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Flynn, Dennis, 123
Fox, Francis, 164, 166, 179, 189
Fraser, John, 211–12, 213, 214, 256–57
freezer box, 146, 147
From the Forest to the Sea: Emily Carr in British Columbia, 253, 254
Frum, David, 212
Frum, Murray, 171
Frye, Northrup, 62, 64, 82, 114
Fulford, Robert, 200
Fullerton, Mary Anne “Mimi” (first wife), 66, 104–5, 106, 110, 111, 138
Fullerton family, 104–5
fundraising, 216–17, 220–21, 252, 253–54, 258 See also grants and bursaries
Gallery Stratford, purchasing committee, 106
Gascon, Jean, 155
Gattinger, Monica, 109
Gaucher, Yves, 105, 122–123
George Brown House, 195
George VI, 24
Gerussi, Bruno, 152
Girls State, 158
Gladstone, Gerald, 73
Globe and Mail, 74–75, 91–92, 163, 170–71, 212, 230, 253, 258
Goddard, Peter, 68, 240–41
Godfrey, John, 141–44, 142
Godfrey, Paul, 121–22, 127–28
Goodwin, Ted, 96
Gordon, Hortense, 131
Gotlieb, Allan, 232
government disconnect from culture, 208
Governor General’s Award, 239
Gow, John, 160
grants and bursaries, 94, 97, 99–100, 101, 192, 195, 213 See also fundraising; Silcox Report
Gray, Charlotte, 168–69
Great Depression, 8–9, 13–14
Grey Cup 1983, 170, 172
Grossman, Suzanne, 157–58, 159
Group of Seven books on, 253
within collections, 65, 224, 233, 241
David’s interest in, 63, 71, 110
Dulwich exhibit, 251
family interest in, 66
international attention, 251–53
Jarvis, attacks on, 69–70
Sotheby’s and, 231
Vermont collection, 241, 242
Haig, Earl, 40
Harold Town Drawings (Fulford), 200
Harris, Gus, 123
Harris, Lawren artwork, recovery of, 215–16
Canada’s first million-dollar art sale, 231
David’s interest in, 63, 65–66, 129
international interest, 251–52
Vermont collection, 241–42
Harriss, Lily, 251–52, 259–60
Hart, Christine, 198
Hart House Art Collection, 65, 71, 74
Hart House Student Centre, 64–65, 68, 69, 130
health issues and injuries childhood illnesses, 18
convulsions, 53
dementia and confusion, 257–58
head injuries, 16, 20, 34–35, 53, 257
road crew injury, 47
smoking, 34, 39–40, 49
wolf bite, 31
Heffel, 231
Heinrich, Ted, 110
Heller, Jules, 110–11
heritage, support for, 194–95
Herrndorf, Peter, 154, 155, 170, 250
Hildesley, Hugh, 229, 235
Hirsch, John, 155, 168, 171
Hodgson, Thomas, 131
Home House. See Courtauld Institute of Art
Hopmeyer, Ira, 243
House of Commons, 100, 180
Hume, Patterson, 213
impact of, 208, 238, 252
Intaschi, Linda Ann (second wife) early life and family, 158–59
expense report scandal, 206–7
introduction to Canada, 164–65, 167–68
life after Queens Park, 208
Massey fellowship and David’s end of life care, 256–58
meeting David, 156, 157–58, 160
remembering David, 84–85, 86, 239, 245, 258
Toronto, life in, 222–23, 224
travel, 190–91, 250
wedding, 170–71, 171
International Editorial Board Studio, 106
international interest in Canadian culture, 87, 97–98, 252, 254
Isaacs Gallery, 68
Jackman, H.N.R. “Hal,” 196–97, 198
The Jack Pine (Thomson), 135
Jackson, A.Y., 65–66, 129, 134, 242, 251, 252
Jaques, Edna, 8
Jarvis, Alan, 69–70, 72–74, 87, 92, 95–97, 235
Jean, Michaëlle, 239, 240
Jermyn, Diane, 92, 163
Johnson, Samuel, 79, 106
Johnson, Ted, 142, 145–46, 148, 160
Joyner, Waddington, 231, 237
Juneau, Pierre, 163
Kadár, Ján, 118
