Survivor of a community erased by Nazis built monuments to the Jews of Wolyn
There is anger that destroys monuments, and there is anger that builds them. Misha Wajsman's was the construction kind.One of the few survivors from an area of Poland that was marked by death and destruction during the Second World War, he spent most of his life working as a sales manager in a Montreal meat business but felt forever compelled to help build memorials for the thousands of Jews who died in his hometown. He also became a front-line advocate for the Soviet Jewry movement in Canada in the 1970s.
CHARLIE BROWN 86
Charlie Brown was a former U.S Air Force pilot whose encounter with a Luftwaffe pilot who later settled in Canada is one of the few documented acts of chivalry during air combat in the Second World War.
LORNE McLAREN 80
Lorne McLaren was a former Saskatchewan cabinet minister who was convicted of defrauding taxpayers of almost $1-million.The president of a farm-implement manufacturer in Yorkton, he was first elected to the legislature in 1982 and was soon made minister of labour in the Progressive Conservative government of Grant Devine. In 1986, he became government caucus chair and retired in 1991.
LAST WORDS
I'd hate to die twice. It's so boring.Richard Feynman, physicist,1918-1988
Robert (Bob) Sutherland
Bob was an only child and grew up in Edmonton. He and his lifelong partner and dauntless supporter, Daurel, raised three children, Jim, Francis and Patti.Bob loved adventure in all its forms. When the backcountry was opening up for skiing, he helped discover a wide swath of powder ski runs in the mountains of Western Canada. He would tell humorous stories of these escapades. On one ski expedition, he was the only one to bring toilet paper. His newfound popularity was short-lived as the leader expropriated the entire roll for the ''good of the group.''
