DHABLIWALLA
DHALIWAL
DHANJI
DHANOA
DHARO
DHABLIWALLA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-13 published
DHABLIWALLA,
Bhupendra
L., B.Com., A.C.A., F.C.A.
We have suffered great loss, a great hero and a great friend.
Beloved husband and father, Bhupendra L. Dhabliwalla, B.Com.,
A.C.A., F.C.A., well known and recognized Community and Political
Leader, extensively involved at the Municipal, Provincial and
Federal levels, passed away peacefully May 5, 2005. Forever loved
and remembered by your wife Kanak, daughter Sonal, and your many
relatives and well wishers. The family would like to express
thanks to everyone who touched Bhupendra's heart and all those
who have reached out to us in our difficult time of mourning.
We would appreciate his well wishers from a variety of faith
groups to pray for his soul. Dear Bhupendra......you are not
forgotten, Though on earth you are no more, Still in memory you
are with us, As you always were before. Dad, you will truly be
missed by Mom and I as well as your many well wishers and Friends.
It was an honour to have you as my Dad and I hope to use all
the wonderful things you taught me throughout my life. You have
provided great service to the community, and especially the family.
You have inspired me through your example to lead a life of community
service, helping people from all backgrounds. Thank you Dad!
You have also greatly inspired me through your commitment to
marriage and family life. Mom will miss you dearly. Funeral Elgin
Mills Cemetery, May 14, 2005 9-11 a.m. 1591 Elgin Mills Rd. East,
Richmond Hill, 905-737-1720. Residence: 416-290-6908, Cell: 416-618-6485
Highlights of Bhupendra's Dedicated and Recognized Public Service
to the Business, School District, Indian, Religious and Political
Communities: Vice-President/Director of the Ontario Business
Improvement Area Association; President of the Central Region
of the Ontario Business Improvement Area Association; President
& Public Relations of the Toronto Association of Business Improvement
Areas; Chairman of Gerrard India Bazaar-Instrumental in Founding
Gerrard India Bazaar - An ethnic tourist attraction and serving
South Asian communities (a business district in Toronto, revitalized)
Chairman of the Indian and Pakistani Traders Association of Toronto
Vice-Chairman/Chairman - Parent-Teachers Committee of St. Aidan
Catholic Elementary School and Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School
Director/Funding Raising and Public Relations/Trustee of the International
Society for Krishna Consciousness-Hindu Temple; Director/Vice-President
of Lohana Cultural Association; Director of Gujrat Samaj; Director
of the Federation of Gujarati Associations; Member of the Fund
Raising and Public Relations/Media and Marketing Committee of South
Asian Committee of United Way of Greater Toronto; Member of the
Fund Raising and Public Relations/Media and Marketing Committee of
the - Air India Flight 182 Memorial Fund; Founder Trustee/General
Secretary of Snehadeep Youth's Association (an organization that
provides free text books to students in medical engineering and
other faculties
one of the largest organizations in Bombay); Secretary - Poor
Boy's Fund - School in Bombay, providing assistance for tuition
fees; Member of Commerce Graduates Association representing commerce
graduates of Bombay; Secretary of the Citizens Defense Committee
(for an area of over 300,000 people, also organized blood donor
camps) in Bombay; Polling Agent and Election Campaign for candidates
- organized campaigns for Federal, Provincial and Municipal elections
for successively winning candidates in Bombay; Member of Jaycees
(Junior Board of Trade - of Sub-Committee on special projects)
in Bombay; Awarded a prize for a paper on "Principles and Practice
of Training during the Period of Articleship" at a Chartered
Accountants Student Conference in Bombay; Vice-Chairman/ Secretary/Member
- Western India Chartered Accountants Student's Association
Secretary - School and College Cricket Teams in Bombay; Several
prizes received at School and College in Elocution and Dramatic
Competition and for outstanding perform
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DHABLIWALLA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-24 published
Accountant 'a man of vision'
Helped develop Little India
Work benefited small businesses
By Hicham SAFIEDDINE,
Staff
Reporter
In 1968, Bhupendra
DHABLIWALLA had been in Canada just a year,
but he was already making headlines in his fight for the rights
of immigrants.
