McFEETERS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-12 published
Notice To Creditors And Others
All claims against the estate of Mary Pauline
OAKLEY, late of
the City of Toronto and Province of Ontario, who died on the
22nd day of November, 2002, must be filed with the undersigned
personal representatives on or before July 17, 2003. Thereafter,
the undersigned will distribute the assets of the said Estate
having regard only to the claims then filed
Dated at Toronto this 10th day of June, 2003.
Ronald L. MacFEETERS, Sheila A.
MacFEETERS and Linton W.
SCOTT,
Estate Trustees With A Will, by Homested and Sutton, Barristers
and Solicitors, Suite 700, 4 King Street W., Toronto, Ontario
M5H 1B6
Page B11
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McPHERSON o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-04-16 published
Annie Melissa
GRAVELLE
In loving memory of Annie Melissa
GRAVELLE, peacefully at Manitoulin
Centennial Manor on Monday, April 14, 2003 age 82 years.
Predeceased by husband Percy
GRAVELLE.
Predeceased by daughter Gail. Remembered by
son-in-law Al
McPHERSON. Cherished Grandmother of Perry and wife
Rita
CAMPBELL
of Naughton, Sherry Lynn and husband Gilles, Cara and husband Henry. Loved Great
Grandmother of Dustin, Sara and Nigel
CAMPBELL,
Danielle and Kristen.
Remembered by sister Verna and husband Stewart
MIDDAUGH, brothers Grant and wife
Ethel BOWERMAN and Don and wife
June
BOWERMAN.
Predeceased by Virgie Young,
Cleve BOWERMAN, Clara BLACKBURN, Leonard
BOWERMAN,
Ruby
YOUNG and Mildred
MIDDAUGH.
There will be a gathering of Friends on Saturday, April 19, 2003 at
1: 30 to remember and celebrate Annie’s life at the family home in Whitefish Falls.
Arrangements in care of Island Funeral Home.
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McPHERSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-06 published
MacPHERSON,
Alice
Josephine (Jo)
August 14, 1938 to March 3, 2003
It is with sadness that we announce that on Monday, March 3,
Josephine MacPHERSON of Edmonton, Alberta formerly of West Vancouver,
British Columbia, Ottawa, Ontario and Bradford, England passed
away peacefully after a long illness at the age of 64. She is
survived by her loving husband Stuart, her sons Andrew (Lorrie)
MacPHERSON of Calgary, Duncan (Shawni)
MacPHERSON of Calgary
and daughter Jennifer (Doug)
BOWES of Edmonton. She will also
be greatly missed by her seven grandchildren Michael, Andrea,
Alexander, Kayla, Jackson, Carter and Samantha. Jo had many passions
in life. She traveled the world, gave her time to disadvantaged
children, was an avid reader and provided love and care to literally
dozens of dogs over the years. She will be remembered for her
sharp wit and candor as well as her convictions. Rest in Peace, Mum.
In that sad place,
By Mary's grace,
Brief may thy dwelling be,
Till prayers and alms,
And holy psalms,
Shall set the captive free.
- Sir Walter Scott
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that you make a donation
to your local Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals as a memorial to Jo.
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McPHERSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-05-29 published
Kenneth Fawcett
COLLINS
By Alan RAYBURN
Thursday,
May 29, 2003 - Page A26
Husband, father, grandfather, veteran, volunteer, family historian.
Born November 23, 1916, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Died February
19, in Ottawa, of cancer, aged 86.
Ken COLLINS was born close to the New Hampshire border, into
a family with very deep New England roots. His father Bernard
(Bern) traced his roots back to the 1600s in that area, while
his mother, Eleanor (Elly)
McPHERSON, came from Grand Valley
in Dufferin County, Ontario Elly's mother, Elizabeth Adaline
FAWCETT, was the source of Ken's second name. Bern and Elly emigrated
from the United States to Montreal in 1926, and then, in 1930,
moved to North Bay, Ontario
In 1941, Ken graduated from Queen's University in Kingston with
a degree in chemical engineering and worked in the Welland Chemical
Works in Niagara Falls for two years. He then joined the Canadian
army's Royal Canadian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, and
rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Ken's pride as a commandant
of "Reemee" was revealed in his car licence plate:
CREME.
Ken served overseas from 1943 to 1946, and was a Normandy veteran.
After the war, he held various staff and regimental appointments,
mostly in Ottawa. Upon retiring from the army in 1967, Ken was
engaged by Carleton University to administer the department of
planning and construction until 1982.
