Obituaries for August 19th, 2010
Hubert Roach Published August 19th, 2010
Sarah MacLean Published August 19th, 2010
John ‘Jack’ Cusack Published August 19th, 2010
James Peter Francis Cotter Published August 19th, 2010
Archive for 2010
19 Aug
OBITS – AUG 19, 2010
18 Aug
BADDECK – CAPE BRETON
Welcome to Baddeck on the Cabot Trail and the Bras d’Or Lakes on Cape Breton Island
Baddeck is considered to be the beginning and end of the world famous “CABOT TRAIL” and is situated in the heart of Cape Breton Island. Stretching along the shores of the beautiful Bras d’Or Lakes, it is a village in full bloom from spring to autumn with a kaleidoscope of colours displayed in baskets, boxes and gardens along its downtown shopping core. In 2008, Baddeck received Five Blooms, the highest award in the National Community in Blooms program – “People, plants and pride …growing together.
Alexander Graham Bell, compelled by the beauty of Baddeck, chose this area as his summer residence. Today, visitors celebrate Bell’s life’s work through the exhibitions and interactive demonstrations at the Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site.
Baddeck is a bustling resort community boasting over 600 rooms, yet it retains the essence of a quaint village. We have an assortment of accommodations to suit any taste and budget ranging from 5 star suites, to campgrounds nestled in the spruce, along side rivers, lakes or the ocean. Exquisite food can be found in any one of the many restaurants offering everything from our world famous lobster to a steaming cup of seafood chowder or sandwich. Deli’s and bakeries provide healthy alternatives and the opportunity to try out our homemade breads and sweets. Discover our elite shopping in any one of our numerous shops including boutiques, craft, gift, music, and outdoor & sporting shops.
The Harbour at Night
During the summer season it is essential to take advantage of some of our leisure activities such as daily sailing/boat tours, golfing and several hiking trails. Also for evening entertainment several dining rooms provide local talent as well as nightly Ceilidhs, a highlight for any visitor.
History of BaddeckAs in other parts of Cape Breton Island, the first people to settle here were the Mi’kmaq, members of the Wabenaki First Nation people, attracted to this beautiful, serene place by the abundant fish and excellent game. Baddeck, in fact, takes its name from the Mi’kmaq ‘Abadak’ – “place with island near”. That island, just off the shore of Baddeck, was the home of British officer James Duffus, who received a crown grant of the Island in the late 1700’s. He christened the Island Duffus Island and it was not until 1833 when William Kidston married James Duffus’ widow and settled there, that the place got its current name, Kidston Island.
Baddeck owes much to Mr. Kidston who, in addition to being an astute business man, was responsible for the separation of Cape Breton and Victoria Counties and it was he who granted the site of the present Court House to the Village of Baddeck. For many years, only two families made their homes on the shores across from Kidston Island. But by 1881 the village of Baddeck was a thriving community that boasted a shipbuilding business, several hotels, its own post office, a druggist, two tailors, three newspapers, a marble and granite works, a photographic store, a laundry, five doctors, three lawyers and telephone services. The sidewalks were planked, the roadways wide and tree-lined. Baddeck’s library contained over 8,000 volumes! Around Baddeck, in rural communities such as Middle River and North River, prosperous farms dotted the hillsides. Cattle, sheep, swine, goats and poultry were all raised here. Dairy products, fruits and vegetables, were all locally produced.
At Anchor off the Harbour
Twice in its history Baddeck has been struck by tragedy. The first incident was a cholera outbreak in 1908 that left thirty-one people dead. In 1926, on Labour Day, a fire broke out that could not be controlled and before dawn the following morning, twenty buildings had been destroyed. Among our notables we count J.A.D. McCurdy, who made the first manned Canadian flight above the ice of Baddeck Bay in the famous Silver Dart in February 1909. Alexander Graham Bell and his wife, Mabel, made Beinn Bhreagh their summer home for many years. When Mr. Bell retired, he made Baddeck his permanent residence until his death in 1922. |
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Music, Festivals & Events
Don’t forget to join in our celebrations of music at one of our numerous festivals and events! Come, dance to the rhythm of our fiddles and bagpipes at one of our lively Cape Breton Ceilidhs! The sights and sounds will enchant you during the Celtic Colors International Festival. Or take to the highlands during the Cabot Trail Relay Race through some of the world’s most stunning scenery!
Bell Museum – Baddeck
Cabot Trail Relay Race – May 29-30, 2010
A 185 mile/298km, 17 stage relay race through some of the most beautiful scenery in the world. This event involves 70 teams with over 1100 runners…
Canada Day – July 1, 2010 – Come to Baddeck to celebrate Canada Day with lots of activities, music and fireworks.
Baddeck Gathering Ceilidhs
Cape Breton fiddle music and dance. Live performances 7 nights a week.
