SUTHERLAND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-09 published
He was a daredevil footballer in the days of leather helmets
By Tom HAWTHORN
Special to The Globe and Mail Friday, May 9,
2003 - Page R11
Norris LINDSAY, a teammate of Ormond
BEACH and Bummer
STIRLING
on the storied Sarnia Imperials football team, has died in Petrolia,
Ontario He was 94.
At 6-foot-3, 220-pounds, he was a big man in the era of leather
helmets and earned a reputation for his flying tackles, a daredevil
play that has long since fallen out of favour. In lieu of salary
as a two-way player, Mr.
LINDSAY and his teammates were guaranteed
jobs with Canadian Oil Companies Ltd.
Mr. LINDSAY helped the Imperials win the Ontario Rugby Football
Union champioship in 1933 and 1934 over Balmy Beach, St. Michael's
College and the Hamilton Tigers.
In 1933, the Imperials played host to the 1933 Grey Cup championship
against the Toronto Argonauts. Despite his regular-season contributions,
coach Pat OUELLETTE did not have Mr.
LINDSAY suit up for the
big game, which was won 4-3 by Toronto in the lowest-scoring
Grey Cup ever played.
Mr. LINDSAY was frustrated again the following year, when coach
Art MASSUCCI did not place him on the Imperials' roster for the
Grey Cup final. Sarnia defeated the Regina Roughriders 20-12
at Toronto. Among Mr.
LINDSAY's teammates wearing the three-starred
sweater of the Imperials were Mr.
BEACH, a sensational halfback
kicker Hugh (Bummer)
STIRLING of Saint Thomas, Ontario; rugged
snapper Boob
MOLLOY; and, the speedy Norm
PERRY, known as The
Galloping Ghost.
Mr. LINDSAY, who was born in Tupperville, Ontario, near Chatham
in southwestern Ontario, was also a gifted golfer who entered
the 1940 Canadian Open. "He told me his first shot went out of
bounds, said Pat
SUTHERLAND, a friend. "By the time he was
done, he had shot an 11 on the first hole."
Mr. LINDSAY, an amateur, shot an embarrassing 93 on the par-71
course, following with a 90. The tournament was won in a playoff
by the legendary American golfer Sam
SNEAD.
Shortly after, Mr.
LINDSAY joined the merchant marine and was a radio operator during
the Second World War. In peacetime, he took over the Blue Bay
Lodge near Huntsville, Ontario, which he operated until 1963.
Mr. LINDSAY golfed until late in life. When his local club opened
a new clubhouse, he rented the old one and made it his home.
He died on March 11 at the Lambton Meadowview Villa in Petrolia,
10 days after marking his 94th birthday. He was predeceased by
his wife, Bette, who died in 1965.
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SUTHERLAND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-07 published
Bureaucrat 'invaluable' to ministers
Analyst was a key negotiator in talks that led to the formation
of the World Trade Organization in 1995
By Bill GLADSTONE
Special▼ to The Globe and Mail Saturday, June
7, 2003 - Page F11
Gerry SHANNON could have been a professional hockey player like
his father, but decided instead to play in a much bigger arena.
Mr. SHANNON went on to become a top career public servant who
helped to formulate the federal government's policies on international
trade. At one time, he held the No. 2 posting in the Canadian
embassy in Washington and was a key negotiator in the talks known
as the Uruguay Round, which led to the formation of the World
Trade Organization in 1995.
Mr. SHANNON, who died recently in Vancouver at the age of 67,
is remembered as a fair, tough and passionate trade-policy analyst
who was a trusted adviser to ministers in the successive cabinets
of Pierre TRUDEAU and Brian
MULRONEY in the 1980s.
"Gerry was a larger-than-life character," said Peter
SUTHERLAND,
a former director-general of the World Trade Organization. "He
played a crucial role in the conclusion of the Uruguay Round.
He had a belief in the multilateral system that he combined with
an intense Canadian patriotism. His personality was also a factor
in bringing peaceful resolution to difficult negotiations."
"He was a straightforward guy -- you always knew where you stood
with him," said Marc Lalonde, a former Liberal finance minister.
"He was a man with a very solid judgment. He was a good team
player in that regard, the kind of guy you would want to have
as a senior public servant."
Born in Ottawa in 1935, Mr.
