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Allan M. R. MacRae, in his 79th year, has departed to be with the Lord, and his cherished relatives in heaven. Allan was a dialysis patient and had heart troubles, and his health and life from last December onward had been particularly trying. He leaves his three children: Amira, Erin and Malcolm.

Allan spent his adult years in Kingston, Ont., and then in Alberta, mostly in Calgary. He was the first Treasurer of the Clan MacRae Society of Canada.

Please remember him well and know he is in a better place and is at peace.

William John Whaley passed away on Aug. 21, 2026 at age 96. He is predeceased by his wife, Diana; and his parents, Dave and Nellie; and two sisters, Mary Harding and Elizabeth Staples.

John completed his pediatric residency at the Montreal General Hospital and Sick Kids Hospital in Toronto. In 1959 he joined Pediatric Associates in Kitchener with Drs. Bastedo and Friday.

In addition to his general pediatric practice, he developed a special interest in children with developmental and physical disabilities. For many years, he served as the Medical Director of both the Sunbeam Home and K-W Rotary Centre in Kitchener. In recognition of his community commitments he received the Glen Sawyer Award from the OMA.

His full obituary can be viewed .

February 20, 1929 – August 7, 2026

Moragh L. Stroud, of Amherst, New York, passed away on Friday, August 7, 2026. She was the beloved wife of David Stroud, with whom she shared 63 wonderful years of marriage. She was a loving mother to Doug (Pam) and Cathy Stroud; cherished grandmother to Meagan and Michael (Kaitlyn) Stroud; and proud great-grandmother to Bentley, Paisley, and Huxley. Her nieces and nephews also survive her: Patty and David (Felicia) Shepherd, as well as Frank (Gayle), Mary, David (Angela), and John (Joanne) Stroud.

Born in Toronto, Moragh remained a proud Canadian citizen. In her youth, she attended Camp Oconto for more than a decade, enjoying swimming, diving, canoeing, and sailing, making many friends, and eventually becoming a counsellor during her early college years.

She earned three degrees: a Bachelor of Arts from ���ϳԹ���Դ, a Bachelor of Social Work from the University of Toronto, and a Master of Social Work from Boston University. In 1962, she earned her Academy of Certified Social Workers accreditation from the National Association of Social Workers.

Moragh devoted her professional career to family services, focusing on fostering and adoption work across Toronto, Montreal, and Boston. Introduced to Scottish Country Dancing by her Scottish parents, Moragh and Dave danced together regularly with the RSCDS Buffalo branch for many years.

While raising her family in Amherst, she gave generously of her time, volunteering with the Cub Scouts, Blue Birds, Girl Scouts, the Unitarian Universalist Church Council, Housewives to End Pollution, Millard Fillmore Suburban Hospital, Meals on Wheels, the Williamsville East High School Parent-Teacher Association, and as a New York State Long-Term Care Ombudsman.

She stayed active throughout her life and proudly competed in swimming at the Empire State Senior Games. An avid photographer, she led the Amherst Senior Center Camera Club through a year as president.

It is with sadness that the family of John Nicholson announce his passing at age 85 on Aug. 15, 2026.

John will be lovingly remembered by his wife of 61 years, Carol Nicholson (Arts'64); his three children, David Nicholson (Sc'92) (Guylaine Fortin), Lynn Nicholson (Artsci'93), Heather Harpell (née Nicholson)  (Artsci'99, Ed'04) (Eric [Sc'95]); his six grandchildren, Carl, Marc, Dawson, Justin (Artsci'27), Trevor, and Craig; his brother Robert Nicholson (Sc'70); and numerous other family members and friends. John was predeceased by his parents, Howard and Elaine; and brother Peter Nicholson (Sc'59).

John was born in Vancouver, and although the family lived in Calgary and Saint John while John was growing up, they often spent time at the Buccaneer Bay family cabin on Thormanby Island on the west coast. John attended Queen's, where he met Carol (née Brown) and graduated from Civil Engineering in 1964. They enjoyed a close group of Queen's friends who continued to gather together and celebrate Queen's Homecoming for 60 years.

In 1965, John and Carol were married in Ottawa, and then went to Boston, where John attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, graduating with a Master of Business degree in 1968. He and Carol then spent over a year travelling around Europe and North Africa in a VW that they had purchased in Germany and outfitted for their extended road trip.

Coming back home, John started working for DuPont Canada, where he spent his entire career in management, with the family eventually settling in Oakville. John was always an avid sportsman and enjoyed track and field, downhill skiing, sailing, squash and hiking over his lifetime.

In retirement, John and Carol travelled the globe, joining group hiking and skiing trips. They also completed the Bruce Trail End-to-End, an 800-plus kilometre hike that follows the Niagara Escarpment. John's retirement passion project was building a cottage at Lake Park, Carleton Place, where the family spent time every summer.

