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EVERSOLE, Margaret Sophia (formerly
PLEWES, née
HARDY)
Born▼
January▼ 20, 1913 to Eunice Olivetta
MUNRO and Charles Ernest
HARDY,
Margaret▼ died peacefully on April 20, 2007 at the Village
of Tansley Woods, Burlington, with her family close by. Affectionately
known as "Dee", she is survived by her daughters-in-law Cathy
PLEWES of Oakville, Ontario, and Donna
PLEWES of Edmond, Oklahoma
step-daughters Marilyn
HOLMSTROM,
Nancy▼
WARD, and Joanne
MYERS
grandchildren John, Kimberley, Amanda and Derek; nephews John
PLEWES of Naples, Florida, and Don
PLEWES of Toronto, Ontario
niece Pam SCHMIDT of Napanee, Ontario. She was predeceased by
her husbands Doctor Campbell
PLEWES and Doctor James
EVERSOLE; her
sons James
PLEWES and Doctor John
PLEWES, and her daughter Mary
PLEWES; her sister Doris
HARDY and her brother James
HAWKINS.
Her courage in the face of so many losses and declining health,
her sense of humour and love for her family will be treasured
by all who knew her. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday,
June 9, 2007 at 11 a.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 89 Dunn
Street, Oakville. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Heart
and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated.
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MYERS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-05 published
EVERSOLE, Margaret Sophia (formerly
PLEWES, née
HARDY)
Born▲
January▲ 20, 1913 to Eunice Olivetta
MUNRO and Charles Ernest
HARDY,
Margaret▲ died peacefully on April 20, 2007 at the Village
of Tansley Woods, Burlington, with her family close by. Affectionately
known as "Dee", she is survived by her daughters-in-law Cathy
PLEWES of Oakville, Ontario, and Donna
PLEWES of Edmond, Oklahoma
step-daughters Marilyn
HOLMSTROM,
Nancy▲
WARD, and Joanne
MYERS
grandchildren John, Kimberley, Amanda and Derek; nephews John
PLEWES of Naples, Florida, and Don
PLEWES of Toronto, Ontario
niece Pam SCHMIDT of Napanee, Ontario. She was predeceased by
her husbands Doctor Campbell
PLEWES and Doctor James
EVERSOLE; her
sons James
PLEWES and Doctor John
PLEWES, and her daughter Mary
PLEWES; her sister Doris
HARDY and her brother James
HAWKINS.
Her courage in the face of so many losses and declining health,
her sense of humour and love for her family will be treasured
by all who knew her. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday,
June 9, 2007 at 11 a.m. at Knox Presbyterian Church, 89 Dunn
Street, Oakville. In lieu of flowers, donations to the Heart
and Stroke Foundation would be appreciated.
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MYERS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-06-13 published
'He couldn't wait to come home'
Killed in roadside bombing, soldier was a funny, down-to-earth
guy, friend says
By Matt HARTLEY,
Page
A16
It was after dinner on Logan
CASWELL's 12th birthday when Canadian
military officials showed up at the door to deliver the grimmest
news possible: Logan's big brother, Trooper Darryl
CASWELL, was
dead, the latest Canadian soldier to be killed in a roadside
bombing in Afghanistan.
Logan's was not the only birthday that would forever after carry
a dark taint: Trooper
CASWELL was set to come back on July 31st,
the day he would have turned 26.
"I still can't believe that he's gone," his stepmother Christine
CASWELL told The Globe and Mail from the family's Clarington
home, about an hour east of Toronto. "I'm just still in denial.
He couldn't wait to come home."
Ms. CASWELL said her stepson was looking forward to being an
"average Joe" again. Her husband Paul, Trooper
CASWELL's father,
had spoken with him by phone Saturday, and what would turn out
to be the last e-mail from their son arrived from Afghanistan
on Sunday.
Trooper CASWELL was killed while travelling with a convoy carrying
supplies to a forward operating base in Khakriz, a northwestern
district of Kandahar province, about 40 kilometres north of Kandahar
City, when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle at 6: 25 a.m.
local time. Two other soldiers were injured in the blast and
transported via helicopter to Kandahar airfield for medical treatment.
Both are expected to recover and return to active duty soon.
He was the third member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, based
out of Canadian Forces Base Petawawa near Ottawa, to be killed
by Taliban attacks in the past three months. Trooper
CASWELL
was deployed as part of the Reconnaissance Squadron from the
2nd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment battle group.
Those who served with Trooper
CASWELL remembered him as a tough
soldier and tireless worker who was never afraid to speak his
mind. Trooper Keith Rombough, was a member of that same group.
