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Two people prominent in the Friends of Fort York have been honoured by other organizations, and we hasten to offer them our congratulations too. On September 28 Rob Zeidler, a current member of our Board of Directors, will take over as Commanding Officer of The Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada in a change of command parade. Back in June, Cathy Nasmith who was a founding member of the Friends and served on the board until 2004, was made a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Her work on behalf of Fort York was mentioned in her citation. Mail: 260 Adelaide St. E., E-mail: fofy@sympatico.ca / Phone: 416-860-6493
Douglas Dodds, whose review of Robert Malcomson’s Capital in Flames appeared in the last issue of Fife & Drum, succumbed on September 14 to the leukemia he had fought for five years. Douglas’s interest in Fort York can be traced to 1973-4 when he worked for the summer in The Guard. He went on to earn his Ph.D. in military history at Queen’s and RMC, and subsequently made his living in private industry as a senior executive. Always interested in the the Friends’ History & Archaeology Committee, he was generous to it with his advice, particularly on a study of British Regiments stationed at Fort York, 1793-1870, that is our roadmap for contacting their successors. Our sympathy goes out to his widow, Lesley Stodart, and their two children, Ian and Evelyn, and to his parents, Richard and Lois Dodds. Richard is a long-serving director of the Friends of Fort York. Box 183, Toronto, M5A 1N1 The Fife and Drum / Website: www.fortyork.ca
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