KNOLL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-21 published
KNOLL,
Francis
Aileen
Passed away peacefully at the Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto
of cancer and heart complications on July 17, 2003, at age 69.
Frances is survived by her brothers Alan (Catherine) and Gerald
(Fay,) her sisters Madeleine
ARNOLD and Catherine
CHAPUT
(Armand)
and many loving nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her
brothers Jack, Jim and George, and her sister Mary Louise. Frances
made the most of her dynamic personality and keen intelligence,
following many pursuits over her career. Born in Vermilion, Alberta,
she graduated from the University of Alberta at age 19 with a
degree in psychology, after which she became a caseworker with
the Catholic Children's Aid Society. This work led her to pursue
a Master of Social Work at the University of Ottawa, which she
obtained in 1961. After working for another 10 years in the family
service field, Frances accepted the position of Assistant Professor
in the faculty of Social Work at the University of Toronto, a
position she held for eight years. Frances then attended Osgoode
Hall Law School, from which she graduated in 1982, and was called
to the Bar in Ontario two years later. From that point on, Frances
used her varied background to work extensively with not-for-profit
organizations in a wide variety of ways, reviewing operations
and complaints, frequently acting as Interim Director, and becoming
a Family Court judge, until her retirement in 2001. Throughout
her life, Frances made many, many Friends. She was always a much
sought-after dinner companion, cherished the arts, travelled
extensively, and truly loved life. Her Friends and family remember
Frances as someone who would always tell it like it was, while
somehow managing to put a light-hearted spin on even the most
serious of matters. The family wishes to express their heartfelt
thanks to the teams at Mount Sinai and Princess Margaret Hospitals.
A memorial service for Frances, which will be announced, will
take place in the coming weeks.
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KNOTT o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-10-24 published
Norman KNOTT
By Maurice
SWITZER
Friday,
October 24, 2003 - Page A22
Norman KNOTT
Anishinabe artist. Born February 5, 1945, in Toronto. Died July
31, of a heart attack, in Haliburton, Ontario, aged 58.
The day before he died, Norman
KNOTT
(Waabshki ki Mukwa -- White
Bear) called to give me hell, in a good way.
"Hey, chum, you're going to cost me money," the renowned Anishinabe
artist joked.
It seems the caption in July's Anishinabek News, under a photo
of his large, four-by-four-foot canvas titled Native Heritage,
said he was willing to part with it for $4,000. The actual selling
price is $15,000. Norman had already received several inquiries
at the lower figure.
Collectors from all over the world sought him out to buy his
paintings, which were owned by collectors including Johnny Cash,
Queen
Elizabeth,
Lee Trevino, and the late Pierre Elliot
TRUDEAU.
"I still get people from France and Italy looking me up," he
told me, during a late June visit to the Union of Ontario Indians
head office near North Bay. Like many lesser-known Native artisans
and crafters, he had just pulled into the parking lot and set
up shop in the reception area.
He had no business cards, no website, and he hadn't been selling
his art on the pow-wow trail for years. What about people interested
in buying his paintings of splashing loons and perching cranes,
or intricately carved moose antler combs, or bear-tooth pendants
with jade inlay?
"They'll find me," he shrugged. "I go out when I want. I could
have shows but as long as I can pay my bills..." his voice drifted
off. "This not having a hydro bill is something else!"
He was describing a new lifestyle. He and his partner Crystal
had recently retreated to a 200-acre hideaway, where they would
burn wood for heat and grow their own vegetables. It wasn't too
far from his Curve Lake First Nation roots, Norman said, although
he was careful not to be too specific.
The retreat was a long way from what he called "the world of
champagne and caviar" that he enjoyed when his 16-by-20-inch
paintings sold for $9,000. Those were heady times, when he and
other Native Woodlands artists like Norval
MORISSEAU were the
darlings of the North American art scene. The times had taken
their toll, leaving Norman with a heart condition and a face
that looked like it had weathered more than 58 years. He said
he hadn't had a drink for the last 16 or 17 years, after a car
accident.
These days he was trying to get his paintings, carvings, and
jewelry into the hands of as many people as he could, hawking
it like a door-to-door salesman and giving it away to those who
couldn't afford it. He said true happiness was making his art
affordable to everyone who liked it. Minutes after he and Crystal
had packed up the mobile Norman
KNOTT art gallery outside our
office, he returned, handing out Norman
KNOTT originals as giveaways
for those who didn't (or couldn't afford to) buy them earlier.
Then, several weeks later, two telephone calls. The first, from
Norman, joking about me understating his prices. The next day,
word about his heart attack and death. He is survived by Crystal,
former wife Barb, sons Tony and Norman, and daughters Jessica
and Naomi.
I hadn't heard a loon's call all summer until one day on a high
place overlooking Lake Laurentian near Sudbury. It reminded me
of the little painted paddle -- a Norman
KNOTT original -- I
had purchased from him for a mere $60.
May his spirit be in a better place and shine in the night sky
with all the other stars.
Maurice SWITZER is director of communications for the Union of
Ontario Indians in North Bay.