Together they trained at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa, braved
patrols in Afghanistan and slept through dusty nights in the
same tent, talking of their families back in Canada.
He said Trooper
CASWELL and the soldiers he rode with dubbed
their vehicle Ghost Rider after the Marvel comic book character.
Monday's explosion wasn't the first time Trooper
CASWELL's patrol
had been the target of a Taliban strike. A few months ago, during
a similar patrol, a rocket attack blew the front wheels off his
vehicle, Trooper Rombough said.
"He'd always joke around about it," he said. "He took a small
amount of pride in that."
Trooper CASWELL was born in Bowmanville, Ontario, and his parents
divorced when he was 2. Growing up, he spent time living with
his mother in the Toronto satellite communities of Clarington
and Whitby as well as Sarnia, Ontario, before moving in with
his father and stepmother in Clarington when he was 12. When
his father remarried, young Darryl
CASWELL was best man.
"One thing I'll never forget was that when Paul proposed to me,
Darryl got down on his hands and knees and proposed to me, too,"
Ms. CASWELL said. "He was such a character. He was a good kid,
with a good heart." A funny, down-to-earth guy, that's how Matt
ADAM/ADAMS,
Trooper
CASWELL's best friend of 12 years will always
remember him. Being a soldier and serving his country was the
fulfilment of a lifelong dream for Trooper
CASWELL,
Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS
said. It was all he talked about as a kid, and his face lit up
when he spoke of his experiences with the military. A fierce
patriot, Trooper
CASWELL once jokingly chastised Mr.
ADAM/ADAMS's
father for flying a frayed Canadian flag in the family's backyard.
"It was pretty hilarious how he shamed him into getting a new
one," Mr. ADAM/ADAMS said.
Just a few weeks ago, Trooper
CASWELL and his crew took a few
weeks of leave and travelled to Australia, where he met up with
Kayla MYERS, an old friend from high school, now studying education
there. It turns out she would be one of the last of his Friends
to see him alive.
"He was very proud to serve his country. He was just such a great
guy," she said.
Prime
Minister
Stephen Harper extended his sympathy to the
CASWELL
family and praised the ongoing efforts of Canadian soldiers in
a written statement released yesterday.
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DUBIN,
Anne
Ruth, Q.C.
Following surgery, Anne lost her fight for life on August 2,
2007. Anne was a devoted and loving wife to Charles, her husband
and best friend of 55 years. Survived by her brothers and sisters-in-law
Myer and Sybil
LEVINE and Leonard and Bobbie
LEVINE.
Predeceased
by her sister Molly
MYERS.
Will be sadly missed by nieces and
nephew Francie and Stuart
KLEIN and Marcia
ROBINSON and grandniece
and grandnephew Sherri and Justin.
Anne retired following a long and successful career in corporate
law. She was a director of Petro-Canada and a member of the Ontario
Law Reform Commission Advisory Board. She was also a director
of Telemedia Communications Inc., Morgan Trust Co. of Canada
and a former Public Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange. She
was vice-chair Area Committee of the York County Legal Aid Plan,
a former member of the Attorney General's Advisory Committee
on the Juvenile and Family Court of Metropolitan Toronto, and a
former member of the Joint Committee on Penal Reform for Women.
Anne had a long history of community service. She was a vice-chair
of York University, a trustee of the Toronto Hospital Foundation,
a director of the Canadian Club, Toronto, an Honorary Counsel
of the Canadian Red Cross Society, an Honorary Counsel of the
Museum Children's Theatre, a director of the Elizabeth Fry Society,
a director of the Toronto Mental Health Clinic for Children and
Adolescents and its successor, the Hincks-Dellcrest Centre, a
director of the Clarke Institute of Psychiatry, and a trustee
of the Ontario Mental Health Foundation.
Anne will always be remembered for her intelligence, independence,
indomitable spirit, and her dedication and loyalty to family
and Friends.
Funeral service will be held at Holy Blossom Temple, 1950 Bathurst
Street, Toronto at 11: 00 a.m. on Friday, August 3, 2007. Interment
Holy Blossom Cemetery, Brimly Rd. Following interment all are
invited to 619 Avenue Rd., Toronto. Memorial donations may be
made in memory of Anne Dubin to the Toronto General and Western
Hospital Foundation, 416-603-5958. Special thanks to Doctor Phillip
ELLISON and nurse Debbie
KLATT.
