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WAY,
Currie
Peacefully at People Care Centre, Tavistock on Thursday, March 27,
2008, Currie Way, formerly of R.R.#5, Ingersoll, in his 80th
year. Beloved husband of Dorothy (Bowman). Dear father of Ruth
and Bob NANCEKIVELL of Ingersoll, John and Nena
WAY of Salford,
Ellen and Ron
JOHNSON of Mt. Elgin, Gene
WAY of R.R.#5, Ingersoll,
George and Tammy
WAY of R.R.#4, Ingersoll and Mary and Paul
ROOKE
of Ingersoll. Dear grandfather of Marci, Mike, Shane, Cory, Dana,
Tyler, Daniel, Katelyn, Jesse, Kevin, Brady, Brian and Kyle.
Dear great-grandfather of Brennan, Cole, Cloe, Ava, Kate and
Olivia. Friends will be received at the McBeath-Dynes Funeral
Home, 246 Thames St. S., Ingersoll Sunday 7-9 p.m. and Monday
2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service will be held at First Baptist
Church, Ingersoll on Tuesday April 1, 2008 at 1: 30 p.m. Rev. James
DAVEY officiating. Interment Harris Street Cemetery. Memorial
donations to the Alzheimer Society or Canadian Diabetes Association
would be appreciated.
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BANCROFT,
Roy
At Alexandra Hospital, Ingersoll on Saturday, July 5, 2008, Roy
BANCROFT, of Ingersoll, in his 87th year. Husband of the late
Ella (HERMAN)
BANCROFT (1994.) Dear father of Elsie and her husband
John LOUNSBURY of Ingersoll, Donald and his wife
Ruth of Dorchester,
Linda NANCEKIVELL of Ingersoll, Charles and his wife
Martha of
Springford and Barbara and her husband Donald
LINDSAY of Bayfield.
Also survived by 13 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.
Dear brother of Doris
COUSINS of Woodstock, Lillian and her husband
Jim HACKERT of Salford, Joe
BANCROFT and his wife
Betty of Ingersoll,
Betty and her husband Ken
FISHER of Ingersoll and Frieda
WESTON
of Ingersoll. Predeceased by one brother Ewart
BANCROFT and two
sisters Edna
BASKETT and Bernice
CLARK.
Friends will be received
at the McBeath-Dynes Funeral Home, 246 Thames St. S., Ingersoll
Tuesday 2: 30-4:30 and 7-9 p.m. where service will be held on
Wednesday,
July 9, 2008 at 1: 30 p.m. Rev. John
LAMBSHEAD officiating.
Interment Ingersoll Rural Cemetery. Memorial donations to the
Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation or Alexandra Hospital Foundation
would be appreciated.
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NANKIVELL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-02-15 published
Financial Post editor was the godfather of business journalism
in Canada
An economist first and journalist second, he understood early
the importance of properly covering Bay Street and financial
affairs. He also had an uncanny knack for discovering newsroom
talent
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S7
Toronto -- Dalton
ROBERTSON was executive editor of The Financial
Post back when it was a broadsheet weekly and had enormous influence
in the framing of public policy in Canada. He knew his weekly
could not compete with The Globe and Mail's daily Report on Business,
but using clear writing and solid content, he often scooped the
competition.
Every week for more than 20 years, he wrote two front-page columns
for the paper. One was an unsigned editorial, called The Nation's
Business. The other was the Outlook column, a weekly examination
of politics and economics in Canada.
He joined the newspaper in 1955 and, over the course of 32 years,
Mr. ROBERTSON became a hugely influential figure in Canadian
business journalism.
Dalton ROBERTSON was born in Rhode Island to Canadian parents
who returned home soon after his birth. He spent much of his
boyhood in Harriston, Ontario, a rural backwater about halfway
between Toronto and Lake Huron. Although he came from a distinguished
family - one of his grandfathers had been both the mayor of Harriston
and a member of Parliament - he grew up relatively poor.
After Harriston High School, he went to the University of Toronto,
graduating in 1949. He studied economics at the University of
Chicago, although he was never of the Milton Friedman school
of thought. Mr.