During his Queen's graduation week, Ken married Evalyn
ROBLIN,
who had been raised west of Kingston in Adolphustown Township,
Lennox and Addington County. After he discovered that local historians
had been mistaken about which of two ancestral Roblin roots were
Evalyn's, he vigorously launched into a search of his own family
roots. Over a period of some 60 years he accumulated 24 thick
binders on family connections. He was able to trace back 18 generations,
with King Edward 4th among his ancestors in the 1400s.
Ken and Evalyn had three children, Marianne, Bruce (a fireman
who was killed in a fire in 1972), and Elizabeth; also, four
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Family was very important
to Ken; he was very proud of his offspring.
For almost a quarter of a century, Ken was a Friday evening volunteer
at the Family History Centre of the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints on Ottawa's Prince of Wales Drive. There he
guided both experienced and novice family historians to find
their ancestral records.
Recognizing the value of working with others involved in genealogy
(right up there in North American hobby popularity, right after
stamp collecting), Ken joined the Ontario Genealogical Society
and its Ottawa Branch in 1972. After serving as the chair of
the branch in the mid-1970s, he rose through the ranks to become
the president of the Ontario Genealogical Society from 1977 to
Ken was a prime mover of recording gravestone inscriptions in
Ontario's cemeteries. As the Ontario Genealogical Society cemetery
inscription coordinator from 1974 to 1992, he saw the number
of recorded cemeteries rise from 1,800 to more than 5,000. A
spinoff from the cemetery recordings is the much-used Ontario
Cemetery Finding Aid on the Internet, which publishes the indexes
of the cemetery recordings.
Ken was a member of Rideau Park United Church in the Alta Vista
area of Ottawa, and had worked there for 36 years with the Boy
Scouts.
When his grand_son, John
BAIRD (now an Ontario cabinet
minister) became a teenager, he guided him to become a Queen's
Scout.
Ken COLLINS was a great mentor, friend and gentleman: his contributions
to family history studies, cemetery recordings and Scouting will
long serve many Ottawa and Ontario generations to come.
Alan RAYBURN is a friend of Ken
COLLINS;
Edward
KIPP contributed
to the article.
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McPHERSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-16 published
Died
This
Day -- Sir David
MacPHERSON, 1896
Saturday, August 16, 2003 - Page F8
Politician and railway pioneer born Castle Leathers, Inverness
County, Scotland, on September 12, 1818; involved in development
of Grand Trunk Railway west of Toronto; 1864, elected to legislative
council; 1867, appointed to Senate; valuable Conservative organizer
and fundraiser in Ontario; in early 1870s, withdrew his support
of prime minister John A.
MacDONALD in dispute over Canadian
Pacific Railway; 1880, appointed Speaker of the Senate in 1880
1883, named minister of the interior in 1883; single-minded obsession
with reducing costs and increasing revenues caused excessively
rigid administration style; 1885, outbreak of Northwest Rebellion
revealed personal failures; resigned from public life; died at
sea.
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McPHERSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-08-21 published
Donald MacPherson
POLLOCK
By Jack POLLOCK
Thursday,
August 21, 2003 - Page A22
Company founder, humanitarian, storyteller, vehicle aficionado,
husband, father, grandfather. Born July 22, 1917 in Kerwood,
Ontario Died May 27, in Strathroy, Ontario, of natural causes,
aged 86.
Born the second of four sons to William Raymond
POLLOCK and Minnie
Esther MacPHERSON,
Donald was raised in Kerwood, Ontario, in
a household that valued family, community service, music -- and
horse racing. A childhood tumble from a tree resulted in a broken
arm that was set improperly. For the rest of his life, he would
work around this hindrance with characteristic aplomb.
Donald attended the butter maker's course at Ontario Agricultural
College and joined his father in the family business, the Kerwood
Creamery. Changing times brought the sale of the creamery to
Carnation Milk Co. in 1943. Donald bought his first delivery
truck and set out on the road to building Pollock NationaLease,
the largest family-owned full-service truck leasing company in
Canada (celebrating its 50th anniversary this year).
Donald (Don) was exacting in his expectations of himself. He
believed in hard work, loyalty and courage. In the early years,
he hauled milk to the local depot. He operated an egg-grading
station and cold storage plant with his father. And he delivered
television cabinets to manufacturers such as General Electric
and Philips Electronics.
