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Gwen Ifill 1955-2016 R.I.P.
November 14, 2016, Comments Off on Gwen Ifill 1955-2016 R.I.P.

We feel we have lost a wise and dear friend. She and Judy joined us at the dinner table almost every evening for many ye ...

Leonard Cohen R.I.P.
November 12, 2016, Comments Off on Leonard Cohen R.I.P.

Here’s Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ To Listen To 100 Times Today Andrew Cohen: After a feverish ...

Kimon Valaskakis OWN R.I.P. 1941-2016
September 29, 2016, 5 Comments

29 September The Celebration of Kimon’s life was held this evening at Sauvé House. The reception rooms were fille ...

Tudor Johnston R.I.P.
August 28, 2016, Comments Off on Tudor Johnston R.I.P.

JOHNSTON, Walter Tudor Wyatt Tudor Johnston, considered the greatest research theorist in plasma physics in Canada, pass ...

Astri Reusch OWN 1945-2016 R.I.P.
April 25, 2016, Comments Off on Astri Reusch OWN 1945-2016 R.I.P.

A memorial celebration of the life and art of Astri Reusch (April 8, 1945 – April 24, 2016) will take place at 2:00 pm ...

Claire Kirkland-Casgrain
March 24, 2016, Comments Off on Claire Kirkland-Casgrain

Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, Quebec’s first female legislator, dies at 91 Claire Kirkland-Casgrain, the first woman e ...

Ian Soutar R.I.P. 1936 – 2016
March 24, 2016, Comments Off on Ian Soutar R.I.P. 1936 – 2016

Pembroke co-founder Ian Soutar dies Ian Soutar, a pillar of the Montreal investing community and active contributor to m ...

Victor Goldbloom R.I.P.
February 19, 2016, 1 Comment

Dr. Goldbloom was ‘unifying force’ for Christians, Jews By  Alan Hustak, Catholic Register Special Dr. Victor Goldb ...

Carol Hooton Gault
September 26, 2015, Comments Off on Carol Hooton Gault

Carol Mary Lascelles Gault 1936-2015 Carol died serenely at home in Calgary as she had wished, with her three beloved so ...

Honourable Flora MacDonald, 1926-2015
August 2, 2015, 1 Comment

Flora MacDonald, longtime politician, dead at 89 Nova Scotia native became Canada’s 1st female secretary of state ...