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2009: The Departed

From famous names to some we hardly knew, they all made news with their passing

JANUARY NOVEMBER

Helen Suzman, 91,was a cele-
brated South African MP and
anti-apartheid campaigner.
Gilbert (Gib) Parent, 73, was a
St. Catharines MP who served
two terms as Speaker of the
House but never lost sight of
his working-class roots.
MARCH
Maynard (Sam) George, 56,
campaigned relentlessly for a
public inquiry into the death of
his brother, Anthony (Dudley)
George, who was shot to death
by an Ontario Provincial Police
officer during a burial ground
protest at Ipperwash Provincial
Park late at night on Sept. 6,
Maria del Carmen Bousada,
69, was believed to have been
the world’s oldest new mother.
After getting in vitro fertiliza-
tion, she gave birth to twins in
December 2006 when she was
66.
Sheila Lukins, 66, author of Sil-
ver Palate helped change the
way North America eats.
SEPTEMBER
Claude Levi-Strauss, 100, was
widely considered the father of
modern anthropology for work
that included theories about
commonalities between tribal
and industrial societies.

1995.

JUNE

Lasantha Wickrematunge, 50,

was a prominent Sri Lankan
journalist and outspoken critic
of the government’s war on
ethnic Tamil rebels. Three days
after he was slain, execution
style, Wickrematunge’s news-
paper published a self-written
obituary blaming the govern-
ment for killing him.
Jojo — Javed Yazamy, also
known as Javed Ahmad, 23,
was shot dead in Kandahar
city. Known as the “Fixer,” he
was the go-to guy for reporters
getting around Kandahar.
Omar Bongo, 73, was the
world’s longest-serving presi-
dent whose 42-year rule of Ga-
bon was a throwback to an era
when Africa was ruled by “Big
Men.”
Walter Cronkite, 92, pioneered
and then mastered the role of
television news anchorman
with such plain-spoken grace
that he was called the most
trusted man in America.
Crystal Lee Sutton, 68, was
the union organizer whose re-
al-life stand on her worktable
at a textile factory in North
Carolina in 1973 inspired the
Academy Award-winning
movie Norma Rae.
Brian Cochrane, 56: Former
president of CUPE Local 416
represented city outside work-
ers from amalgamation in 1998
to 2008, a tenure that included
the 2002 garbage strike.

Norman E. Borlaug, 95, was a Pat Quinn, 74, was a larger-

Jean Pelletier, 74, was the for-
mer mayor of Quebec City and
chief of staff to former Prime
Minister Jean Chrétien.
Dr. Burnett M. Thall, 86, was
the last surviving original
member of the five-family
group that started the trust
when they teamed up to pur-
chase the Star from the Atkin-
son Foundation in 1958.
Harry Patch, 111, was the last
surviving British soldier of
World War I.
Justice Stephen Borins, 74,
served on the Ontario Court of
AUGUST
Appeal.
Nobel Peace Prize winning than-life Toronto personality
plant scientist who did more and restaurant owner.
than anyone else in the 20th
century to teach the world to
feed itself and whose work was
credited with saving hundreds
of millions of lives.

MAY
Doug Fisher, 89, was a re-
nowned columnist and former
member of Parliament.

Marguerite, Baroness de Reu- Roméo LeBlanc, 81, was the

ter, 96, was a European aristo-
crat from a bygone age and the
last survivor of the family that
founded the international news
agency.
FEBRUARY
Millard Fuller, 74, founded
Habitat for Humanity Interna-
tional, along with his wife, Lin-
da, in Georgia, 1976.
David G. Humphrey, 83, re-
spected lawyer and judge,
stuck his foot out from the Ar-
gonaut sidelines at the 1957
Grey Cup at Varsity Stadium
preventing a certain Hamilton
Tiger Cat touchdown.
Jack Kemp, 73, was a former
Buffalo Bills quarterback who
turned fame on the gridiron in-
to a career in U.S. politics and a
crusade for lower taxes.
first Acadian to serve as gover-
nor-general, the New Bruns-
wick native was also press sec-
retary to Pierre Trudeau.
Jerri Nielsen FitzGerald, 57, di-
agnosed and treated her own
breast cancer at a remote Ant-
arctic research station. Her in-
spirational story, including her
dramatic evacuation in 1999,
became the stuff of headlines.
JULY
Corazon Aquino, 76, former
president of the Philippines
swept away dictator Ferdinand
Marcos with a “People Power”
revolt in 1986.
Donald Marshall, 55, was a
Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq who
transformed aboriginal fishing
rights in Canada and brought
scrutiny to the province’s jus-
tice system after spending 11
years in prison for a murder he
didn’t commit.
DECEMBER
William Safire, 79, was a
White House speechwriter in
the Richard Nixon years, a Pu-
litzer Prize-winning conserva-
tive columnist and a formida-
ble political pundit.
OCTOBER
Paul Samuelson, 94, won a
Nobel Prize for applying math-
ematical analysis to econom-
ics, helped shape tax policy in
the Kennedy White House and
wrote a textbook read by mil-
lions of students.
Hank Young: 68, was an icon
at the Gladstone Hotel in west-
end Toronto, known as much
for his country and western
songs as his big heart.

David Pecaut, 54, was a pas-

sionate city-builder and co-
founder of Toronto’s Luminato.

Molly Kool, 92, was a native of
New Brunswick who in the
1930s and ’40s plied the lash-
ing waters of the Bay of Fundy
as the first North American
woman to be a licensed ship’s
captain. In 2006, she was offi-
cially recognized by Ottawa as
the first woman to hold cap-
tain’s papers.
Arthur Erickson, 84, was an in-
ternationally renowned Van-
couver architect who gained
acclaim for his design for Si-
mon Fraser University. Roy
Thomson Hall is his Toronto
signature piece.
Robert McNamara, 93, served
as U.S. defence secretary dur-
ing the Vietnam war and the
Cuban Missile Crisis. After
leaving the Pentagon, he be-
came president of the World
Bank.
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 88,
carried on the Kennedy fami-
ly’s public service tradition by
founding the Special Olympics
and championing the rights of
the mentally disabled.
Jack Poole, 76, was the man
who brought the 2010 Winter
Olympics to Vancouver.
Oral Roberts, 91: Pioneer in te-
levangelism founded a multi-
million-dollar ministry and a
university that bears his name.

James Page Mackey, 95, was
the longest-serving Toronto
police chief since the modern
force was formed in the 1950s.
Millvina Dean, 97, was the last
survivor of the sinking of the Ti-
tanic. She was just over 2
months old when the ocean lin-
er hit an iceberg on the night of
April 14, 1912.
Charles Gonthier, 80, former
Supreme Court judge served as
watchdog over Canada’s elec-
tronic spy agency.
Edward Kennedy, 77, was the
last surviving brother in a polit-
ical dynasty and one of the
most influential U.S. senators
of his time.
Taylor Mitchell, 19: Toronto
singer died in a Nova Scotia
hospital after being mauled by
coyotes in a Cape Breton park. Jean-Robert Gauthier, 80, was
a former senator and long-time
Ottawa Liberal MP.