By 1958, his company owned 12 tractor-trailers. In the 1960s
and 1970s, he expanded into other areas such as funeral coaches
and ambulances. Donald enjoyed this business -- particularly
when he clinched the sale of a new Cadillac hearse. But he judged
that the truck market had more potential for growth. He was right.
Today, Pollock NationaLease has a fleet of 3,500 vehicles and
six locations from Windsor to Toronto, and
in Moncton, N.B.
None of this was accomplished alone. In 1942, he married Margaret
ANDERSON, known to all as Peg, a woman of considerable wit and
facility with a golf club. In 1992, Donald and Peg celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary. At 80, in 1996, Peg succumbed
to cancer.
They raised three children - -- Jim, Bill and Anne -- in their
Strathroy home. In time, four grandchildren would join the family.
The couple shared a love of travel and knew how to enjoy life,
passing easily from their working years to the freedom of a genial
retirement. The daily business of the company shifted into the
capable hands of Donald's eldest son, Jim, and an experienced
management team.
Donald was increasingly active in community causes, contributing
to the Lion's Club for some 60 years. He was a dedicated Mason
and a Shriner. He had a special fondness for Jeepsters. He loved
to entertain the crowds at carnivals, parades and other community
events. A soft touch for antique cars, he prided himself on having
the spiffiest convertible in the parade, complete with musical
horns.
Donald collected and restored other vehicles, including a 1915
Ford Brass Rad Speedster and a 1932 Model B Roadster. He entered
competitions at the Canadian National Exhibition and elsewhere,
filling his den with victory cups and trophies.
His other passions included bridge, gin and poker and any kind
of gambling. He had his own house rules: "Quit when you're up
because that's the only way to beat the bastards!" His favourite
game was blackjack and he was well-known at the local casinos.
He enjoyed his last game a week before his death, playing out
his hand from his wheelchair in the company of his son Bill,
a devoted caregiver.
To the end of his life, Donald's mind and sense of humour remained
fully intact -- his body just wore out.
Jack POLLOCK is Donald's brother.
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MacPHERSON,
Harvey
Alexander
Died October 16th at Saint Mary's Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario.
Harvey celebrated his 90th birthday earlier this year at The
Village of Winston Park where he was a resident. Born on March
2, 1913 in Macton, Ontario to John and Elsie (née
REAMAN)
MacPHERSON,
Harvey was the eldest of three children. His brothers Ron and
Grant predeceased him. In the 1930's Harvey learned to fly, and
after a stint of bush pilot work in northern Ontario with Algoma
Airways, became the chief flying instructor with the Kitchener
Waterloo Airport. When war broke out, the Kitchener Waterloo
Airport was contracted to open a flight training school in Goderich
for the Empire Flight Training Program. In 1940, Harvey went
to Goderich as Chief Flying Instructor and trained hundreds of
pilots for the Commonwealth. Before leaving, Harvey married Elizabeth
Jean Gartshore
LAING, the daughter of Reverend A.A. and Marion
LAING.
Harvey met Elizabeth when her father was the minister at Linwood
United Church where he attended. During the war, Harvey joined
the Royal Canadian Air Force. At war's end he took a job with
Dominion Rubber (now Uniroyal) in Kitchener. In 1958, Harvey
took over the operation of Caya Fabrics Ltd. and later became
its sole owner. He managed the business until the early 1990's
when he retired. Harvey, Elizabeth (Betty) and their family were
active members of Trinity United Church in Kitchener for many
years. Betty passed away in 1975 after a long battle with Amyotrophic
Lateral
Sclerosis.
Harvey is survived by his children; Doug
MacPHERSON
(wife Kathy
MacPHERSON,)
Barbara
BUTLER (husband Bob,) and Bruce
MacPHERSON (wife
Catherine
SCHULER,) and four grandchildren Jason
and Brett BUTLER and Matthew and John
MacPHERSON, all of Toronto.
He is survived also by his friend and companion, Jean
CAYA.
The
funeral service will be held at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home
at 621 King Street West, Kitchener on Saturday, October 18, 2003
at 2: 30 p.m. Visitation will be at the funeral home prior to
the service starting at 1: 00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donation
in memory of Harvey to your favourite charity would be appreciated.
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'What else could it have been but a miracle?'
Rene CAISSE died 25 years ago without gaining the recognition
some cancer survivors believe she deserved. Without Essiac, her
mysterious remedy, they wouldn't be alive today, they tell Roy
MacGREGOR
By Roy MacGREGOR,
Saturday,
December 13, 2003 - Page F8
Bracebridge, Ontario -- These days, when she looks back at her
remarkable, and largely unexpected, long life, Iona
HALE will
often permit herself a small, soft giggle.