Bras d’Or Yacht Club Annual Regatta Week – August 1-7, 2010. Sail past, races and evening entertainment.
Alexander Graham Bell National Historic Site
Enjoy Children’s Corner daily with kite-making and experiments along with the 2007 Special Events.
Celtic Colours International Festival – October 8-16, 2010
Cape Breton wide festival including square dances, concerts, workshops and community events.
Evening Entertainment in Baddeck – Silver Dart Lodge, Lynwood, Thistledown Pub ( Wed-Sat), Telegraph House ( Mon-Thurs & Sat).
Gaelic College of Celtic Arts & Crafts
Resides on more than 350 acres in St. Ann’s and is the only institution of its kind in North America. Wednesday Evening Summer Ceilidhs, Seafood Ceilidhs, Gaelic Mod, Festival of Cape Breton Fiddling are just some of the events scheduled this summer & fall. Just 20 minute drive from Baddeck.
The Fall
Highland Village Museum / An Clachain Gaidhealach
Immerse yourself in over 120 years of the Scottish Gaels’ life in Nova Scotia. Visit the only scottish living museum in Nova Scotia. Enjoy the Highland Village Day concert – first Saturday in August and other great events such as Codfish Suppers, Candlelight Tours and much more. Just a 40 minute drive from Baddeck
18 Aug
TODAY – AUG 18, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY
On This Day – Aug 18, 2010
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| 1979 | CANADA'S ROAD TO THE ARCTIC OPENSDawson Yukon – opening of Dempster Highway from Dawson, Yukon, to Inuvik, NWT. |
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And in Today's Canadian Birthdays...Simon Fraser 1776-1862
 fur trader and explorer, was born on this day in 1776 in Mapletown, Near Bennington, Vermont; died at St. Andrews, near Cornwall, Ontario Apr. 19, 1862. Fraser’s father was a Loyalist Captain who was captured by American revolutionaries and died in prison in Albany, New York. Brought up by his uncle Judge John Fraser in Montreal, Simon joined the North West Company as a clerk in 1792. He became a partner in 1801, and from 1805 to 1808 was put in charge of expanding the NWCo. activities in the northern interior of BC, which he called New Caledonia. He founded Fort McLeod (1805), Fort St. James and Fort Fraser (1806) and what is today Prince George (1807), and in 1808 journeyed down the hazardous river that David Thompson later named in his honour, thinking it was the Columbia. In 1809 he transferred to the Athabasca district, then to Red River, where he was arrested by Lord Selkirk in 1816, and later acquitted for complicity in the Seven Oaks Massacre. In 1819, before the union with the HBC, he retired to his estate in Glengarry County on the St. Lawrence, where he died after a long succession of business failures.Also Sir Ernest MacMillan 1893-1973 musical dynamo, composer/conductor, educator, was born on this day in 1893 in Mimico, Ontario; dies in Toronto May 6, 1973. A prodigy who was a professional organist at 15, MacMillan got his Bachelor of Music from Oxford. He edited The Canadian Song Book, used in many Canadian schools, and was Principal of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto 1926-42, and Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto 1927-52. He was appointed conductor of the Toronto Symphony from 1931-56, and the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir 1942-56. He was knighted by George V in 1935. Also Joe Tubman 1897-1975 Also Arthur LeBlanc 1906-1985 Also Gérard Filion 1909 Also Robert Winters 1910-1969 |
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| 1995 | New York New York – Regina PetroCanada pump attendant Dick Assman makes cameo appearance on CBS’s Late Show With David Letterman, after months of jokes – his name is pronounced ‘OSS-man;’ his business triples over the month of August. |
| 1992 | Charlottetown PEI – First day of constitutional negotiation at Charlottetown. |
| 1988 | New York City – Former Canadiens star Guy Lafleur signs with the New York Rangers. |
| 1987 | Toronto Ontario – Denis Boucher signs with the Toronto Blue Jays baseball club. |
| 1986 | Maple Ontario – Folk singers Ian Tyson and Sylvia Fricker, formerly husband and wife, reunite for concert at Kingswood Music Theatre; first Ian and Sylvia performance in eleven years; joined by Judy Collins, Emmylou Harris and Murray McLauchlan. |
| 1981 | Ottawa Ontario – Tom Kent’s Royal Commission on Newspapers Report recommends action to curb the growth of newspaper conglomerates, break up monopolies in Canada. |
| 1978 | Toronto Ontario – Maurice Bolyer dies at age 57; Canada’s ‘King of the Banjo’ and a regular on CBC’s Tommy Hunter TV show since 1965. |
| 1976 | Banff Alberta – Premiers start 3-day 17th annual Conference; no agreement on patriating constitution. |
| 1975 | St. John’s Newfoundland – Premiers start 4-day conference; discuss wage and price controls and shared-cost programs. |
| 1972 | Gravenhurst Ontario – Ottawa declares Norman Bethune birthplace a national historic site, and unveils plaque. |
| 1968 | Toronto Ontario – Canadian National Exhibition opens on a Sunday for the first time. |
| 1961 | Orillia Ontario – Opening of first Mariposa Folk Festival at Oval Park in Orillia; 1,500 people gather over two days to hear the Travellers, Ian and Sylvia and fiddler Al Cherny; Mariposa moves to Toronto in 1964 after fan violence. |
| 1960 | Leopoldville Congo – Canadian peace-keepers man-handled by Congolese troops. |
