EDIGER
EDINBOROUGH
EDISON
EDITH
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VAN
LUVEN,
Louise
Peacefully, on Sunday, November 19th, 2006, after a courageous
battle with heart and lung disease, Louise
VAN
LUVEN of London.
Predeceased by her husband Ken (1985). Survived by her children
Irene and Bill
ZUEFELT,
Carol and the late John
ARMSTRONG, Gayle
EDIGER,
Nancy and Bob
HARDESTY and Sherry and Dan
AMARAL as well
as her 14 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. A memorial
service will be held at the Mount Pleasant Cemetery Chapel, 303 Riverside
Drive, on Saturday, November 25th, 2006 at 10: 00 a.m. Louise
had a special love for her family and was blessed to be surrounded
by three generations of her family when she left this world.
Religion became very important to her and she was very proud
of her recent certificate. Louise loved animals and was always
making beds for the homeless animals within the Animal Love Foundation.
In lieu of flowers, donations to the Animal Love Foundation may
be made by contacting animalovefoundation@hotmail.com or call
519-485-3244. (Westview Funeral Chapel (519) 641-1793 entrusted
with arrangements).
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EDINBOROUGH,
Arnold, O.C., M.C., M.A., LL.D., Litt.S.D.
Peacefully, surrounded by his loving family at Oakville Trafalgar
Memorial Hospital on Friday, June 2, 2006, in his 84th year.
Dearly beloved husband of Tish, with whom he recently celebrated
60 wonderful years of marriage. Much loved father of daughters
Kip LONGSTAFF of Oakville and Sarah
ILEY of Banff and Oakville,
he was pre-deceased by his son Alastair last spring. Adored grandfather
of Nicholas and Michael
LONGSTAFF,
Lucy
(Duncan) and Campbell
EDINBOROUGH,
Meghan and Beth
ILEY, he will also be sorely missed
by his devoted son-in-law Stephen
ILEY.
His loss will be felt
in England by his affectionate sister-in-law Sheila
WOOLLEY and
nephew, the Reverend David
EDINBOROUGH.
Founding
President of
The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada and a long-time
contributing editor to The Financial Post, Arnold came to Canada
from Cambridge in 1947 to teach English at Queen's University
in Kingston. His long, varied and distinguished career was shaped
by his endless curiosity, generous spirit and astonishing intelligence.
A captain in the Royal Artillery during World War 2, he then
became a scholar, professor, writer, editor and publisher of
Saturday Night magazine, an active Anglican layman, a director
of numerous arts, educational and social service organizations
and was, always, a marvelous raconteur. A memorial service to
celebrate his life will be held at Saint_Jude's Anglican Church,
160 William Street, Oakville on Wednesday, June 7th at 2 o'clock.
Interment service to follow on Saturday, June 10th at 2 o'clock
at Saint_James Fairmont. The family particularly wishes to thank
doctors DeKleer, Kolenda and McDowell, as well as the entire
Intensive Care Unit team at Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital,
for their expert and compassionate care. In lieu of flowers,
donations may be made to the charity of your choice.
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Arnold EDINBOROUGH:
Editor,
Arts
Advocate (1922-2006)
Demobilized from the British Army after the Second World War,
he came to Canada to teach at Queen's University, writes Sandra
MARTIN.
Later, he became editor-owner of Saturday Night and a
champion of the arts
By Sandra MARTIN,
Page S9
A smart boy from a poor family, Arnold
EDINBOROUGH made excellent
use of his brains and personality to earn an elite British education
on merit rather than pedigree. After winning the Military
Cross for bravery in the Second World War, he emigrated to Canada
and became a significant cultural force as editor of the Kingston
Whig-Standard and Saturday Night magazine. A devout Anglican,
an accomplished public speaker, raconteur, and columnist for
the Financial Post magazine, Mr.
EDINBOROUGH was the author of
several books and the founding president and chief executive
officer of the Council for Business and the Arts in Canada, a
pioneering advocacy group encouraging corporations to support
the arts.
He had an uncanny likeness to his friend, novelist Robertson
DAVIES, with the same receding hairline and pointed Van Dyke
beard. Indeed, there's a story from the 1970s about an excited
airline passenger sitting beside Mr.
DAVIES (newly famous because
of the success of his novel Fifth Business) and lavishing him
with praise during the seven-hour flight across the Atlantic,
only to say on landing: "My wife will be so excited to hear that
I have met Arnold
EDINBOROUGH."
It was Mr.
EDINBOROUGH's misfortune to be an anglophile in Canada
at a time of nascent cultural nationalism. He loved the country
with a passion and worked hard to nurture a climate for arts
and culture. "He might have seemed a bit stuffy to subsequent
editors of Saturday Night," journalist John
FRASER said yesterday,
referring to himself and Robert
FULFORD, "but he certainly gave
me a big break by publishing 'political letters from Newfoundland'
when I was an undergraduate [at Memorial University]. All you
need in journalism to get going is a bit of nerve and somebody
to have faith in you and get you published so people can see
that you can do it," he said. "Every journalist has somebody
in their life who somebody took a chance on, and he was mine."
