beloved church, looking
in. Faced with the lifelong prospect of being denied the voice
and role she sought in Roman Catholicism, she found an alternate
route. She became an Anglican and a priest.
A religious pioneer and predictor of change who mentored and
encouraged hundreds of women in academia and the priesthood,
Dr. McWILLIAM tallied several milestones: She was the first woman
to earn a doctorate in theology from the University of Toronto's
Saint Michael's College; the first ordained woman to receive tenure
on the divinity faculty at U of T's Trinity College; and the
first Canadian woman elected president of the American Theological
Society.
She was recalled as a warm, self-effacing woman, but serious
about many things: teaching, her church and advancing the cause
of women, both in her field and beyond. Her son, Gonzalo
DUARTE,
recalled a T-shirt his mother bought him in 1977 bearing the
words: "Men of quality are not threatened by women for equality."
It was a message she carried and heeded throughout her life.
Dr. McWILLIAM was a kind of religious triple threat. As a trained
philosopher, theologian and priest, she had a wide knowledge
of secular thought, of Christianity (especially its early development)
and of what it takes to shepherd a congregation - all within
a liberal framework. "She understood deep traditions very thoroughly,
yet could advance new developments without fear," said Canon
Alyson BARNETT-
COWAN, a friend and colleague.
A tolerant woman, she had a healthy respect for those of other
denominations and faiths. "She didn't have a proselytizing bone
in her body," said her son, Sean
DEWART. "
She was not remotely
judgmental."
An internationally acknowledged expert on the theology of St. Augustine,
Dr. McWILLIAM's specialty was patristic studies, which focuses
on the early church fathers. She wrote or co-wrote dozens of
books, articles and book chapters on Augustine, feminist theology
and Christology, the study of Jesus's divine nature.
For 15 years, she was a single mother and pursued her academic
credentials while raising four children, who recognize today
that she was a tireless advocate for women's rights who established
herself as a major figure in a largely male domain, yet devoted
years to studying the harsh patriarchy of the early Christian
church.
Dr. McWILLIAM was raised in an ecumenical environment. She was
the only child born to an electrical engineer who'd been a sapper
during the First World War - a Catholic who had known discrimination
in Toronto - and a stay-at-home mother who converted to Catholicism
from the Presbyterian church. It was an arrangement that was
deemed controversial in its day.
Their daughter graduated in philosophy and history from the University
of Toronto in 1951, earning the Cardinal Mercier Medal in Philosophy,
and completed a master's degree in the subject in 1953.
The next year, she married Leslie
DEWART, who was born in Spain
and raised in Cuba. His medical studies were interrupted by a
strike, so in the early 1940s, at 19, he came to Canada to join
the Royal Canadian Air Force. He flew reconnaissance missions
over the North Atlantic and went on to teach philosophy at Saint Michael's
College. The couple divorced in 1972.
During the mid-1950s, Doctor
McWILLIAM held a variety of jobs. She
taught high school and lectured in philosophy at the University
of Detroit. For a brief time, she was a reporter at the Toronto
Star, covering "magistrate's court," but grew disenchanted. "She
felt she was too much the observer and not enough of a participant,"
said daughter Elizabeth
DEWART.
She returned to school and earned a second master's degree, this
one in theology, from Saint Michael's College in 1966, followed
two years later with a doctorate in theology, also from Saint Michael's.
"She was an unbelievably hard worker," said Ms.
DEWART.
Over the ensuing years, she held several teaching positions at
Saint Michael's College, the Toronto School of Theology and the
University of Toronto's religious studies department, which she
chaired for two terms.
But something was gnawing at her. She never voiced an outright
disappointment in the Catholic Church, but "she felt things needed
to change… that she didn't have a voice," said one of her former
doctoral students, Ellen
LEONARD of the Sisters of Saint_Joseph.
She found that voice in the Anglican Church of Canada, whose
synod on whether to ordain women she addressed in 1975 as a Catholic
theologian. The following year, in November, the church ordained
its first female priest.
"I remember her telling me that she was leaving the [Catholic]
church," Ms.
DEWART recalled. "It was so solemn. She didn't see
the opportunity to become a priest. That was a huge decision
for her."
Dr. McWILLIAM became a deacon in the Anglican Church in 1987,
the year she married Peter
SLATER, an Anglican priest and fellow
theologian, and was ordained a priest the next year, at the age
of 60. For one thing, she felt it was important for female students
to have a female priest on the faculty.