| 1956 | Baddeck Nova Scotia – Opening of Bell Museum at Baddeck, Nova Scotia; showcasing the life and works of Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922. |
| 1954 | Washington DC – Canada and the United States reach formal agreement on joint construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway. |
| 1946 | Petite-Rivière Quebec – Fire burns down 14 houses in Petite-Rivière, killing nine. |
| 1956 | Baddeck Nova Scotia – Opening of Bell Museum at Baddeck, Nova Scotia; showcasing the life and works of Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922. |
| 1944 | Montreal Quebec – Camilien Houde returns to Montreal after his release from internment camp at Petawawa; former Montreal Mayor held under War Measures Act because of fascist sympathies. |
| 1944 | Trun France – Kitching’s 4th Canadian Armoured division occupies Trun from the north and advances toward St Lambert sur Dives; a squadron of the South Alberta Regiment and a company of infantry from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders prepares a line of defence along the Falaise-Trun-Chambois highway to bar the Germans from breaking out of the pocket; most of the 1st Polish Armoured take up position further east to head off any attempt to break in and extricate the trapped Germans; the rest drive on to Chambois by nightfall but are spread over 10 miles of hilly countryside in numbers too few to link up with Patton’s advancing Americans and Free French forces; Major David Currie assigned to close the gap with 175 men, 16 tanks and 4 MIOs from the 5th Anti-Tank Regiment. |
| 1940 | Ogdensburg New York – William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt sign agreement for Canada-US Permanent Joint Board of Defence after two days of talks; Board composed of senior officials from both countries; to deal with delivery of arms from US factories to Canadian forces, exchange of defence information and other defence matters. |
| 1938 | Gananoque Ontario – William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicate the Thousand Islands (Ivy Lea) Bridge connecting Ontario and New York state. |
| 1935 | New Brunswick – New Brunswickers swelter through the province’s warmest day on record, at 39.4 degrees Celsius. |
| 1925 | Montreal Quebec – Blessing of the cornerstone of l’Oratoire St-Joseph. |
| 1925 | Deux-Montagnes Quebec – Deux-Montagnes incorporated. |
| 1917 | Rigaud Quebec – Army powder magazine explodes at Rigaud. |
| 1914 | Ottawa Ontario – Special fourth session of 12th Parliament meets until August 22; operating under War Measures Act; sets up Canadian Patriotic Fund to assist soldiers’ dependents. |
| 1887 | Comeragh House, Waterford, Ireland – John Palliser 1817-1887 dies; led the Palliser Expedition of 1857-1860 on Canada’s western plains, to study the natural resources of the region and its potential for agricultural development. The expedition Report advised against settlement because of drought conditions they encountered; his name survives in the semiarid corner of southern Alberta and Saskatchewan known as the Palliser Triangle. |
| 1873 | Ottawa Ontario – Appointment of Royal Commission on the Canadian Pacific Railway to replace parliamentary committee; reports October 17. |
| 1869 | Ottawa Ontario – W. Hamilton receives Canada’s first patent, for a fluid meter that measures gases and liquids. |
| 1862 | Montebello Quebec – Julie Bruneau dies; wife of Louis-Joseph Papineau. |
| 1849 | Montreal Quebec – Many businesses close their doors as a commercial recession hits the St. Lawrence Valley. |
| 1843 | Toronto Ontario – George Brown 1818-1880 begins to publish The Banner with his father, Peter c1784-1863; Free Kirk weekly newspaper with Presbyterian and Reform principles. |
| 1837 | Quebec Quebec – Opening of fourth session of fifteenth Parliament of Lower Canada; meets until Aug. 26; after long debate, the Assembly refuses budget subsidies to Gosford, forcing the Governor to act against their wishes. |
| 1833 | Pictou Nova Scotia – Steamship ‘Royal William’ leaves Pictou; will arrive in Gravesend Sept 11; first vessel to cross the Atlantic under steam power. |
| 1704 | Bonavista Newfoundland – Mixed force of French and Native Americans operating out of Placentia besieges the English settlement at Bonavista; destroyed Aug. 29. |
| 1689 | Quebec Quebec – Louis de Buade et de Palluau, Count Frontenac 1622-1698 returns to Quebec from France. |
| 1670 | Quebec Quebec – Jean Talon again appointed Intendant of New France. |
| 1663 | Montreal Quebec – St. Sulpice Seminary obtains Seigneury of Montreal from La Société Notre-Dame de Montréal. |
| 1634 | Quebec Quebec – Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 writes to Cardinal Richelieu outlining the importance of New France. |
| 1621 | Quebec Quebec – Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 sends a list of grievances of Quebec’s habitant settlers to the King, including requests for stronger courts and a military presence, plus a boost in Champlain’s pension. |
| 1603 | Gaspé Quebec – Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 hears of copper mines from the local native people. |
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18 Aug
PAULA GALLANT MURDER
Paula Gallant – Originally from Glace Bay
HALIFAX — Police have made an arrest in a four-and-a-half-year-old murder case involving the death of a Halifax teacher.
