McBAIN o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-12-21 published
CAHOON,
C.
Harold
Peacefully at Exeter Villa, Monday, December 19, 2005, C. Harold
CAHOON, formerly of Grand Cove Estates, Grand Bend and Montreal,
age 90. Beloved husband of the late Margaret A.
(MORRISON)
CAHOON
(1988.) Loved father of Margaret "Peggy"
McBAIN of London. Predeceased
by his brother Allen E.
CAHOON (1996.) At Harold's request there
will be neither visitation nor funeral service. Cremation, followed
by interment Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, London. If desired,
memorial donations to a charity of choice would be appreciated.
Harold was employed with Air Canada as an Electronics Specialist
for many years, retiring to Grand Bend in 1977. T. Harry Hoffman
& Sons Funeral Home, Dashwood, entrusted with arrangements. Condolences
at www.hoffmanfuneralhome.com
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McBAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-02-25 published
Harold STAFFORD,
Lawyer 1921-2005
Lawyer who rode the Trudeaumania wave to hold onto a seat in
Parliament later faced charges of fraud, theft and breach of
trust
By Tom HAWTHORN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Friday, February
25, 2005 - Page S7
As a criminal defence lawyer, Harold
STAFFORD anticipated spending
much of his life in court. He could not have imagined in law
school that he would be doing so as a defendant.
Mr. STAFFORD, who has died at age 83, was a prominent lawyer
in Saint Thomas, Ontario, representing clients charged as petty
thieves, failed killers and fraud artists.
His experiences with such a wide spectrum of citizenry perhaps
prepared him for a career in politics, during which he served
seven years as a Liberal member of Parliament.
In the years following his defeat at the polls, Mr.
STAFFORD
found himself dealing with a succession of personal legal troubles
in cases serious, bizarre, and whimsical. Most seriously, he
faced fraud charges in court for 4½ years before the matter was
stayed.
In 1984, Mr.
STAFFORD and another businessman were charged with
fraud, theft and criminal breach of trust in the handling of
more than $60,000 from the accounts of a cemetery in Woodstock,
Ontario
As most of the money had been repaid by the time charges were
brought, lawyers for Mr.
STAFFORD and his co-accused sought to
have the case dismissed for violating the fundamental justice
provisions of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. According
to press reports, their application was rejected by a district
court judge. That decision was upheld by the Ontario Court of
Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada.
A stay of proceedings was at last ordered in June, 1988, after
a Crown attorney told a district court judge that exhibits were
missing. Earlier, court was told that the charges caused Mr.
STAFFORD to lose clients, suffer depression, and endure the indignity
of losing an election to become a delegate to the 1984 Liberal
leadership convention.
The end of the matter did not complete his legal woes. In 1999,
he signed an agreement to retire and not practice law as part
of an undertaking in which a charge of obstruction of justice
against him was dropped. Mr.
STAFFORD had allegedly attempted
to influence the testimony of a witness in a case in which he
was acting as a defence lawyer. He continued to work as a paralegal,
causing a ruckus when he appeared in a Chatham courtroom with
a client the following year. Despite concerns raised by the Crown,
he succeeded in getting charges of drinking and driving dropped.
A headline in the Chatham Daily News read:
STAFFORD
Shows Up
And Gets Client Off.
In 1980, Mr.
STAFFORD was acquitted of income-tax evasion in
provincial court. The charge related to his Erie Properties Ltd.,
which failed to file a 1979 return. In 1978, a fraud and conspiracy
case involving Brazilian gold, Dutch diamonds and Venezuelan
fighter planes ended in a mistrial after Mr.
STAFFORD alleged
jury tampering. He also said an attempt had been made on his
life, according to a copyright story in the Woodstock Sentinel-Review.
Mr. STAFFORD made the allegations after being fired as a defence
lawyer by one of the accused men. Earlier in the trial, he had
been accused of blackmail by a lawyer representing another of
the defendants.
In contrast to those dramatic years in court, his political career
was serene.
Mr. STAFFORD, a Liberal, needed to contest three elections in
the riding of Elgin in Southwestern Ontario before wresting the
seat from the Progressive Conservatives. He lost to Tory incumbent
James McBAIN, a farmer, by just 78 votes of 27,618 cast in 1962.
Mr. McBAIN was re-elected the following year, but in 1965 Mr.
STAFFORD ended 20 years of Tory rule, winning by 1,047 votes.
