ebook img

Canada from Afar: The Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries PDF

289 Pages·1996·11.52 MB·English
Save to my drive
Quick download
Download
Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.

Preview Canada from Afar: The Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries

The Daily Telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries CANADA FROM AFAR This page intentionally left blank The Daily telegraph Book of Canadian Obituaries CANADA FROM AFAR Edited by DAVID TWISTON DAVIES Dundurn Press Toronto • Oxford Copyright © The Telegraph pic 1996 All Rights Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise (except brief passages for the purposes of review), without the prior permission of Dundurn Press Limited. Permission to photocopy should be requested from the Canadian Reprography Collective. Editor: Judith Turnbull Designer: Sebastian Vasile Printer: Best Book Mfrs. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Main entry under title: Canada from afar: the Daily telegraph book of Canadian obituaries Includes index. ISBN 1-55002-252-0 1. Obituaries - Canada. 2. Obituaries - England - London. 3. Canada - Biography. 4. Canada - History- 1963- - Biography.* I. Davies, DavidTwiston, 1948-. FC25.C35 1996 920.071 C96-931216-4 F1005.C35 1996 Publication was assisted by the Canada Council, the Book Publishing Industry Development Program of the Department of Canadian Heritage, and the Ontario Arts Council. Care has been taken to trace the ownership of copyright material used in this book. The author and the publisher welcome any information enabling them to rectify any references or credit in subsequent editions. Printed and bound in Canada Dundurn Press Dundurn Press Dundurn Press 2181 Queen Street East 73 Lime Walk 1823 Maryland Avenue Suite 301 Headington, Oxford P.O. Box 1000 Toronto, Ontario, Canada England Niagara Falls, NY M4E 1E5 OX37AD U.S.A. 14302-1000 CONTENTS Preface ix Foreword, by Conrad Black xv Trooper George Ives 1 Professor Barker Fairley 4 Charlie Rutherford, VC 6 Air Vice-Marshal Sir Victor Tait 9 Howard Green 11 Captain Eric Brand 13 Major-General Harry Letson 16 Billy Browne 18 Pauline Vanier 20 A.J. Casson 24 Beatrice Lillie 27 Hugh Keenleyside 30 'Punch' Dickins 34 K.C. Irving 37 Roland Michener 40 Joey Smallwood 42 E.P.Taylor 47 Bruce Hutchison 50 Sir Robert Gunning, Bt 53 Lovat Dickson 55 Lionel Chevrier 57 Professor Gerald Graham 60 Paul Martin 62 Harold Ballard 66 Morley Callaghan 68 Cardinal Leger 71 Eugene Forsey 75 The Reverend John Foote, VC 78 Buck Crump 80 Roland Wild 82 v Contents Major-General 'Johnnie' Plow 85 Air Marshal Roy Slemon 87 DrRossTilley 90 G.P. Purcell 92 Bob Furlong 94 Dr George Laurence 97 Donald Fleming 99 Alistair Campbell 101 Walter Gordon 103 Colonel FredTilston, VC 105 Colonel Charles Stacey 108 Charles Ritchie 111 Hugh MacLennan 116 Brigadier Jim Roberts 119 Andrew Taylor 122 Brigadier-General 'Ben' Cunningham 125 Ernest Manning 128 Professor Tuzo Wilson 133 Stewart MacPherson 136 Captain Tom Fuller 140 Brigadier-General 'Swatty' Wotherspoon 143 The Marquess of Exeter 145 Major-General Bruce Matthews 147 Omond Solandt 149 Robert Beatty 152 Joan Miller 155 The Dowager Lady Beaverbrook 157 Lieutenant-Colonel Jack Mahony, VC 160 Major-General John Rockingham 163 Major-General Des Smith 166 George Woodcock 169 Northrop Frye.. 172 Shaun Herron 175 'Flying Phil'Gaglardi 178 Major-General Dan Spry 181 Robertson Davies..... 183 Ross Munro 187 Professor Harry Ferns 190 VI Contents George Ignatieff 194 MaxDunbar 197 Arnold Smith 199 'Hank'Wardle 203 General Freddie Sharp 206 Bernard Braden 208 Group Captain George Grant 210 Major-General Norman Wilson-Smith 212 Sveva Caetani 215 'Wally' Floody 217 Captain Tom Pullen 219 Jean Marchand 222 Lucien Cardin 225 General Jacques Dextraze 227 Colonel 'Bucko' Watson 230 Charles Lynch 233 Lieutenant-General Stan Waters 236 Brigadier-General Campbell Mussells 239 Lieutenant-Colonel Raymond Labrosse 241 Steve Roman 243 Esmond Butler 245 Don Jamieson 247 Rene Levesque 249 Jack Pierce 252 Margaret Laurence 254 Professor George Story 256 Richard Hatfield 258 Nicholas Pennell 261 Roger Marshall 263 Abbreviations for Awards and Orders 265 Index 266 By Name 266 By Province or City 269 vn This page intentionally left blank PREFACE THE LAST FLOWERING of Fleet Street - before the denizens of the medieval printers' district were scattered throughout London with the advent of computer technology - was the newspaper obituary. For most newspapermen, in Britain no less than in Canada and elsewhere, obituary writing is a necessary chore, one to be shuffled onto younger, weaker or older members of staff. "Duffy," the city editor admonishes a hapless reporter in Ben Hecht's The Front Page, "if you don't smarten up I'll send you to Obituaries." A death is recognized as news, but the recording of the bare facts together with a few sketchy remarks on a deceased's life, hastily culled from the last three news stories in his or her library file, is all too often deemed more than sufficient. A change began with the arrival of two people at The Daily Telegraph. Conrad Black, who became majority shareholder in March 1985, and Hugh Massingberd, the former editor of Burke's Peerage publications, who joined the paper's obituaries section in July 1986. The Telegraph had an obituaries editor of 12 years' standing in the estimable Augustus Tilley, but he had been charged with keeping as much material out of the paper as he decently could. Readers were only interested in live people, the previous owners believed, but since the Telegraph was a serious broadsheet, it could not ignore the important deaths. A good spread could be allotted on a news page if the dead person was deemed worthy by the powerful and sceptical members of the "backbench" of the senior sub-editors. Nevertheless, Tilley was normally expected to produce half a dozen paragraphs a day; an essential part of the job, he declared, was to bring a book to read in the office. Massingberd, however, came with the ambition of challenging the Times, which was acknowledged as the one serious practitioner in the obituaries field. Ever since the Telegraph absorbed the Morning Post, which had attached importance to obituaries, in 1937, the Times had IX

Description:
Canada From Afar is the fruit of the remarkable flowering of obituary writing in the London Daily Telegraph during the past ten years. These lively portraits of Canadians are informed, witty, sometimes quirky, occasionally iconoclastic.They include royal courtiers, politicians, businessmen, soldiers
See more

The list of books you might like

Most books are stored in the elastic cloud where traffic is expensive. For this reason, we have a limit on daily download.