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Lost
Canadian Aid Workers
Following
the unveiling of the Monument, the focus of activity switched to another
important objective of the Monument Project - creating a permanent record of
Canadian aid workers who have died in the course of their work overseas.
Leading up
to the unveiling ceremony, groups involved in international development and
humanitarian assistance were asked for names of friends and colleagues. People
were asked to check their formal records, as well as their memories. Their
initial response was used to identify over 70 individuals who have died since
1960.
A few of
these individuals have been profiled in the catalogue entitled Monument
to Canadian Aid Workers; thanks to their friends and family who took the time
to share their memories with us. The permanent record is a living record and is
a place to tell the stories of people who contributed so much and died through
their commitment to creating a better world.
Adding a
story
If you
would like to tell the story of a friend on this site, please contact us
at admin@healthbridge.ca.
NAME of INDIVIDUAL |
POSITION
and/or OVERSEAS ASSIGNMENT |
YEAR,
PLACE and CAUSE
of DEATH [if known] |
2010s |
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Guillaume Siemienski |
CIDA assignment
with the United Nations |
Earth quake, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, January, 2010 |
2000s |
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Shirley Case |
IRC (International Rescue Committee) |
Roadside
ambush, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 13, 2008 |
Jacqueline Kirk |
IRC (International Rescue Committee) |
Roadside
ambush, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 13, 2008 |
Nicolas Parenteau |
CUSO cooperant, based in Thailand |
Traffic accident, February 21, 2008 |
Elmer Arias Chinchilla |
Project
Manager in Haiti for the Canadian Red Cross |
Natural causes, Haiti, 2008 |
Stewart Sutherland |
CECI (Centre d'etude et de cooperation internationale) |
Hypertension, Kathmandu, Nepal, May 10, 2007 |
Isabelle Pelletier |
Oxfam-Québec
Cooperant, Organizational development consultant |
Cerebral
Malaria, Zabré, Burkina Faso, November 25, 2006 |
Jennifer Headley |
World
Wildlife Fund co-ordinator in Britain for the eastern Himalayas |
Helicopter crash, Nepal, September 23, 2006 |
Sally Miller |
Head of
Delegation in Liberia – International Federation of Red Cross and Red
Crescent Societies |
Natural causes, Liberia, 2006 |
François-Jacques Roussin |
Plan Nagua - Quebec, Volunteer in Dominican Republic |
Collapse
of a school, Batey Mata los Indios
in D.R., June 16, 2004 |
Scott Mackie |
VSO
Volunteer: computer studies on assignment in Northern Namibia |
Natural causes, November 12, 2003 |
Christopher Klein-Beekman |
Senior
Project Officer, UNICEF Iraq |
Bombing
of the UN HQ in Baghdad, August 19, 2003 |
Jean-Claude Lauzier |
Mining
Engineer, Americas Branch, CIDA, on mission in Bolivia |
Car
accident, near Santa Cruz, Bolivia, May 18, 2003 |
Errol Van Huyssteen |
Senior
Scientist, Natural Resources Canada, on mission in Bolivia |
Car
accident, near Santa Cruz, Bolivia, May 18, 2003 |
Louis Vincent St-Hilaire-Gravel |
CSI
Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean, Cooperant in Burkina Faso |
Motor-cycle
accident, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, April 9, 2003 |
Vatche Arslanian |
Canadian
Red Cross Member on mission in Iraq. |
The
vehicle he and other International Red Cross staff members were traveling in
was caught in cross fire, Baghdad April 8, 2003 |
John Scoggan |
Technical
Advisor, Care Canada, on mission in Puno, Peru |
Heart
Attack, Puno, Peru, September 30, 2002 |
María Jesús Ginés |
IDRC, (on
secondment to CIAT as a project coordinator), Cali, Colombia. |
Airplane
crash, border between Ecuador and Colombia, January 28, 2002 |
Dina Awate |
Oxfam-Québec
Project Officer for Sudan, based in Nairobi, Kenya. |
Car accident in Sudan, 2000 |
Bob & Ruth Chapman |
Co-directors,
Wycliffe Bible Translators for sub-Saharan Africa |
Airplane
crash off the Ivory Coast in Western Africa January 2000 |
