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Tag Archives: memorial
How funny is death? SPOW Conference Part Two
Or is that really the question I want to ask? I am forever niggled by something having to do with writing obituaries and it has, partly, to do with the reactions from womenfolk and menfolk, children folk too (although less … Continue reading
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Tagged Anne O'Neill, CNN, death, history, humour, memorial, memory, Moscow, Noreen Shanahan, obituary, SPOW, Toronto, World War II
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Timbits and dinosaur poop
Writing the lede to a piece of journalism can feel like dangling from a rope over the abyss. I’m there now, puttering up to write another obituary, sitting in a Queen Street coffee shop while rain thunders down, trying to … Continue reading
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Tagged coffeeshops, death, dinosaur, Earth science, Hawaii, Kerrich, memorial, Noreen Shanahan, obituary, Saskatchewan, Volcano
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A toast to James Pon’s grandfather
James Pon’s grandfather filled my mind during this rail trip from Montreal to Toronto last month. It was he, along with hundreds of other Chinese workers, who built this railway–although on the other side of the Rocky mountains. Last month, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chinese Canadian, CPR, death, head-tax redress, memorial, Noreen Shanahan, obituary, poetry, railway workers, Toronto, Vancouver, VIA
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Loss. Regret.
Writing obituaries sometimes feels like an exercise in loss and regret. The subject has died, of course, and so I lack the opportunity to interview this person. Instead I must gather details of her or his life from colleagues, family, … Continue reading
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Tagged Canada, Chinese Canadian, death, Harley Street, head-tax redress, history, John A. MacDonald, memorial, memory, navvies, obituary, oral history, railway worker
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“Let him rest,” says his widow
When I’m writing an obituary, I live among the family. Not literally, of course, but emotionally. It begins with reading the death notice, usually written by one of the deceased’s children, placed in a newspaper at great cost and twigging … Continue reading
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Tagged Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, Cambridge, death, Globe and Mail, history, Holocaust, memorial, memory, newspaper, obituary, World War II
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Tristan and Isolde
Last weekend I went to see Tristan and Isolde at the magnificent Four Seasons Centre in downtown Toronto, performed by the Canadian Opera Company. My sister Kathleen invited me because her friend wasn’t able to attend. Our orchestra seats were ten rows … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Ben Heppner, Canadian Opera Company, death, Four Seasons Centre, memorial, Queen's University, Toronto, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner
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Virginia and Roger
I have lost friends, some by death… others through sheer inability to cross the street. In this madly slap-dash way we’re living, with twisted wires limply cascading from our ears and the steady thrum of recorded voice pressing against our … Continue reading
Aside
December 17, 2012
Tagged art, biography, death, history, memorial, poetry, Roger Frye, suicide, Virginia Woolf, women
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