She is 85 now, a vibrant, spunky woman with enough excess energy
to power the small off-highway nursing home she now lives in
at the north end of the Muskoka tourist region that gave the
world Norman
BETHUNE and, Iona
HALE will die believing, possibly
something far more profound.
A possible cure for cancer.
Twenty-seven years ago, Mrs.
HALE sat in Toronto's Princess Margaret
Hospital and heard that terrifying word applied to her own pitiful
condition. She was 58, and had already dropped to 75 pounds when
her big, truck-driver husband, Ted, finally got her in to see
the specialists who were supposed to know why she had stopped
eating and was in such terrible pain.
Mrs. HALE remembers awakening in the recovery room after unsuccessful
surgery and being told by a brusque nurse, "You're not going
to live long, you know, dear."
"That's what you think!" she snapped back.
Ted HALE had often heard stories of a secret "Indian" medicine
that an area nurse had supposedly used to cure cancer patients,
but he had no idea where it could be found. He had asked a physician,
only to be told, "That damned Essiac -- there's nothing to it."
When they returned to their home near Huntsville, Ontario --
with instructions to come back in three weeks, if Mrs.
HALE was
still around -- Mr.
HALE set out to find the mysterious medicine.
With the help of a sympathetic doctor, he discovered Rene
CAISSE,
a Bracebridge nurse who claimed to have been given the native
secret back in 1922. Pushing 90 and in ill health, she agreed
to give him one small bottle of the tonic, telling him to hide
it under his clothes as he left.
Mr. HALE fed his wife the medicine as tea, as instructed, and
it was the first thing she was able to keep down. A few radiation
treatments intended to ease the pain seemingly had no effect,
but almost immediately after taking the Essiac, she felt relief.
When the painkillers ran out and Mr.
HALE said he would go pick
up more, she told him, "Don't bother -- get more of this."
Twice more, he returned to get Essiac, the second time carrying
a loaded pistol in case he had to force the medicine from the
old nurse. He got it, and, according to Mrs.
HALE, "the cancer
just drained away." She returned to Toronto for one checkup --
"The doctor just looked at me like he was seeing a ghost" --
and never returned again.
"What else could it have been," Mrs.
HALE asks today, "but a
miracle?"
There is nothing special to mark the grave of Rene
CAISSE.
It lies in the deepening snow at the very front row of St. Joseph's
Cemetery on the narrow road running north out this small town
in the heart of Ontario cottage country, a simple grave with
a dark stone that reads: "
McGAUGHNEY
Rene
M.
(CAISSE) 1888-1978,
Discoverer of 'Essiac,' Dearly Remembered."
On December 26, it will be 25 years since Rene -- pronounced
"Reen" by locals --
CAISSE died. But in the minds of many people
with cancer, the great question of her life has continued on,
unanswered, well beyond her death. Did she have a secret cure
for the disease?
Ms. CAISSE never claimed to have a "cure" for cancer, but she
did claim to have a secret native formula that, at the very least,
alleviated pain and, in some cases, seemed to work what desperate
cancer sufferers were claiming were miracles.
She had discovered the formula while caring for an elderly Englishwoman
who had once been diagnosed with breast cancer and, unable to
afford surgery, turned instead to a Northern Ontario Ojibwa medicine
man who had given her a recipe for a helpful tonic.
The materials were all found locally, free in the forest: burdock
root, sheep sorrel, slippery elm bark, wild rhubarb root and water.
The woman had taken the native brew regularly and been cancer-free ever since.
Ms. CAISSE had carefully written down the formula as dictated,
thinking she might herself turn to this forest concoction if
she ever developed the dreaded disease. She never did, dying
eventually from complications after breaking a hip, but she remembered
the recipe when an aunt was diagnosed with cancer of the stomach
and given six months to live. The aunt agreed to try the tonic,
recovered and went on to live 21 more years.
The aunt's doctor, R.D.
FISHER, was intrigued enough that he
encouraged Ms.
CAISSE to offer her remedy -- which she now called
"Essiac," a reverse spelling of her name -- to others, and by
1926 Dr. FISHER and eight other physicians were petitioning the
Department of Health and Welfare to conduct tests on this strange
brew.
"We, the undersigned," the letter from the nine doctors read,
"believe that the 'Treatment for Cancer' given by nurse R.M.