Jean-Pierre Prud'homme |
CUSO cooperant based in the South Pacific. |
Unknown;
died in his sleep on Pentecost Island, Vanuatu, 2000 |
Gordon
Reay, Lieutenant-General (Ret'd) |
Advisor
to the Ambassador for Mine Action (i.e., landmines), DFAIT. |
Automobile accident in Croatia, 2000. |
Michelle Spencer-Yates |
CUSO cooperant based in Belize. |
Struck by
an impaired driver in Belize, 2000 |
1990s |
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Renee Sabatier |
Director
of the southern African AIDS Training Programme for CPHA, based in Zimbabwe. |
Died in
Zambia of natural causes, 1999 |
Dan Rowan |
Project manager, Kosovo, International Relations Division, Correctional Service of Canada (CSC). |
Killed en
route to Pristina, Kosovo in 1999 when the World
Food Programme plane in which he and 23 other people 93 crew members, 20
humanitarian aid workers) were traveling, crashed into a mountain ridge. |
Katherine Fleming |
Worked
for UNICEF in Tanzania. |
Died of
unknown causes in Tanzania, 1999 |
Ron Audette |
International development consultant. |
Heart
attack while on a consultancy in Nepal, 1997 |
Anthony Wielemaker |
Volunteer
for CRWRC on assignment with Christian Reformed World Missions. |
Died in
Kingston, Ontario in 1997, as a result of injuries sustained in a motorcycle
accident in the Dominican Republic. |
Tim Stone |
Executive
Director of PATH Canada. |
Killed in
a hijacked airplane when it crashed off the Comoros Islands in 1996 |
Nancy Malloy |
Canadian
Red Cross staff member on an overseas mission with the International
Committee of the Red Cross |
Shot in a
field hospital in Chechnya, 1996 |
Hendrick Marinus Abma |
Volunteer
for CRWRC in Senegal, while accompanying spouse on posting. |
Car accident in Senegal, 1996. |
Chantal Lapaire |
Radio-Québec
journalist working on an AQOCI media project in West Africa. |
Airplane crash in Cameroon, 1995 |
Susan Lesjak |
Oxfam-Québec
Regional Representative for Southeast Asia. |
Car accident in China, 1994 |
Suzanne Séguin-Goertz |
World
Vision Canada Southern Africa Programme Officer. |
Died in
South Africa in 1994 from malaria contracted in Malawi |
Otto Roesch |
Treat
University professor who undertook research and NGO volunteer activities in
Mozambique. |
Car accident in Mozambique, 1994 |
Jean-Claude Cloutier |
CIDA, on
mission in India |
1993 |
Michael Walsh |
CUSO cooperant based in Thailand. |
1993 |
Peter Kennedy |
CUSO cooperant based in South Africa. |
1993 |
John Murrant |
CUSO cooperant based in Thailand. |
1992 |
Yves Masson |
WUSC Field Director, Benin |
Died
tragically in a car accident at dusk, 1992. |
Louise Roy |
Oxfam-Québec cooperant. |
Car accident in Nicaragua, 1991 |
Rebecca Reiss |
CUSO cooperant based in Mozambique. |
1991 |
Patricia Moro |
Oxfam-Québec cooperant. |
Car accident in Ghana, 1991. |
Jill McMaster |
CIDA
development officer based in Zimbabwe. |
Died of
cancer in Zimbabwe, 1991 |
Patricia Harland |
DFAIT
foreign service officer based in Kenya. |
Car accident in Kenya, 1991 |
Dan O'Hanley |
Associate
member of the Scarboroug Foreign Missions,
Missionary with the Latin American Mission Program. Worked first as a pastor,
and later to form peasant cooperatives in rural Nicaragua. |
Killed in
Managua, Nicaragua as a result of a botched robbery in July, 1991 |
Norm Tattersal |
World Vision
Canada staff member. |
Gunned
down in front of WV office in Peru, 1990, along with José Chuquin,
WV Director for Colombia. |
Alan Masters |
CUSO cooperant based in Bolivia. |
1990 |
Joan Conway |
Adult
educator and NGO consultant, working with the Centre for Adult and Continuing
Education in Capetown, South Africa. |
Contracted
encephalitis on a trip to South Africa, 1990 and died in Toronto shortly
after her return. |
Rita Wall |
Mennonite
Central Committee (Canada) volunteer. |
Car
accident in Bolivia in the early 1990s. |
1980s |
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Dan Duffy |
Newfoundland
fisherman volunteering for Oxfam Canada in Nicaragua. |
Drowned in Nicaragua, 1989. |
William Russon |
CUSO cooperant based in Indonesia. |
1988 |
Dr. Maria Rovers |
Consultant
for Horizons of Friendship in Honduras, on sabbatical from St. Francis Xavier
