RYDALL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-04-08 published
RYDALL,
Kay
In loving memory of our Mom and Nana, Kay
RYDALL who passed away
on April 8, 2007. May the winds of love blow softly And whisper
so you'll hear We'll always love and miss you And wish that you
were here Lovingly remembered by Sue, Mark, Connor and Laura
ADAM/ADAMS.
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RYDALL o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-05-17 published
HESS,
William "
Bill"
Peacefully at his home on Friday, May 16, 2008, William "Bill"
HESS of Woodstock in his 73rd year. Dearest husband of Audrey
(née GREEN) for 50 years. Loving father of David
HESS
(Jill
HOSSACK)
of Woodstock, Cathy
HOLT
(Jim
McBRIDE) of Ingersoll, and Paul
HESS
(Brenda) of Woodstock. Much loved Grandpa of Greg
HOLT,
and Meg and Jenny
HESS, all of Ingersoll. Dear uncle of Susan
and Mark ADAM/ADAMS and great-uncle of Connor and Laura
ADAM/ADAMS.
Predeceased
by his parents Albert and Margaret
HESS, his sister Kay
RYDALL
and brother-in-law Don
RYDALL, and his parents-in-law Clarence
and Kay GREEN.
Sadly missed by his favourite companion Molly.
Bill was a funeral director in Woodstock with the Rowell Funeral
Home and the Mac Smith Funeral Home for 50 years. His favourite
pastime was enjoying cottage life. Friends will be received at
the Smith-LeRoy Funeral Home, 69 Wellington Street North, Woodstock
on Tuesday, 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Funeral Service in the chapel on
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 at 11: 00 a.m. Cremation to follow. If
desired, memorial donations to the Heart and Stroke Foundation
of Ontario, the Canadian Diabetes Association, or a charity of
your choice would be appreciated. Smith-LeRoy, (519) 537-3611.
Personal condolences may be sent at www.smithleroy.com
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RYDER o@ca.on.middlesex_county.london.london_free_press 2008-02-23 published
MILNE,
Peter
Ignatius
Peacefully, with his loving wife by his side at London Health
Sciences Centre University Hospital, on Friday, February 22,
2008, Peter Ignatius
MILNE in his 86th year. Survived by his
loving wife and best friend Edna
(BEDARD.)
Proud and loving father
of Larry (Charmaine), of Ilderton, Peter (Rachel) of Victoria,
British Columbia, Jim of London, Leo (Carolyn) of Saint Marys,
Chris, Kevin, Dennis (Lori), of London, Mary (Ron) Flannery of
Komoka, Clarence of London, and Lisa of Windsor. Loving grandfather
of 26, and great-grandfather of 6. Dear brother of Donald, Fr. Paul,
and Eleanor (Ev)
MUIR.
Brother-in-law of Gabe, Pat
MOIR, Jean
KOCHUT, Jean
BEDARD, Eulene
RYDER, Clement (Natalie)
BEDARD,
and Mary Anne
MASSE. Survived by many nieces and nephews. Predeceased
by his son Paul (2004), and his parents Robert and Jeannette,
brothers James, Eugene, Clem, and Basil, and by sisters Cecilia,
Irene GILMORE,
Mary
MOIR, brothers and sisters-in-law Jim
GILMORE,
Ruth MILNE, Toni
MILNE, Nora (Lucian)
CORRIVEAU, Percy (Marie)
BEDARD, Ritchie
BEDARD, Benny
BEDARD, Nelson
BEDARD, George
KOCHUT,
Frank RYDER and Michael
MASSE.
Visitors will be received at the
John T. Donohue Funeral Home, 362 Waterloo St. at King Street,
London, on Sunday, February 24th, from 2-4 and 7-9 o'clock. Parish
Prayers in the funeral home Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Funeral
Mass to be celebrated at Holy Family Parish, 777 Valetta Street,
on Monday morning February 25th, at 10: 00 o'clock. Spring interment
in St. Peters Cemetery, Zurich, Ontario. Those wishing to make
a memorial donation are asked to please consider the Alzheimer
Society, the Canadian Diabetes Society, or a charity of choice.