That was just the beginning. The young chartered accountant,
who had left Bombay (now called Mumbai) for Toronto, would become
a community leader who transformed small-business practices in
Toronto and devoted his life to making the city a better place.
DHABLIWALLA died May 5 in Toronto at the age of 66 after a long
illness.
Politicians, business leaders, family and Friends all acknowledged
what federal New Democratic Party Leader Jack
LAYTON described
as the "legendary" contribution
DHABLIWALLA made to the Toronto
community.
"He was a man of vision all his life," said
LAYTON, who worked
with DHABLIWALLA on many social and political issues as a city
councillor in the 1990s.
"He was so gregarious, just instantly warm and welcoming... and
he built a network of business associations across the whole
of Toronto that has become stronger by the day,"
LAYTON said.
DHABLIWALLA's sense of community led him to conduct, along with
five other volunteers, a pioneering survey of unemployment among
immigrant professionals in 1968.
The study, which he paid for, revealed the difficulties newcomers
faced in finding jobs in their fields. The report, which received
widespread coverage in the media, urged the federal government
to conduct a study of the employment situation of immigrants
in Canada.
In the years that followed and throughout the 1970s and '80s,
DHABLIWALLA turned his attention to finding creative ways for
small businesses to thrive amid the growing popularity of shopping
malls.
In the '80s, he served as president of the Toronto Association
of Business Improvement Areas, a non-profit organization representing
the city's 50 business improvement areas.
"He really helped to form early on this notion that if small
business got together, they could learn from each other's practices,"
LAYTON said.
DHABLIWALLA was also instrumental in developing Toronto's Little
India on Gerrard St. E. The marketplace has grown into a multicultural
trading and meeting place for the South Asian community and a
tourist attraction in Toronto.
DHABLIWALLA's commitment to religious tolerance and multicultural
discourse saw him participate in more than a dozen community
and interfaith organizations.
He was a member of the memorial fund committee formed in the
wake of the 1985 bombing of Air-India Flight 182 and a member
of the South Asian committee of the United Way of Greater Toronto.
He also served on the Council on Race Relations and Policing.
DHABLIWALLA inspired his daughter to follow in his footsteps.
"He was a role model to me and a hero," said his only child Sonal,
a chartered accountant in Chicago who is involved in community
work.
"Although we are Hindu, he wanted me to go to a Catholic school
so I could better learn other religions." Sonal graduated in
1985 from Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School in Scarborough,
where her father chaired the parent-teacher association.
"He went out of his way for people, no matter what time of the
day or night it was," Sonal said. "He was a fighter who would
go and try to achieve all he can with whatever it takes... and
he was very passionate about issues till the end."
DHABLIWALLA also leaves his wife
Kanak.
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DHALIWAL o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-05 published
TORRES,
Marta
(January 19, 1926 - December 31, 2004)
Our beloved mother, grandmother and great-grandmother passed
away peacefully amongst her family. She leaves behind 7 children:
the VIRTUCIO, MALIHAN,
COLISAO,
ODQUIER,
DHALIWAL and
TORRES
families including 20 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
She will be missed dearly. Viewing will be on Thursday, January
6, 2005 at Pine Hills Cemetery, 625 Birchmount Rd. from 4-8 p.m.
Contact Rose: 905-417-4613.
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DHANJI o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-01-01 published
MacKENZIE,
Neil
M.
Peacefully, in North York General Hospital, on Wednesday, December
29, 2004, in his 80th year. Dearest husband of Janet and much
loved dad of Ann and Craig (Pam). Predeceased by his three brothers.
Fond uncle of Craig and family in Edinburgh, and Neil and family
in Cumbria. Brother-in-law of Maitland (the late Helen)
BIRCHALL,
and the late Bob (Elizabeth)
BIRCHALL. Dear uncle of Liz
BIRCHALL.
