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2008
Sunday Apr 6, 2008 Theatre maven who founded the Centaur's precursor
Mary Morter unwittingly laid the foundations of Montreal's Centaur Theatre when in 1965 she opened a lunchtime repertory theatre that presented a different one-act play in Place Ville Marie five days a week. ALAN HUSTAK, The Gazette www.legacy.com
2007
Friday, December 14, 2007 Funeral held for Jacques Hébert
Tuesday Dec 4, 2007 Lili, the tease, uncovered
She was not born in Quebec, was not French Canadian and did not spend all that much time in Montreal..
Monday Jun 5, 2006 Andre Vecsei. Dies;
"Two of his most interesting buildings - the former headquarters of the Engineering Institute of Canada on Mansfield, and the former head office of ICAO, are fine monuments to his memory."
In 1984, Vecsei and his wife, who was responsible for the design of La Cite, the development on Park Ave., started their own firm.
Together, they completed an extension for College Marie de France and designed the Dollard des Ormeaux civic centre and several municipal libraries on the island.
He retired three years ago.
An avid equestrian, he was a member of the hunt club in Deux Montagnes for 25 years, had a pilot's license, was an antique book collector, and wrote several unpublished novels.
Vecsei also taught at Dawson and Vanier colleges and often lectured at McGill University.
He is survived by his wife of 54 years, their son and their daughter, and by his sister in Budapest.
Canadian poet Irving Layton 1912-2006 died Wednesday in a Montreal The 93-year old poet, who was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature, had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Mr. Layton published more than 40 books of poetry and prose over more than five decades
Once described as being both "the Picasso and the Mae West of poetry," Layton will be remembered not only for his often erotic verse but also for his abrasive ego, outrageous opinions, entertaining love life and bitter feuds, as well as for being a provocative, stimulating teacher.
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2005
Tuesday Sep 20, 2005 Richard Holden, the former Equality Party MNA who enraged his
Westmount constituents by crossing the floor to the Parti Quebecois, has died.
"Canada was a very wonderful country," Holden said three years before the 1995
sovereignty referendum, delighting in rattling the teacups of the
Westmount establishment from which he came. "I was very pleased to be a
Canadian, but it is not the country I once knew."
2004
October 21, 2004 Biography of a successful Irish Montrealer
October 19, 2004 BIOGRAPHY OF SIR WILLIAM HINGSTON TO BE LAUNCHED AT GALA RECEPTION
The three political leaders gathered for the launch of a book on Sir William Hingston, a noted Montrealer of Irish descent who was a surgeon, banker and the city's 16th mayor.
The book by Montreal Gazette reporter Alan Hustak was written at the request of Concordia University. All proceeds will go to a scholarship in Hingston's name and to add new courses on Irish studies.
Saint Patrick's of Montreal:
The Biography of a Basilica by Alan Hustak.
Parent church to Montreal's 250,000 English-speaking Roman Catholics, Saint Patrick's was built between 1843 and 1847 by an association of clerics from France, the Company of Priests of Saint Sulpice. The building that stands is much larger and far more important in stature than the one originally planned. At first the church was to be nothing more than an auxiliary chapel of the existing French-language parish church of Notre Dame on Place d'Armes. Events, however, conspired to bestow Saint Patrick's with more authority and influence than anyone at the time could have envisioned. Biography of a successful Irish Montrealer
2004
Jack Cole, who died at the Chateau Westmount special care home on Oct. 17, was a philanthropist who spent 44 years at Wood Gundy in Montreal.
He worked his way up the corporate ladder to became vice-chairperson of the brokerage firm.
When Cole's only daughter, Penny, died after an eight-year fight with leukemia on her 20th birthday in 1967, Cole and his wife became some of the Montreal Children's Hospital's biggest boosters.
Cole, who was 94, established the Penny Cole laboratory at the hospital and endowed a chair in hematology and oncology for the hospital through McGill University.
Dr. Michael Oliver O.C., the Montreal academic who was the founding president of the New Democratic Party was a spirited idealist and economic socialist who worked to bridge the divide between French and English Canada.
He was 79. Between 1993 and 1996 Oliver was president of the United Nations
Association in Canada. The charitable organizations promotes the work of the
U.N. in Canada.
"He was a dedicated and helpful member who contributed to the association by
his his hard work and by his enthusiasm," said Geoffrey Pearson, the
organization's past president.
Oliver's wife Joan Nelson a biochemist and psychologist whom he married
in 1948, died in 2001.