While continuing to teach, transferring from the Catholic Saint Michael's
College to the divinity faculty at Trinity College, Canada's
oldest Anglican theological school, she served as honorary assistant
at Toronto's Christ Church Deer Park. In 1997, she was appointed
by Michael Peers, then leader of the Anglican Church of Canada,
to a high-level review of central religious issues. The first
Primate's Theological Commission, which lasted until 2003, produced
three workbooks to assist the church on "fundamental theological
questions."
She addressed such matters as the nature of God. The Christian
tradition of labelling the members of the Trinity - the Father,
the son and the Holy Spirit - as "persons," was "on the whole
a bad decision," she wrote (noting that Augustine and many others
have said so) "because when we use it, we cannot but think of
human persons, and attribute the characteristics of human personhood
to God."
The Trinity "is a mystery and cannot be explained in any rational
way."
An optimist, she felt the global Anglican communion will weather
its spasm over homosexuality and avoid schism. She cited examples
of other threats to unity - slavery and the place of women -
that failed to split the church.
Dr. McWILLIAM taught for five years at the Episcopal Church's
General Theology Seminary in New York, the first woman to hold
a chair in dogmatic theology. Back in Canada, she contributed
to the decision in 2001 to provide joint recognition to Anglican-Lutheran
ordinations in this country.
Health conscious before it was fashionable, she ingested plain
yogurt and chicken livers for breakfast. But a regular tipple
of sherry was never turned aside. Minutes after doctors informed
her that her cancer was untreatable, she asked her daughter Leslie
to drop by for a glass, reasoning that "there's no point allowing
life to go completely to the dogs."
Still with sherry, just a few weeks before her death, she insisted
that her son Sean pour from an older bottle. When he asked why
he shouldn't open the fine new one he had just bought, she replied,
"I'm saving it!"
She died a week before the worldwide Anglican church voted to
allow women to serve as bishops.
Joanne Elizabeth
McWILLIAM was born in Toronto on December 10,
1928, and died there of cancer, nine years after the first diagnosis,
on July 1, 2008. She was 79. She leaves husband C. Peter
SLATER,
children Leslie
GIRODAY,
Elizabeth
DEWART, Sean
DEWART and Gonzalo
DUARTE, and 12 grandchildren.
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GIRONA o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-07-26 published
GODES,
Roger
At Mt Hope Centre for Long-Term Care, London on Wednesday, July 23,
2008 Roger
GODES in his 88th year. Beloved husband of Pauline
(BARRY)
GODES. Dear father of John (Cathy)
GODES.
Proud grandpa
of Mark and Amanda. Dear brother of Josephine (Antonio)
REDONDO
and Mercedes (Elias)
BEL.
Predeceased by his brother Manuel
GIRONA.
Born June 16, 1921 in Manresa, Spain, Roger survived the Spanish
Civil War and World War 2 to immigrate to Canada in 1952. A long-time
resident of Hamilton, he was employed by Ford in Oakville for
nearly 30 years before retiring in 1985. Roger and Pauline enjoyed
many years of retirement together, moving to London in 1997.
He will be fondly remembered for his devotion to family. Visitors
will be received at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo
Street at King Street, London, on Monday morning from 11 o'clock
until the time of the funeral service at 12 noon. Private interment
in Saint Peter's Cemetery, London. In lieu of flowers, a donation
to the Parkinson Society of Canada or the Saint_Joseph's Health
Care Foundation would be appreciated.
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GIRONES o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-04-04 published
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART,
Margaret▼
Helen▼
Surrounded by her family at home on Thursday, April 3, 2008 Margaret
Helen Stewart born December 30th, 1916, only child of the late
Dr. Thomas
GLOVER and Thecla
CLARKE, of Toronto, predeceased
by her husband Thomas Blakeley (Tim)
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, her daughter Margaret
Helen SHEPHERD and grand_son Timothy Stewart
KILLORAN.
Survived▼
by her four children: Thecla
SWEENEY,
Ellen▼
GIRONES, Katharine
Stewart KILLORAN,
Thomas▼
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART and son-in-law William
SHEPHERD.
