Talk:J.J. Carrick

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George Manton Carrick as of 2019 lives at 283 Gait Way, Arroyo Grande, California, +1 805 904 6216. [1]

Death Certificate

Acta de defunción

En México Distrito Federal, a las nueve horas, treinta minutos, del día doce de mayo (o marzo) de mil novecientos sesenta y seis, ante mí José Rodríguez Flores. Oficial del Registro Civil, comparece el señor Pedro [Something] y exhibe un certificado médico en el que se hace constar el fallecimiento del adulto John James Carrick, con los siguientes datos:

Generales del finado

Lugar de nacimiento: Indiana, Estados Unidos. Edad: Noventa y dos años. Nacionalidad: Canadiense. Ocupación: Empleado público. Domicilio: Iztaccihuatl 6-404 Colonia Hipodromo Estado Civil: Viudo de Mary Jane [Hay?] Padres: John Alfred Carrick y Mary Harvey finados. Enfermedad: Uremia aguda cardioesclerosis. Dia y hora del fallecimiento: Ayer a las 10 horas 45 minutos. Lugar del fallecimiento: San Luís Potosí [143?] Lugar de inhumación: Incineración en el Horno Crematorio del Panteon Civil por orden del jefe de la oficina del Panteon según oficio 310 girado hoy. Médico que certifica: Jacobo [Jarmozon Turin?] Domicilio del médiceeo: [Michoacan?] 26-4

Generales del declarante

Edad: ventiseis años. Ocupación: Empleado. Estado civil: Soltero. Domicilio: Rosas Moreno 151.

Testigos

In English:

Death certificate

In Mexico City, at nine o'clock, thirty minutes, on the 12th of May of 1966, before me José Rodríguez Flores, Civil Registry Officer, appears Mr. Pedro [Something] and exhibits a medical certificate stating the death of the adult John James Carrick, with the following information:

General information of the deceased

Place of birth: Indiana, United States. Age: Ninety-two years. Canadian nationality. Occupation: Public employee. Address: Iztaccihuatl 6-404 Hypodrome Colony Marital Status: Widow to Mary Jane [Hay?] Parents: John Alfred Carrick and Mary Harvey, both deceased. Disease: Acute cardiosclerosis uraemia. Day and time of death: Yesterday at 10:45 am. Place of death: San Luís Potosí [143?] Place of burial: Incineration in the cremation furnace of the Panteon Civil by order of the head of the Pantheon's office according to job 310 submitted today. Certifying doctor: Jacobo [Jarmozon Turin?] Address of the doctor: [Michoacan?] 26-4

General information of the declarant:

Age: 26 years. Occupation: Employee Marital status: Single. Address: Rosas Moreno 151.

Witnesses

THUNDER BAY – The Carrick name is large in Stouffville.
The family has been titans of area business, including its involvement with the Miller Group and McAsphalt Industries.
The youngest generation has made its name in sports and music. Two Carricks played in the Ontario Hockey League this year and a third brother is signed for next season.
Their cousins are talented rugby players and bagpipers.
The name also carries weight here, 1,400 kilometres to the northwest.
Stop in for Easter dinner at the Prince Arthur Hotel and your eating up more Carrick history.
The hotel, which overlooks the famous Sleeping Giant lying in Lake Superior, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year.
The small-city version of the Royal York wouldn’t have gone up if not for J.J. Carrick. The patriarch of the Carrick clan was mayor of Port Arthur, which amalgamated with Fort William to form Thunder Bay in 1970.
Legend has it that Mayor Carrick won the hotel for the city in a late-night poker game with Sir William Mackenzie, then president of the Canadian Northern Railway, during a train trip to Winnipeg in 1908.
The city anted up an empty lot. CN paid $850,000 to have the hotel built.
It has hosted royalty, including George VI and Queen Elizabeth in 1939 and Princess Elizabeth and Prince Phillip, in a royal suite built for them, in 1951. Duke Ellington, Johnny Cash and Louis Armstrong stayed there.
There’s a Carrick Street in an industrial subdivision in Thunder Bay. But the grand hotel on the waterfront is J.J. Carrick’s calling card.
Jim Mason is editor of The Sun-Tribune.

