ESTABROOKS
ESTES
ESTEY
ESTHER
ESTICK
ESTRADA
ESTRIN
ESTWICK
ESTABROOKS o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-06-02 published
CONCANNON,
Russell
James
Suddenly in Ingersoll, Ontario on Friday, May 30, 2008 Russell
James CONCANNON in his 31st year. Beloved spouse and soul-mate
of Brandy. Sadly missed by his mother Yvette
ESTABROOKS (nee
GAGNIER) (& Dave) of Dorchester and his father Brian
CONCANNON
of London. Loving grand_son of Ora
GAGNIER of Stoney Point. Dear
brother of Chris
CONCANNON (& Amanda) of Saint Marys and Amber
ESTABROOKS of Dorchester. Much loved uncle of Summer, Meadow and
Hunter. Also deeply missed by his aunts, uncles and cousins
as well as "Abby". Friends will be received at the Bieman Funeral
Home, Dorchester on Tuesday 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. where the funeral
service will be held on Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m.
Interment at Dorchester Union Cemetery. Memorial donations to
the London Humane Society or Children's Hospital of Western Ontario
gratefully acknowledged.
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ESTES o@ca.on.grey_county.owen_sound.the_sun_times 2008-01-23 published
KNIGHT,
Gwendolyn
Elizabeth (née
ESTES)
On Monday January 21, 2008 at Cedarvale Lodge, Keswick in her
91st year. Dear wife of the late Kenneth. Loving mother of David
and his wife Leesa and Stephen and his wife Eleanor. Much loved
Nana of Craig, Ryan (Jen,) Stephanie, Ruth and Esther (Josh
VEENS.)
Friends may call on Saturday, January 26, 2008 from 10 a.m. at
the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge Street, at Goulding, south
of Steeles). Service in the Chapel at 11 a.m. Interment at Greenwood
Cemetery, Owen Sound at a later date. Adherent of the Salvation
Army, North York Temple. Special thanks to Doctors, Nurses and
Staff at Cedarvale Lodge. If desired, donations may be made to
Rural Life Mission. Condolences www.rskane.ca. R.S. Kane 416-221-1159
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ESTEY o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-03-13 published
RALSTON,
Donalda
Mae (née
MacPHEE)
At her residence on Sunday, March 9, 2008. Donalda Mae
RALSTON
(née MacPHEE) of Canterbury Street, Woodstock in her 105th year.
Beloved wife of the late Rev. James Oates
RALSTON (1949.) Dear
aunt of Samuel
MacPHEE and his wife
Sandra of Nova Scotia, Jeanne
MacMILLAN of New Brunswick, Caroll
ESTEY and her husband Bob
of Connecticut, Heather
ENGLISH and her husband David and JoAnne
DEMERCHANT and her husband Garnet, both of New Brunswick. Loved
great aunt of Stephen
ROBERTSON of England and Andrew
ROBERTSON
of Guelph. Also survived by several great-grand nieces and nephews.
Predeceased by her step-son Keith
RALSTON, step-daughters Helen
and Doris RALSTON, siblings, Muriel
DICKSON/DIXON,
Mary
MacPHEE, John
MacPHEE and Donald
MacPHEE.
Donalda graduated from Queens University
and taught at W.C.I. for several years. She was also a longtime
member of Knox Presbyterian Church in Woodstock. Friends may
call at the Longworth Funeral Home, 845 Devonshire Ave., Woodstock
(519-539-0004) on Friday after 12: 00 p.m. where the complete
service will be held in the chapel at 1: 00 p.m. with Rev. James
GRANT and Marg
DOUGLAS/DOUGLASS officiating. Interment later in the Little
Lake Cemetery, Peterborough. Contributions to the Canadian Cancer
Society or Knox Presbyterian Church would be appreciated. Online
condolences at www.longworthfuneralhome.com
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ESTEY o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-06-28 published
ESTEY,
Felice "
Fay" (née
BOLTÉ) (1924-2008)
Fay was born on April 14th 1924 in Toronto to Margery
BOLTÉ and
Auguste A.
BOLTÉ
Senior.