Re-elected during the Trudeaumania campaign of 1968, Mr.
STAFFORD
lost the seat to dairy farmer John
WISE four years later. Mr.
WISE would serve as agriculture minister under prime ministers
Joe CLARK and Brian
MULRONEY.
Born in New Brunswick, Harold Edwin
STAFFORD was a sergeant in
the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War. He
was stationed at Saint Thomas, where he taught Commonwealth pilots.
He graduated with a bachelor of science degree before earning
a civil law degree in 1951 at the University of New Brunswick.
A Lord Beaverbrook scholarship allowed him to study at the London
School of Economics.
He began practising law in Ontario in 1953, being named Queen's
Counsel in 1969.
At least one of his scrapes with the law had a humorous twist.
He was on his way to court to represent three men charged with
attempted murder in 1991 when he crashed his Cadillac into a
pole. When he told police about the accident at the Woodstock
courthouse, he was arrested and taken to the police station for
a breathalyzer test. He was released without charge. However,
his admission to having suffered a minor stroke three years earlier
led police to deliver Mr.
STAFFORD to hospital to have his blood
pressure tested. A three-hour hospital wait after the day's events
likely did not improve the reading.
Harold STAFFORD was born in Birdton, New Brunswick, near Fredericton,
on April 20, 1921. He died on January 18 at Saint Thomas, Ontario
He was 83.
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McBAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2005-05-10 published
ISSERSTEDT,
Mary▼
Elizabeth▼ (née
McBAIN)
Quietly at her winter residence in Mexico on Thursday, May 5,
2005. Beloved wife of the late S. Gordon
ISSERSTEDT.
Loving▼ stepmother
of Robert K. and his wife Annette. Grandmother of Nicholas and
Daniel.▼
Sister▼ of the late Alexander Laird "Mac"
McBAIN.
Dear▼
daughter of the late Margaret and Alexander McDougall
McBAIN.
An ardent breeder of English Masters, longtime member of Toronto
Golf Club, the Toronto Hunt Club and a graduate of Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, New York. A Service of Remembrance will be held
at Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mount Pleasant Road on Friday
May 13th at eleven o'clock. Reception to follow. If desired,
donations may be made to the charity of your choice.
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McBAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-02-17 published
KAY,
John
Suddenly, at South Huron Hospital, Exeter, Wednesday, February
16, 2005, John
KAY, 69, of Grand Bend, formerly of London and
Toronto. Beloved husband of Wendy
(GRILL)
KAY. Loved father of
Jackie and Don
STRANGE of Port Perry, Glen
GRILL of Oshawa and
Lesley GRILL of Holland Landing. Loving granddad of Caitlyn
STRANGE,
Blaire STRANGE,
Curtis,
April and Emily
GRILL. Dear brother of
Doug and Jackie
MacBAIN,
Gord and Chris
MacBAIN, Penny and Chuck
WORTON,
Harry and Lynn
HELLIWELL. Remembered by his nieces, nephews
and their families. Resting at the T. Harry Hoffman and Sons Funeral
Home, Dashwood (519-237-3532), with visitation Saturday, February
19, 2005 commencing at 11 a.m., followed by the funeral service
at 1: 30 p.m., Tracey
WHITSON-
BAHRO officiating. Cremation. If
desired, memorial donations to the Canadian National Institute
for the Blind, Heart and Stroke Foundation or charity of choice
would be appreciated. John was the proud operator of Memory Lane
Photography Studio in the G.T.A. for many years. Condolences
at www.hoffmanfuneralhome.com.
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McBAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-05-10 published
ISSERSTEDT,
Mary▲
Elizabeth▲ (née
McBAIN)
Quietly at her winter residence in Mexico on Thursday, May 5,
2005. Beloved wife of the late S. Gordon
ISSERSTEDT.
Loving▲ stepmother
of Robert K. and his wife Annette. Grandmother of Nicholas and
Daniel.▲
Sister▲ of the late Alexander Laird "Mac"
McBAIN.
Dear▲
daughter of the late Margaret and Alexander McDougall
McBAIN.
An ardent breeder of English Masters, longtime member of Toronto
Golf Club, the Toronto Hunt Club and a graduate of Vassar College,
Poughkeepsie, New York. A Service of Remembrance will be held
at Rosedale Presbyterian Church, 129 Mount Pleasant Road on Friday,
May 13th at eleven o'clock. Reception to follow. If desired,
donations may be made to the charity of your choice.