- [2] Jim Mason, The Sun-Tribune, April 27, 2011

Thunder Bay Indigenous and non-Indigenous teens adapt mentorship program to pandemic restrictions Marsha McLeod Published July 10, 2020 Updated July 17, 2020
Moffat Makuto, executive director of the Regional Multicultural Centre in Thunder Bay. DAVID JACKSON/The Globe and Mail
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When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Moffat Makuto scrambled to keep the Thunder Bay youth council he started 35 years ago going.
Over the years, the Regional Multicultural Youth Council has brought Indigenous and non-Indigenous high-school students together to build relationships, act as peer mentors and fight social issues, especially racism. The council is headquartered out of a humble youth centre, located in a former restaurant space in the city’s south core.
The centre almost closed last year due to unpaid property taxes, but was saved by Mr. Makuto and his wife, Siu Lan, who remortgaged their house to pay off the debt.
The pandemic presented a new challenge to the 70-year-old restaurant owner and executive director of the Multicultural Association of Northwestern Ontario, which is the council’s parent organization.
“Continuity when you work with young people is very important,” Mr. Makuto said.
Before the pandemic, the council met weekly, often at the centre, to plan their many initiatives. For instance, the council held a monthly discussion with high-schoolers from across the city on relevant issues. One session before the shutdown focused on how to create safer schools for LGBTQ2S students.
Council meetings have since moved online, but Mr. Makuto said it’s been difficult to organize, as some young people lack enough data on their phones to participate or were relying on local libraries for internet access.
The council would also normally run after-school programming – and provide food – on weekdays at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, which serves First Nations students, including those who come to Thunder Bay for school from home communities in Northern Ontario.
With schools closed, Mr. Makuto organized the delivery of almost 200 meals a week in April and May to high school students and their families, funded by Kelly and Sarah Carrick, a family from Southern Ontario. In late May, Mr. Makuto helped co-ordinate a donation from the family of 52,000 pounds of rice, meant for local youth, as well as several non-profit organizations and northern First Nations.
In previous summers, council members have volunteered, along with youth from McDowell Lake First Nation, to help plant greenhouses and a memorial garden at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School, which were created and designed by AlterEden, an Indigenous landscape and environmental restoration company.
In the summer, the council hires students to run initiatives and keep the centre open to those looking for a safe place to work or get a snack. This year, Mr. Makuto said they plan to start scaled-back summer programming with a smaller than usual group on July 15, when the current declaration of emergency in Ontario was slated to end. (The declaration has since been extended to July 22).
Open this photo in gallery: Daisies grow in a memorial garden planted and curated to honour the seven northern Indigenous youth who died while attending high school in Thunder Bay. The garden is the design and creation of AlterEden, an Indigenous landscape-design company that began the project in 2017. The company has trained youth to create native plant gardens since 1999. DAVID JACKSON/The Globe and Mail
Mr. Makuto grew up in Zimbabwe, where his parents ran a mission school for children living in poverty, before immigrating to Canada in 1972 to study at Western University in London, Ont. He recalled the culture shock of moving from a small village to a campus of about 20,000 students and the feeling of being “totally lost.”
It was an experience that Mr. Makuto said helps him identify with First Nations students who move from a reserve of a couple hundred people to Thunder Bay and a high school of 1,000 students.
Mr. Makuto later continued his studies at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, where he founded an international students’ association, before being tapped to head up MANWO and creating the council in 1985.
Despite the council’s long history, it’s been a struggle to keep the lights on since the early 2000s, said Mr. Makuto, who took his last paycheque for running the council in 2001. The council used to cover most of its costs through running bingos, but that revenue dried up after a casino opened in the city in 2000, he said.
By the fall of 2018, Mr. Makuto was facing more than $35,000 in unpaid property taxes. He wrote several e-mails to Thunder Bay’s City Manager Norm Gale and Mayor Bill Mauro asking for their help, but no relief was provided.
The city put the youth centre up for purchase as a tax sale last spring, so Mr. Makuto and his wife remortgaged their home to pay off the $37,251 bill.
“You become so attached to the young people you work with,” Mr. Makuto said, adding that the youth are looking for him to “walk the talk,” even if the city doesn’t provide him with financial help.
More than 10 years ago, an Ontario government report on youth violence pointed to the success of the council’s peer-to-peer approach, but noted their financial difficulties. It also mentioned an unconventional funding source: a restaurant.
Alongside his wife, Mr. Makuto runs a small Chinese restaurant near the youth centre to help support the council. Meetings are often fuelled by combo meals from the Mandarin.
“A lot of the kids we work with really are not so privileged. So it’s much easier to say, ‘let’s go to meet at the Mandarin, have something to eat,‘ ” Mr. Makuto said.
Before the pandemic, Mr. Makuto had started nudging Bethany Koostachin to join the council. Ms. Koostachin, an upper-year student at the high school, told The Globe and Mail about the impact of joining the youth group.
Open this photo in gallery: Hailey Scott smells lilacs growing in the yard of Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School. Last summer, council members volunteered to assist AlterEden with their garden, planted as a memorial to the seven northern Indigenous youth. DAVID JACKSON/The Globe and Mail
“It tells us that we’re not alone in our struggles and our suffering, because there’s other youth who carry the same weight and it’s just so much easier knowing you’re not alone,” Ms. Koostachi said.
Kaygan Beardy, who is also a newer member of the council, said that the youth centre “gives us a voice.”
“It gives us the space to come together and actually talk about what we want and the things that we want to do in the future,” Mr. Beardy said.
For Gurleen Chahal, a former youth-council president, Mr. Makuto is more than a mentor to young people in Thunder Bay.
“[Mr. Makuto] is a parent, a friend, an ally, a hero, honestly, to so many kids who have nobody else in their corner,” said Ms. Chahal, who is now in medical residency at the University of Alberta.
“And honestly, I suspect more than a little bit of our funding comes out of [Mr. Makuto’s] own pocket.”
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Featured Rice donation will help First Nations By Sandi Krasowski, The Chronicle-Journal May 31, 2020 Facebook Twitter Email Rice to eat and grow Thunder Bay Multicultural Association executive director Moffat Makuto, left, and Regional Food Distribution Association executive director Volker Kromm show samples from 52,000 pounds of rice that was donated by Kelly and Sarah Carrick.
The Chronicle-Journal/Sandi Krasowski Facebook Twitter Email PrintCopy article link Save Thanks to the efforts of a family with deep local roots, many Northern communities will get both food and an opportunity to grow their own.
Moffat Makuto, the executive director of the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association, received a donation of 52,000 pounds of wild, brown and white rice from Kelly and Sarah Carrick, whose great grandfather, John James (J.J.) Carrick, served in the federal parliament, provincial legislature and as the mayor of Port Arthur.
The Carricks live in southern Ontario and have been funding meals each Friday for the Multicultural Association’s Youth Council.
“They were monitoring what’s been happening in the North and the issues of poverty that are striking Indigenous people during this COVID crisis, so they decided to donate some food,” said Makuto.
The Carricks are aware of the Multicultural Youth Centre and the programs it provides for Indigenous students at Dennis Franklin Cromarty High School.
“When the pandemic struck, they asked us if there were needy students and they would pay for meals to be delivered every Friday,” he said. “Initially, it was just the students we were feeding with the after-school program, but they were taking the food home and there were siblings and parents who were hungry, and it expanded from there — that there was a definite need to feed more people.”
Makuto says the Carricks found some wild rice in Winnipeg, and asked him if he’d be able to distribute the rice if it were shipped to him. He said remote First Nations have access to funds to fly in the food.
“Because winter roads are not available anymore . . . we are working with them to see how we can send it over,” Makuto said.
The Carricks also want to see if some of the young people that Makuto and the Thunder Bay Multicultural Association work with can be trained to grow some of the wild rice.
“There is 52,000 pounds of it and they can set some of it aside for seeding, and during the summer hire some of the students to learn how to grow the wild rice,” said Makuto. “Then they would become more food reliant or food self sufficient. . . . It’s a trade that is being lost as people go to the supermarkets.”