Dear grandmother of Christopher, Thecla, Neil, and Siobhan
SWEENEY,
Andrea, Lorenzo and Brendan
GIRONES,
Sarah▼ and Margot
KILLORAN
and Jessica, Patrick and Katie
SHEPHERD. Dear nana of seven great-grandchildren.
What a wonderful life; her passion for living, her smile, and
sense of humour will be greatly missed by all. Goodbye Nana.
Visitors will be received at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo
Street at King Street on Sunday afternoon from 1-4 o'clock. Funeral
Mass at Saint Michael's Church, 515 Cheapside Street on Monday
at 11 o'clock. Interment in Saint Peter's Cemetery.
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STEWARD/STEWART/STUART,
Margaret▲
Helen▲
Surrounded by her family at home on Thursday, April 3, 2008 Margaret
Helen STEWARD/STEWART/STUART born December 30th, 1916, only child of the late
Dr. Thomas
GLOVER and Thecla
CLARKE, of Toronto, predeceased
by her husband Thomas Blakeley (Tim)
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART, her daughter Margaret
Helen SHEPHERD and grand_son Timothy Stewart
KILLORAN.
Survived▲
by her four children: Thecla
SWEENEY,
Ellen▲
GIRONES, Katharine
Stewart KILLORAN,
Thomas▲
STEWARD/STEWART/STUART and son-in-law William
SHEPHERD.
Dear grandmother of Christopher, Thecla, Neil, and Siobhan
SWEENEY,
Andrea, Lorenzo and Brendan
GIRONES,
Sarah▲ and Margot
KILLORAN
and Jessica, Patrick and Katie
SHEPHERD. Dear nana of seven great-grandchildren.
What a wonderful life; her passion for living, her smile, and
sense of humour will be greatly missed by all. Goodbye Nana.
Visitors will be received at John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo
Street at King Street on Sunday afternoon from 1-4 o'clock. Funeral
Mass at Saint Michael's Church, 515 Cheapside Street on Monday
at 11 o'clock. Interment in Saint Peter's Cemetery.
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WHITTEN,
Keith
Passed away at Headwaters Health Care Centre, Orangeville on
Sunday,
June 22nd 2008. Keith
WHITTEN, in his 55th year, dear
father of Tanya
WHITTEN
(Lee
CARRINGTON) of Shelburne, Amanda
WHITTEN
(Kevin
GIROUX) of R.R.#1 Shelburne, Katrina
WHITTEN of
Proton Station and Curtis
WHITTEN of Proton Station. Loving grandfather
of Ethin, Gavin and Bryce. Dear brother of Stan (Sharon)
WHITTEN
of Orangeville, Kenneth (Linda)
WHITTEN of Shelburne, Bill
WHITTEN
of Dundalk, Gerald (Margaret)
WHITTEN of R.R.#2 Proton Station,
Karen (Peter)
BOLTON of Collingwood and Rodney
WHITTEN
(Murray
WOLFE) of Collingwood. Predeceased by his parents Clifford and
Mabel WHITTEN and his brother Harold
WHITTEN.
Resting at the
McMillan and Jack Funeral Home, Dundalk. A funeral service will
be held in the chapel on Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 at 12: 00
noon.
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GIROUX o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-14 published
Two men gunned down in central Toronto
The 25-year-old victims, Dylan
ELLIS and Oliver
MARTIN, were
not known to police
By The Canadian Press, Sat., June 14, 2008
Toronto -- Police are investigating a "cowardly act" after two
25-year-old men who never had a run-in with the law were gunned
down in a central Toronto neighbourhood.
Dylan ELLIS and Oliver
MARTIN were shot and killed as they sat
in their high-end Range Rover sport utility vehicle around midnight
Thursday after watching a basketball game with Friends.
Police said another person in the back of the sport utility vehicle
was unharmed in the shooting. Paramedics fought to save the two
men, but they were pronounced dead when they arrived at hospital.
The incident appears to have been totally unprovoked, police
said.
"These two victims were not at all known, and I repeat not at
all known, to the Toronto police or any police agency in Canada,"
Det.-Sgt. Gary
GIROUX said at a news conference yesterday morning.
Because the victims were driving a high-end sport utility vehicle,
police are exploring the possibility the incident was an attempted
carjacking,
GIROUX said.
Both victims were still wearing their seatbelts when emergency
crews arrived at the scene in what's described as a quiet neighbourhood.
"I can imagine that the community in this particular area, as
the police are, should be outraged by the cowardly act that's
taken place,"
GIROUX said.
