IMLACH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-14 published
Neil YOUNG's father was an icon in own right
Sports journalist also a noted author
By James CHRISTIE,
Tuesday,
June 14, 2005, Page S1
With reports from William
HOUSTON and Canadian Press
The labels that people attach to the name of Scott
YOUNG inevitably
mention prominently that he was the father of pop music icon
Neil YOUNG.
But YOUNG, who died Sunday in Kingston, Ontario, at the age of
87, deserved the title of icon in his own right as a journalist,
author, colleague and spinner of big-league dreams for kids who
grew up in the 1950s and 1960s.
YOUNG's trilogy of hockey books for boys, Scrubs on Skates, Boy
on Defence and Boy at the Leafs' Camp, were food for fantasy
for the youth of a hockey-loving country. They were only a part
of a body of work that included 40 books of fiction and autobiography
drawn from a career in which
YOUNG travelled the world covering
everything from the Second World War to the assassination of
John F. Kennedy and nearly every major sporting event in North
America.
In his own field, he was just as big a star as the heroes he
covered working for The Globe and Mail, the Winnipeg Free Press,
The Canadian Press, the Toronto Telegram and Maclean's and Sports
Illustrated magazines. He loved his craft. He was skilled in
the telling of stories, and lessons were more important than
the vanity of embellished prose. He made a reader comfortable,
involved.
"He was someone who preferred to be at home," Margaret
HOGAN,
his wife of 25 years, said yesterday from Kingston in an interview
with the Peterborough Examiner. "He went to bed early, he got
up early. He wrote early in the morning. He was a writer, he
was a kind, hospitable person who loved to walk in the country
and follow the seasons."
YOUNG was born April 14, 1918, in Cypress River, Manitoba He
lived with his mother and other relatives in several Prairie
towns after his parents split up when he was 13. As an adult,
YOUNG would follow a similar path.
He married three times, to Edna Blow
RAGLAND,
Astrid
Carlson
MEAD and
HOGAN and had a total of seven children and step-children.
YOUNG began his journalism career officially at age 18 as a sportswriter
at the Winnipeg Free Press in 1936. He also supported the family
selling short stories published in Collier's, Argosy and the
American magazines.
He moved to The Canadian Press in Toronto, where he would cover
both news and sports, at the age of 23 after the paper refused
to give him a raise.
YOUNG told Canadian Press in 1994 that Free Press managing editor
George FERGUSON told him, "You will never be worth more than
$25 a week to the Winnipeg Free Press."
YOUNG covered the Second World War for Canadian Press from London,
then served in the Royal Canadian Navy 1944-45.
In 1957, YOUNG joined The Toronto Globe and Mail as a sports
columnist.
He covered Grey Cups, World Series, Stanley Cups, the Olympics
and appeared on Hockey Night in Canada broadcasts.
A talented and resourceful reporter, he was seconded to cover
a Royal tour and write a general column, leaving an opening on
the sports page that would be filled by Dick
BEDDOES. He jumped
to the Telegram in the 1960s, then made his way back to The Globe
in the 1970s.
YOUNG said in his memoir A Writer's Life that his hockey books
for boys "were based on hockey as I had known it in Winnipeg
high schools and junior teams."
Hockey, as
YOUNG knew it, was the brand espoused by Toronto Maple
Leafs founder Conn
SMYTHE and Stanley-Cup-winning coach George
(Punch) IMLACH, for whom he would also author books.
He gave up newspapers in 1980, dismayed by what he saw as a twist
in the journalistic profession, away from reporting facts and
quoting real contacts to scandal hunting via "unnamed sources."
His novels and non-fiction work included The Flood, the two Arctic
thrillers Murder in a Cold Climate and The Shaman's Knife, and
1984's Neil and Me, about his relationship with his famous rock
'n' roll son.
HOGAN said her husband hadn't written for several years.
Peterborough Mayor Sylvia
SUTHERLAND said
YOUNG's death left
a void in the landscape of Canadian journalism.
"He was one of the outstanding journalists of his time," she
said. "He had an incisive intelligence. He knew how to get a
good story. I love Scott. I miss him a lot, everybody will. He's
one of the great legends of Canadian journalism and it's a loss
to those of us who love journalism."
SUTHERLAND said she first met
YOUNG in the mid-1960s, when she
worked at the Toronto Telegram. "We became close Friends in the
'70s when we all moved to Peterborough," she said.
