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Former Blue Jays chairman
Canadian Press, Monday, February 14, 2005 - Page S7
Toronto -- Peter
WIDDRINGTON, the long-time Labatt executive
and former chairman of the Toronto Blue Jays, has died, the baseball
club said yesterday. He was 75.
WIDDRINGTON was on a ski trip in Aspen, Colorado., when he suffered
a heart attack on Friday.
"The entire Toronto Blue Jays family is saddened by the loss
of Peter WIDDRINGTON, who was truly one of the fathers of baseball
in Canada," Blue Jays president Paul
GODFREY said. "He was passionate
about our great game through all of his years and made an invaluable
contribution to our organization."
WIDDRINGTON skied on Friday morning, had lunch with some Friends
at a comedy club, then got into a taxi and suffered the heart
attack, said Tom
VALCKE, the president and chief executive officer
of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame.
"He always lived life to the fullest,"
VALCKE said. "He was always
skiing or sailing."
WIDDRINGTON had gone to Aspen just days after joining
VALCKE
in New York, where they met with Charles Bronfman to ask him
to sponsor the Hall's planned academy at Saint Mary's Ontario
"He had the personality and the charm to look a Charles Bronfman
in the eye and make a proposal to him,"
VALCKE said. "He was
at that level.
"Although Peter was just a member of our advisory board, he would
walk the walk."
Well known as he was in baseball circles --
WIDDRINGTON was a
board member with the Blue Jays from 1976 until the mid 1990s
he was equally as famous in the business world.
He began his career at Labatt in 1955 as a salesman and worked
his way up the ladder. He became president and Chief Executive
Officer in 1973, a position he held until 1989. He also served
as the chairman of the brewery from 1987 to 1991.
The graduate of Queen's University and Harvard Business School
was also a former chairman of Laidlaw and Talisman Energy and
a board member at
SNC-Lavalin
Group, Haynes-Dana,
ADT and the
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, among others.
More recently, he served as the chairman of Brick Brewing and
vice-chairman of the board for Radiology Corporation of America.
He also served on the board of Gatekeepers Business Solutions.
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COLTMAN,
Leyf
(Employee of
ADT Security, Mississauga; Past President of Etobicoke/
Queensway Lions Club; Secretary of Caledon Lions Club Inc.; Recipient
of Judge Brian Stevenson Fellowship Award; Member of Mono Mills
United Church) Suddenly, at his home, on Saturday, March 12,
2005, Leyf
COLTMAN,
Mono
Mills, in his 41st year, beloved husband
of Viola MacRAE. Dear son of Lloyd
COLTMAN of Kelowna, British
Columbia, Olga
COLTMAN of Vernon, British Columbia and dear stepson
of Agnes COLTMAN. Dear brother of Scott and his wife
Cheryl
COLTMAN,
Vancouver,
British
Columbia. Loving grand_son of Jeanette
COLTMAN,
Richmond Hill and Zoya
OSSIPOFF,
Jackson's
Point. Dear nephew
of Zina and Mary F. Dear stepfather of Dean Edwards and Fred
Burke. Leyf will be sadly missed by family and Friends in Ontario
and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. The family will receive
their Friends at the Egan Funeral Home, 203 Queen Street S. (Hwy.
50), Bolton (905-857-2213) Wednesday afternoon 2-4 and evening
7-9 o'clock. Funeral service will be held in Mono Mills United
Church on Thursday, March 17 at 2 o'clock. Interment MacRae Family
Cemetery, Dundee, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Condolences
for the family may be offered at www.eganfuneralhome.com
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