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Obit: Anthony Adamson (1906-2002)

Obit: Canadian arts patron Bluma Appel (1919-2007)

Obit: media mogul Izzy Asper (1932-2003)

Obit: Harry Barberian, restaurateur (c1930-2001)

Profile: artist Aba Bayefsky (1923-2001)

 Obit: Eric Armour Beecroft (1903-2001)

Obits: Alfred D. Benjamin (d.1900); Frank Benjamin (d.1937)

Obit: Annie Black, Peterborough pioneer (d. 1980)

Obit: Roger Boisvert, internet pioneer in Japan

Obit: Reuben Brainin (1862-1939)

Obits: Hyman Breslin (d 1934); Reva Breslin (1918)

Obit: film worker Bill Brodie (1931-2002)

Obit: Jack Burghardt, broadcaster, politician, lay preacher (1929-2002)

Obit: Bill Carrick, wildlife photographer (1920-2002)

Obit: Julia Ching (1934-2001), professor of Chinese

Obit: General Choi Hong Hi, grand master of taekwon-do

Obit: Rabbi Moses B. Clavir (1857-1928)

Obit: Movie pioneer Arthur Cohen (1880-1975)

Obit: Matt Cohen (1942-1999)

Obit: Sam Cohen, WWII veteran (d. 2007) (Gasner)

 Obit: artist E. B. Cox (1914-2003)

Obit: Ross Dowson (2002)

Many at funeral of Flora Draimin (1842-1925)

Obit: Dorothy Dworkin (1890-1976)

Obit: Yiddish writer Yehuda Elberg (1912-2003)

Obit: Eugene Fairweather (1920-2002)

Service for Reb Israel Fortinsky (d.1977)

Obit: Barbara Frum, CBC broadcaster (1937-1992) (Rose)

Obit: Adam Fuerstenberg (1939-2016) 

Profile: Cynthia Gasner, community worker (CJN profile, 1986)

Obit: Sylva Gelber (1910-2003)

Obit: David Gold, joined Jewish Brigade (d. 1984)

Obit: Lillian Gollom, loyal Mount Sinai volunteer (d. 2000) (Rose)

Obit: Eddie Goodman, lawyer, political power broker (1918-2006)

Obit: Rebbetzin Lifsha Gordon (1938)

Obits: Goodman, Graubart, Grosberg & Hausman mourned (1982)

Obit: Joseph Wolfe Gordon (1937)

News: Esther Greenberg, age 7, accidentally shot (1915)

Obits: Fanny Green (d.1971), Moshe Grossman (1962), Esther Harris (1962)

Ing Quong, Chinese magnate, in his last procession (1912)

Obit: Rabbi Isaac Halpern (d. 1922)

Obit: Julius Hayman, Jewish Standard publisher (d. 2000)

Obit: folksinger Wade Hemsworth (1916-2002)

Obit: MPP Lorne Henderson (1920-2002)

Obit: pediatric neurosurgeon E. Bruce Hendrick (1924-2001)

Obit: King of Spadina, Harry Henig dies at 91 (2000) (Rose)

Obit: Dr. Daniel Hill (1923-2003)

Memorial to Rabbi Israel Hurwitz of Toronto (d. 1979)

Obit: Florence Hutner (1907-1992) (Rose)

Obit: Eli Hyman, the Jewish miser (d. 1902)

Obit: Mrs. Edith Jacobs of Holy Blossom (d. 1911)

Obit: Ben Kayfetz (1916-2002)

Obit: Samuel Kernerman, man of three centuries (d. 2000) (Rose)

Obit: Rabbi Jacob Mendel Kirshenblatt (c1904 – 2002) (Gasner)

Obit: Josef Krystal, 74, Labour Zionist activist (2000) (Rose)

Obit: restaurateur Herman Ladovsky (1912-2002) (Gasner)

Obit: Justice Paul Lamek (2001)

Obit: Isabel LeBourdais (1909-2003)

Obit: Louis Levinsky (1862-1932)

Obit: Barnet Markson (1914-2014)

Obit: Frank Marsh (2001)

Profile: Honest Ed Mirvish (2001)

Obit: deputy police chief Jim Noble (1924-2003)

Obit: Meyer Joshua Nurenberger (1911-2001) 

Obit: Rabbi David Ochs (1905-1985) (Gasner)

Obit: herniologist Nicholas Obney (1918-2003)

(Profile & Obit) The Ostrys: a legacy of accomplishment in public life (Gasner)

Obit: Chaim Potok (1929-2002)

Obit: William George Poy (1907-2002)

Ing Quong, Chinese magnate, in his last procession (1912)

Obit: Harry Rasky, Film Pioneer (2007)

Obit: Mordecai Richler (1931-2001)

Obit: William Rosenthal (d. 2008) (Gasner)

Obit: Elazar (Louis) Rotenberg, ran steamship agency (1936)

Obit: Henry Roth, author of Call It Sleep (1907-1996)

Obit: Eva Rothblott (1918-2012)

Obit: Samuel Sachs, long-time Goel Tzedec rabbi (1989)

A Remembrance of J.D. Salinger (1919-2010)

Obit: Sarah Salsberg dead at 94 (1977)

Obit: gallery curator Ken Saltmarche (1920-2003)

Obit: Edmund Scheuer (1847-1943)

The Man Who Would Be Messiah (Schneerson) (1999)

Obit: Toronto fire chief Walter Shanahan (1931-2002)

Obit: public servant Gerry Shannon (1935-2003)

Obit: builder, philanthropist Max Sharp (c1902-2004) (Gasner)

Obit: Nachman Shemen (d. 2003)

Obit: William Sherman was Lipsker society president for 60 years (Gasner)

Obit: judge and sailing devotee Livius Sherwood (1923-2002)

Obit: Sam Shopsowitz, hot-dog king, dead at 63 (1984)

Obit: comedian Frank Shuster (1916-2002)

Obit: Simcha Simchovitch, eminent Yiddish writer (2017)

Obit: Jacob Singer (d. 1911)

Obit: Rabbi Reuben Slonim (d. 2000) (Rose)

Obit: Nathan Smith (d. 1936)

Obit: Sports hero Harry Sniderman (1976)

(Sorblum) Toronto’s Jewish ‘Unknown Soldier’ from WWI 

Obit: J. Murray Speirs (2001)

Obit: Mandel Sprachman (1925-2002)

Obit: Dr. Arthur Squires (1909-2002)

Obit: Admiral Antony Storrs (1907-2002)

Community mourns passing of Pierre Elliott Trudeau (2000)

Obit: A. Douglas Tushingham, ROM archaeologist (1914-2002)

Obi: William Tutte, mathematician and codebreaker (1917-2002)

Obit: Miriam Waddington (2004)

Obit: Nancy Wade Stadler, Toronto librarian (1948-2002)

Obit: Ben Weider, built bodybuilding empire (1923-2008)

Obit: Mary Wilensky (d. 1958)

Memorial service to honour former Toronto Rabbi Gershon Winer (Gasner)

Obit: Dr. Nestor Yanga, Toronto SARS victim (1948-2003)