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RYDER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-01-03 published
His landmark commission on drugs urged legalizing marijuana in
Already a respected legal scholar, he became an improbable counterculture
icon at the height of the hippy era by recommending leniency
and the decriminalization of recreational drugs
By Noreen SHANAHAN,
Special▼ to The Globe and Mail, Page S6
Toronto -- Gerald LE
DAIN's respect for civil liberties went
so far as to rouse John Lennon and Yoko Ono from their bed. It
was 1969, the year of the couple's "bed-in for peace" at the
Queen
Elizabeth
Hotel in Montreal, and the year Judge LE
DAIN
began chairing the much-referenced but largely ignored Commission
of Inquiry into the Non-Medical Use of Drugs.
The Le Dain commission's final report was one of the most politically
explosive documents ever put before the federal government. The
commission held 46 days of public hearings, received 365 submissions
and heard from 12,000 people in about 30 cities and at more than
20 university campuses across the country. In its final report,
in 1973, the commission recommended decriminalizing marijuana
possession because the law-enforcement costs of prohibition were
too great, and suggested that Canada focus on frank education
rather than harsh penalization. It also recommended treatment
for heroin addiction and sharp warnings about nicotine and alcohol.
This was delivered at a time when hysteria about the evils of
pot was on everyone's lips and many parents wanted the law to
save their drug-addled teenagers.
The report also made Judge LE
DAIN something of an unlikely counterculture
icon and helped win him a place on the Supreme Court of Canada
during the formative years of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Gerald LE DAIN was born in Montreal to Eric LE
DAIN and Antoinette
WHITHARD.
His younger brother, Bruce, went on to become one of
Canada's foremost impressionist landscape painters in the style
of A.Y. Jackson and Tom Thomson. Gerry graduated from West Hill
High School in 1942 and a year later, at 18, he joined the army
and became a gunner with the 7th Medium Regiment, Royal Canadian
Artillery, a unit that was in the thick of the fighting from
D-Day until the surrender of Germany in May of 1945.
Immediately after the war, he attended the military's ad hoc
Khaki University in England. One day, the school arranged a debate
with students of Westfield College, then a women-only college
associated with the University of London. During the event (debate
topic: a woman's place in the home,) he met Cynthia Emily
ROY
and, two weeks later, they became engaged. After being demobilized
from the army, she joined him in Montreal, where they married
and he set about finishing his education.
In 1949, he obtained a law degree from McGill University and
was called to the Quebec bar. He spent the following year at
a university in Lyons, where he gained his doctorate. On his
return from France, he joined the Montreal law firm of Walker,
Martineau, Chauvin, Walker and Allison and stayed three years until
he returned to McGill as a professor of constitutional and administrative
law. He also worked as counsel to Quebec's attorney-general on
constitutional cases.
In 1967, he left Montreal to become dean of Osgoode Hall Law
School, where, said colleague Harry Arthurs, he presided over
a revolution in Canadian legal education. "It was his responsibility
to persuade York University, the Law Society of Upper Canada,
and the world at large, that what we were doing was not only
the legitimate - not only the sensible - but the inevitable way
forward." It was during this time that Pierre Trudeau asked Judge
LE DAIN to chair the commission. He was, at 44, perfectly suited
to the job in many ways. By then, many young Canadians were indulging
in marijuana and other recreational drugs; as a university professor,
he was surrounded by many students who had at least given it
a try. And as the father of a large family, he was adept at bridging
the generation gap and responding empathetically. During the
time he chaired the commission, there were four full-fledged
teenagers, and one on the cusp, living in the LE
DAIN home.
The commissioners were asked to study the non-medical use of
sedative, stimulant, tranquillizing, hallucinogenic and other
psychotropic drugs or substances, including the experience of
users. At his first news conference in 1969, he announced that,
in the interest of research, he might experiment with the stuff
himself.
