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Margaret McCuaig-Johnston posted a condolence
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Dear Tone, Andrea and Doug, I was so sorry to hear of the passing of your father, one of Canada's greatest historians. I was not privileged to take a course from him, but I certainly read his books and was influenced by them. I know that you and your family will have lots of support at this difficult time, but I just wanted to pass on my own personal condolences. Margaret McCuaig-Johnston Executive Vice-President Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council
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Lise Robinson posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Dear Betty My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family at this difficult time. I am sorry I will miss the service due to my situation but I will be thinking of all of you. Love Lise
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Janice Bergie posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
I am writing to wish my Aunt Betty and all my cousins my deepest sympathy at the loss of their husband, father and my uncle. He has made a big impact on your life and he will be dearly missed. I will never forget our Christmas dinners at Grandmas when we would gather around her Fairy Tree and play charades. I was always proud to tell my classmates "My uncle wrote that History book!" Our thoughts and prayers are with all of you. Love Janice, Joe, Nicole and Jennifer
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Jane Holden posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
I never met Professor Careless but his work was at the heart of my Canadian history studies at McGill in the early '80s. He gave so much to Canadian students everywhere and his work will live on for decades to come. I hope it is some small consolation to his family that he touched so many lives.
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Alan Bowker posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
I am writing to express my condolence on the passing of Professor Maurice Careless. I was in his graduate seminar in 1965-6 and carry many vivid memories of that class. As a teacher he was inspiring, interesting, and able seemingly without effort to call forth the best from all his students. His seminars were relaxed, friendly, and yet focussed sessions, enlivened by his stimulating observations, apt anecdotes and infectious humour. I will never forget our awe as he repeatedly and effortlessly filled his pipe, extracted a match, struck it on the side of the box, and lit the pipe, all with one hand. He took his subject seriously but never himself. I never left his classes without a sense that I had gained some important insight and expanded my horizons. At a time when nationalist history was all the rage he made us see the importance of Ontario, its character and the complexity of its young society in its formative years. We got a sense of how people lived, and what they thought, how to take a broad view, how to make complex concepts crystal clear. What I remember most about him was his genuine humility. There was always a friendly greeting and a handshake whenever we met. When I met him by chance, with my wife and family, at Victoria College in 1986 or so, he recognized me before I saw him and we conversed as old friends, not as teacher and one-time student. He took a great interest in my daughters and the fact we were just back from Zimbabwe. My oldest daughter, who recognized his name from her school histories, was enormously impressed that such a prominent man could be so unpretentious, friendly, and caring. It was a privilege to know him. As scholar but more than that, as a man, he was a example I always tried to emulate in my own career. I am sure there will be many people who will be expressing similar sentiments and feeling a sense of deep sadness now that he is gone. May he rest in peace after a life well lived. Alan Bowker
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Dan and Joan Gallacher posted a condolence
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Dear Betty, Virginia, and family. Sad to learn of Maurice's passing, but his was such a long, decent, and accomplished life that one wants only to remember the special moments. Those days in Victoria during the late Sixties were among them, and the memories of being with you are very precious to us.
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Diane Rogers posted a condolence
Monday, April 13, 2009
My sincere sympathy to the Careless family. I am a very appreciative former undergraduate and graduate student of Professor Careless. His interest in and encouragement of his students was recognized by all. He kindly approved my first co-authored high school text "Inside World Politics" and was so acknowledged in the Authors' Note. Diane Rogers.
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John Zucchi posted a condolence
Monday, April 13, 2009
I would like to offer my condolences to the Careless family. As you know, Maurice Careless was not only a great scholar and a superb teacher, he was also a wonderful human being. I studied with him thirty years ago and I still have vivid, fond memories of his graduate seminars, his friendly disposition, and his passion for history. May he rest in peace.
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Sheila Mumford Howell posted a condolence
Monday, April 13, 2009
Reading the wonderful tributes to your father has brought back fond memories of our highschool days at North Toronto C.I. together, Virginia. My thoughts are with you and your family now as you say good-bye to a great Dad.
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Peter and Susan [Tovell] Moogk posted a condolence
Monday, April 13, 2009
To the Careless family, and especially Virginia: As your father's former students, we will always remember him as a lucid and conscientious teacher whose lectures were often enlivened by flashes of humour.
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Douglas McCalla posted a condolence
Monday, April 13, 2009
Could I take this way to pay tribute to Maurice Careless’s remarkable career and contributions? The originality, weight and vitality of his scholarly writings speak for themselves. His teaching and mentorship constitute a less visible but no less enduring legacy. There must be many who shared my experience. Writing a masters research paper under his supervision turned a general interest into an ambition, setting me on a course that I had not anticipated when I enrolled and on a scholarly trajectory that has sustained me ever since. What I remember best is the generosity of his encouragement; somehow I always left his office having seen something new about my topic – and believing that I could meet his high expectations. Nor did his encouragement end with the course; it continued long after my year at Toronto, as I found my voice in Canadian history. My sympathy to all the family. Sincerely Doug McCalla
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Elizabeth Shieldls posted a condolence
Sunday, April 12, 2009
I bought and read J.M.S. Careless' CANADA: A STORY OF CHALLENGE on first arriving in Canada from England in 1954. It has remained a favourite as a succinct and easily digestible account of Canadian history, as far as its 1970 publication. Early on, and today still, I retain more than my Canadian-born children about Louis Papineau and William Lyon Mackenzie and Montgomery's Tavern, the Family Compact,and so on. A recent immigrant from the Ukraine asked me for an accessible history of Canada. I lent her my tattered paperbook and then managed to find a copy for her at the Book Stage in Stratford, Ont. Please accept my condolences for Prof. Careless' wife, children and grandchildren. His name, now his full names, will live on in our household. With sympathy, Elizabeth Shields.
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Ruben Nelson posted a condolence
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Anthony, When I saw that your dad had died, I stopped long enough to be thankful for his life and work (and yours). While I did not meet him -- I was at Queen's --I did read a good deal of his work. Maybe I am just getting old, but I both appreciate and now long for men and women of care-full and thought-full scholarship. I will hold you in my prayers. Ruben
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Lise Whealy posted a condolence
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Dear James, I am deeply sorry for your loss, and extend my love and prayers to you and your whole family. Your father was a kind and wonderful man, of whom I have fond and grateful memories. I will never forget how he made it possible for me to interview Robertson Davies, long before I dreamed I'd be teaching English. Please know that my thoughts are with you. Lise
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Jonathan Gladstone posted a condolence
Thursday, November 30, 0002
As an old high school friend of the younger James, I'm very sorry for your loss. Prof. Careless was a well-respected member of the community; I often heard people speak highly of him.