Arnold EDINBOROUGH was the younger
son of Frank and Sarah Ann
(née CLARK)
EDINBOROUGH.
His family were tenant farmers. By his
grandfather's time, they had managed to acquire a small amount
of property. Arnold, who won a scholarship at the age of 11 to
attend Spalding Grammar School (founded by Royal Charter in 1588 and
officially known as Queen Elizabeth Royal Free Grammar School)
was the first
EDINBOROUGH to go beyond the village school. His
future wife, Letitia (Letty) Mary
WOOLLEY attended Spalding School
for Girls, the female academic equivalent.
They met at the annual tennis challenge between the two schools.
She was a champion player, he was head boy, heavily into dramatics,
and lacking a partner for the doubles competition. She offered
to play with him, a decision she initially regretted because
he wielded a racket with a bent elbow. They won the match and
continued a casual Friendship in Cambridge, where he went on
a scholarship in October of 1940 to study English at St. Catharine's
College and where she trained as a nurse at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Their relationship really flourished through the correspondence
they exchanged during the Second World War after he enlisted
in the British Army, serving with the 23rd Field Regiment of
the Royal Artillery in North Africa and then in Italy. He quickly
rose to the rank of captain.
He was awarded the Military Cross for bravery for his role as
a forward observation officer in the long march on Rome. The
citation describes him remaining in his observation post in the
"exposed flank of the battalion" during the attack on the River
Gaiano, breaking up at least two counter attacks with "accurate
gunfire." Later, he destroyed two enemy-held footbridges and
contributed "greatly" to the speed of the advance on Medicina.
"His complete disregard of his own safety was an inspiration
to all," according to the citation.
Any thought of remaining in the military after the war ended
evaporated after his colonel enquired whether he had the necessary
funds to support himself properly as an officer in the professional
army. He was demobilized in December of 1945, returned to Cambridge
to resume his studies for his degree in English, married Ms.
WOOLLEY
on January 14, 1946, and graduated with a very respectable 2.1 ranking
in 1947. After toying with the idea of working for the British
Council -- the postings he was offered were in Brazil and Turkey
and a teaching post in what was then Ceylon, he accepted a
fortuitous offer from the ex-patriate British Shakespearean scholar
G.B. Harrison to teach at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario
His marks, his passion for drama and his experience teaching
at the University of Lausanne during summer vacations cinched
the appointment. He and his bride sailed for Canada in August
of 1947.
All three of the
EDINBOROUGH's children, Christine, Alistair
and Sarah, were born in Kingston, where Mr.
EDINBOROUGH taught
at Queen's in both the normal academic year and in the summer
school, and picked up courses to teach at The Royal Military
College as well. Cambridge automatically bestowed a master's
degree on him in 1950 to mark the third anniversary of his graduation.
He went back to England in 1952 to work on a doctorate, but abandoned
the advanced degree after deciding he was a popularizer and a
teacher rather than a scholar, according to his youngest daughter,
Sarah, an arts administrator.
Kingston was "a dour Presbyterian place," which he described
in his 1991 memoir, Arnold Edinborough: An Autobiography, as
"like Caesar's Gaul, divided into three parts: town, gown and
military." Although each pretty much kept to itself, Mr.
EDINBOROUGH
managed to bridge all three, largely because of his Friendship
with Robertson
DAVIES.
They had both been educated in England (although Mr.
DAVIES went
to Oxford, not Cambridge), they shared a passion for theatre
and English literature, and they both had families and small
children. They differed in two major respects: Mr.
DAVIES came
from a wealthy literary family, and he was an exceptionally talented
writer. When they met, Mr.
DAVIES was the editor of The Peterborough
Examiner, a newspaper owned by his father, Rupert
DAVIES, and
he generously introduced his younger English friend to the nascent
literary community. When Mr.
EDINBOROUGH left academe in 1954,
he became the editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard, which was
also owned by Mr.
DAVIES's father.
After four years at the helm of the Whig, Mr.
EDINBOROUGH resigned
to move to Toronto as editor of Saturday Night Magazine, which
was then owned by the flamboyant media entrepreneur Jack Kent
Cooke.
The two did not share an editorial vision, but Mr.
EDINBOROUGH
outlasted his employer by buying the magazine away from him (and
mortgaging his house to do so -- a flamboyant gesture that he
advised John
FRASER, a later editor of the magazine, not to emulate.)
The reports on Mr.
EDINBOROUGH's tenure as editor of the venerable
(and now defunct) magazine vary. He had a quick succession of
managing editors, including Harry Bruce, Kildare Dobbs and Jack
Batten. "Arnold was an impressive figure with a goatee beard
and a fine speaking voice and given to sounding off at banquets
about dirty books and other issues of the day," said Mr. Dobbs
in an e-mail message. "His virtues as an editor were his friendliness
to talent and willingness to leave associates to run their own
shows."