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KNOWLES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-07 published
FRANCIS,
Peter
Norton
Suddenly, in Meaford on Wednesday March 5, 2003. Peter
FRANCIS,
loved husband of Elizabeth
EARLY, of Meaford in his 61st year.
son of the late Arthur and Jean
(KNOWLES)
FRANCIS.
Loving father
of Charles
FRANCIS of Toronto. Dear brother of Janet (Ron)
PURSER
of Brockville. Also remembered by nieces Margaret, Beth and Barbara
and great-uncle of Sarah and Amy. Also survived by a brother-in-law
Steve EARLY.
Funeral services will be conducted at Meaford United
Church on Saturday, March 8 at 2: 30 p.m. with interment at Lakeview
Cemetery following. Friends will be received at the Ferguson
Funeral Home, 48 Boucher Street East, Meaford on Friday from
2 until 5 o'clock. As your expression of sympathy, donations
to the Meaford Hall Restoration Fund or Meaford General Hospital
Foundation would be appreciated and may be made through the Ferguson
Funeral Home (519-538-1320).
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KNOWLES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-10 published
FELICIANT, Peggy Penelope (formerly
PERRY, née
KNOWLES) 1926
Died early Monday morning, June 9, 2003, in Toronto, peacefully
with her family. Beloved wife of the late David
FELICIANT, she
will be lovingly remembered by her sons Douglas
PERRY
(Lesley)
and Stephen
PERRY, her stepson David
FELICIANT, her sisters Patricia
ATKINSON
(Ted) and Barbara
GABRIEL (Fred,) her nephews Gary
ATKINSON
(Susan,) Gregory
ATKINSON
(Sharon,)
Tim
ATKINSON (Linda) and
Andrew GABRIEL
(Holly,) and her niece Carol
GABRIEL. Peggy was
a graduate in nursing of McGill University, and for many years
was a public health nurse with the Borough of Etobicoke. Visitation
will be held at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home, 159 Eglinton
Avenue West, Toronto (2 stoplights west of Yonge Street), from
7 - 9 p.m. on Tuesday. Funeral Service will be held in the Chapel
on Wednesday, June 11, at 11 a.m. Reception to follow. Private
interment will take place at Cataraqui Cemetery, in Kingston,
on Thursday. For those who wish, donations may be made in Peggy's
memory to the Alzheimer's Society of Toronto.
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KNOWLES o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-12-26 published
He was the voice of the land
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation broadcaster oversaw radio programming
that connected the country's isolated agricultural and fishing
communities
By Carol COOPER,
Special to The Globe and Mail Friday, December
26, 2003 - Page R15
It wasn't a great beginning. Racked with nerves during his first
on-air stint for a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Winnipeg
radio agricultural show in 1944, Bob
KNOWLES gabbled the market
reports in a record three minutes, instead of the scheduled 10,
with the result that his boss had to spend the next seven minutes
rereading them.
"I don't suppose anyone made any sense out of anything I'd read,"
Mr. KNOWLES told the Regina Leader Post in 1981.
Many voice and elocution lessons later, Mr.
KNOWLES became an
accomplished and well-loved farm broadcaster, who won the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation farm department's Cowhide Trophy for
proficiency in broadcasting in 1951 and then rose through the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation ranks to become the national
supervisor of farm and fisheries broadcasts.
Mr. KNOWLES, who in that capacity, oversaw programs such as Country
Calendar, Country Magazine, Summer Fallow and the daily agricultural
noon-hour shows, died in his sleep recently. He was 83.
Farm shows on radio and television offer up-to-date market information,
advice on growing crops and raising animals, and news on the
latest agricultural research from the universities to their busy
and isolated rural audience. In days gone by, when many more
Canadians made their living from the land without modern communication
methods, radio farm shows were particularly important.
As national supervisor of farm and fisheries broadcasts, and
chair of National Farm Radio Forum's executive committee for
a number of years, Mr.
KNOWLES contributed to one ground-breaking
Canadian show. Launched in the early forties as an adult-education
program for farmers, Farm Radio Forum brought farmers, their
wives and often their children together in an early version of
interactive radio. Gathering weekly throughout the winter in
living rooms, kitchens and community halls across the country,
they listened to the show's broadcasts.
After hearing a panel discussion, the group discussed questions
presented in study guides. A secretary recorded answers, which
were sent back to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, some
to be aired the following week. Their responses helped shape
agricultural policy across the country and initiated several
projects, said Rodger Schwass, a former national secretary of
Farm Radio Forum and professor emeritus from York University.
As its chair during the late fifties and early sixties, Mr.
KNOWLES
helped choose show topics and panelists and became involved in
one of its projects, Radios for India.
Forums across Canada raised money to help start a radio forum
in India, one of several countries, including Jamaica, Belize,
Ghana and Nigeria that adopted the Canadian idea. When the head
of Indian radio came to Canada for three months to study radio
forums, Mr.
KNOWLES shepherded him around the country. In turn,
Mr. KNOWLES participated in a training program in India. Radio
forums became the chief means of disseminating information during
India's Green Revolution, which ended up doubling the country's
food production.