"We made it possible to talk about drugs openly," he later said
in an interview with The Globe and Mail. "In some of our early
hearings, especially in smaller communities, you could feel the
guilt that had been stored up around drugs. We also made it possible
for people to criticize their institutions, to challenge their
doctors, their school boards, their churches."
The Le Dain commission broke new ground in terms of taking the
show on the road, said Mel
GREEN, who worked as a sociologist
with Judge LE
DAIN at the time. Judge LE
DAIN redefined the nature
of a public inquiry by asking the public to directly participate,
he said. "The commission found little traction in terms of changes
in the law itself. … There was a cultural divide between conventional
attitudes and youth culture and I think the Le Dain commission
helped bridge that gap." Inspired by Judge LE
DAIN,
Mr.
GREEN
decided to switch careers and went to law school. He is now an
Ontario provincial court judge.
By early 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono had created a stir with
their public "bed-in" at a hotel in Amsterdam. On May 26, the
couple booked into Room 1742 at the Queen Elizabeth in Montreal.
To Judge LE
DAIN, they seemed to be just the kind of advocates
for youth the commission should hear from. A meeting was arranged
aboard a C.N. train in Montreal and, for 90 minutes, the couple
shared their views on the drug culture and the generation gap.
"This is the opportunity for Canada to lead the world," said
Mr. Lennon, referring to the Le Dain commission. "Canada's image
is just about getting groovy, you know." When it was over, Mr. Lennon
gave his phone number to members of the commission.
It was not always such clear sailing. Commissioners also had
to contend with a kind of "live bait" issue, where police were
arresting young people who braved the generational divide to
attend these public gatherings and tell their stories. In 1969,
the 16-year-old
son of communications theorist Marshall
McLUHAN
was arrested as he was leaving a coffee shop in Yorkville, Toronto's
then-hippy neighbourhood, where the commission was meeting. Michael
McLUHAN was convicted of criminal possession of a small amount
of hashish and sentenced to 60 days in jail; he ended up serving
30 days and was eventually pardoned.
Marie-Andrée Bertrand, one of the Le Dain commissioners, remembers
those days and the difficulties in protecting witnesses. "Some
of us went to [then-solicitor-general Pierre] Goyer and we said,
'Call off your gendarmes, monsieur!' and went to Trudeau, and
it was slightly more calm after that," she told the Ottawa Citizen
in 2003. "Imagine if Monsieur Lennon had been arrested or harassed.
What a humiliation that would have been for all of us."
Although the commission's recommendations were never followed,
there were significant changes in the public attitude toward
drugs and in lighter sentences being handed down to offenders.
At a time when the generation gap was described as a gulf, Judge
LE DAIN had gained the respect of both sides of the drug-use
argument. In a 1988 Globe and Mail column, Michael
VALPY described
him as a quiet, intellectual, spiritually minded academic who
earned the praise of young people, the social agencies and the
scientific community. "His commission acquired the reputation
of being the most hard-working, open-minded and widely respected
ever to tackle a major national problem."
In 1975, Judge LE
DAIN was appointed to the Federal Court of
Appeal and the Court Martial Appeal Court. He remained there
until May of 1984, when Mr. Trudeau appointed him to the Supreme
Court.
His tenure at the court during the early years of the Charter
proved to be, in some ways, a trial by fire not only for him
but for the other eight justices as well. A 1988 Globe and Mail
article described a series of crises that nearly exhausted the
court as a result of a backlog of Charter cases. At the time,
it was referred to by political scientist Peter Russell as "A
terrible rash of injuries" similar to the kind experienced by
beleaguered players on a hockey team.
Not surprisingly, Judge LE
DAIN was one of the members of the
court who struggled most during this time. As a result, he stayed
only five years before an emotional breakdown brought about his
retirement in 1988. Even so, he left his mark on Charter decisions.
One example was the case of R. v. Therens (1985). The issue was
whether a drunk driver could evade conviction on the grounds
that police had violated his Charter rights by not informing
him of his right to call a lawyer before compelling him to take
a breathalyzer test. Judge LE
DAIN's former law clerk, Bruce
RYDER, recalls that he struggled painfully over the case - partly
because it recalled the death of his daughter Jacqueline a decade
earlier from an automobile accident.