CAISSE can do no harm and that it relieves pain, will reduce
the enlargement and will prolong life in hopeless cases."
Instead of opening doors, however, the petition caused them to
slam. Health and Welfare responded that a nurse had no right
to treat patients and even went so far as to prepare the papers
necessary to begin prosecution proceedings.
But when officials were dispatched to see her, she talked them
out of taking action, and for years after, officials turned a
blind eye as she continued to disperse the tonic. She made no
claim that it was medication; she refused to see anyone who had
not first been referred by their regular physician; and she turned
down all payment apart from small "donations" to keep the clinic
running.
Her work attracted the attention of Dr. Frederick
BANTING, the
discoverer of insulin, but an arrangement to work together foundered
when he insisted they test the tonic first on mice, and Ms.
CAISSE
argued that humans had more immediate needs.
Her problems with authority were only beginning. A 55,000-signature
petition persuaded the Ontario government to establish a royal
commission to look into her work, but the panel of physicians
would agree to hear only from 49 of the 387 witnesses: who turned
up on her behalf -- and dismissed all but four on the grounds
that they had no diagnostic proof. The commission refused to
endorse Essiac, and a private member's bill that would have let
her continue treating patients at her clinic fell three votes
short in the legislature.
She quit when the stress drove her to the verge of collapse,
moved north with her new husband, Charles
McGAUGHNEY, and dropped
out of the public eye. But not out of the public interest.
"You need proof?" laughs Iona
HALE. "
Just look at me -- I'm still
here!"
Not everyone in the medical establishment dismissed Essiac. Ms.
CAISSE had permitted the Brusch Medical Center near Boston to
conduct experiments after Dr. Charles
BRUSCH, one-time physician
to John Kennedy, inquired about the mysterious cure. Tests on
the formula did show some promise on mice, and the centre eventually
reported: "The doctors do not say that Essiac is a cure, but
they do say it is of benefit." Dr.
BRUSCH even claimed that Essiac
helped in his own later battle with cancer.
Other tests, though, were less encouraging. In the early 1970s,
Ms. CAISSE sent some of her herbs to the Sloan-Kettering Institute
for Cancer Research in Rye, New York but when early tests proved
negative, she claimed Sloan-Kettering had completely fouled up
the preparation and refused further assistance.
Through it all, she refused to disclose her recipe -- until a
rush of publicity after a 1977 article in Homemaker's magazine
persuaded her to hand over the formula to the Lieutenant-Governor
of Ontario for safekeeping and to give a copy to the Resperin
Corporation of Toronto in the hopes that, eventually, scientific
proof would be found.
She died without gaining the recognition some cancer survivors
believe she deserved, and in 1982, the federal government declared
Resperin's testing procedures flawed and shut down further studies.
The story of Ms.
CAISSE's medicine carried on, however, with
more and more people turning to the man who would have been her
member of Parliament to see if he could help.
Stan DARLING lives in the same nursing home as Iona
HALE.
Now
92, Mr. DARLING spent 21 years in Ottawa as the Progressive Conservative
member for Muskoka-Parry Sound. He's remembered on Parliament
Hill for his crusades against acid rain, but of all his political
battles, Mr.
DARLING says nothing compares to his fight to gain
recognition for Rene
CAISSE's mysterious medicine.
"So many people came to me with their stories," he said, "that
I couldn't help but say, 'Okay, there must be something to this.'"
Mr. DARLING put together his own petition, 5,000 names, and went
to the minister of health and argued that so many were now using
Essiac it made sense to legalize it.
His bid failed, but he did persuade the medical bureaucrats to
compromise: If Essiac were seen as a "tea" rather than a "drug,"
it could be viewed as a tonic, and so long as the presiding physician
gave his approval, it could be added to a patient's care -- if
only for psychological reasons. "On that basis," Mr.
DARLING
says, "I said, 'I don't give a damn what you call it, as long
as you let the people get it.' "
The doubters are legion. "There's no evidence that it works,"
says Dr. Christina
MILLS, senior adviser of cancer control policy
for the Canadian Cancer Society. That being said, she says, "There
is also little evidence of harmful side effects from it," but
cautions anyone looking into the treatment to do so in consultation
with their physician.
No scientific study of Essiac has ever appeared in an accepted,
peer-reviewed medical journal. But those who believe say they
have given up on seeing such proof.
Sue BEST of Rockland, Massachusetts., still vividly recalls that
day 10 years ago when her 16-year-old son, Billy, sick with Hodgkin's
disease, decided to run away from home rather than continue the
chemotherapy treatments he said were killing him.