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Halifax school , RCMP , CBC News , Glace Bay
The body of Paula Gallant, 36, a native of Glace Bay, was found in the trunk of her car in December 2005.
“No charges have been laid. The investigation is still ongoing, so we can’t release his name,” RCMP Cpl. Joe Taplin said Tuesday.
However, CBC News is reporting the man arrested is Gallant’s husband, Jason MacRae.
Taplin said the joint investigation, involving the Mounties and Halifax police, took a lot of effort.
“It’s been a very intensive and extensive investigation involving a lot of dedicated members that kept working at this file,” he said.
Sheriff’s Deputy takes Jason MacRae into provincial courthouse in Halifax
Police arrest man in five-year-old murder of Halifax school teacher
Gallant’s vehicle was found outside the Beechville Lakeside Timberlea elementary school where she had taught since 1999.
The married mother of one had left home in her car to go shopping earlier in the day.
18 Aug
OBITS – AUG 18, 2010
Obituaries for August 18th, 2010
- John Lundrigan Published August 18th, 2010
CAROL ANNE THOMSON Published August 18th, 2010
- Wayne Cann Published August 18th, 2010
John Darling Published August 18th, 2010
- Evelyn Florence Fraser Published August 18th, 2010
17 Aug
TODAY – AUG 17, 2010 – IN CANADIAN HISTORY
On This Day – August 17, 2010
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| 1774 | SPANISH MARINER DISCOVERS NOOTKA SOUNDNootka Sound BC – Juan Jose Perez Hernandez c l725-1775 discovers Nootka Sound, on the west coast of Vancouver Island, four years before Captain Cook’s arrival; the local Nootka people are skilled whalers and trappers of sea otters. |
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And in Today's Canadian Birthdays..Jean-Pierre Lefebvre 1941
filmmaker, was born on this day in 1941 in Montreal. Lefebvre and his wife and editor Marguerite Duparc have produced many notable films, including Les Maudits Sauvages (1971), Les Dernières fiançailles (1973), Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort (1977) and Les Fleurs Sauvages (1982).
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| 1997 | Liverpool, Nova Scotia- Old Canadian National train station in Liverpool reopens as the Hank Snow Country Music Centre; 83 year old Snow too ill to attend, but donates two vintage cars and one of his rhinestone suits to the centre. |
| 1996 | New York City– Ottawa actor Matthew Perry appears on the cover of TV Guide with his co-stars from the television sitcom Friends. |
| 1995 | Chicago Illinois– U.S. forestry giants Boise Cascade Corp. and Stone Container Corp. say they will merge their Canadian newsprint subsidiaries. |
| 1994 | Quebec Quebec– Quebec City announces it is applying to host the 2002 Olympic Winter Games; awarded to Salt Lake City. |
| 1992 | Croatia– Sergeant Michael Ralph killed when his UN vehicle is blown up by a land mine; combat engineer from St. John’s Newfoundland. |
| 1992 | Ottawa Ontario– Marcel Beaudry appointed Chairman of the National Capital Commission; replacing Jean Pigott; former Mayor of Hull, Quebec. |
| 1990 | Oka Quebec– Canadian Army replaces the SQ at the Kanesatake barricades. |
| 1990 | Montreal Quebec– Olympic deficit swells to $16 billion. |
| 1988 | NWT– Torontonian Jeff MacInnis, 25, and Mike Beedell, 32, of Ottawa, sail their catamaran through the Northwest Passage; first to navigate the Passage by wind power alone. |
| 1985 | Montreal Quebec– Corey Hart plays his first show as an arena headliner before home town crowd of 18,000; on this day his hit single, ‘Never Surrender’ peaks at #3 on the Billboard pop chart. |
| 1983 | St. Louis, Missouri– Former Canadien Jacques Demers appointed trainer of the NHL St. Louis Blues. |
| 1982 | Atlanta Georgia– Montreal catcher Gary Carter the first Expo to reach the 1,000 hit mark, as he hits an infield single against the Atlanta Braves. |
| 1972 | Ontario– Dennis Study on housing shows 6 developers in 10 of Canada’s largest cities own over 50% of stock. |
| 1971 | Ottawa Ontario– Ottawa creates 457 French-speaking units in public service; affects 29,000 employees. |
| 1970 | Osaka Japan– Arthur Erickson 1924- wins top architectural prize for his Canadian pavilion at Expo ’70 in Osaka. |
| 1969 | Montreal Quebec– FLQ bomb explodes in a Ministry of Labour office. |
| 1966 | Toronto Ontario– Beatle John Lennon expresses admiration for American draft dodgers who had fled to Canada; in Toronto news conference. |