"As he spoke, he was pounding himself so hard in the chest I
thought he might knock himself over. He took a deep breath, and
we returned to our work." In the end, Judge LE
DAIN crafted an
opinion that did right by the victims of highway accidents and
by the Charter. In memorable language, he affirmed that the enactment
of the Charter signalled a new era in the protection of fundamental
rights and freedoms.
"Out of complexity and nuance, he produced masterfully succinct
statements of the law," said Mr.
RYDER.
In his retirement, Judge LE
DAIN worked on a range of projects,
including preparing his papers for the national archives and
meticulously crafting his memoirs. But his early retirement continued
to be plagued by personal tragedy: first with his wife Cynthia's
death in 1995 of cancer, then his daughter Catherine's death
of pneumonia in 1998.
In 1990, the U.S. Drug Policy Alliance instituted an award in
Gerald LE DAIN's name, to be given to individuals involved in
law who have worked within official institutions "when extremist
pressures dominate government policies." The influential organization
includes law-enforcement officials, academics, professionals,
health-care workers, drug users and former users. "We sought
to name the awards after our heroes," said founder Arnold Trebach.
"Gerald LE
DAIN was certainly one of them. Few people realize
the level of hate directed at drug users and drug policy reformers
decades ago."
Judge LE DAIN, the first Canadian to be so honoured, had earlier
been made a companion of the Order of Canada.
Gerald Eric LE
DAIN was born on November 27, 1924, in Montreal.
He died in his sleep at home on December 18, 2007. He was 83.
He is survived by his son Eric and daughters Barbara, Jennifer
and Caroline. He was predeceased by his wife, Cynthia, and by
daughters Jacqueline and Catherine.
Correction - Friday, January 4, 2007
The majority of the Le Dain Commission on the non-medical use
of drugs recommended in 1973 that possession of cannabis should
cease to be a criminal offence but that sale and distribution
of cannabis should remain a crime. Incorrect information appeared
in a headline in yesterday's paper.
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RYDER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-03-25 published
ANDERSON,
Ruth
Irene, R.N.
On Sunday 23rd, March 2008 at Saint Michael's Hospital, after a
brief illness. Ruth Irene
ANDERSON, in her 83rd year, daughter
of the late Andrew and Rene. Dear sister of John and his wife
Mardi, Margaret and her husband Alec
MASTERS, and the late Mary.
Beloved aunt of Howard and Carolyn
(RYDER) of Calgary, Mimi and
Wolfgang HOFMANN of Kingston, David
MASTERS,
Ted and Peggy
MASTERS.
Fondly remembered by Friends, cousins, and her great nieces and
nephews: Bronwyn and Duncan
ANDERSON of Calgary, Stephanie, Matthew
and Jayson
MASTERS.
Ruth was a graduate in 1947 of the nursing
program at Toronto East General Hospital and subsequently earned
the diploma in Public Health. She was very active in her career
in Public Health Nursing in the inner city, which was followed
by rehabilitation work at Hillcrest Hospital. Service in the
Chapel at Pinehills Cemetery, 625 Birchmount Rd. north of St. Clair
Ave. East on Thursday, March 27 at 1: 30 p.m.
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RYDER o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2008-07-18 published
Stelco metallurgist led a second life as an award-winning filmmaker
Steel-company lab technician produced more than 30 nature films,
including Miracle of the Bees. Sometimes, 'I waited 12 hours
to get a shot that lasts only 10 seconds'
By Noreen SHANAHAN,
Special▲ to The Globe and Mail, Page S8
Jack CAREY had a strong affection for insects. As one of Canada's
leading nature cinematographers and film producers, he sometimes
spent entire nights watching the metamorphosis of a dragonfly.
"I've waited 12 hours to get a shot that lasts only 10 seconds,"
he said.