The family greatly appreciates the compassionate care and guidance
given by Doctors David
KENDAL and Albert
KIRSHEN and Neil's nurse,
Jasmine DHANJI.
Friends may visit at the Ogden Funeral Home,
4164 Sheppard Ave. East, Agincourt (east of Kennedy Rd.), Monday
from 12-1 p.m. Funeral Service in the Chapel at 1: 00 p.m. Cremation.
Reception to follow. In memoriam donations to Saint Elizabeth
Health Care or the Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care would
be appreciated by his family.
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DHANOA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-16 published
Deadly beating in Vaughan
Teen kicked and thrashed by up to 6 people during park brawl
By Matthew
KWONG and Isabel
TEOTONIO,
Staff
Reporters
For his loving#17-year-old Pritpaul Singh
DHANOA was the
only son, the future, but yesterday his Vaughan family was struggling
with news that he had been beaten to death during a fight.
"He was liked by everyone, said Helen
DHANOA, 27, of her brother
who died yesterday after being involved in a Friday night brawl.
"He was well known by people and he got along with everyone,"
she said at the family's home in Woodbridge.
The death of the Grade 12 honours student, who attended Woodbridge
College with dreams of studying business at University of Western
Ontario, has been a crippling blow to the family, she said, rubbing
at red-rimmed eyes.
As she spoke, a steady stream of Punjabi Friends and family arrived
at the house to offer their condolences -- all of them in disbelief
that the popular basketball and football player had died of his
injuries at St. Michael's Hospital.
Her 16-year-old sister Sandeep stood nearby, also hugging and
greeting visitors.
"He was always so happy " she said. "He was really funny and
always made people laugh."
The family had been given few details about the events that led
up to the deadly dispute, said Helen
DHANOA, adding she had not
yet heard from any of the Friends who were with her brother Friday
night.
York Regional Police said yesterday the teen was with a group
of Friends in the area of Chancellor and Fiori Doctors when an "altercation"
erupted between two groups of young adults just before 11 p.m.
The fight occurred on Chancellor in front of Giovanni Caboto
Park, which residents say is a popular hangout for teens after
dark.
DHANOA was repeatedly kicked in the head and thrashed with sticks
by up to six assailants, police said. Some reports say he was
beaten with baseball bats.
Friends of the teen helped him into the back of a car and drove
half a kilometre to a plaza at Ansley Grove and Aberdeen Ave.,
where they contacted police.
Police were called to the park at about 10: 55 p.m. and were responding
to a weapons call, according to a media release. They cordoned
off the park and part of the street, and remained on the scene
canvassing the area and speaking to neighbours until yesterday
afternoon. Investigators are looking for a damaged dark-coloured
sport utility vehicle or Jeep-style vehicle seen in the area
around the time of the beating
Shortly after the police tape came down, a small pile of flowers
began to form near a stain of blood. A group of young men there
who identified themselves as
DHANOA's
Friends refused to speak
about him or the events of the previous evening.
However, some area residents said yesterday that they have long
been concerned about the goings-on at the park and a nearby strip
mall, particularly after dark when teenagers congregate there.
"It makes me nervous each time I walk by those kids," said a
woman who lives across the street from where the fight occurred.
"They're always here, you hear them at night," she said, quickly
adding that aside from having the raucous teens it's a "great
neighbourhood."
The woman, who preferred not to be identified, said she was home
when the fight occurred, but added she didn't hear anything other
than the usual Friday night buzz of teenagers making noise in
the park.
Another resident said mostly families with children live in the
area.
"There's usually a lot of kids hanging around," said the man
who identified himself only as Giuseppe. "But this is a very
quiet neighbourhood. Nothing like this has ever happened.
"It's sad. At 17 he hadn't even started his life."
Anyone with information, no matter how insignificant it may seem,
is asked to contact York Regional Police.