Those are "virtues" that he may have taken to extremes in a three-person
operation that makes shoestring seem extravagant. "Arnold was
the editor of record, but I did all the work," said Mr. Batten,
who was managing editor from September of 1967 to April of 1968
"just long enough to know that I didn't ever want to be an
editor. I wanted to be a writer."
He described his boss's "idiosyncrasy" of spending about half
his time out of the office travelling, delivering speeches and
encouraging random acquaintances, rather than professional writers,
to send stories to the magazine. Mr. Batten put out three issues
and then quit to work as a writer for The Star Weekly, which
was then being edited by Peter Gzowski.
Robert Fulford followed Mr. Batten, but he insisted on being
named editor in name, as well as deed. Mr.
EDINBOROUGH then became
publisher of Saturday Night Publications, which at the time included
Monday Morning, a magazine for teachers, and Parallele, a quarterly
published in French with articles translated from Saturday Night.
"In the end, it was the wrong decision," Mr.
EDINBOROUGH wrote
in his autobiography. "Not to hire Fulford [who continued as
editor until Conrad Black bought the magazine in 1987], but to
think I could have the revivifying effect on the business side
as I had undoubtedly had on the editorial side of Saturday Night
Publications."
He finally left the publication in 1970, selling his stake for
one penny to David Fry, William Nobleman and Jack Seed. He went
on to write an extremely popular column on the arts in the Financial
Post magazine, which dovetailed with his advocacy work with corporations
at the Council for Business and the Arts in Canada, a position
he held until he retired in 1989 at the age of 67.
Arnold EDINBOROUGH was born in Donnington, Lincolnshire, on August
2, 1922. He died in Oakville, Ontario, on June 2, after suffering
a massive stroke during surgery for skin cancer. He was 83. Predeceased
by his son, Alistair, he is survived by his wife, Letty, daughters
Christine and Sarah, and six grandchildren.
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EDISON o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2006-04-05 published
EDISON,
Olive
G.
(BALSDON)
Of Saint Thomas, on Tuesday, April 4, 2006, at the Saint Thomas-Elgin
General Hospital, in her 96th year. Beloved wife of the late
James M. EDISON
(March 1, 1981) and dearly loved mother of Harold
and his wife
Jean
EDISON of Saint Thomas, Leeman
EDISON of Saint Thomas,
Carolyn NIBLOCK of Saint Thomas, Linda and her husband Steve
HORETH
of Wiarton and Barbara
BOBIER of Saint Thomas. Predeceased by a
son Lewis EDISON (1991.) Dear sister of Jim
MANCHEN of Oakville,
Marjorie FUKE of Saint Thomas and Doris
CUMMINGS of Saint Thomas.
Predeceased by 3 brothers Orville, Truman and Leeman
BALSDON
and by a sister Ruth
CLOUGH.
Sadly missed by 15 grandchildren,
20 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild and several
nieces and nephews. Olive was born in Southwold Township on January 13,
1911. She worked at the Saint Thomas Psychiatric Hospital and was
a member of Centre St. Baptist Church. Resting at Williams Funeral
Home, 45 Elgin Street, Saint Thomas where funeral service will be
held Thursday at 11: 00 a.m. Interment in Vienna Cemetery. Visitation
Wednesday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Remembrances may be made to the
Heart and Stroke Foundation or the Canadian Cancer Society.
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SCOTT,
Ruth (née
HUSTON) (1934-2006)
Passed away suddenly, surrounded by her loving family, at Saint Mary's
General Hospital, Kitchener on Monday, July 3, 2006 at the age
of 72 years. Ruth was born in Oshawa and moved to London at the
age of 10. She was a graduate from Victoria Hospital, London
as a Registered Nurse. She raised her three children and beloved
grandchildren in Kitchener over the past 48 years. Ruth enjoyed
getting together with her Bridge Ladies and her involvement with
the Probus Club. Ruth is survived by her loving children, Jamie
(Debbie) SCOTT,
Brian
(Caryn)
SCOTT, Mary (Jim)
McINTYRE all
of K-W, her beloved grandchildren, Trevor, Justin, Lindsey, Jonn,
Tyler, Andrew, Andre, and Julia. She is also survived by her
brother Archibald (Mary)
HUSTON, and his sister-in-law Margie
HUSTON.
Predeceased by her parents May and Harry
HUSTON, sisters
Elizabeth HUSTON and Marion
EDITH in infancy, and her brother
Peter HUSTON.
Friends are invited to share their memories of
Ruth with her family during memorial visitation at the Erb and
Good Family Funeral Home, 171 King Street South, Waterloo on
Wednesday, July 5, 2006 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. and Thursday from
10-11 a.m. A celebration of Ruth's life will be held in the Chapel
of the Funeral Home on Thursday, July 6 at 11: 00 a.m. A reception
will be held in the fireside room of the Funeral Home immediately
following the service. Cremation has taken place and a private
family interment at Priceville Cemetery will take place at a
later date. Condolences for the family and donations to the Heart
and Stroke Association of Ontario may be arranged through the
funeral home, 519.745.8445 or www.erbgood.com. In living memory
of Ruth, a tree will be planted through the Trees for Learning
program by the funeral home.
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