SHANNON received an early lesson
from his father -- hockey player Jerry
SHANNON, who played for
the Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins and other National Hockey
League teams -- on the necessity of appearing strong, no matter
what. Once, after a puck knocked out the boy's two front teeth,
his father shouted, "Get up, son, shake it off!" Young Gerry
did so and stayed in the game.
The same spirit of toughness also probably helped him cope with
the death of his mother when he was 10.
Despite an offer to try out for the Bruins, Mr.
SHANNON took
his father's advice and went to university. Graduating from Carleton
University's school of journalism, he worked as a reporter for
the Sudbury Star for several years before lifting his sights
once again. He wrote a foreign-service exam and was accepted
as a diplomat in 1963. "He realized that being a small-town reporter
was great and he enjoyed it, but he wanted to be involved in
the big world," said his wife, Anne Park
SHANNON.
His first posting was in Washington, where, despite any formal
training as an economist, he handled matters of trade and economic
policy. "He was good at pursuing Canadian interests with the
Americans.
They liked him," Ms. Park
SHANNON said. "He was very
affable and very good at just getting to the essence of things."
He also served as Canada's senior foreign affairs representative
in Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, and as ambassador to Korea,
one of Canada's youngest ambassadors at the time.
In the mid-1970s, at the height of the Trudeau era, he became
director of commercial policy for the department of external
affairs. After several years, he returned to Washington as the
embassy's second-in-command at a time when Canada's national
energy program generated heated discussions.
Recalled to Ottawa about 1982, he became the assistant deputy
minister of finance for the Liberals, then deputy minister of
international trade for the Progressive Conservatives. In these
capacities, he advised Mr.
LALONDE and Tory ministers Michael
WILSON and Barbara
McDOUGALL.
"He was a very professional public servant, he had a sense of
professionalism, he had a very good mind, he was tough, and he
understood very well the role of the senior public servant, "
Ms. McDOUGALL said. "He never tried to be the minister and he
was a straight shooter, which many of us appreciated when we
realized that this was the exception and not the rule.
"I worked with a lot of great public servants, but he was certainly
right up at the top," she said.
Anne Marie
DOYLE, who worked extensively with Mr.
SHANNON in
various government departments, recalls that he would go out
on a limb for employees when he thought that they were in the
right, and he possessed "iron in his spine" that made his superiors
respect him as steadfast and trustworthy.
"He had this phenomenal gift -- the ability to take a very complex
problem, see to its core and express it in just two or three
very articulate sentences so that someone like a minister or
prime minister would have found him just invaluable," she said.
"They would have his complex briefing and he would say, 'Well,
Minister, what it boils down to is just this, ' and it would
be just brilliant."
Mr. SHANNON was "one of the giants of Canadian trade policy of
the '80s and '90s," said Bill
DYMOND, executive director of
the Centre for Trade Policy and Law at Carleton University. "The
politicians trusted him because he was blunt, honest and loyal
to the government."
Known for his enthusiasm and for being indefatigable on the job,
Mr. SHANNON performed an astonishing array of official duties
while in Geneva from 1989 to 1995. As Canada's chief negotiator
for the Uruguay Round, he developed a binding dispute-settlement
system that was hailed as a major breakthrough. He was Canada's
first ambassador to the World Trade Organization as he had been
to its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
As an occasional ambassador to the United Nations, he gave to
its committee on disarmament the "
SHANNON mandate," a significant
negotiating protocol still in use today.
Mr. SHANNON was known as a loyal defender of Canadian interests.
Soon after leaving government in 1995 to work as an international
trade policy consultant, he wrote an article for The Globe and
Mail on Canada's seemingly never-ending softwood-lumber dispute
with the United States.
"We always get roughed up in dealing alone with the Americans
on issues they deem to be critical to them," he observed. "They
simply have too many guns and they persevere until they win."
Mr. SHANNON enjoyed hiking, gardening, opera, travelling, dogs,
crossword puzzles and playing hockey.
He and his wife moved from Ottawa to Victoria about a year ago
with the intent of retiring there. He was sick only a few weeks
before he died on April 26.
He leaves his wife, Anne Park
SHANNON, and sons Michael and Steven
from a previous marriage. He also leaves a sister, Carol
SCHWARZ,
of Ottawa.