John will be remembered as a kind, hard-working, gentle, and humorous man by all that knew him. A private family gathering will take place in September in Carleton Place, Ont. 

Locksley Edmondson, an influential Jamaican scholar of International Relations whose career spanned over five decades across several countries, died on Aug. 18 in Ithaca, NY. He was 92.

Born in the rural parish of Clarendon to school teachers Stanford and Olga, his parents impressed upon young Locksley that education should be his primary focus. Stanford insisted that Locksley and his sister, Norma, begin their daily Latin lessons at 5 a.m. each morning by the bust of Lord Byron in the living room. Stanford himself was a powerful example of what education could do: He raised himself from poverty in St. Thomas – which, as Locksley would note in later years, was Jamaica’s poorest, Blackest, and most rebellious parish – to become Jamaica’s Superintendent of Schools and, later, an Anglican minister, who composed hymns.

Locksley attended the prestigious Jamaica College in Kingston, which schooled a generation of Jamaican leaders and scholars, including prime ministers Norman and Michael Manley, authors Neville and Kwame Dawes, and cultural theorist Stuart Hall. Even among such company, Stanford’s 5 a.m. lessons paid off handsomely: Locksley carved out a name for himself as an excellent student of Latin, earning the sobriquet Flaccus, after the Roman poet.

After a stint working in Kingston, Locksley moved to England in the late 1950s to complete his undergraduate degree at the University of Birmingham, specializing in political Science, economics and sociology, graduating with honours. It was at Birmingham that Locksley met other Commonwealth students from Africa and Asia. He was introduced to the anticolonial political discourses such as Marxism and Pan Africanism that were shaping the independence movements of Jamaica and the rest of the colonial world – discourses that would inform his later scholarship as a professor.

He was also introduced to British-style racism. After suffering numerous rejections, Locksley found one promising advertisement for lodging that specifically requested a Black male tenant: to deter the neighbourhood thieves. During this time, Locksley found common cause with his Irish co-workers in the glass factory where he worked part-time to pay for his education. Their experience of British imperialism mirrored his own. On Locksley’s 70th birthday he finally got to fulfill his boyhood desire to see Ireland, and ever after was fond of listening to the Three Irish Tenors and eating Irish porridge.

Locksley moved to Canada to pursue his doctorate in political science at ���ϳԹ���Դ, where he studied under the legendary scholar of Canadian politics, John Meisel. Under Meisel’s tutelage Locksley found his true calling, and upon his retirement, Professor Meisel hailed him as “my soulmate” and “the perfect academic citizen.” He completed his doctoral thesis on the U.S. civil rights movement and accepted an offer from the University of Waterloo to become the first Black professor of the fledgling Department of Political Science there. In 1967 he was awarded a Rockefeller Fellowship to become a visiting professorship at Makerere University in Uganda, an experience which would transform his life. At Makerere, Locksley became close friends with the luminaries of the Pan Africanist independence movements of Africa and the Caribbean, including C.L.R. James, Ali Mazrui, and Ngugi wa Thiong’o.

In 1970 Locksley joined the Department of Government at Cornell University, where he became fast friends with James Turner, the founder and director of the newly-formed Africana Studies & Research Center, the first centre of its kind in the United States to centre the African diaspora. His friendship with James would also transform his personal and professional life; in Africana Studies he recognized his life’s work, and in his second tenure at Cornell in 1983 he joined the department, where he would remain until he retired in 2016, himself becoming its director from 1991 to 1996.

Despite his ascent in the American academy, Locksley still longed to be a part of the nation-building movements of the post-independence societies of the Caribbean. So, in 1973 he returned to Jamaica to join the faculty of the Department of Government at the University of the West Indies at Mona, where he stayed until 1981, lecturing and building innovative programs during his tenure as Dean of Social Sciences. He was a member of a cohort of UWI intellectuals who advised prime minister Michael Manley during the turbulent yet heady nationalism of the 1970s.

A Pan Africanist firmly committed to the freedom of Black societies worldwide, Locksley was expansive by nature. He read voraciously, and loved to quote from a wide range of intellectuals, from iconic African American scholars like W.E.B. DuBois to the groundbreaking Jewish scholar of totalitarianism, Hannah Arendt. But he was not an intellectual snob: He also liked to read The National Enquirer. Read everything, he would counsel his children, before you make a judgement.

A Jamaican to his bones, he loved big Jamaican breakfasts, cricket, Usain Bolt, Shakespeare soliloquies, and belting out Anglican hymns. He was a great orator, a sought-after speaker for professional events and for every single family wedding. He loved jazz, particularly Billy Eckstine and “sassy” Sarah Vaughn. Locksley was a profoundly tolerant man who disliked intolerant people. He was a legendary teacher who trained generations of scholars after him. He was a ferocious debater, a loving father, a doting grandfather, and a great friend. He will be missed by everyone who knew him.