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MYERS o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2007-10-25 published
Fighter pilot became college president and put education in his
sights
Royal Canadian Air Force flyer returned from the Second World
War determined to get a university degree. He found success in
business and passed on his lust for knowledge to a generation
of students
By F.F. LANGAN,
Special to The Globe and Mail, Page S7
Mel GARLAND was a man who did well at everything he did, and
he did an awful lot. A fighter pilot, a businessman and a civil
servant, he was also a visionary who helped develop community
colleges and trade schools in Ontario.
Mr. GARLAND was the second president of Durham College, a community
college at Oshawa, east of Toronto, from 1980 to 1988.
It was a time when the community college system was vigorously
expanding. Set up by the Ontario government in 1967, Durham was
one of about 20 new tertiary-level schools. The object was to
provide students with a practical education that would lead to
good jobs, and to improve the province's standard of living.
That is why Mr.
GARLAND promoted two- and three-year applied
engineering programs, and worked to get Durham College - the
school closest to a large auto plant - to set up a robotics lab.
"He was a strong believer that a modern society needed knowledge
workers above all else, and in particular, leaders in technology,"
said Gary POLONSKY who succeeded him as president of Durham College.
"Mel expanded programs in engineering technology and trades."
As part of running Durham College, he worked at establishing
the Skilled Trades Centre in nearby Ajax, Ontario A part of Durham
College, it now has about 2,000 students learning to become everything
from electricians and plumbers to millwrights and metal fabricators.
Mel GARLAND grew up in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, where the family
lived in the same house for 60 years. Both his parents were immigrants
from Glasgow, and his father worked as a maintenance foreman
at Thompson Products. As a boy, young Mel and his best friend,
Pete BELFORD, liked to sneak onto the local tennis courts to
play. The president of told them they could play for free if
they performed odd jobs around the club. Eventually, the two
of them played at the St. Catharines Tennis Club, where one year
they won the doubles championship. Later, they went on to win
the Niagara District championship.
Mr. GARLAND and Mr.
BELFORD did a lot of things together, and
remained Friends for life. As youngsters, they joined the Boy
Scouts, and once shared first place in a competition. Mr.
GARLAND
eventually became a King's Scout, the top honour a Scout can
earn. They once hitchhiked to Montreal and, when they were old
enough, went to Hamilton together to enlist in the Royal Canadian
Air Force and serve in the Second World War.
In 1942, Mr.
GARLAND was selected for pilot training. At flight
school, the same things that had made him a good tennis player
- sharp eyesight and quick reflexes - singled him out as a fighter
pilot. Just before he went overseas, he went to a tennis club
dance and met a young woman named Marguerite
ALLEN.
They saw
each other every night before he left.
He arrived in England in February of 1944, at the age of 21.
At that stage in the war, fighter pilots had two main jobs: protecting
bombers on their way to Germany, and preparing for the Allied
invasion of France. Almost as soon as he arrived, 403 Squadron
moved to Tangmere, a Royal Air Force station in West Sussex,
to be closer to the English Channel.
By this point, Mr.
GARLAND was a flying officer. He and the rest
of the squadron were equipped with the latest version of the
Spitfire fighter. Armed with cannons and machine guns, this version
was a much more deadly weapon than the one that flew in the Battle
of Britain. Flying low-level missions over France was also deadly
for the pilots.
The squadron moved to an airfield at Dieppe, France, on June 16,
just 10 days after the D-Day invasion of Normandy. Almost exactly
a month later, Mr.
GARLAND's plane was hit by flak while on a
mission. At first he thought he could land the plane, but a fire
broke out and he was forced to bail out. For a few seconds, he
was trapped up in the cockpit and feared his parachute would
not open but managed to alight in a field, convinced he was safe.
To his surprise, he was soon surrounded by German soldiers.
He spent three weeks as a prisoner of war, though never in a
camp. The Germans were in retreat and marched Mr.
GARLAND and
the other prisoners across France, sometimes covering as much
as 40 kilometres a day. In the confusion of the retreat, Mr.
GARLAND
escaped. He slept in the barns of sympathetic French farmers
and slowly made his way back to the Allied lines.
He soon found himself home in Canada, since the Royal Canadian
Air Force never sent an escaped PoW back into service, fearing
they would be shot if recaptured. But the war in Europe was soon
over, and Mr.
GARLAND resolved to make use of veterans scholarships
and get an education. Before the war, he had finished high school
but lacked the money to go to university. The scholarships allowed
him to go to Queen's University in Kingston and he graduated
in the class of 1948½ (to speed up their schooling and catch
up with life, veterans were allowed fall graduation).