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SUTHERLAND o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-07-05 published
EADIE,
Laura ''Ruth'' (née
CUNNINGHAM)
Died peacefully, on Thursday, July 3rd, 2003, at Trillium Health
Centre in Mississauga. Born January 19th, 1922. Predeceased by
her first husband Lt. Eric
SUTHERLAND, she then became the wonderful
and devoted wife to her beloved husband ''Al'' (Allan W.)
EADIE.
Brilliant and loving mother of Sandra Jean
STURDY and her husband
Giles.
Dearly loved grandmother ''Nan'' of Anna
MacLEAN and her
husband Malcolm, Catherine
HACKNEY and Robert and Michael
STURDY
(all residing in England.) Much loved ''Greatnan'' of Oscar
MacLEAN.
Ruth was a woman hugely loved and respected by a multitude of
wonderful Friends and a woman of many talents
porcelain painter, artist, calligrapher, golfer and long term
Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire member. A Funeral
Service will be held at Humber Valley United Church, 76 Anglesey
Blvd. in Etobicoke, on Tuesday, July 8th, 2003 at 2 o'clock.
Private family interment. Floral tributes to Turner and Porter
Yorke Chapel. Remembrances to Famous People Players, 33 Lisgar
Street, Toronto, Ontario M6J 3T3.
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SUTTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-01 published
COX,
Elford
Bradley ''E.B.''
Died peacefully, in his 90th year, on Tuesday, July 29th, 2003,
at Toronto General Hospital, with loving family by his side.
He is survived by his wife
Elizabeth ''Bet''
(CAMPBELL,) daughters
Sally SPROULE
(Dale) and Kathy
SUTTON (Steve,) grandchildren
Jason HARLOW
(Cindy
KRYSAK) and Jennifer
HARLOW and great-granddaughters
Elizabeth and Terran
HARLOW, as well as nieces Donna and Frances.
He was predeceased by his brother Arthur Berwyn
COX. He will
be remembered with love also by his many Friends, particularly
Dean ALLEN of Toronto. A family service will be held August 9th.
A memorial service to celebrate E.B.'s life and work as one of
Canada's foremost sculptors is being planned for September. Expressions
of sympathy in the form of donations to favourite charities will
be appreciated.
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SUTTON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-11-15 published
Sculptor 'entirely original'
A wood carver from a young age who made many public works, he
was befriended by the Group of Seven and later carved their tombstone
epitaphs
By Bill GLADSTONE,
Special▲ to The Globe and Mail Saturday, November
15, 2003 - Page F10
A Canadian sculptor who as a young man was adopted by the Group
of Seven has died in Toronto. E. B.
COX, who prided himself on
achieving artistic and commercial success without ever taking
a penny in government grants, was 89.
Mr. COX was a young associate, of some of the Group of Seven
with whom he went on northern sketching trips; A. Y.
JACKSON
once complimented him on his "good sense of form." He later carved
their tombstone epitaphs.
A wood carver from a young age, he came to master stone and even
the delicate art of faceting and carving precious stones; he
also tried metal, ceramics and glass. Because he liked to work
fast, he pioneered the use of power tools to quicken the chiselling
process, a technique that purists initially disdained as a form
of cheating.
According to one 1990s guide-book, he had "more sculpture on
view in Toronto's public places than any other single artist."
His 20-piece Garden of the Greek Gods, originally installed in
the 1950s on the Georgian Peaks near Collingwood, Ontario, was
later relocated to the far more populous grounds of the Canadian
National Exhibition near the Dufferin Gate. The only fully human
representation in the group, an 11-foot-high statue of Hercules,
was carved from a six-tonne piece of Indiana limestone -- "the
biggest piece of stone used by a sculptor in Canada," according
to friend and patron, Ken
SMITH.
Among his many other public works are a fish fountain for a courtyard
at the former Park Plaza Hotel, a stone bear for the Guild Inn,
a stone Orpheus for Victoria College, lavish countertops and
railings for historic bank buildings, a large seated lady for
McMaster University and whimsical creatures for a school yard
in Milton, Ontario
Having mastered big, he also excelled at small: He used to claim
that he invented coffee-table art. He carved little totem poles
to put himself through university, and became known for his small
bear sculptures, which he sold at popular prices, especially
at Christmas. "At university, I damned near starved," he would
explain. "I don't believe in starving artists."