| 1965 | Toronto Ontario– Beatles play Maple Leaf Gardens; Toronto Telegram reviewer says, ‘The Beatles whipped Toronto’s teens into ecstatic frenzy last night in two wild 30 minute performances.’ |
| 1965 | Oak Island Nova Scotia– Four treasure seekers drowned in money pit at Oak Island, digging for buried treasure; the gold of Captain Kidd? |
| 1959 | Yukon– Oil first discovered in the Yukon. |
| 1959 | LaSarre Quebec– LaSarre incorporated. |
| 1944 | Chambois France– Canadian Army still trying to close off the Falaise Gap, near the village of Chambois on the River Dives, that is letting parts of the encircled German 7th Army escape annihilation; attack on Hans von Luck’s depleted 125th Panzer Grenadier Regiment; 1st Polish Armoured Division tries to block the German line of retreat just east of the town; first contact made with Patton’s Americans. |
| 1944 | Montreal Quebec– Dr. L.-P. Roy appointed editor in chief of the L’Action Catholique newspaper. |
| 1943 | Sicily Italy– Allied forces gain complete control of Sicily after five week campaign; Canadians have suffered 2,434 casualties since the July 10 invasion. |
| 1943 | Peenemünde Germany– Canadian and British bombers cripple flying-bomb and atomic research site at Peenemünde. |
| 1943 | Quebec Quebec– William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 hosts Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at the sixth Anglo-American War Conference, held in the Chateau Frontenac; the first Quebec Conference plans 1944 landings in France. |
| 1940 | England– RCAF’s No. 1 Fighter Squadron sees action over England in the Battle of Britain. |
| 1940 | Quebec– Ottawa sets up 14 military training centres in Quebec. |
| 1940 | Ogdensburg New York– William Lyon Mackenzie King 1874-1950 meets Franklin D. Roosevelt for two-day conference at Ogdensburg to discuss North American Defence; will sign Ogdensburg Agreement; discuss modifying cash and carry principle for delivery of arms from US factories to Canadian forces. |
| 1936 | Quebec– Maurice Duplessis 1890-1959 leads his Union Nationale to landslide victory in their first Quebec election; Union Nationale 76, Liberals 14; soon brings in promised old age pensions. |
| 1936 | Ottawa Ontario– Bank of Canada starts printing bilingual money. |
| 1936 | Montreal Quebec– Montreal store hit by gas explosion; three killed. |
| 1923 | Toronto Ontario– Failure of the Home Bank, with 71 branches across Canada; some top managers jailed; first chartered bank to go under since Farmer’s Bank in 1911. |
| 1914 | Quebec– Chanteuse Mary Travers (la Bolduc) marries Edouard Bolduc. |
| 1913 | Toronto Ontario– Ontario Department of Instruction again issues Circular #17; bans use of French in Ontario schools past Grade 1. |
| 1911 | Trois-Rivières Quebec– Wilfrid Laurier begins his election campaign in Three Rivers. |
| 1904 | Jonquière Quebec– Jonquière incorporated. |
| 1903 | Walkerville Ontario– Henry Ford incorporates the Ford Motor Company of Canada; starts building cars in a converted wagon works in Walkerville, near Windsor. The first car built by the Company in early 1904 is the 2-cylinder Model C, and a total of 117 cars are made in the first year; a few 4-cylinder Model Bs are also built, and in 1905 the Company adds the new 2-cylinder Model F; in 1906, both the C and B are discontinued, and the Company starts building the low-priced 4-cylinder Model N, and the large 406 cid 6-cylinder Model K; in 1907 the F is phased out, and the new 4-cylinder Model R and Model S made until October 1908, when the Model T makes its debut. |
| 1896 | Bonanza Creek Yukon– George Washington Cormack rips some bark off a tree, and writes on it: “I name this creek Bonanza. George Carmack.” Along with his wife Kate and Indian brothers in law Tagish Charlie and Skookum Jim, stakes a gold claim in the Rabbit Creek tributary of the Klondike River. Within two years, the Klondike Gold Rush will turn nearby Dawson into the largest city north of San Francisco and west of Winnipeg. Within three years, all important creeks in the Klondike valley had been staked out by the gold-seekers. Total value of gold production in the eight years after the find exceeded $100 million. |
| 1889 | Ottawa Ontario– Canadian College of Music opens in Ottawa. |
| 1878 | Ottawa Ontario– Dissolution of the 3rd federal Parliament. |