Kane, Gregory, 252
Kane, Paul, 234–35, 236
Kennedy, Jamie, 171
Kierans, Eric, 166
Kilbourn, Elizabeth, 95, 97
King’s Scout Award, 37
Kinsman, Jeremy, 184–85
Kitson, Michael, 86
Kiwanis Music Festival, 40
Knelman, Martin, 199
Knowles, Dorothy, 96
Koerner, Michael, 252
Koffler Centre and family, 72–73, 116–17
Kotcheff, Susan, 171
Kotcheff, Ted, 118
Kotcheff, Tim, 141–42, 142, 147–48, 171
Krieghoff, Cornelius, 233, 241
Lake Superior III (Harris), 231
Lamaque Gold Mines, 17–18
Langford, Martha, 176, 177–78, 181–82, 259
language challenges, 183
Lastman, Mel, 123, 127–28
Lee, Arthur, 80
Lee, Dennis, 62
Lee-Nova, Gary, 101
Lefroy, John, 234, 236
legal disputes, 206
Leigh, George, 230
Les Automatistes, 231
Lévesque, René, 74
Lewis, Maud, 235–36, 253
Library and Archives Canada, 256, 261
Lies My Father Told Me (Kadár), 118
Lismer, Arthur, 129, 252
Lochhead, Kenneth, 95–96, 122–23
London Regional Art Gallery, 193
London Regional Historical Museum, 193
Lottario, 192
Loving, Linda, 192, 199, 207
Luke, Alexandra, 131
Lumley, Ed, 179, 180
Luther, Martin, 85
MacDonald, J.E.H., 63, 65, 242, 251, 252
Macdonald, J.W.G. “Jock,” 71, 131
MacDonald, Lynn, 166–67, 172–73, 177–78, 185, 191, 193, 199, 204
Macdonald, William A., 206–7
Macfarlane, John, 147
MacKay, Allan Harding, 96
MacMillan, Ernest, 40
Magic Tree (Varley), 129
Malcolmson, Harry, 138
Marchand, De Montigny, 184
Marchese, Rosario, 198, 204–6, 208
Markle, Robert, 68
Masse, Marcel, 180–81, 182, 183–85, 189
Massey, Vincent, 58, 69
Massey College, 211–12, 213, 217, 255–57
Massey family, 65
Massey Hall, 116–17
Massey Report, 93
Matthews, Phil, 200
Mavor Moore Cultural Policy Symposium, 111–12, 121, 127
McAdam, Gerry, 73
McAuliffe, Gerry, 204, 206
McCarthy, Pearl, 74–75, 80, 258
McCarthy, Rick, 101–2
McClelland, Jack, 134
McClelland, Ross, 199
McDowell, Frances, 217
McKay, Arthur, 96
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, 254
McPhail, Neil, 105
Mead, Ray, 131
Mendel, Fred, 220
Mendelson, Michael, 199
Metropolitan Toronto Arts Board, 125
Metropolitan Toronto Library Board, 126, 127
Metropolitan Toronto’s Support of the Arts. See Silcox Report
Metro Toronto, 121–22, 123–27
Middle House Executive Council, 62
Milne, David in collections, 65
David’s interest in, 106, 110
importance of, 222
Jarvis, admiration by, 70
personal writings, 119
recovery of works, 215–16, 219–20
works catalogued, 92, 118–19
See also David Milne: Canadian Painter; Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne
Milne, David, Jr., 118, 119, 216, 220, 221, 222
Milroy, Sarah, 253, 254
Milton, John, 65
Mirvish Productions, 223, 257
Monteith, Bob, 177
Moose Jaw, SK, 14–16
Morton, Douglas, 96
Mulroney, Brian, 179–80, 197
multi-cultural programs, 126
Munro, Lily, 191, 194, 198
murals, 131
Murray, Barbara, 171
Museum of Man, 177, 178
Museums Foundation of Canada, 249
music, appreciation for, 40–41, 258
Nakamura, Kazuo, 131
nap and an escaped inmate, 31
National Arts Centre, 168
National Ballet of Canada, 91, 125–26, 196–97
National Film Board, 176–77
National Gallery of Canada, 70, 118, 131, 135, 177, 178, 182, 254
networking. See connections, use of
Norman MacKenzie Art Gallery, 95–96