Another time, speaking about capturing close-ups, he told The
Hamilton Spectator: "I've got to be able to move in and show
an aphid giving birth, where you've got a tiny animal the size
of the head of a pin on a rosebush."
In the process, he was credited with filming the only existing
footage of a lace-wing fly larva camouflaging itself with aphid
fluff.
Mr. CAREY, whose day job was that of a metallurgist, produced
more than 30 nature films, including The Monarch Butterfly Story,
The Everglades, Wonders of the Hive and Success Story, a film
exploring why insects are likely to inherit the Earth. His first
nature film, and perhaps his best known, is The Miracle of the
Bees. He filmed the documentary on the life cycle of the honey
bee long before there was an environmental concern over their
possible extinction. The movie was shown at Italy's National
Institute of Apiculture and won highest science award at a film
festival in Rome in 1958.
Mr. CAREY regarded himself as a home-grown biologist. He did
most of his filming in his basement, where he had several aquariums
perched on a billiard table, or in the woods a few kilometres
from his ranch house in Burlington, Ontario His documentaries
became a common feast for North American school children. They
were also shown on David Suzuki's The Nature of Things and the
American television show The Wild Kingdom. His films have been
viewed by millions of people in 70 countries and have been translated
into eight languages.
For a change of pace, he sometimes packed up his equipment and
shot big game on wildlife reserves in India, South Africa, Kenya
and Sri Lanka. While gently rocking on the back of an elephant,
he focused his lens on the rare one-horned rhino, four-horned
antelopes and the Asiatic lion in India's Gir Forest. Birds included
wild peacocks, hoopoes, grey wagtails and golden-backed woodpeckers.
His films were shown on Audubon Wildlife Theatre, a Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation series that ran from 1968 to 1974.
Jack CAREY hailed from Hamilton, in the shadow of a steel smelter,
back before the Depression. His father, William
CAREY, emigrated
from England after fighting in the Boer War. He was a plasterer
and his wife
Mariah
(RYDER) took in laundry. Jack was the youngest
of five children and his big sister, Dolly, handed him his first
Kodak Brownie box camera when he was 7. He remembered crawling
through the bushes on his belly trying to sneak up on birds,
but they always got away. When he was 15, his mother died of
cancer, prompting him to put away his camera and take on more
serious work. After finishing high school at Hamilton Technical
Institute he took a job in the labs at Stelco, quickly working
his way into the executive ranks as chief service metallurgist.
In 1932, while he was still employed at Stelco, he and his sister
opened a portrait studio. They kept themselves busy shooting
portraits of children and Saturday brides in flowing veils. After
a while, he couldn't stand weddings, preferring woods and ponds
over chapels. In the early 1950s, for a change of scene, he smuggled
his camera into the steel plant. His photos were soon admired
by the company's president, who commissioned Mr.
CAREY to produce
his first commercial documentary, Steel for Canadians, in 1952.
The film Tells both the Stelco story and the process of steelmaking.
Mr. CAREY said this was a challenging task, filming huge mills
and molten metal.
The steel film was soon followed by the award-winning The Miracle
of the Bees in 1957. The Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly
came a few years later. His career as a nature cinematographer
had fully taken flight.
During the 1960s, Mr.
CAREY produced a series of documentaries
called Spring Hike, Summer Hike, and Winter Hike. It told the
story of two boys exploring a local pond. Although he never married
or had children, Mr.
CAREY was keenly interested in encouraging
young people to get out of the house and muck about in murky
water. "I try to make the kids say, 'Gee, I want to go out and
see that for myself," he once told the Toronto Star.
His nephew Dave
CAREY was one of the boys in the film. He recalls
Uncle Jack hauling him out of bed at the crack of dawn on cold
winter mornings to cart a big parabolic reflector - twice the
size of a satellite dish - to bird feeders near Hamilton or Burlington
before traffic noise would overwhelm the sounds of early-morning
bird calls. He loved it.
As a member of the Hamilton Naturalists Club, Mr.
CAREY often
hiked the Niagara Escarpment with wildlife painter Robert
BATEMAN.