Influenced by Iroquois and West Coast Haida art, he focused on
bears, beavers, birds and other animals as well as human torsos,
masks and heads; he often caught the animals in quirky fluid
poses and never failed to capture their essential natures. He
once crafted an all-Canadian limited-edition chess set for the
Hudson's Bay Co., with beavers as pawns, coureurs de bois as
knights, Indian princesses as queens, and so on. He was "the
great bridge between aboriginal art and modern art," according
to Mr. SMITH and others. A picture book about him, featuring
an essay by Gary Michael
DAULT, was published by Boston Mills
Press in 1999.
"He was entirely original," said Toronto sculptor Dora DE
PEDERY-
HUNT.
"Absolutely nobody else did what he did. What style he had was
entirely his. I call him a real good sculptor, a real good artist."
The younger of two brothers, Elford Bradley
COX was born on July
16, 1914, in Botha, Alberta., where his family made a short-lived
attempt at farming; he learned to carve by watching his maternal
grandfather whittle kindling by the fireside. He persisted in
sculpting even though his pious father was vehemently opposed
to the creation of "graven images," he told Toronto Life magazine
in 1997. The family returned to Bowmanville, Ontario, where E.
B. spent most of his childhood, and where his mother died suddenly
after an epileptic attack when her favoured son was a young teenager.
When it was time for him to go to university, "his father sent
him off with $5, a suitcase and a wish of good luck," said Kathy
SUTTON, the younger of his two daughters.
Studying languages at the University of Toronto from 1934 to
1938, Mr. COX was befriended by German professor and painter
Barker FAIRLEY, who introduced him to A. Y.
JACKSON,
Fred
VARLEY
and Arthur
LISMER of the Group of Seven.
Mr. COX started teaching languages at Upper Canada College, but
soon left to join the war effort as an intelligence officer,
interrogating prisoners of war in Europe.
Afterward, he resumed teaching at Upper Canada College, and devoted
part of a summer to a school canoe trip on the Mississauga River
the next summer he escorted a group of boys on an even more adventurous
trip down the Churchill River in the barren lands. "That was
just unheard-of in those years," recalled Terence A.
WARDROP,
who joined that expedition and became Mr.
COX's lifelong friend
and solicitor. "It was a big trip and it was almost historic
the rivers and some of the lakes were unmapped in 1948."
Quitting his teaching job in 1949, Mr.
COX married the former
Betty CAMPBELL, bought a farm near Palgrave, Ontario, and discovered
that he could survive as a full-time artist. (Although he considered
government subsidies poisonous, he once applied for a government
grant to study Canadian stones suitable for sculpting -- and
was turned down. "I did my stone research without their damn-fool
money," he told The Globe and Mail in 1970.) Moving to a rural
property in north Toronto and later to a Victorian house in eastern
Toronto, he separated from his wife but remained on excellent
terms with her and their daughters.
Being partial to pranks, he once purchased a canoe for his wife
as a gift and, to achieve maximum surprise, paddled it to the
dock at the family cottage in a rented disguise. Along with his
love of humour, Friends recall his sharp wit and his ability
to cut through social pretense. "He said he wanted his gravestone
to read, 'I told you I was sick,' " recalled art dealer John
INGRAM. "
That's what I remember about him -- his great sense
of humour and just what a wonderful compassionate guy he was.
He tried to give this air of being an old curmudgeon, but in
fact, he was anything but."
Becoming a mentor to many young artists, Mr.
COX generously shared
his tools and experience with them. "He didn't have much mentoring
when he was learning to be an artist -- people didn't help him
so he took the opposite tack," said his daughter Kathy.
Always enthusiastic and full of ideas, he was usually in his
workshop early in the morning -- and kept on working even after
losing his sight in his final years. His home was full of fine
sculpture and painting, including a portrait of Mr.
COX by Mr.
FAIRLEY that hung over the mantel. "It was a lovely place, and
by the time you got out of there, you were in a buying fever,"
Mr. SMITH recalled. "E.B. himself was part of the fun of buying
stuff. People were just charmed by the atmosphere he created."
He was also famously not particular about the prices he asked
from genuine admirers of his work.
As for his art's place in the world, he was confident it would
last, at least in the physical sense. "We'd have these long philosophical
talks about whether there was an afterlife and what legacy to
leave behind," friend Eric
CONROY recalled. "He'd say that his
stone works would be there long after Rembrandt's paintings had
crumbled."
E. B. COX died in Toronto on July 29, leaving his wife
Betty,
daughters Sally
SPROULE and Kathy
SUTTON, two grandchildren and
two great-grandchildren.
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