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 249
Nowell, Iris, 171
O’Brian, John, 119–20
O’Keefe Centre and Board, 125–26, 196
Oliver, Craig, 141–42, 142, 144, 147, 148, 160, 171
Ondaatje, Michael, 100, 119
O’Neil, Hugh, 198
Onley, Toni, 87
Ontario Arts Council, 74, 126–27, 208
Ontario Film Development Corporation, 208
Ontario Film Institute, 127
Ontario Genealogical Society, 194–95
Ontario Ministry of Industry and Tourism, 117
opera and ballet house, 196–97, 198–99
Orchard Farm, 136
Ord, Douglas, 69
Order of Canada, 238–39, 240
Orobetz, Christine, 231, 233
Ortiz, Ralph, 101
Ostry, Bernard, 212
Oxen in Winter (Lewis), 235
Paikin, Steve, 259
Painters Eleven, 130, 131, 231
Painting Canada: Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven (exhibit), 252, 253, 254
Painting Place: The Life and Work of David B. Milne (Silcox) cover, 219
fundraising, 216–17
impact on family, 137–38
as life-long project, 128, 211, 214
praise of, 259
pride of completion, 255
publication, 221
recovery of works, 118–19, 215–16, 219–20
team and material, 218–19, 222–23
See also Milne, David
Parke-Taylor, Michael, 86
Parsons, Laurel (cousin), 2, 3, 39
parties, dining, and entertaining, 49, 96, 155, 168–69, 173, 204–5, 214, 217 See also social ease
Parti Québécois, 241
patronage issues, 178–79
Pearson, George, 30
Pearson, Lester B., 62, 117
Peel, Paul, 233
Pelletier, Jean, 142
Perehudoff, Bill, 96
Peterson, David, 189, 190, 192, 196–97, 198
Philip (Prince), 214
Phillips, Robin, 155
photographs, preservation and display, 176–78, 181–82
physical description, 103
Picasso, 216
Picture Loan Society, 92
Pinsent, Gordon, 87
The Pointers (Thomson), 129
political and economic shifts, 179–81, 183–84, 197, 199
Port Credit Secondary School, 49–50
Porteous, Tim, 172
postage stamps, 106
Prairie Modernism, 95–96
praise of, 74–75, 82, 99–100, 102, 119–20, 173, 185, 194 See also awards
Prakash, Ash, 252
Pratt, Christopher, 105, 149–52, 151, 152, 237
Pratt, John, 105, 150, 151, 152, 153
Pratt, Mary, 105
Prime, Ashley, 252
Private View: Inside Baryshnikov’s American Ballet Theatre (Fraser), 212
Project MUSE, 222
Pruitt, O.N., 100
publishing, Canadian, 99, 114, 134–35, 136–37, 208
Quadrangle Society, 213
Queen’s Boy Scouts, 42–45, 46
Queen’s Gallery, 91–92
Quill & Quire (magazine), 221, 222
Rabinovitch, Cecil, 250
Rabinovitch, Robert, 163–64, 166–67, 172, 175–76, 178, 183–84, 185, 250
Rabinowitz, Chloe, 259
Rae, Bob, 198–99, 203, 206, 259
Rahija, Nancy, 223
Rainer, Yvonne, 101
Raymer, Gordon, 68
Rayner, Takashima, 73
Red Series (Astman), 155–56
Redway, Alan, 123
Regina Five, 95–96
remembrance of, 258–60
Reppen, Jack, 73
Rideau Canal Skateway, 104
Riopelle, Jean-Paul, 244
Ritchies, 235, 243–44
Robb, Peter, 134
Rodeck, Linda, 244
Ronald, William, 131
The Roots of Culture, the Power of Art (Gattinger), 109
Ross, Murray G., 110
Rothko, Mark, 244
Royal BC Museum and Archives, 254
Royal Commission on Notional Development in Arts, Letters, and Science, 93
Royal Ontario Museum, 138, 243–44
Roy Thompson Hall, 128
Ryerson, Egerton, 58
Ryerson Institute of Technology, 127
Saddlemeyer, Ann, 213
Safdie, Moshe, 197
scandals and pushback box exhibit in Stratford, 101
community consultations and photograph museum, 181–82
