Saturday November 21, 2009
Inuit fabric artist brought the North to the city
Normee Ekoomiak endured a great deal of pain during his life, both emotional and physical, but no matter how bad things got, he always went back to his art. Even when eight of his fingers and both legs had to be amputated in 2007, he tried for months to keep stitching his celebrated wall hangings before he finally admitted defeat.
CHARLES GREB / SHOE MANUFACTURER
Charles (Chuck) Greb, a Kitchener, Ont. businessman and last surviving scion of what was once Canada's most important shoe-manufacturing business, has died, at age 80, after a three-year battle with cancer.