They had five children, three sons and two daughters.
Wednesday Jul 7, 2004 Irwin Leopold
Mon May 10 2004
TRUDEAU CABINET MINISTER Eric KIERANS DIES AT 90 a headstrong economic Canadian nationalist,
left- wing capitalist and one of the most inventive political minds
in the Quebec and federal Liberal governments during the 1960s and
1970s, died yesterday morning at St. Mary's Hospital after a mild
stroke. He was 90. Kierans was Quebec's minister of revenue, and later minister of
health, in Jean Lesage's cabinet from 1963 to 1968. He was
postmaster-general and minister of communications in Pierre
Trudeau's government from 1968 to 1971.
Appropriately, the symbol of Wednesday Night is a glowing candle, as much a symbol of the warm, candle-lit atmosphere of Wednesday Night, as of the flame of wisdom, sparked by the many fine minds that are so much a part of these unique evenings.
see Harry Mayerovitch ALAN HUSTAK with a menu of many W-N pages
Harry Mayerovitch, architect, ranconteur, illustrator author and
Montreal's most mecurical senior, who was feted at the launch of his
latest book at the Blue Metropolis festival two weeks ago, died in his
sleep yesterday on his 94th birthday. His last book, Way to Go,
was, ironically, an irreverent look at death and dying.
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Friday 19 Mar 2004 Lieutenant-Colonel Pierre Sevigny dies
[by ALAN HUSTAK]
Pierre Sevigny, a Second World War hero, died Saturday in the Royal Victoria Hospital. He was 87. Lt-Col. Sevigny, a Progressive Conservative cabinet minister in John Diefenbaker's cabinet in the 1960s,
Pierre Sevigny, a Second World War hero who, as a Progressive Conservative cabinet minister in the 1960s
Sévigny lost his leg in the Battle of the Rhine. He was awarded the Polish equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
BOURKE, R. David. On May 31, 2003 as the result of an accident. Beloved husband of Marlene, loving father of Meredith Mozer (Richard) and Thomas, caring stepfather of Eric Foch (Brooke) and Tony. Cherished grandfather of Lauren, Gabrielle, Trevor and Ryan. Brother of Mitchell and Douglas.
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David Bourke was an indefatigable volunteer. David Bourke was an architect with a social conscience who, for 14 years, was secretary- general of McGill University, twice served as interim director of Montreal's McCord Museum, and was a member of the Dawson College board of directors.
 Thursday Oct 17, 2002
1929 - 2002
A lot of prayer
Father Griffin was an effective counsellor.CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION PARISHWhen Father Richard Griffin died last Saturday, few people at the Church of The Ascension of our Lord in Westmount could recall a time when he wasn't their priest.
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Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1908 - 2003
John Pratt, [by ALAN HUSTAK] was mayor of Dorval from 1955 to 1964. He died at home Sunday at age 96.
John Pratt once described himself as an architect by profession, a politician by default and an entertainer by birth.
The debonair song and dance man and gifted comic, who was mayor of Dorval from 1955 to 1964, a Progressive Conservative member of Parliament from 1957 to 1962, and the producer of entertainment at Expo 67, died at home on Sunday at age 96. w-n slide show
Alan Hustak books
12/30/2005  Downtown Montreal: Walking Tours To The Downtown Squares, Churches, And Underground City
12/15/2005  Exploring Old Montreal: An Opinionated Guide To Its Streets, Churches, And Historic Landmarks
January, 1998  Downtown Montreal: An Opinionated Guide to the Downtown Squares, Churches, and Underground City (Walking Tours of Montreal)
03/01/1999  Titanic: The Canadian Story
January, 1998  Saint Patrick's of Montreal
more Books by Alan Hustak
Alan Hustak
Author, journalist, and broadcaster, Alan Hustak was born in Saskatchewan and educated by Jesuits. He moved to Montreal in 1967 and worked for the CBC before being named CTV Quebec bureau chief. He was briefly stationed in Alberta, where he wrote a biography of the then-premier, Peter Lougheed. He is also the author of St. Patrick’s, The Biography of a Basilica, which was nominated for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction in 1998. His book The Murder of Mary Gallagher, The True Story of the Ghost of Griffintown, published in 2005, has been optioned for a movie. His other book published that year, Sir William Hingston, 1829-1907: Montreal Mayor, Surgeon and Banker, was a finalist for the 2005 Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction.
Books by Alan Hustak
Sir William Hingston 1829-1907
Ghost of Griffintown
Saint Patrick's of Montreal
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