Mr. BATEMAN was impressed by how a Stelco executive crawled around
on his hands and knees, prompting bugs to smile for the camera.
Mr. CAREY became an early collector of Mr.
BATEMAN's paintings
and a collaboration developed between the two.
"Jack was a person of many opinions as well as good judgment,"
Mr. BATEMAN said. "He often made comments on paintings in progress."
For instance, to paint Goshawk and Ruffled Grouse, an picture
that hung over Mr.
CAREY's piano for decades, Mr.
BATEMAN used
for reference a single frame from a
CAREY film. He then added
a dead grouse that had been killed on the road, and a fallen
aspen to complete the realistic work. It was one of 11
BATEMAN
paintings that Mr.
CAREY eventually donated to the Hamilton Art
Gallery.
In 1975, Mr.
CAREY retired from Stelco. But instead of grabbing
his golf clubs, he pocketed his passport, hoisted his equipment
across his shoulder and took off for distant shores. According
to a 1978 Star article, that meant Africa and the Galapagos and
points in between, "to film everything from elephants to ants."
Sometimes humans - naked humans - inadvertently got in the way.
One day, while filming in the woods of Ontario, he stumbled upon
a nudist colony. He had his camera pointed at a nest where the
mother bird had just stuffed a big dragonfly into the mouth of
a tiny nestling, when a "muscular and red-faced" man suddenly
began shouting: "Nobody's allowed to take pictures here!"
He soon observed the nestlings "about ready to take off at any
minute like a helicopter," and calmed down, Mr.
CAREY recalled.
"You don't have to go," the man said. "Keep right on shooting."
In 1979, Mr.
CAREY used six motion-picture cameras, 30 different
lenses, two microscopes, and time-lapse photography to painstaking
film Success Story. The documentary profiled the lives of insects
and suggested why the tiny creatures, so often crunched under
our feet, would likely outlive the human race. He made his point
by drawing on analogies to humans. For instance, he said that
if a human baby gained weight in the same proportion as a young
worm, it would gain several tonnes in a few months. "When they're
eating leaves and things like that, wings would be a damned nuisance,
so they have nice grasping legs so they can hang onto the leaves.
When they change their lifestyle completely to breed, then they
develop wings."
Insects will inherit the Earth, he said, because their life span
is short and although they are vulnerable to predators, there
are always many, many more coming down the line. In 1978, the
film won a gold plaque at the Miami Film Festival and was judged
the best educational film among 2,000 entries from around the
world. Because of his work on Success Story, Mr.
CAREY was made
a fellow of Britain's Royal Photographic Society the next year.
His close-up world didn't just involve nature footage. As a collector
or, some would say, a packrat, he turned part of his basement
into something he dubbed the "Canada Room." Greeting visitors
as they stepped through the door was a pair of stuffed lynxes,
after which they stumbled on everything else. "We've found a
book about the interesting habits of birds and animals that Jack
wrote when he was 10," said Dave
CAREY, who recently cleared
away much of the material. "Also a bone from a blue whale, his
grandfather's military will dated 1918, Christmas cards dated
back a hundred years and a freezer full of decades-old French
River blueberries."
John J. CAREY was born September 22, 1912, in Hamilton. He died
June 3, 2008, in Dundas, Ontario after complications from a fall.
He was 95. He is survived by several generations of nieces and
nephews, many Friends and many viewers.
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BASKIN,
Linda
Suddenly with family by her side on Sunday, March 9th, 2008 at
Royal Victoria Hospital, Barrie. Linda is survived by her husband
Richard RYDZIK, and her loving son Jason. She will be missed
by her brother David
MILLER and his wife
Lorraine, loving mother
Alma, nieces, nephews and their families. Predeceased by her
father George
MILLER.
Friends will be received at the Dixon-Garland
Funeral Home, 166 Main Street North (Markham Rd.), Markham on
Thursday at 11 a.m., reception to follow service. In lieu of
flowers, donations to the Royal Victoria Hospital would be appreciated.
Online condolences www.dixongarland.com
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