HOGAN said she and her husband moved to Kingston last October
to be closer to her family. But they kept the family farm in
Cavan.
"We still use and love the farm,"
HOGAN said.
"In the late '60s he was looking for property. He settled on
this property in the Cavan hills."
The couple were there only two weeks ago, the last time
SUTHERLAND
saw her friend.
"Right until the end he was a very graceful and gracious man,"
she said. "He had been ill for a number of years, but he was
still the same sweet Scott. He loved to talk about the old days
in journalism and it was fun to do that with him."
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IMLACH o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-06-25 published
I Remember -- Scott
YOUNG
By Louis CAUZ,
Saturday,
June 25, 2005, Page S9
Louis CAUZ, managing director of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall
of Fame, writes about Scott
YOUNG, whose obituary ran on June
On a warm June morning in 1970, Scott
YOUNG and I walked along
"shed row" at Woodbine Race Track in Toronto, aware that the
stories we had to write that day wouldn't be pleasant. Two Violins,
the undefeated favourite for the Queen's Plate, had come up lame
that morning, and his trainer, Lou
CAVALARIS, hoped we wouldn't
go to the owner until he had a chance to tell him the bad news.
Naturally, we agreed. In 1984, Scott recalled that incident in
writing the introduction of my book, The Plate: A Royal Tradition.
At the launch of the book in the director's room at Greenwood,
he brought along his pal, Punch
IMLACH, and spoke glowingly.
His knowledge of King's and Queen's Plate races from the 1940s
and 1950s was a source of great inspiration. He also edited my
book about the Blue Jays, Baseball's Back in Town. If there was
one memory of Scott
YOUNG that I cherish more than any other,
it was one night at The Globe and Mail when he was working on
his column on deadline. My desk was next to his. A stranger walked
into the sports department, which wasn't unusual in those days,
and began questioning him. Scott stopped writing and slowly and
politely answered him, instead of brushing him off. He always
had time for people.
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IMLAY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-03-26 published
McNAUGHTON,
Doris
Jean (née
IMLAY)
With hearts saddened by loss but overflowing with beautiful memories,
the family of Doris Jean
McNAUGHTON announces her peaceful passing
at Saint Thomas Elgin General Hospital on Thursday, March 24, 2005.
Born in Belmont, Ontario May 31, 1922, Doris resided near Lawrence
Station until 1977 and since then in Saint Thomas. Supportive and
loving mother of Ann
CARR,
Sarnia, and
Jeannie
(David
GALE,)
Oakville; proud grandmother of Shauna
CARR, Sarnia, Heather
CARR,
Toronto, and Katie
GALE,
Oakville.
Doris was predeceased by best
friend and husband of 53 years, John
McNAUGHTON
(Nov. 1998,)
sister Lois
OLDHAM (2002,) parents Andrew (1951) and
Elsie (1986)
IMLAY, and son-in-law Keith
CARR (1982.) Her passing is also
mourned by friend and sister-in-law Janet
BUCHAN; nephews and
nieces Ken
BUCHAN (Bev), Cathy
BUCKAN (Jerry), Jane
BUCHAN, Andrew
(Jennie) and Shannon
SIMPSON,
Sandra
(Dan,)
Kelly, and Laurie
ANNETT, and Holly (Chris,) Nicole and Matthew
FINLAY; aunts Eileen
FORD and Thelma
GRAHAM; and cousins Keith
WALTERHOUSE,
Marvin
GRAHAM,
Kathleen
McDOWELL and Don
FLECKSER. Dearly loved by the
CARR,
Christmas,
Hunter, McArthur, MacLean and Plain families
and fondly remembered by numerous teaching colleagues and Friends,
and by the hundreds of students she taught for over 30 years
in the schools of Southwold Township. Family and Friends are
invited to share their "Doris stories" at Williams Funeral Home,
45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas on Sunday, March 27, 2-4 p.m. and Monday,
March 28, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Service to celebrate a life well-lived
at the Williams' Chapel on Tuesday, March 29 at 11 a.m. conducted
by the Reverend Janet
LAUGHREN, of Bethany United Church, Shedden.
Spring interment at McArthur Cemetery, Southwold Township. Remembrances
in Doris' memory would be appreciated to the Canadian Diabetes
Association, the Canadian Cancer Society, Bethany United Church,
or the charity of your choice.
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