| 1871 | Old Fort Garry Manitoba– Lt. Governor Adams G. Archibald 1814-1892 negotiates Treaty #2 in Southern Manitoba with Chippewa (Ojibway); awards them 57,452 sq km; $3 per Indian, acreage. |
| 1855 | Nicolet Quebec– First Sisters of the Assumption (Soeurs de l’Assomption) arrive at Nicolet; one year later, on this date, they found la Communauté des Soeurs de l’Assomption. |
| 1833 | Gravesend England– Royal William, built at Quebec, becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic under steam; later the first steamship to fire a gun. |
| 1809 | Montreal Quebec– Construction of Admiral Nelson’s Monument begins; at the top of Jacques Cartier Square. |
| 1775 | Quebec Quebec– Quebec legislative council meets for the first time. |
| 1706 | Quebec Quebec– Quebec law requires taverns to close at 9:00 pm. |
| 1635 | Quebec Quebec– Father Jean de Quen arrives in Quebec; will found a mission for the fishermen and Montagnais at Ange-Gardien (Sept-Iles) in 1651. |
| 1615 | Oro Ontario– Samuel de Champlain c1570-1635 arrives at the Huron village of CahiaguŽ on Lake Simcoe, after traveling down ‘La mer douce’ – Lake Huron. |
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17 Aug
FLORENCE STUDENTS – MOVING ON
Students ready to make transition from junior to senior high school
From left, Lucas Fraser, Clare Fricker, Starlette Dawe and Peter Johnstone (standing) graduated from T.L. Sullivan Junior High in June and will be making the transition to high school in September. Julie Collins – Cape Breton Post
(Good luck in your future endeavours – CAPER)
FLORENCE — Students make a number of transitions on their way to getting a high school diploma. One of the more stressful moves can be the adjustment from junior to senior high school.
Topics :
T.L. Sullivan Junior High School , Memorial Composite High School
Fall is just around the corner and like many other students in the district, Starlette Dawe, Peter Johnstone, Clare Fricker and Lucas Fraser, who completed Grade 9 at Dr. T.L. Sullivan Junior High School, will make the move to Memorial Composite High School in September.
“I’m looking forward to the challenge,” said Dawe. “We’ve all been pretty involved in our school during junior high, both with school and extracurricular activities including student government and the diversity committee.”
Dawe added that it is exciting to be able to pick courses she likes and feels will help her choice of careers.
“We are moving to a semestered system and have to be aware that it will be up to us to do our homework and get our assignments done.”
For all four, being organized and time management are important when it comes to making good grades.
“It’s important to learn in junior high that you do have to keep your eye on the ball and study for tests,” said Johnstone. “One of the things you learn in junior high is that you need to ask questions if you aren’t sure what is required. This is even more important when you are in high school. You have to take responsibility for your own actions if you are going to succeed.”
T.L. Sullivan principal Charles Yorke said as a public school system the school board does spend a lot of time and attention to transitions, moreso to entering school in Grade Primary.
“Going from Grade 9 to 10, we are catching up,” he said. “We do provide students with opportunities to visit the high schools and talk about course selection.”
“You have to take responsibility for your own actions if you are going to succeed.” – Peter Johnstone
Teachers and guidance counsellors play a big role in assisting students in leaving their comfort zone and making a smooth transition from junior to senior high.
“In junior high, students are required to focus on subjects and getting a good mark,” Yorke said. “However, in high school there is the constant reminder of graduation requirements and mandatory credits. It is a significant move for a young person.”
He added that students moving on to high school rebuild their network in relation to staff and finding their niche in terms of involvement.
“They are starting at the bottom of the hill and have to build their way back up to where they were when they completed Grade 9.”
For Fraser, it is important to make good grades, but also to continue to participate in extracurricular activities in high school.
“To be an all round student, it is also important to stay involved with your school and also within your community.”
There is always the concern about fitting in, but that comes with time, said Fricker.
