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Sir Joseph Wesley Flavelle was born at Peterborough, Ontario, in 1858. After leaving school he joined his father in a pork-packing and provision business. On September 29, 1882, he married Clara, the daughter of the Reverend Oren Hamilton Ellsworth and together they had one son and two daughters. In 1887, he moved to Toronto where he achieved prominence in the packing industry and became a leading industrialist, financier and philanthropist. In 1889 he was elected President of the National Trust Company and Vice-President of the Robert Simpson Company. He was also a governor of the University of Toronto. From 1915 to 1921 he was chairman of the Imperial Munitions Board (I.M.B.), a body which succeeded the Shell Committee formed by Sam Hughes in 1914. From 1920 to 1922 he was chairman of the Grand Trunk Railway and took a leading part in the reorganization that led to the founding of the Canadian National Railway. He died at Palm Beach, Florida, on March 7, 1939.

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L.M. Fleming was a student at Queen's University.

M.G. Fleming was a student in the School of Mining at Queen's University.

Patricia (Patsy) Fleming, the daughter of Brigadier and Mrs. William G. Beeman, was born on 12 June 1923, in Camberley, Surrey, England. She was involved in many, and varied activities in Canada, and especially in Kingston, over the years. She was well-known for her regular coulmn in The Kingston Whig-Standard, entitled, "My Kingston". She was a proud member of the Kingston Historical Society, who honoured her for "outstanding contributions to the preservation and interpretation of local history"; a member of the Board of the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston; and served a term as President of The Thousand Islands Area Residents Association (TIARA). Patsy Fleming was also known across Canada as a dedicated collector and preserver of antique wooden duck decoys, and had developed a colleciotn of these art forms for the Msueum of Contmeporary Art in Ottawa. She was also the author of "Traditoins in Wood", an illustrated volume on duck decoys, which was the culmination of her cross-country fact-finding tour with a ersearch and photography team. Patsy also co-authored "1000 Islands", with photographer John De Visser.

Patricia (Patsy) Carruthers Beeman Fleming, is survived by her husband of sixty-five years, Bob, son John, and grandchildren Nicolas, Philippe, and Amélie. Patsy Fleming is interred in Newburgh Cemetery, Newburgh, Ontario.

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Robert J. Fleming was born 5 April 1925 in London, England, to a Canadian father and an American Mother. He was educated at Jarvis Collegiate, Appleby College and Lakefield College before studying photography under the British photographer Richard Haile in Washington, DC. From 1946 to 1964 Fleming worked as a photojournalist for Swiss and British agencies, travelling widely. He became a program officer with international Moral Re-Armament and worked in the production of magazines and the management of conferences.
He founded PACE Magazine (initially known as DARE), in Los Angeles with Stewart V. Lancaster, in 1964. It was a large-format picture magazine, similar to Life and Look, but with a focus on 18-34 year olds in America. An educational foundation, Pace Programs, Inc. was established in 1966. PACE ceased publication in 1970 after 62 issues and having reached a circulation of about 500,000 copies world-wide, due to rising expense of circulation and declining advertizing revenue. John M. Hallward, publisher of PACE, would later become an associate in Fleming’s firm.
Fleming returned to Canada in 1970 and founds the consulting firm – Robert J. Fleming & Associates, International Communicators, 1970-1974 [see background info in Assorted Fleming Projects file]; Among other projects he serves as communications advisor to the Mid-Atlantic Development Foundation and undertakes a re-organizational study of CMHC (this study’s report led to the creation of the Ministry of Urban Affairs).
He served as Executive Secretary of the Royal Commission on Book Publishing (1971) then the Ontario Commission on the Legislature (The Camp Commission, 1972) before becoming Principal Secretary (designate) for Robert L. Stanfield and member of the Transfer of Power Committee in 1974.
On 20 December 1974 (announced by Speaker 5 September 1974), Fleming becomes Director of Administration of Legislative Assembly at Queen’s Park, a position that was a recommendation of the Camp Commission and an out-growth of his work as Executive Secretary of the Commission. He was formally appointed by an Order in Council 1 Jan. 1975 and served in this position until 30 June 1987. While Director of Administration, he was the Co-Coordinator of The Canada-USA Legislative Project (1979-1988) and, in 1979, was founder and editor of the annual comparative study Canadian Legislatures (later known as Fleming’s Canadian Legislatures, 1979 to 1997).
Fleming worked with the Transition Committee for Joe Clark gov’t (1980) He founded youth Employment Skills Canada (YES Canada) in 1987, a national training program for high school drop-outs and founded Robert Fleming International Research (1988) [see background info in TRALAC file].
In 1998 he was a founding governor of the Toronto-based Canadian Journalism Foundation. He is a former Chairman of the Churchill Society for Parliamentary Democracy.