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McBAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-06-14 published
McGRATTEN,
Howard
Peacefully at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences
Centre on Sunday, June 12, 2005 at the age of 83. Howard is survived
by his wife Betty, son Ken and his wife Rosmarie, grandchildren
David and his wife
Emily, and Karen, sister May
McBAIN, and sister-in-law
Barbara McGILVRAY.
Friends may call at the Turner and Porter Yorke
Chapel, 2357 Bloor St. W., at Windermere Ave., just east of Jane
subway, from 7-9 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15, 2005. If desired,
donations to the Salvation Army would be appreciated.
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McBAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-08-09 published
BLOOM,
Norman
A.
(Retired Manager, Ford Motor Company Canada) Peacefully at Trillium
Health Centre on Sunday, August 7, 2005. Loving father of Jennifer
and Herbert. Norman will be sadly missed by Caroline (née
McBAIN)
and many nieces and nephews. Friends may call at the Turner and
Porter "Peel" Chapel, 2180 Hurontario Street, Mississauga (Hwy.
10, North of Queen Elizabeth Way) from 2: 00 p.m. Thursday, August
11, 2005, until the time of the Funeral Service in the Chapel
at 3: 00 p.m. If desired, donations to the Salvation Army would
be greatly appreciated.
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McBAIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.toronto_star 2005-12-27 published
McEACHERN,
Margaret
Lillian (née
GRAY/GREY)
After a long and wonderful life our dear mother and friend Margaret
passed away after a courageous journey with grace and dignity
on December 24th, 2005 at Peel Manor, Brampton, in her 97th year.
Loving mother of Ruth
GROAT and her late husband Charles of Cheltenham,
Ian and Marilyn
McEACHERN of Bolton, and Hazel-Ellen and Dave
ARMSTRONG of Georgetown. Margaret was the beloved wife of the
late John McEACHERN (passed away in 1984.) A cherished grandmother
who will be greatly missed by Karen and John
GALLANT,
Gayle and
Kevin GORMAN, Marlene
McEACHERN and Todd
SMITH, Peter
McEACHERN
and Josee BARRETTE,
Sheri and Reid
McBAIN and Mark and Ashlynn
McEACHERN.
Great grandmother to Natalie and Blaise
GALLANT, Hayden
GORMAN, Madison
SMITH, Hayley, Charlotte and Katrina
McBAIN and
Sydney McEACHERN.
Mother was the eldest of her family and was
predeceased by her parents Howard and Lizzie
GRAY/GREY and brothers
and sisters Godfrey, Hazel, Ivan and Ruth. The family wishes
to express their gratitude to the staff at Peel Manor who provided
eleven years of compassionate care. The family will receive Friends
at the Andrews Community Funeral Centre - 8190 Dixie Road, Brampton
(North of Steeles Ave.) 905-456-8190 on Thursday, December 29th,
2005 from 11: 00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. A Funeral Service will take
place at the funeral home chapel at 1: 00 p.m. Interment at Brampton
City Cemetery. Reception to follow at the funeral home. Donations
may be made to Peel Manor or the charity of your choice and would
be greatly appreciated by the family.
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McBANE o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2005-02-09 published
McKINNON,
Grant
Edward
After a courageous battle with respiratory illness at Saint Mary's
Hospital,
Kitchener on February 7th, 2005, Mr. Grant Edward
McKINNON
in his 77th year. Loving father of Mark
McKINNON and his wife
Joan, Tammy and her husband Bill
McBANE and Cheryl and her husband
Jim THORNBORROW of Hamilton. He will be sadly missed by his grandchildren
Darrin THORNBORROW of Hamilton, Jaylene
ROTHER of British Columbia,
Braden and Tayne
McKINNON and Katelyn and Bryden
McBANE of London.
Predeceased by his brother Royden
McKINNON and sister Shirley
McKINNON.
Grant will be remembered by his many co-workers at
Eatons in London and Hamilton where he worked for more than 25
years. A memorial service will be conducted at the Lloyd R. Needham
Funeral Chapel (520 Dundas Street, London) on Friday, February 11th,
2005 at 3: 00pm with visitation for one hour prior to service
time. In memory of Grant, contributions to the Canadian Cancer
Society or the Heart and Stroke Foundation would be greatly appreciated.
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