“In junior high you travel as a class, that isn’t the case in high school. You get to meet new people, not just from your home community, but from other areas as well.”
jcollins@cbpost.com
17 Aug
OBITS – AUG 17, 2010
Obituaries for August 17th, 2010
- Vince MacIntyre Published August 17th, 2010
Gerald Dunphy Published August 17th, 2010
Vincent ‘Vince’ Desveaux Published August 17th, 2010
Patrick ‘Frank’ MacIsaac Published August 17th, 2010
- Raymond Willis Hedd Published August 17th, 2010
Reginald Joseph Laffin Published August 17th, 2010
16 Aug
“MYSTERY OF FAITH”
(Note: Have we noticed how long it takes to investigate and settle these charges when one of any degree of prominence is involved? One wonders if there are two sets of laws in Canada, one for the well off and one for us mere mortals. He enjoys warm and comfortable quarters in Ottawa with the best of food and conditions awaiting his ultimate faith. If that had been me charged with boot legging illegal coal, I would have been drawn and quartered by this time. CAPER) Bishop Lahey and ‘the mystery of faith’ Canadian Roman Catholic bishop Raymond Lahey said he hoped “to never again have to deal with such reprehensible behaviour” after overseeing a $15-million, out-of-court settlement to people who, when they were children, were sexually abused by priests. Now he’s turned himself into Ottawa police after being charged with importing and possessing child pornography. Kiddie porn images were found on his laptop during a random search when he was returning from a trip abroad. Archbishop Anthony Mancini of Halifax, “appealed to past victims of abuse and parishioners,” says the Toronto Star, quoting him as stating: “We are going through a very painful, contemporary experience of the mystery of faith. “I call on you to be hopeful because we do believe in new life and in new possibilities.” In a letter of resignation submitted after the porn was found, “I have already left the Diocese to take some much-needed time for personal renewal,” he said. Lahey, 69, was the bishop of Antigonish in Nova Scotia until his exposure. He’s to appear in court on November 4. |
Former Bishop arriving for Meeting with Police
Michael Tutton The Canadian Press
SYDNEY, N.S.–Parishioners at a Nova Scotia diocese where children allegedly endured decades of sexual abuse at the hands of Roman Catholic priests were urged to keep their faith intact Thursday as the man who helped to salve old wounds surrendered to police on child pornography charges.
Archbishop Anthony Mancini of Halifax appealed to past victims of abuse and parishioners in the diocese of Antigonish after Bishop Raymond Lahey turned himself in at Ottawa police headquarters. “We are going through a very painful, contemporary experience of the mystery of faith,” Mancini told a news conference in Sydney. “I call on you to be hopeful because we do believe in new life and in new possibilities.”
Former Bishop arriving at Police HQ in Ottawa
Parishioner John MacEachern said he felt like he’d been punched in the stomach when he learned that his bishop had been charged with possessing and importing child pornography in Ontario. “If it proves to be true, it is just tragic,” said MacEachern, a vice-principal in nearby Glace Bay. MacEachern said Lahey was held in wide esteem in the diocese for his work as theologian and a liturgist, and for brokering a $15 million settlement for parishioners who claimed to have been sexually abused by priests in the area dating back to 1950. He called the 69-year-old priest “the face of the settlement” and the person who was going to help the local church move on from the abuse. “If this thing is true, the contradiction is explosive to the faith of some people,” he said.
In Ottawa, a sombre Lahey climbed out of a black sedan and pushed through a crush of reporters to surrender to the charges that have stunned his flock and shaken an already tarnished institution. Dressed in street clothes and ignoring questions, Lahey was accompanied by Michael Edelson, a high-profile criminal lawyer who represented Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien when he was acquitted this spring of influence-peddling charges. Police say Lahey was later granted bail on conditions until his next court appearance on Nov. 4.
Former Bishop while serving in Newfoundland – Mount Cashel
Mancini began his news conference by speaking directly to those who brought the class-action lawsuit against the diocese. “Let me first speak to those victims of past sexual abuse and to all for whom these recent elements and news rekindles past pain,” he said. “These recent revelations take on the character of another victimization and I wish that it were not so. Because it is not what our community of faith is supposed to be about.”
Ronald Martin, who launched the lawsuit claiming the diocese failed to protect children, said the charges have shaken both his personal faith and his trust in the church. None of the allegations against Lahey has been proven in court. The charges against Lahey were filed 10 days after officials found images of “concern” on his laptop computer at the Ottawa airport as he was returning from a foreign country. He resigned from his post with the diocese of Antigonish on the weekend before news of the charges became public.