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DHANOA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-10-17 published
Masked teen dies on way to fight
Died in fall from car during chase
Two groups doing battle at Vaughan park
By Jim WILKES,
Staff
Reporter
A Woodbridge teen was fatally injured as he and other masked
youths armed with weapons chased other teens to assault them,
police revealed yesterday.
Pritpaul Singh
DHANOA, 17, died in hospital Saturday, hours after
he fell from a moving car and struck his head on a curb along
Chancellor Dr. in Vaughan.
York Region police said there was no evidence to support earlier
reports that
DHANOA had been repeatedly kicked in the head and
thrashed with sticks by up to six assailants in the Friday night
fight.
In fact, police said he was among a group of East Indian youths
who went to the area near Giovanni Caboto Park, a popular hangout
for teens after dark, armed themselves with sticks, bats and
pipes, pulled on ski masks and tried to attack a group of teens
of Italian heritage.
When the second group fled to avoid a beating, the first group
jumped into cars and gave chase along Chancellor, in the Pine
Valley Dr.-Highway 7 area.
It was there that
DHANOA fell from a car and struck his head.
Friends put him back in the car and drove to a nearby plaza before
calling police for help. An autopsy yesterday showed he died
from blunt force head injuries.
"It appears that the intent of these youths was to engage in
a confrontation," said Inspector Anthony
CUSIMANO. "
Something
has obviously gotten out of hand and as a result a young man
has lost his life.
"This appears to be normal tensions that appear to exist between
groups.
"There's no one underlying reason that has brought this to a
head."
Other senior police officers said that although the two groups
were split along ethnic lines, there was nothing to indicate
the battle was ethnically or racially motivated.
But young people in the area told the Toronto Star the fight
was the result of a simmering feud between two groups sparked
by a racial slur this summer.
Police would say only that the dispute was the result of "ongoing
issues" among the youths.
Relatives rallied around the family of the dead Grade 12 honours
student, trying vainly to make sense of what happened Friday
night.
Friends left flowers and wreathsbeside the blood-stained curb
where DHANOA fell.
Superintendent Gord
SMYTH said police are concerned about the
way the youths tried to deal with their problems.
"(We're) absolutely alarmed at it, because it's something we
don't teach, it's something we don't tolerate," he said.
He said police would do "everything in our power" to ensure there
would be no retaliation.
"No one went there with the intent of anyone losing their life,"
he said. "We have to be responsible for our actions.
"But we also have to send the message that what you do can gave
dire consequences."
Vaughan
Mayor
Michael DI
BIASE said the death was an "unexpected"
result of youthful tensions.
"I am just as surprised as anyone else and sad," he said, adding
he was unaware of any racial tensions among youth in his community.
"It's very unfortunate that sometimes youth groups get together
and they don't realize that things do happen and can get out
of hand," DI
BIASE said.
"It's sad because it's a young life, something that should not
have happened."
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D'HARO o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-12-31 published
SALES,
René
A.
At the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital, on Saturday, December
24, 2005, René
SALES, in his 73rd year. Dearly loved husband
of Beverley
(ROBERTS)
(LARSON)
SALES. Dear father of Anthony
SALES, and Stephanie
RYAN of Saint Thomas. Loved grandfather of
Ilyra WHITE/WHYTE, Talen
SALES, Taya
SALES, Micheal
SPIERING and Mathew
SPIERING all of Saint Thomas. Born in Marseilles, France, January
23, 1933, he was the
son of the late Louise
SALES and Maria
D'HARO)
SALES. He lived in Montreal and Windsor, before moving to St.
Thomas in 1965. René had worked as a metal worker and welder
at Erie Iron Industries for 27 years. Cremation took place at
Woodland Crematorium, London. The family will receive their Friends
at the R.E. Allen Funeral Chapel, 31 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas
Tuesday evening January 3, 2006, from 7 to 8 p.m. A Memorial
Service will be held in the chapel Tuesday evening at 8 p.m.
Donations to the Saint Thomas-Elgin General Hospital Foundation,
for the Rotary Chemotherapy Unit, would be appreciated by the
family.
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