While at Queen's, he married Marguerite (with Mr.
BELFORD as
best man) and the couple set off for Boston. He been accepted
to the Harvard Business School, even though he had already used
up most of his credits under the veterans' scholarship scheme.
To make ends meet, Marguerite found work and he got a night job
at the Harvard Library.
After
Harvard, they returned home. Mr.
GARLAND started work at
General Electric Canada. He later worked at General Bakeries
and Ford Canada, during the period when the auto maker was building
its assembly plant in Oakville, Ontario
Even then, he was concerned about Ontario's ability to compete
in the world. In 1967, he became chairman of the education committee
of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce, the same year the community
college system was founded.
In 1974, Mr.
GARLAND joined the Ontario government as executive
director of industry and then executive director of trade. It
was the beginning of two decades of devotion to fine-tuning Ontario's
industrial infrastructure. He carried on with the same mission
at Durham College.
"The lack of skilled people to fill the manpower needs of industry
is a real problem," he said in 1980, the year he was appointed
president. "It's in the schools that we can turn attitudes around
to make these skilled jobs desirable careers."
Under his leadership, the school began expanding its industrial
facilities.
"He focused on bringing the latest technology to the classroom
and constructing a new state-of-the-art robotics lab, the precursor
to our Integrated Manufacturing Centre on campus today," said
Leah MYERS, president of Durham College. "Mel was known as an
entrepreneurial and consummate professional who set high standards
for himself and those around him."
Although he was a man with many careers, his neighbours in the
Toronto suburb of Etobicoke remember him as a strong family man
who was devoted to his six children. Neighbour and close friend
Ron Quick said his biggest success was raising his brood and
a marriage that lasted 60 years.
His oldest daughter, Linda, said he had an easy manner with both
his own children and others on the block. "Much can be said for
my father's many achievements, but he was the kind of dad who
says after dinner, 'Let's play some ball,' " she said. "We would
troop out to the side of the yard for a pickup game of baseball
and, within minutes, kids from up and down the street would be
joining us. Dad would be the only adult out there."
The flags at Durham College flew at half-mast the week Mr.
GARLAND
died. His friend Mr.
BELFORD, who never left Port Dalhousie,
attended the funeral.
Melvin Lloyd
GARLAND was born in Port Dalhousie, Ontario, on
October 19, 1922. He died on September 3, 2007, in Ancaster,
Ontario, of complications from Alzheimer's disease. He was 84.
He is survived by his wife, Marguerite. He also leaves daughters
Linda, Jane, Jennifer and Pat, and sons David and Greig.
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MYERS,
Molly
Peacefully in her 96th year, on Saturday, December 8th, 2007
at Baycrest Hospital. Molly
MYERS, beloved wife of the late Hymie
MYERS.
Loving mother and mother-in-law of Martin and Patty
MYERS,
and Karen and Bob
YUKICH.
Devoted grandmother of Carla, Aaron,
and Rebecca and her husband Seth, and great-grandmother of Peter.
Molly was a lifelong peace activist and a champion of social
causes for over 70 years. She will be remembered fondly by family
and Friends. A graveside service was held at Bathurst Lawn Memorial
Park on Sunday, December 9th, 2007. There will be a celebration
of Molly's life at the United Jewish People's Order Winchevsky
Centre, 585 Cranbrook Avenue (at Bathurst Street), on Sunday,
January 6, 2008 at 2: 00 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to
the Ontario Heart and Stroke Foundation.
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BURROWS,
Miriam (née
MYERSON)
On Sunday, June 24, 2007, in Montreal. Beloved wife of the late
Nathan BURROWS.
Devoted mother and mother-in-law of Laura
CRANGLE
of Toronto, Ellis and Barbara of Oakville. Cherished Grandmother
of Jillian and Hilary
CRANGLE;
Jeremy and Adam
BURROWS. Predeceased
by her siblings Faigie, Annette, Toby, Al and Bernice
MYERSON.
Sister-in-law of Bertha and the late Myer
TAVEROFF,
Molly and
the late Sidney
LEVINE, the late Clara and the late Sidney
BURROWS.
She is survived by her nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.
Special thanks to her caregiver Sybil Mayers for her loving care
and devotion. Funeral service from Paperman and Sons, 3888 Jean
Talon St. W., Montreal on Tuesday, June 26 at 11: 00 a.m. Burial
in Montreal. Shiva in Toronto. Donations in her memory may be
made to the Hope and Cope c/o the Jewish General Hospital Foundation,
(514) 340-8251, or to the charity of your choice.
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