ROBERTSON's politics were capital-L Liberal and
he was an admirer of Walter Gordon, who was minister of finance
in the Lester Pearson years and a staunch Canadian economic nationalist.
Mr. ROBERTSON worked in the economics and research branch of
federal Labour Department for three years. His main achievement
there was starting a magazine for the Civil Service Association.
His first full-time job in journalism was at Canadian Business
magazine, then located in Montreal. He joined the Financial Post
two years later, at $500 a year.
He was hired by Ron
McEACHREN, a tyrant of an editor who terrified
most of his employees. Not Mr.
ROBERTSON.
They proved to get
along well. He learned to mimic Mr.
McEACHREN's voice and he
liked to telephone reporters and demand they report to the boss's
office. The reporters would arrive, shaking in their boots, to
find Mr. ROBERTSON waiting outside the door and hugely enjoying
his joke.
He took his work seriously, however, and felt passionately about
the issues of the day. In 1961, he rose to the defence of James
Coyne, the Bank of Canada governor, who was fired by prime minister
John Diefenbaker for taking a contradictory attitude to inflation.
"Dalton was firmly against inflation and for the bank's independence,"
said his friend and colleague Neville
NANKIVELL, who was editor
of the Financial Post for many years.
During the peak of stagflation in the Pierre Trudeau years, Mr.
ROBERTSON
chastised the federal Liberals for failing to control inflation.
"Restraint, it seems, has been clearly established as all that
is needed to cure Canada's persistent twitch towards double-digit
inflation," began his editorial of February 7, 1976.
Besides writing editorials, he was sent all over the world to
return with essays and long reports on such events as Britain
entering the European Community. He was dispatched to Australia
to investigate why that country's development was eclipsing Canada's
and how that might have shocked Wilfrid Laurier, a prime minister
who had famously predicted that the 20th century would belong
to Canada.
"The tide of money going into Australian resources - and many
other factors as well - suggests that if the 20th century is
to belong to anybody, it may be to Australia and not to Canada,"
he wrote in a long special report in 1971.
Later, as executive editor, he was in charge of just about everything,
including running the paper's domestic and foreign bureaus. A slender
and outgoing man who was well liked by colleagues, he possessed
a distinctive sense of style and a refined fondness for certain
cigars. With one eye brown and the other blue, he sported a neatly
trimmed beard and dressed well even while at home with Friends.
Once, on a trip to the Middle East, he took along a white suit
but was discouraged from attending a formal dinner. Canadian
embassy officials insisted he stay away; only the local potentate
could wear white.
In the newsroom, he was a tough boss who demanded clear writing
and accuracy from his stable of writers and reporters. He had
"a good eye for hiring and capacity for firing without leaving
blood on the floor," said his death notice, most of which he
wrote himself.
He was also seen as an early advocate for covering economics
and business properly.
"He played a really important role when business journalism was
starting to evolve, not just in his own work but in the people
he hired," said Christopher
WADDELL, a professor of journalism
at Carleton University who once worked under Mr.
ROBERTSON. "
Dalton
laid the groundwork for business journalism for the last 25 years."
Over the years, he groomed scores of young journalists and helped
launch them in their careers. Among them are Andrew Coyne of
Maclean's; Globe and Mail editor Edward Greenspon; Giles Gherson,
former editor of the Toronto Star and Edmonton Journal; Andrew
Cohen, a Carleton University associate professor and author
Gordon Pitts, a Report on Business columnist; Richard Blackwell,
an Report on Business reporter; and Ian Brown, a Globe feature
writer.
"He ran an incubator for business journalists," said Patricia
Best, who worked at The Financial Post from 1978 to 1985 and
is now an Report on Business columnist. "Dalton was so different.
When he hired me, he asked, 'What are you reading?' I said, Alice
Munro's short stories, which later I thought might not have been
too businesslike. The next day, he hired me and said it was because
I was reading Alice Munro."