Massey College, race issues, 256
opera and ballet house, 198–99
public reactions to art, 101, 131
Silcox Report, 127–28
Sotheby’s, pre-David, 229, 231
style and expenses, 203–7
Sunday Breeze, political reactions to, 100
Scene in the Northwest: Portrait of John Henry Lefroy (Kane), 234–35, 236
Schaber, Wally, 142
Schaefer, D. Paul, 74
Schaeffer, Beverly, 233, 235, 243
Schaeffer, Fred, 233
scholarships, 82
scouting. See Canadian Scouting Movement
Segal, Hugh, 213, 256, 257
Shadbolt, Jack, 114
Shaw festival, 208
The Sheep (Pratt), 152
Sheff, Gerry, 220–21
Silcox, Albert Brotherhood (paternal grandfather), 1–3
Silcox, Albert Phillips “Phil” (father) Bourlamaque, 17–19
children, celebration of, 46, 83, 105
children, detailed records of, 20, 34–35, 49, 52
early life, 1–8
employment and finances, 26, 27–28, 48, 51, 57, 59
interests, 36–37, 66, 194
military service, 22–25
photographs, 23
Prairie life, 13–16
remembered by David, 122
school and David, dealing with, 38
Silcox, Grace Amelia (paternal grandmother), 1–2, 3, 43
Silcox, Graham Cornell (brother), 16, 18–19, 26–27, 31, 48–49, 52, 105
Silcox, John Brotherhood “J.B.” (paternal great-grandfather), 1, 4, 7
Silcox, Kenneth Charles (brother), 16, 18–19, 26–27, 31, 48–49, 52
Silcox, Louis Hubert Ross (brother), 22–24, 26–27, 47, 48–49, 51–53, 83, 105, 258
Silcox aunts and uncles, 2–3, 38
Silcox Report, 121–28
Sing Louder, Paddle Harder! — Canoeing Wild Arctic Rivers in the Company of Friends (Kotcheff and Oliver), 142–44, 147
Sixth Festival of Contemporary Arts, 97
smoking, 34, 39–40, 49
Snow, Michael, 114, 152
social ease Canadian-American negotiations, smoothing of, 175–76
discussing relationships without revelations, 212
impact and contribution to success, 103–4, 203
parties and social events, 155
remembered for, 69
at school, 39, 40–41, 49, 52
Toronto weekends, Ottawa weeks, 167–68
See also parties, dining, and entertaining
Sotheby’s, 229, 230, 231
Sotheby’s Canada, 231–32, 232, 240–44
South Albertas, 22–23, 24–25
Spadina scene, 68, 72–73
spectrum allocation talks, 175–76
Sproatt, Henry, 65
Stanley, John, 230
Still, Clyfford, 157
Stoffman, Judy, 258
Stollery, Peter, 141, 142, 160
The Strand (student newspaper), 62
Stratford Shakespearean Festival, 154–55, 193, 204, 208
Stursberg, Richard, 180–81, 183, 184
Sunday Afternoon (from an Old American Photograph) (Breeze), 100
The Tangled Garden: A Canadian Cultural Manifesto for the Digital Age (Stursberg), 180, 183
Taubman, Alfred, 229, 231
Taylor, Bill, 59–60
teaching, 109, 110–11, 113, 119, 218
Théâtre du P’tit Bonheur, 194
Thom, Ron, 217
Thompson, Bruce, 38–39, 43, 59, 96
Thomson family, 38, 39–40, 43
Thomson, David, 252
Thomson, Ken, 235, 236, 243
Thomson, Tom art at auction, 244
books on, 133, 134–35, 136–38, 200, 252, 253
in collections, 65, 233
David’s interest in, 63, 110, 120, 128
Dulwich exhibition, 251–53
impact and importance, 129, 222
Vermont collection, 243
works, 135, 242
Tilson, David, 204–6
The Times (newspaper), 97–98
Todd, Paula, 207
Todres, Elaine, 207–8
Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm, 120, 128, 133, 134–35, 136–37, 216
Toronto Film Festival, 208
Toronto Library Board, 127