Robert Gordon
KNOWLES was born on February 5, 1920 to Gordon
and Catherine Finn
KNOWLES on the family's homestead in Rutland,
Saskatchewan. The family had settled there from Ontario in 1907,
in the town that no longer exists, roughly 160 kilometres west
of Saskatoon. Affected by mild cerebral palsy resulting from
a difficult birth, Mr.
KNOWLES walked with a mild limp and was
unable to use his right hand.
Although Mr.
KNOWLES wanted nothing more than to become a farmer,
his father feared his son's disability would make that difficult.
Instead, he encouraged Mr.
KNOWLES to continue his education.
Upon completing his B.Sc. in agriculture at the University of
Saskatchewan in 1942, and with a low service rating because of
his disability, Mr.
KNOWLES did not enlist during the Second
World War. Instead, he completed his master's degree in agriculture
at the university in 1944, where he had met Pat
APTED, an honours
graduate in arts and biology, whom he married in 1943.
With so many men overseas, Mr.
KNOWLES had three job offers upon
graduation: as a district agriculturalist in Alberta, as a land
inspector for the Canadian Pacific Railway, or as a western farm
commentator with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. He chose
the people's network. "At that time, the Canadian Broadcasting
Corporation was only eight-years-old and it seemed like a very
glamorous position," Mr.
KNOWLES told the Vernon Daily News in
After his first position in Winnipeg, he transferred to Edmonton
for a similar job, staying nine months, before returning to Winnipeg
as regional farm-broadcast commentator in 1950.
Of his early days in broadcasting, Mr.
KNOWLES told the Vernon
paper, "I made my work pass the following test: Is it of interest
and value to the farmer to know about this and why? I think I
did all right because I've been criticized equally by all farm
organizations at one time or another."
In 1954, Mr.
KNOWLES and his family packed up and moved to Toronto,
where he became the assistant supervisor of farm and fisheries
broadcasts and 19 months later, the supervisor.
Not only did he manage the section's budget, set its policy and
advise regional announcers across the country, but at least once
provided the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with a breaking
story.
In 1963, Mr.
KNOWLES and most of the network's farm department
were on a flight that crashed during landing at Toronto International
Airport.
Uninjured, Mr.
KNOWLES left the plane to be put into a holding
room with fellow passengers. Once there, he demanded to call
home to reassure his wife and young family. Granted the privilege,
he immediately called the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's
newsroom.
In 1967, with a major network restructuring under way, Mr.
KNOWLES
took a three-year leave of absence to work for the Food and Agriculture
Organization in Rome on the development of farm broadcasts.
Upon returning to Canada, he found his job had disappeared. Mr.
KNOWLES took the only Canadian Broadcasting Corporation-Radio
farm commentator's job available, where he reported, wrote and
delivered approximately 6,000 broadcasts for Radio Noon in Regina,
until his retirement in 1980.
Said Bonnie
DONISON, producer of Radio Noon. "Because he was
so friendly and warm, people really liked to talk to him and
And he held some interesting interviews, once with a trouserless
federal minister of agriculture, Otto
LANG.
Mr.
LANG had ripped
his pants getting out of a taxi, so he removed them, sent them
aside for mending and carried on, recalled Gerry
WADE, a fellow
farm-broadcaster who worked with Mr.
KNOWLES in Regina.
Of his broadcasting career, Mr.
KNOWLES told the Vernon Daily
News, "I can honestly say that during all of my time as a journalist,
there never was a day I didn't want to go into work."
Mr. KNOWLES also helped create the Canadian Farm Writers Federation
and was inducted into the Saskatchewan Agricultural Hall of Fame
in 1990.
He died on November 5 in Ottawa. His first wife Pat, predeceased
him in 1997. He leaves his second wife Marney, children Tony,
Laura, Alan and Janet, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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KNOX o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-04-25 published
Died
This
Day -- Alexander
KNOX, 1995
Friday, April 25, 2003 - Page R13
Actor, scriptwriter born January 16, 1907, in Strathroy, Ontario
educated at the University of Western Ontario; in 1929, made
stage debut in Boston; appeared in 70 movies, including Gorky
Park and Two of a Kind; celebrated for title role in 1944 presidential
biopic, Wilson; received Academy Award nomation and won Golden
Globe for best actor; specialized in character parts; divided
time between Hollywood and Britain; died of bone cancer at Berwick-Upon-Tweed,
England.
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KNOX o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-07 published
COSTELLO, Mary Paula Christine (née
CASTONGUAY)
Born October 15, 1919, died November 6, 2003 at Formosa, Ontario.
Lovingly remembered by her three children Michael
COSTELLO,
Mary
KNOX and her husband Brian, Bob
COSTELLO and his wife
Brenda
sadly missed by her grandchildren Riley and Jessie
KNOX;
Allie,
Darryl and Dru
COSTELLO.
Predeceased by her husband Robert E.
E. COSTELLO and infant son Patrick William Gerard. Visitation
at Cameron Funeral Home, Walkerton, Ontario. Funeral mass 11
am Saturday, November 8, 2003 at Immaculate Conception Church,
Formosa, Ontario. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to
the Canadian Cancer Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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