She went to Havergal School College
in Toronto. From 1943-1945 she worked as an Anti-submarine Service
Personnel Women's Royal Canadian Naval Service (Women's Royal
Naval Service). In 1945 she went to the University of Toronto
as a Physio-occupational therapist. On September 26th 1953 she
married Harold
ESTEY.
Fay was President of Saint Paul's Hospital
Auxiliary from 1974-1976, then again from 1985-1986. Fay will
be lovingly remembered by her husband Doctor Harold
ESTEY, son Robert
(Shelly) of Saskatoon, daughter Barbara of Toronto, son Doug
(Nancy) of Victoria; grandchildren Jeremy
ESTEY of Wainwright,
Alberta, Tyler
ESTEY of Calgary, Alberta, and Aisha, Sydney and
Jackson ESTEY of Victoria, British Columbia. She is also survived
by one brother Auguste
BOLTÉ of Toronto and several nieces and
nephews. The Funeral Service will be conducted by Rev. Wayne
KNOUSE on Monday, June 30th 2008 at 1: 30 p.m. at Knox United
Church with interment following at Woodlawn Cemetery. In lieu
of flowers the family would appreciate donations to Sunnyside
Adventist Care Centre. (2200 Saint Henry Ave. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
S7M 0P5). Email condolences may be sent to mail@saskatoonfuneralhome.c
om. Arrangements have been entrusted to Saskatoon Funeral Home.
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ESTHER o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2008-10-15 published
MABEL
ESTHER
ROY
In loving memory of Mabel Esther Roy who began her spirit journey at the
Manitoulin Health Centre on Wednesday, October 8, 2008 at the age of 80.
Survived by friend Bill. Beloved daughter of John M. Roy (predeceased
1987) and Catherine Anne Roy (née Flamand) (predeceased 1974). Loving
mother of Michael Joseph Roy (predeceased 2001), Tony Roy (predeceased in
1980), and Larry Roy and friend Caroline of Little Current. Very dear
sister of John Francis Roy (predeceased 1993), and Richard Roy and wife
Mabel of Rudyard, Michigan. Granny of Mark, Michelle, Melissa, Laurie,
Evan, Kaylyn, and great grandmother of Tristan, Tanner, Mason, Brendan,
Britny, Christopher, Paul, Georgia, Cameron, Hunter, Ephie, Mark Junior ,
Joel, Ethan, J.C., and Lexi. Predeceased by great grand_son Bennett-
Chadlen. Family and Friends gathered at Larry's home from 11 am on
Friday. Visitation was from 10 am Saturday at Holy Cross Mission. Funeral
mass was at 11 am on Saturday, October 11, 2008 at Holy Cross Mission,
Wikwemikong. Cremation. Island Funeral Home.
also linked as linked as
ROI
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ESTICK o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-07-24 published
ESTICK,
Vernon
George
Passed away suddenly at his home on Tuesday, July 22, 2008, age
72. Beloved husband of the late D.E. Norma
ESTICK (2004.) Loving
father of Garrick
ESTICK. He will be fondly remembered by many
family, Friends and colleagues. Vernon enjoyed a long career
as Conservator of Library and Archives at University of Western
Ontario. He had a love for theatre, dance, music, and the spoken
word. Friends will be received on Friday from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m.
at the James A. Harris Funeral Home, 220 Saint_James St. at Richmond,
where the funeral service will be conducted on Saturday, July 26
at 2 p.m. Memorial contributions to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
would be gratefully acknowledged.
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ESTRADA o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-04-07 published
Two men arrested in Brampton teen's death
By James RUSK,
Page A9
Peel police said yesterday they have arrested two Brampton men
in the death of a 19-year-old who was stabbed in a parking lot
outside a Mississauga strip club Saturday morning.
Luis ESTRADA-
LEMMON of Brampton died shortly after he was taken
to hospital.
Michael STRUC, 23, is charged with first-degree murder, while
Eric JACOME, 24, is charged with being an accessory after the
fact.
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ESTRIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-08 published
ESTRIN,
Audrey
On Sunday, July 6, 2008 at Credit Valley Hospital. Audrey
ESTRIN,
beloved wife of the late Ben
ESTRIN.
