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Prominent Canadians Who Died in 2010 Prominent Canadians who 19 - Wade Brown, 63, guitar slinger who played 18 - Devon Clifford, 30, drummer for the died in 2010 alongside blues legend Dutch Mason for years, Canadian dance-rockers You Say Party! We Say at home in Truro. Die!, of a massive brain hemorrhage. The Canadian Press MARCH MAY JANUARY 9 - Corey Haim, 38, Canadian actor, of 1 - Rob McConnell, 75, Canadian jazz musician pneumonia complications, in Burbank, Calif. who led Toronto’s Boss Brass orchestra, of 4 - Norman Carter, 72, gay rights activist from Nova Scotia who made headlines after marrying 12 - David Ahenakew, 76, former Saskatchewan cancer. his partner of more than 30 years, at his Amherst aboriginal leader who was stripped of the Order 1 - Lawrence Paul, 84, former chief of Nova home. of Canada for calling Jews a "disease," of Scotia’s Membertou First Nation and founder of cancer. the Native Alcohol and Drug Abuse Counselling 7 - Garnet Brown, 79, a former cabinet minister and member of the Nova Scotia legislature. Association. 12 - Robert Attersley, 76, longest-serving mayor of Whitby, Ont. (1980-91), and Olympic silver 5 - Jim Nelson, 88, career journalist who 8 - Bob Comfort, 69, who left an Edmonton talk medallist with the 1960 Kitchener Waterloo pioneered the job of press secretary to the prime show to become a scriptwriter in Hollywood. Dutchmen. minister 60 years ago. 14 - P.K. Page, 93, prolific author and winner of 5 - Gwyn (Jocko)Thomas, 96, who covered the the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. 15 - Dan Achen, 51, former lead guitarist for the police beat for the Toronto Star for 50 years, Hamilton rock band Junkhouse, of a suspected won three National Newspaper Awards and was 15 - Ron Meyers, 75, longtime Manitoba heart attack. inducted into the Canadian News Hall of Fame provincial court judge, heart attack, at his in 1995. Winnipeg home. 20 - Dorothy Corrigan, 96, the only woman to serve as mayor of Charlottetown (1968-71) 8 - Gary McPherson, 63, chaired the Alberta 18 - Kate McGarrigle, 63, internationally acclaimed folk singer, of cancer, at her Montreal since its incorporation in 1855. premier’s council for the disabled, became a leader in wheelchair and paralympic sports, home. 20 - Obediah (Johnny) Yesno, 71, First Nation earning him the Order of Canada and the actor, orator and residential school survivor. Alberta Order of Excellence. 21 - Paul Quarrington, 56, award-winning author, filmmaker, playwright and musician, of lung cancer. 21 - Thomas Crowther, 87, longtime publisher 12 - Charlie Francis, 61, Ben Johnson’s former of the Daily Gleaner in Fredericton. track coach during the 1988 Olympic steroid scandal, of cancer. 31- Keith Norton, 69, high-profile Ontario 29 - Chester Johnson, 84, a B.C. forest industry Conservative cabinet minister who championed leader and former chairman of BC Hydro and 18 - Dr. Martha Bielish, 94, served as the first gay rights and battled age discrimination as the Vancouver Airport Authority. female senator from Alberta from 1979-90. head of the provincial human rights commission, died of cancer. APRIL 23 - Gregory Evans, 96, former Ontario chief justice and member of the Ontario Supreme 31 - Old Crow elder Edith Josie, 88, whose 1 - Edward Bayda, 78, former chief justice of Court from 1976 to 1985, and Ontario integrity writings reflected the Yukon’s northernmost Saskatchewan, in hospital in Turkey. commissioner for 10 years starting in 1988, in community to the world and helped earn her an Orillia, Ont. Order of Canada. 4 - Matthew Cook, 22, sledge hockey player who inspired Canada’s team at the Paralympic 28 - Doug Harkness, 71, considered the dean of FEBRUARY Games in Vancouver, of cancer. Maritime harness racing and editor of the Atlantic Post Calls newspaper. 3 - Lindsay Thomas, 31, Canadian stage actress, 6 - Eddie Carroll, 76, the Edmonton-born actor of lung cancer. who was the voice of Disney’s Jiminy Cricket 30 - Duff Roblin, 92, Manitoba’s premier from and an acclaimed Jack Benny impersonator, 1958-67, in a Winnipeg hospital. 9 - Jacques Hetu, 71, prolific Quebec composer, from a brain tumour, in hospital in Los Angeles. awarded the title of officer of the Order of 31 - Chris Haney, 59, co-created Trivial Pursuit Canada in 2001. 9 - Sadie Agnes MacPherson, 106, one of the with Scott Abbott, after a long illness. oldest residents of Nova Scotia, in Colchester 11 - Heward Grafftey, 81, former Conservative County. JUNE MP from Quebec who served as a minister in Joe Clark’s Tory government in 1976. 12 - Arnold Theodore Spohr, 86, former Royal 1 - Shannen Koostachin, 15, aboriginal youth Winnipeg Ballet artistic director (1958-88) who leader of Attawapiskat First Nation, who won 13 - Therese Rochette, 55, mother of Canadian spent more than four decades with the national attention as a Grade 8 student when she figure skater Joannie Rochette, of a massive organization. helped lead the fight for a grade school in the heart attack, at Vancouver General Hospital. isolated James Bay community, of injuries 12 - Michel Chartrand, 93, popular Quebec sustained in a car accident. 16 - Joe Casey, 91, former Liberal member of the Nova Scotia legislature who represented the labour leader and separatist who was known as 2 - Sam Hebscher, 92, Canadian television a fighter for various social and political causes. riding of Digby for 19 years after he was first pioneer, who shaped CHCH-TV from its elected in 1970. 13 - Gene Kiniski, 81, Edmonton-born pro infancy in 1954, in Hamilton. wrestler, of brain cancer, at his home in Blaine, 18 - John Babcock, 109, last known veteran of Wash. 3 - John Richardson, 77, served as the Liberal Canada’s First World War army, in Spokane, MP for Perth-Wellington-Waterloo and Perth- Wa. 14 - Jon Lien, 71, biologist with a reputation for Middlesex ridings from 1993-2002. saving whales and helping fishermen, and the 19 - Charles Martell, 76, former mayor of recipient of the Order of Canada and the Order Georgetown, P.E.I., of cancer. of Newfoundland and Labrador. 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