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Reilly was born to Protestant Irish immigrants, the 13th of 16 children of James Reilly and Mary Jane Whiteside, and his family settled in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and ran a grocery store. His wife, Hilda Beulah Huffman, died in 1978. He was the father of Lenore, Lynne and stepson, Nick, and he was predeceased by daughter Lois.
She and Dorothy Hague were the first women reeves or mayors in the Toronto area. [29] 1963-1964 Leonard E. Ford - advocated the merger of Long Branch with Mimico and New Toronto rather than amalgamation of Metro Toronto. [30] 1965-1966 Thomas Berry - grew up in a London orphanage as his merchant seaman father was unable to care for him.
Morton Shulman was born on 25 April 1925, in Toronto, Ontario, where he also grew up and was educated. [1] Shulman received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Toronto in 1948. [ 1 ] Shulman practiced throughout his professional life with a general practice on Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto. [ 2 ]
Alan Redway, PC KC (March 11, 1935 – January 4, 2024) was a Canadian lawyer and politician.. After a career in municipal politics culminating in the role of mayor of East York, a borough of Metropolitan Toronto, Redway entered federal politics.
Lori Bruner (January 24, 1932 – December 18, 2009, Toronto, Ontario, Canada) was one of the preeminent women during the 1950s and 1960s to break through the glass ceiling within the male-dominated Canadian record industry.
The death of Regis Korchinski-Paquet, a 29-year-old Indigenous-Ukrainian-Black Canadian woman, occurred in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on May 27, 2020. Responding to multiple 911 calls from Korchinski-Paquet, her mother, and her brother, for a domestic disturbance involving punches, thrown bottles, and knives, police attended her apartment.
Aileen Williams was presented with an Ontario Senior Achievement Award in 2008. [7] When speaking to The Toronto Observer at the event, William's said in regard to African Canadians living in Toronto in 1940, “We never used to have any voice back then,” she said. “Things have improved a lot.” She died in Mississauga on August 31, 2015. [1]
Godfrey was born in Toronto, Ontario on December 19, 1942. His father, Senator John Morrow Godfrey (June 28, 1912 – March 8, 2001), was a Canadian pilot, lawyer and politician. John Godfrey graduated from Upper Canada College in 1960. [1] In 1961, he attended the Neuchâtel Junior College in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. [2]