University. |
Car accident in Mexico, 1988. |
Brian Krempien |
CUSO cooperant based in Mozambique. |
1988 |
Rhena Lee Hymovithch |
National Co-ordinator, SALVAIDE. |
Drowned in El Salvador, 1988. |
Jonathan James Fyles |
Worked as
a local journalist in Nicaragua, and volunteered for Canadian NGOs like Louis
Riel Teachers' Brigade and Tools for Peace. |
Traffic accident in Nicaragua, 1988. |
Dr. John Dobson |
Consultant
for Horizons of Friendship in Honduras, on sabbatical from St. Francis Xavier
University. |
Car accident in Mexico, 1988. |
Mory Lewis |
CUSO cooperant based in Malaysia. |
1987 |
Jennifer Green |
Work
placement for Canadian Action for Nicaragua. |
Killed in
Nicaragua, 1987 when a hand grenade exploded accidentally. |
Max Bus |
CUSO cooperant based in Ghana. |
1987 |
Alexander McLelland |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1986 |
Larry Garinger |
Engineering
Advisor to CIDA for the Karnali-Bheri Integrated
Rural Development Project (K-BIRD) |
Died of
pancreatitis on route to better medical facilities in Kathmandu, Nepal, 1986 |
Willie Arsenault |
Canadian
priest, based in Honduras, who was an associate of Horizons of Friendship in
the field. |
Shot during
a robbery attempt in Honduras in 1986. |
Marie O'Keefe |
Coady International Institute Registrar. |
Died in
Barbados in 1984 while planning a Women's Consultation. |
Kona Matthews |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1984 |
Carmen Matthews |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1984 |
Marc Radomsky |
WUSC Volunteer, Zimbabwe |
1983 |
Heidi Trahmel |
CUSO cooperant based in Papua New Guinea. |
1982 |
Gordon Findlay |
CUSO cooperant based in Papua New Guinea. |
1982 |
Virginia Price |
CUSO cooperant based in Tanzania. |
1980 |
Clément Boulanger |
Worked
with Mouvement de l'agriculture
biologique in Quebec and active in NGO coalition
SCS, working in the Sahel. |
Killed
while being robbed on a beach in Senegal in the mid to late 1980s |
1970s |
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Norman Riley |
Coady
International Institute staff member; credit union specialist. |
Died in
Malta while on assignment, 1979. |
Chris Oram |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1978 |
Ann Oram |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1978 |
Bryan James |
CUSO cooperant based in Indonesia. |
1978 |
Ed Reid |
CBC
journalist on sabbatical, volunteering for Horizons of Friendship in Central
America. |
Hit by a
bus in El Salvador, 1977. |
William George Howard |
CUSO cooperant based in Malaysia. |
1975 |
Margaret Mariner |
CUSO cooperant based in Barbados. |
1974 |
Alan Kempton |
CUSO cooperant based in Jamaica. |
1974 |
Terrence Farebrother |
SUCO cooperant based in Ivory Coast. |
1974 |
Micheline Billette |
SUCO cooperant based in Ivory Coast. |
1974 |
Claire Miller |
SUCO cooperant based in Algeria. |
1973 |
Cicely Cornelius |
CUSO cooperant based in Barbados. |
1972 |
Jamie Brooks |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1972 |
Mark Andrew Ondrus |
CUSO cooperant based in Jamaica. |
1971 |
Francine Gregoire |
CUSO cooperant. |
1971 |
Louise Toupin |
CUSO cooperant based in Malawi. |
1970 |
Leo Nederveen |
CUSO cooperant based in Ghana. |
1970 |
Jack William Koster |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1970 |
Harry J.H. Durance |
CUSO cooperant based in Thailand. |
1970 |
1960s |
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Julie Descoteaux |
CUSO cooperant. |
1969 |
Lesley Ann Wren |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1968 |
Shirley Ray |
CUSO cooperant based in Nigeria. |
1968 |
Stephen Flower |
CUSO cooperant based in Tanzania. |
1968 |
Raya Pearlman |
CUSO cooperant based in Peru. |
1966 |
Fr. Joe A. MacDonald |
Antigonish Diocesan priest who worked for the Puerto Rico Co-operative Federation |
Died in Puerto Rico, 1966. |
Pat Gleason |
CUSO cooperant based in Guyana. |
1966 |
Lynn Caroline Dalziel |
CUSO cooperant based in Uganda. |
1966 |
Charles Topshee |
Worked
setting up co-operatives in Lesotho. |
Became
ill in Lesotho, returned to Canada and died; mid-1960s. |