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Joseph E. Atkinson married in Toronto on April 18, 1892, to Elmina Ella Susannah Elliott of Oakville, Ontario. [4] Like her husband, Elliott Akinson was a member of the staff of the Toronto Globe. [5] Under the nom-de-plume of "Madge Merton" she worked as a journalist for the Montreal Herald and the Toronto Daily Star. [5]
Garry Hoy (January 28, 1954 – July 9, 1993) was a Canadian lawyer who died when he fell from the 24th floor of his office building at the Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto, Ontario. In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the building's glass windows were unbreakable, he threw himself against the glass.
Names are reported under the date of death, in alphabetical order. A typical entry reports information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent nationality (if applicable), what subject was noted for, cause of death (if known), and a reference.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
[30] 44 1917 CGS Simcoe (1909) Shipwreck Sank near the Magdalen Islands, Quebec: No survivors 43 1922 Great Fire of 1922: Wildfire Timiskaming District, Ontario 43 2003 2003 SARS outbreak Outbreak: Toronto, Ontario Out of a total of 251 cases 43 1942 German submarine U-754: Shipwreck Sank near Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
A rail bridge crossing the Wanapitei River near the community of Wanup collapsed, causing a train derailment and spilling a number of cars carrying containers into the river. [62] 2013 Ottawa bus–train crash: 18 September 2013: Ottawa, Ontario: 6: 35: Via Rail train 51 struck an OC Transpo double-decker bus en route from Ottawa to Toronto at ...
The Toronto Star is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and part of Torstar's Daily News Brands division. [6] The newspaper was established in 1892 as the Evening Star and was later renamed the Toronto Daily Star in 1900, under Joseph E ...
He died at the Princess Margaret Hospital in Toronto on 29 June 2007. [1] The death was announced the following day on the comp.sys.cbm newsgroup, [21] and later in Toronto Star and Edmonton Journal obituaries. [1] [22] Numerous tributes to Butterfield were published online and in the mainstream and computing press.