MARTIN worked in Toronto's financial district, while
ELLIS was
a photographer,
GIROUX said. The homicides are the city's 24th
and 25th murders this year -- 13 of which were gun-related.
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Double shooting shakes gun-weary Toronto
Two 25-year-old men killed downtown; carjacking suspected
By Timothy
APPLEBY and Jamie
KOMARNICKI with reports from Sarah
BOESVELD and Matthew
CAMPBELL,
Page A1
Toronto -- It was just after midnight yesterday when Alan
DUDECK's
cellphone rang, bearing the worst tidings a parent could hear:
His son, Oliver
MARTIN, and his son's lifelong friend Dylan
ELLIS
had just been shot.
The two young men had been heading home from a friend's apartment
after watching a basketball game, and the frantic call came from
a close friend of Mr.
MARTIN.
"He said, 'Get down to St. Mike's [hospital] right away,' Mr.
DUDECK
recounted.
Mr. MARTIN worked for a prestigious investment firm. Mr.
ELLIS
was a photographer. Both were 25, with university degrees. And
both, it seemed, had a shining future. Instead, both perished
in an apparently random hail of bullets, leaving their families
in shock.
"Pretty rough, pretty rough," Mr.
DUDECK said.
Even in a city where gun killings have become familiar - yesterday's
shootings bring Toronto's homicide count for the year to 25 -
the double slaying, perhaps the result of an abortive carjacking,
was unusual.
As police struggled to reconstruct the events west of the city's
entertainment district, Detective Sergeant Gary
GIROUX of the
homicide squad stressed that from all appearances, neither Mr.
ELLIS
nor Mr. MARTIN was involved in crime.
"Both young men were loved by their families, they have a great
deal of support, and as you can imagine, both families are devastated,"
he said.
"These two victims were not at all known - I repeat, not at all
known - to the Toronto police or any police agency in Canada."
The only police record of either stems from when one of them
lost his passport about five years ago, another homicide investigator
said.
A 911 call came in at 12: 08 a.m. yesterday to the 14 Division
police station.
Mr. ELLIS and Mr.
MARTIN were found in the front seat of a Range
Rover that belongs to Mr.
ELLIS's stepfather, outside a friend's
condo where they had been watching a basketball game on television.
Both were wearing seat belts and the car's engine was running,
police said.
Despite paramedics' efforts, both were pronounced dead on arrival
at Saint Michael's Hospital.
In the back seat of the Range Rover was a female friend who survived
the attack and who is the homicide squad's key witness.
"It may well be the shooter didn't see her and that's why she's
alive," Mr.
DUDECK said. "We don't know."
All three had been watching the Boston Celtics pull off a comeback
win against the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball
Association playoffs.
For several hours, the car was parked outside the condo, and
the three departed at around midnight. They briefly returned
for what Det. Sgt.
GIROUX described as "a very innocent reason&hellip
they were expecting someone to come out for a very brief moment."
Instead, they were accosted by the gunman.
"I'd say the shooting took place within seconds," Det. Sgt.
GIROUX
said. "He may have only been targeting the males in the front
seat, but they were certainly in my opinion targeted."
Multiple shots were fired - at least eight, judging by shell-casing
markers on the street yesterday - killing the two young men and
damaging the interior of the Range Rover.
After speaking to the traumatized young woman, Det. Sgt.
GIROUX
said the shootings may have been part of an abortive car jacking,
and that - for reasons he did not divulge - the killer appeared
familiar with the area.
"We're certainly alive to the fact that this was a very expensive,
high-end vehicle and I'm looking at it as a marketable thing
to steal."
Another police source suggested the violence could have erupted
from something as simple as an exchange of angry words.
One witness report said a young black male in a white shirt was
seen fleeing the crime scene on a bicycle. Another offered a
similar description, but said the man sped away in a blue car.
Under scrutiny, meanwhile, was an array of closed-circuit video
footage from buildings near the crime scene.
A friend of the victims who was at Thursday night's gathering
said she and other attendees were traumatized by the shooting.
Police swiftly cordoned off the area with yellow tape, and yesterday
afternoon, the Range Rover was still being examined by forensic
experts.
The car was parked immediately outside 798 Richmond St. West,
an upscale, five-year-old rental high-rise, surrounded by townhouses.