Loving mother and mother-in-law
of Carol and Allan
JOHNSON, and Beverley
ABRAMSON. Dear sister
of Phyllis
KAY and the late Bernard
DAVIS, and Pauline
CALLAN.
Devoted grandmother of Arthur
ABRAMSON, Miki
GARBE, Pamela
DYKSTRA
and Tom BRUMALDI and great-grandmother of Sarah, Alexandra, Jason,
and Kai. A graveside service will be held at Holy Blossom Memorial
Park (Brimley Road and Eglinton), on Tuesday, July 8th at 11: 00 a.m.
Shiva 460A Oriole Parkway. Memorial donations may be made to
the Canadian Diabetes Association at 416 363-3373.
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ESTWICK o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-05-02 published
Radar expert fought racism, then the war
Cape Bretoner refused menial jobs and became one of the first
black men in the Royal Canadian Air Force
By Buzz BOURDON,
Special to the Globe and Mail, Page S9
Ottawa -- When German submarines began attacking Allied ships
off the coast of Nova Scotia at the start of the Second World
War, Sam ESTWICK decided to do something about it.
His family lived in Cape Breton, and the enemy seemed to be getting
a bit too close for comfort. So Mr.
ESTWICK got on the train
to Halifax in the summer of 1940 and presented himself at a Royal
Canadian Air Force recruiting office. He wanted to be a fighter
pilot, and with his high-school marks, he thought he had a good
chance.
The Royal Canadian Air Force recruiting officer didn't see it
that way. In fact, he refused to even speak to Mr.
ESTWICK, who
was born in Barbados but arrived in Canada at the age of 4.
"I was told that I could not be accepted because of my colour.
I tried to point out that I wanted to help fight our common enemy.
This made no difference. He told the clerk that he could not
trust 'a man of colour,' Mr.
ESTWICK wrote decades later.
Many people might have given up, but Mr.
ESTWICK, a stubborn
and patriotic man who knew he had a right to fight like everyone
else, became even more determined to enlist. He was as good a
Canadian as anyone else, a loyal subject of King George VI. Wasn't
the war about fighting the Nazi views of racial superiority?
Mr. ESTWICK contacted his federal member of Parliament, Clarence
Gillis, and the matter was raised in the House of Commons. Royal
Canadian Air Force brass and politicians passed the buck.
There were fewer than 20,000 blacks living in Canada then, and
the Royal Canadian Air Force was looking for recruits of "pure
European descent," a recruiting booklet stated. In the minds
of senior officers, black men may have been suitable for manual
labour - No. 2 Construction Battalion, which was entirely black
besides the officers, had served overseas in the First World
War - but Royal Canadian Air Force fliers were to remain lily
white.
The brass had obviously never heard of William Hall, a black
Nova Scotian who served with Britain's Royal Navy and won the
Victoria Cross at Lucknow, India, during the mutiny there in
"Orders were put into place to deny blacks enrolment as air crew
and to ensure they could be accepted as ground crew only after
rigorous screening at the national headquarters level. This internal
policy was officially sanctioned at the highest levels of the
Royal Canadian Air Force. Leaders, likely reasonable men in other
respects, held the incredible belief that blacks were unsuitable
for air crew training. Blacks were thought suitable for ground
crew, but only if they were adaptable to life in an all-white
environment. The racist practices of the Royal Canadian Air Force
continued well into the 1950s, although a government policy prohibited
it," wrote Dennis and Leslie McLaughlin in For My Country, a
2004 National Defence Department booklet.
The
Royal
Canadian Air Force wrote Mr.
ESTWICK on February 27,
1941, telling him that "there does not appear to be any trade
or category for which you would be suited."
Three months later, however, while Mr.
ESTWICK was cooling his
heels back home in Cape Breton, Charles Gavan Power, minister
of national defence for air, wrote Mr. Gillis to say there were
"no regulations existing at the present time which will debar
any coloured person from service in the Royal Canadian Air Force."
Mr. Gillis seemed fed up with the runaround, too. On June 2,
1941, he wrote in a letter to Mr.