He was eventually found in Texas after a nationwide hunt and
agreed to return home only if the treatments would cease and
they would look into alternative treatments, including Essiac.
No one is certain what exactly cured Billy, but Ms.
BEST was
so convinced Essiac was a major factor she became a local distributor
of the herbal medicine.
Rene CAISSE, she says, "spent a whole life trying to help people
with a product she found out about totally by accident -- and
being totally maligned all her life by the whole medical establishment
in Canada."
In some ways, Ms.
CAISSE has had an easier time in death than
in life. Today, there is a street in Bracebridge named after
her, a charming sculpture of her in a park near her old clinic,
and Bracebridge Publishing has released a book, Bridge of Hope,
about her experiences.
The recognition is largely the work of local historian Ken
VEITCH,
whose grandmother, Eliza, was one of the cancer-afflicted witnesses:
who told the 1939 royal commission: "I owe my life to Miss
CAISSE.
I would have been dead and in my grave months ago." Instead,
she lived 40 more years.
Don McVITTIE, a Huntsville businessman, is a grandnephew of Rene
CAISSE and says she used her recipe to cure him of a duodenal
ulcer when he was 19. Now 71 and in fine health, he still has
his nightly brew of Essiac before bed.
"There's something mentally satisfying about having a glass of
it," he says. "I think of it more as a blood cleanser. That's
what Aunt Rene always said it was. I think she'd be disappointed
it hasn't been more accepted."
"Look," Ken
VEITCH says, "this all started back in the 1920s.
And I've said a number of times that if there was nothing to
it, it would be long gone.
"But there is something to it."
Roy MacGREGOR is a Globe and Mail columnist.
The secret revealed
Debate rages in Essiac circles about the correct recipe. The
most accurate rendition likely comes from Mary
McPHERSON,
Rene
CAISSE's long-time assistant. Ms.
McPHERSON, currently frail
and living in a Bracebridge nursing home, swore an affidavit
in 1994 in which she recorded the recipe in front of witnesses.
It is essentially the same preparation distributed today by Essiac
Canada International, which operates out of Ottawa. The formula
appears below:
61/2 cups of burdock root (cut)
1 lb. of sheep sorrelherb, powdered
1/4 lb. of slipper elm bark, powdered
1 oz. of Turkish rhubarb root, powdered
Mix ingredients thoroughly and store in glass jar in dark, dry
cupboard. Use 1 oz. of herb mixture to 32 oz. of water, depending
on the amount you want to make. I use 1 cup of mixture to 256 oz. of water.
Boil hard for 10 minutes (covered), then turn off heat but leave
sitting on warm plate overnight (covered).
In the morning, heat steaming hot and let settle a few minutes,
then strain through fine strainer into hot sterilized bottles
and sit to cool. Store in dark, cool cupboard. Must be refrigerated when opened.
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ZEALLEY,
Mary
Lenore (née
BOYD) 1923-2003
Peacefully, surrounded by her three children, son-in-law Maurizio
and granddaughter Victoria, at The Baycrest Hospital on Sunday,
December 21, 2003. Mary Lenore
ZEALLEY (née
BOYD,) wife of the
late Kenneth Bramwell
ZEALLEY.
Loving mother of Jane Elizabeth
ADAMSON, wife of Andrew, Hartington, Ontario; Charlotte Ann
UNGER,
wife of Edward, Toronto; and John Kenneth
ANDREW, life-partner
of Maurizio, Toronto. Grandmother of Victoria
AUSTIN, wife of
Bruce; Sarah
NORMAN, wife of Jason. Great-grandmother of Jonathan
& Christopher
AUSTIN and Brock
NORMAN.
Sister of Nancy
REID,
wife of Jim; Eleanor
HOOD, wife of the late Duggan; and Carol
MacPHERSON, wife of John. She died as she had lived her life
- with dignity, passion, grace and courage. A person who loved
her city, all arts and culture, and her family and Friends. A
Memorial Service will be held at Bloor Street United Church (Bloor
Street West at Huron), Wednesday, December 24 at 2 p.m. A reception
will follow at the Church. Donations may be made to The Baycrest
Centre for Geriatric Care, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto M6A
2E1, or to Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor Street West,
Toronto M5S 1W3. Final resting place, Hillcrest Cemetery, Smiths
Falls, Ontario. The family wishes to express their deepest appreciation
for the compassionate care of the medical team at The Baycrest
Hospital, 6 East.
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