OTTAWA (CCN) — A judge has set Bishop Raymond Lahey’s court case to December 16, after one of his lawyers asked for more disclosure of evidence against his client, charged with possession and importation of child pornography. The former bishop of Antigonish, Nova Scotia was expected to appear in an Ottawa courtroom Nov. 4 for a plea. The former bishop of Antigonish was expected to appear in an Ottawa court-room Nov. 4 for a plea. Oct. 2, an Ottawa police spokesman said they had completed their forensic investigation material seized from the Bishop, including his laptop, memory sticks, and cell phones. Bishop Lahey could face additional charges in Nova Scotia. RCMP there executed a search warrant Oct. 13, seizing computers and electronic equipment from Bishop Lahey’s former residences in Antigonish and Sydney. “The forensic analysis of the media seized during the search warrant is still ongoing,” said RCMP media spokes-person Sgt. Brigdit Leger Nov. 2. She indicated this kind of forensic analysis can take several weeks.
Former Bishop awaiting his Faith in Ottawa
The information used to obtain the Nova Scotia search warrant gave a glimpse of the material Ottawa police say they found on Bishop Lahey’s lap-top and other devices: allegedly hundreds of pornographic images and dozens of videos of young men engaged in sexual acts, as well as some images of boys as young as eight to ten.
In Newfoundland, retired St. John’s Archbishop Alphonsus Penney is not commenting about reports he was told 20 years ago Bishop Lahey allegedly kept pornography showing teenaged boys in his rectory when a monsignor in Archbishop Penney’s archdiocese. Media began seeking Archbishop Penney out after a St. John’s priest now living in Florida, Father Kevin Molloy, revealed in early October he had told the archbishop 20 years ago that Shane Earle, a victim of sexual abuse at the Mount Cashel orphanage, had reported seeing pornography in the Father Lahey’s residence. By the time Earle told Molloy the allegations, Father Lahey had already become a bishop in the neighbouring St. George’s diocese, but Archbishop Penney would have been his metropolitan archbishop. Father Molloy said he confronted Bishop Lahey as well. Archbishop Penney resigned as St. John’s Archbishop in 1991, after the diocese’s own investigation into sexual abuse, the Winter Commission Report, revealed he had not exercised proper leadership. “He regrets that because of a number of health issues that he will not be available at this time for interviews,” said a Nov. 2 statement from the arch-diocese. Archbishop Penney, 85, now legally blind, a severe hearing loss and other health issues asked that the media “respect his privacy until such time as he is ready to give a statement.”
Sept. 15, Lahey was stopped by a Canada Border Services agent when she noticed his passport included trips to countries in Southeast Asia and other countries known as sources for child pornography. According to information in a search warrant application, the agent pulled him aside for a secondary examination because of evasive answers and behaviour. After a preliminary investigation, Ottawa Police laid charges of possession and importation of child pornography Sept. 25. Bishop Lahey abruptly resigned as Bishop of Antigonish Sept. 26, without giving any reason except a need for personal renewal.
The Apostolic Nunciature ordered him to go to a monastery in New Brunswick for penitential reasons. The bishop turned himself into police on Oct. 1. Bishop Lahey has been staying at a priests’ residence in Ottawa since Oct. 9, when he turned in his passport to authorities. He had been released on bail of $9,000, ordered to stay away from the Internet, computers or cell phones and from children 18 and under.
Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast, who was Bishop Lahey’s metropolitan when he was Halifax archbishop, issued a statement Oct. 8, saying he had offered the bishop a place to stay since he had nowhere else to go. “I am aware, of course, of the serious charges pending against Bishop Lahey,” Archbishop Prendergast said in the statement. “I pledge our complete cooperation with those responsible for the administration of justice in this case.”
Bishop Lahey denies abuse allegations
Last Updated: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 | 8:13 PM NT
By Mark Quinn CBC News
Former Bishop Reporting to Police
A Roman Catholic bishop facing pornography charges says he never sexually assaulted a former resident of the infamous Mount Cashel orphanage in St. John’s in the early 1980s. Bishop Raymond Lahey denies all claims of abuse made in a civil lawsuit filed by Todd Boland last April in St. John’s. Boland claims sexual assaults, which his lawyer Greg Stack described as “fondling,” happened over four years beginning in 1982. Lahey filed his statement of defence in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland and Labrador Monday. In it, he said that he was responsible for Boland’s care almost three decades ago. “He does admit knowing him and extending what’s referred to as pastoral services to him, but he denies that anything improper happened. That anything of a sexual nature happened,” Stack told CBC News Tuesday.
Stack estimates his law firm has represented more than 100 people who claim they were sexually abused by Catholic priests — many cases resulted in criminal convictions and compensation settlements. “Our experience with the Catholic Church is that they give no quarter. They admit nothing. They fight everything. They put victims through extensive and excruciating discovery hearings, and the like, and we have no indication that this will be any different,” said Stack
Boland’s lawsuit also names the Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John’s, which hasn’t yet filed a defence. Stack expects it will soon.
Lahey resigned from his position as the former head of the diocese of Antigonish in Nova Scotia after being charged in September with possession of child pornography. His trial on those charges is scheduled to begin in April 2011.
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