The area comprises a mix of new money and old, a few blocks west
of the downtown entertainment district.
Just metres north is a vibrant section of Queen Street West,
and on all sides are older brick homes, some of Victorian vintage.
"There's a sense of community; my house has been broken into,
but I do usually feel safe walking along the streets late at
night," said long-time resident Maria
BARABASH, who lives a block
east of the crime scene on Richmond Street.
"But this is a little bit too close to home."
So too for the families of the victims.
About 30 people gathered on the lawn of Mr.
ELLIS's parents'
home in the upscale Rosedale neighbourhood. Some hugged, while
others stood around or sat on the lawn in shock.
Tears in his eyes, a young man demanded that reporters respect
the family's privacy and leave the street and its million-dollar
homes and expensive cars.
Lauren WILKINS, a friend of Mr.
MARTIN and Mr.
ELLIS, said yesterday
the two men were "just wonderful people."
A few blocks away at Mr.
OLIVER's home, family members from the
East Coast began filtering into the big, ivy-clad brick house,
hugging and exchanging condolences.
Mr. MARTIN lived downtown in a house he shared with his sisters.
He graduated with a bachelor of commerce degree from Concordia
University's John Molson School of Business. He joined Russell
Investments Canada last year and quickly made his mark as a friendly
young man poised to take the financial world by storm, said company
president Irshaad
AHMAD.
"He was the person walking around the office always making Friends.
He just made a really tremendous impact."
Mr. MARTIN and Mr.
ELLIS had known each other since they were
in Grade 1 in Toronto's Brown Junior Public School.
From
Toronto, the pair headed for Quebec - Mr.
MARTIN attending
Concordia
University while Mr.
ELLIS pursued his passion for
photography at Dawson College.
Mr. ELLIS was a thoughtful photographer with an eye for detail,
his former mentor said.
"His style was a bit more urban, a bit more shadowy," recalled
Laurel Breidon, co-ordinator of the college's commercial photography
program.
"Not the bright, clean, happy stuff - a little funky, had a little
edge to it."
Mourners set up a candle-lit shrine last night outside the building
where Mr. MARTIN and Mr.
ELLIS were shot. About 20 bouquets of
flowers had been laid against the wall and three candles illuminated
a sign taped to the building that reads "May you rest in peace
Dylan and Oliver."
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GIRVAN,
Kenneth MacDougal
Kenneth died November 17, 2007 at age 86 at Brentwood Bay, British
Columbia. He was predeceased by his loving wife of 42 years Jean
Emily CALLISTER on April 18, 1991, as well as by his later life
partner Louise
LANG of Duncan, British Columbia. His loss is
mourned by two daughters and a grand_son, Jane
GIRVAN of Golden,
British Columbia, and Martha
MEERS and her son Mitchell
MEERS
of Georgetown, Ontario. At age four Ken suffered a severe infection
of the middle ear which left him deaf in one ear and partially
impaired in the other. Ken enlisted in the army in 1942 and was
commissioned as an Infantry Lieutenant early in 1943 at Camp
Borden, Ontario. During battle training in Southern England,
the continued cold wet conditions aggravated his chronic middle
ear leaving him temporarily deaf. As a result he was reassigned
to Barriefield, Ontario, as an infantry instructor for the duration.
Ken was a member of the Toronto Argonauts Rowing 8's before and
after the war. In June 1945 Ken joined the Canadian publishing
firm of Random House as a sales representative for Ontario. Over
the years, Ken represented McGraw-Hill, Clarke Irwin, and Fitzhenry and
Whiteside, being with the latter firm for 18 years. Ken was well
suited to his employment and felt it was an occupation to be
envied. Ken and Jean lived on a small rural acreage near Georgetown,
Ontario during most of his working years. After his retirement
in 1985 they moved to Gorden Head, British Columbia, an area
which offered fine weather, year around fishing, a splendid opera
and excellent medical facilities. After a three year struggle,
Jean succumbed to cancer in 1991. Ken enjoyed great success fishing
in the early years, but the diminishing quality of the ocean
fishery led him to sell his boat and purchase Nikon Camera equipment
and immerse himself in the study of photography. Numerous road
trips with his camera to the American Southwest and the Canadian
Rockies were highlights of his later years. In the winter months
Ken kept busy in his darkroom or listening to classical music
to which he was devoted to throughout his life.
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