She became the first woman at The Financial Post to cover the
auto industry and came to realize that, while he was kind, he
had high standards. "Dalton had faith in people and he took a
gamble on them. [But] he was tough as nails. He didn't like any
kind of fakery."
On a personal level, he took another gamble in 1981, when he
bought a house in southwestern France. After The Financial Post,
it was to become his second great passion. Located in the village
of Puycelci, about an hour north of Toulouse, it, too, benefited
from the ROBERTSON sense of style.
"It was built into the ramparts of the village and Dalton worked
at expanding the gardens and the house," said Bea
RIDDELL, a
colleague at The Financial Post and one of Mr.
ROBERTSON's closest
Friends. "He was a marvellous host, whether it was in France
or at home in Toronto."
He so loved the place that he decided to take early retirement
and spend more time there. To better integrate himself in the
community, he hired a local person to tutor him in French so
that he eventually became fluent.
For many years, he also owned a large house in the Rosedale area
of Toronto as well as a cottage in Ontario's Muskoka cottage
country. He later sold the Toronto house to concentrate on his
property in France.
He had done that sort of thing many times before - he was an
adept flipper of real estate, working his way up from the Toronto
neighbourhoods of Riverdale and Cabbagetown to the heights of
inner Rosedale and then to a choice property in France, all the
while keeping a smaller place back home. "You can't make any
money in journalism," he liked to say.
Not that anyone ever heard from him when he was in France for
long periods - at least not by e-mail. He hated computers. When
they arrived in force at The Financial Post, he ignored them.
He never owned one, never had an e-mail address and never learned
to type with any degree of skill or enthusiasm. "He would retire
into his office and write his editorials in long hand, then give
them to someone to type them out," Mr. Pitts recalled.
In later years, if Mr.
ROBERTSON had to send or receive e-mail,
he would get a friend to do it for him using their own account,
usually that of his companion, Brian
WILKS.
His retirement from The Financial Post in 1987 was a bittersweet
event. He was off for glorious France, but leaving his first
love behind - a somewhat unrequited love, at that. Years before,
he had been openly promised the job of editor-in-chief but then
passed over when the time came in the mid-1970s. Executives told
him they could not appoint a gay man as the editor of Canada's
most prominent business newspaper. Instead, they named Mr.
NANKIVELL
to the job. By way of compromise, Mr.
ROBERTSON became executive
editor.
Characteristically, he kept his disappointment to himself and
a few select Friends. At his retirement party, he joked that
he was leaving for three reasons: the advance of technology
the new work ethic that demanded arriving at the office before
10 a.m.; and society's puritanical attitude against smoking.
Dalton Sinclair
ROBERTSON was born in Providence, R.I., on October 25,
1927. He died after collapsing in Mexico on January 27, 2008.
He was 80 and suffered from lupus. He was 80. He is survived
by companion Brian
WILKS.
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NANT o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-18 published
FIRBY,
Rose
Emma (née
CARREL)
At the Saint Thomas Elgin General Hospital on Saturday February 16,
2008. Rose Emma
FIRBY of R.R.#4, Aylmer in her 88th year. Beloved
wife of Max
FIRBY. Dear mother of Ralph
FIRBY and his wife
Dale
of R.R.#4, Aylmer, Donna Paget and husband Bev of R.R.#1, Brownsville
and Ron FIRBY and wife
Cathy of R.R.#4, Aylmer. Loved by 8 grandchildren
and 10 great-grandchildren. Sister of Tom
CARREL and wife
Muriel
of R.R.#4, Aylmer and Jack
CARROLL and wife
Vicky of Port Burwell.
Also survived by a number of nieces and nephews. Born in Tillsonburg,
Ontario, December 17, 1920, the daughter of the late Edward and
Adele (NANT)
CARREL.
Rose had lived at R.R.#4, Aylmer most of
her life. Friends may call at the H.A. Kebbel Funeral Home, Aylmer
on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. A private family funeral service
will be held on Wednesday February 20, 200 Interment Aylmer Cemetery.
Donations to the Cancer Society or the Diabetes Association appreciated.
Condolences at kebbelfuneralhome.com
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