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Makuto says they want to target communities that have the capacity and access to the water where rice can naturally grow, use those as a model, then add more people to grow more rice.
Meanwhile, Makuto has also been working closely with many First Nations agencies, such as Ontario Native Woman’s Association, the Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre, Matawa, Anishnawbe Aski Nation and Fort William First Nation, to seek out Thunder Bay families in need so they can come and get some of the rice before it is all shipped out to the Northern communities.
Unaware of the size of the shipment, Makuto says they learned it was a whole transport truckload and realized they don’t have the facility to store it.
“The only thing we could do was ask the experts,” he said.
Makuto contacted Volker Kromm, executive director of the Regional Food Distribution Association (RFDA). Kromm not only offered temporary storage space, he agreed to help transport the rice, along with his regular food deliveries to the Northern communities.
“We have a lot of food coming next week, so it will be wild rice in conjunction with cucumbers, peppers and tomatoes,” said Kromm. “We will be able to combine a number of shipments and Gardewine trucking will be shipping on a regular basis.”
He hopes to get the shipments out soon because of the perishable nature of the food.
“It’s a full meal deal,” Kromm said. “They get their wild rice, they’ll get their vegetables. Now we just need to have the moose.”
(This story was originally published on May 28, 2020) ion@chroniclejournal.com Follow Us
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