ESTWICK that low-ranking officers
"will practise discrimination unless the Negro boy is prepared
to do what you are doing - assert his rights as a Canadian citizen
and to work through those who are prepared to see that democracy
functions and is put into practice, rather than talk about it
as an abstract principle, as many do today."
Finally, the Royal Canadian Air Force offered Mr.
ESTWICK two
choices: He could be a waiter, presumably in an officers' mess,
or a general dutyman, performing menial jobs. Sticking to his
guns, he refused both options. He wanted to be a pilot or radio
technician, "for which I had the prerequisite basic qualifications."
In December, 1941, the Royal Canadian Air Force finally cracked.
Mr. ESTWICK was offered a place in a school for radio direction
finding, later known as radar. The tide had turned in his war
against racism - he was one of the first three black men to join
the Royal Canadian Air Force, his family believes. Now it was
time to start training for the shooting war.
Curiously, weeks later, Mr.
ESTWICK was told that if he applied
again for air crew, he might make it as a pilot. "Well, this
radio direction finding thing was too exciting to give up," he
wrote. "Not only was it in a field that I wanted, radio, but
also it appeared to be so secret - no one else even talked about
it."
Samuel Malcolm
ESTWICK grew up down the road from No. 6 mine
in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia His father, a miner, died when Sam
was 9, making him the man of the family. Excelling in school
and the boxing ring, he also loved the drill and discipline of
the school's cadet corps. One day, during an important inspection,
the reviewing officer told Mr.
ESTWICK that he would make a fine
officer. Those words proved prophetic.
During the Depression, Mr.
ESTWICK did anything he could to help
his mother and three sisters. He sold newspapers, worked in the
coal mine and drove a truck. He didn't neglect his education,
studying radio and electrical engineering at night.
After finishing at the top of his class in the Royal Canadian
Air
Force radar course, Mr.
ESTWICK shipped out for the war,
one of 5,000 Canadian radar technicians lent to the British.
On his way to India by ship, he found that racism was pervasive.
In Durban, South Africa, a bartender refused to serve him, so
Mr. ESTWICK, who still had a boxer's fast hands and attitude,
figured things were about to get interesting.
Suddenly, a British commando stepped in. " 'Hold on, Canada.
That guy's more my size.' And he proceeded to put [him] down.
He didn't have to. I could have done it," Mr.
ESTWICK told the
Ottawa Citizen decades later.
Mr. ESTWICK spent the next three years in India, Libya, Egypt
and Britain with Royal Air Force and Royal Canadian Air Force
squadrons, making a significant contribution to the Allied victory
as a pioneer in both radar and civil rights.
After the war, he decided to remain in the air force's telecommunications
branch. That was good for the service, because Corporal
ESTWICK
was the "only radar mechanic still available in the Royal Canadian
Air Force who is thoroughly familiar with the maintenance of
radar equipments. [He] is exceptionally well qualified," Group
Captain Walmsley wrote on January 28, 1946.
Over the next decade, he instructed at Clinton, Ontario, and
worked at various radar sites, besides climbing the promotion
ladder to Warrant Officer Class 1 - making him possibly the first
black man to achieve the Royal Canadian Air Force's highest non-commissioned
rank. In 1955, he was finally commissioned as an officer. He
retired in 1963 as a flight lieutenant, the Royal Canadian Air
Force equivalent of captain.
After working in the electronics industry, Mr.
ESTWICK founded
his own company in 1980. He volunteered with many community groups,
including the Senior Citizens Council of Ottawa-Carleton.
Despite his struggles against racism, Mr.
ESTWICK was not a bitter
man, according to his daughter Leslie.
"My dad had a really clear idea of what was right," she said.
"He defended his country and family. It was the right thing to
do. He was a family man, a really strong Canadian. If he was
to describe himself, black would be well down the list after
Canadian, family man, military man."
Samuel Malcolm
ESTWICK was born October 8, 1915, in Padmore Village,
Barbados. He died in Ottawa of natural causes on February 13.
He was 92. He is survived by Elizabeth, his wife of 50 years,
plus daughter Leslie and son Eric. He was predeceased by his
first wife, Evelyn, and son Brett.
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