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<div>[[File:BarbaraGarcia.jpg|thumb|Barbara Garcia, May 2013. Credit: CBS News]]<br />
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'''Barbara June Farley-Garcia (nee Self)''' (born circa 1939) is an Oklahoma woman whose house was destroyed in a tornado on 20 May 2013. She gained brief fame after her dog Bowser was found live on television while Barbara was being interviewed.<br />
<br />
==Early Life==<br />
Barbara June Self was born circa 1939, likely in or near Oklahoma.<br />
<br />
She married a Mr. Farley and/or a Mr. Garcia. <br />
<br />
Barbara moved to 113 SW 8 Street, in Moore, Oklahoma circa 1973. The home had been built in 1963.<br />
<br />
==Tornado==<br />
On the afternoon of Monday 20 May 2013, at about 14:56 CDT, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Moore_tornado a tornado touched down] for 37 minutes, killing 25 people in Moore, Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City). Barbara's home was destroyed but she was unharmed. She lost her dog, "Bowser", and assumed it was dead.<br />
<br />
At about 18:00 CDT the same day, Barbara was interviewed by CBS news' [https://www.cbsnews.com/team/anna-werner/ Anna Werner]. Live on television the dog was found alive.<br />
<br />
[[File:113SW8MooreOklahoma2012.PNG|thumb|Her house at 113 SW 8, Moore Oklahoma before the tornado]]<br />
[[File:113SW8MooreOklahoma2016.PNG|thumb|And here is her new Operation Blessing-made house, at the same location. No wonder she's not very thrilled with her new house]]<br />
[[File:MooreOaklahoma2.png|thumb|Garcia's home, circa 2022. She is still living there since the car is the same. The home beside has also been rebuilt.]]<br />
<br />
==Post-Tornado==<br />
After coverage of this event circulated widely, Barbara received an outpouring of $73,940 in donations from 1,632 people [https://www.gofundme.com/Home4Barbara from a GoFundMe] to help her buy a new house after this event. The GoFundMe was organized by a stranger, Erin DeRuggiero of Minneapolis.<br />
<br />
On 26 July 2013, Erin went to Moore to meet Barbara [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgj96Y2kYE].<br />
<br />
By November 2013 she had moved into a new home, built on the same location by a volunteer nonprofit organization from Virginia called Operation Blessing.<br />
<br />
"Things change and I chose to believe that they change for the better," Barbara said. "God, he missed the best chance he had to take me. He'll never have a better chance. He left me here for a reason. I don't know exactly what that reason is, but I know there's a reason and I know I'll find it and I will find comfort in it."<br />
<br />
The *pro bono* legal team who helped Barbara into the new home and handle the money coming in was Carrin and Simone at Whitten Burrage Law Firm and Oklahoma Lawyers Care. They have been helping Barbara sort through the home re-build process and all that she will need to consider (taxes, insurance, etc.) Please visit their fanpage https://www.facebook.com/LawyersCare.<br />
<br />
"Heavy hearts today. Barbara's beloved Bowser passed away this morning after having a stroke. He had been on medication after the tornado, due to fluid build up in his lungs and had been doing well, despite everything he'd been through. Please keep Barbara in your thoughts and prayers. Her address is pasted below if you want to send a note or a card."<br />
- Erin DeReuggiero, circa January 2014<br />
<br />
Later that year Barbara got a new dog, BJ ("Bowser Junior").<br />
<br />
As of 2022 she still lives at the same address. In fact only three houses lie between her home and the Moore Aquatic Center, with exciting outdoor waterslides. It's only 120 metres away.<br />
<br />
No obituary of her is evident online as of 2023, so it is likely she is still alive.<br />
<br />
==Names==<br />
All news articles use the name "Barbara Garcia", but her property listing uses the name "Barbara June Self".<br />
<br />
The White Pages give Barbara June Farley-Garcia, aka Barbara June Self. It's possible Self is her maiden name, whereas Farley and Garcia are her married names?<br />
<br />
Her phone number is listed as (405) 794-3050.<br />
<br />
==Property Assessment, 2013, prior to tornado==<br />
Owner: BARBARA JUNE SELF<br />
<br />
Assessed land value: $9,000 <br />
<br />
Assessed building value: $85,334 <br />
<br />
Total value for property: $94,334 <br />
<br />
Assessments for tax year: 2013 <br />
<br />
Property use: Urban Residential, Single Family Property <br />
<br />
class: Residential <br />
<br />
Land size: 7,303 square feet <br />
<br />
Building area: 1,631 square feet <br />
<br />
Number of bedrooms: 3 <br />
<br />
Number of bathrooms: 2.0 <br />
<br />
Number of stories: 1.0 <br />
<br />
Year property was built: 1963 <br />
<br />
Land use: Urban Residential Land <br />
<br />
Land type: Residential <br />
<br />
Property type: Residential <br />
<br />
Occupancy: Urban Residential, Single Family <br />
<br />
Built as: 2 Story <br />
<br />
Condition: Good <br />
<br />
Quality: Fair Plus <br />
<br />
Heating, ventilation, air conditioning: Central Air to Air <br />
<br />
Exterior: Frame Masonry Veneer <br />
<br />
Interior: Drywall <br />
<br />
Roof type: Gable <br />
<br />
Roof cover: Composition Shingle <br />
<br />
Floor cover: Allowance <br />
<br />
Garage: 540 square feet <br />
<br />
Porch: 280 square feet<br />
<br />
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/cleveland-county-ok/S/SW-8th-Street-1.html#googleMap<br />
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==Update from GoFundMe organizer, circa July 2014==<br />
Just talked to Barbara! She got a new dog in July 2014 (BJ for Bowser Junior) who goes by Junior. He is only 6 pounds fully grown and quite the lap baby. He's loving life in his new house. I'd never seen a teacup schnauzer before, but he's a handsome devil.<br />
<br />
She IS getting some of her mail, delivery has restarted, but it is not always timely. Post Office is still sorting it out, she went there yesterday to give em' what for, but she said you can send cards or whatever you wish to her work address, which she will indeed receive.<br />
<br />
Work (until about 2014):<br />
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Elegant-Decor-608656139171787/<br />
Barbara Garcia/Elegant Decor<br />
11629 South Western Avenue<br />
Oklahoma City, OK 73170<br />
<br />
Home:<br />
113 SW 8th Street <br />
Moore OK 73160<br />
<br />
Barbara's Email:<br />
elegantdecor@sbcglobal.net<br />
<br />
Thanks for all of your emails, means a lot<br />
<br />
Happy Holidays!<br />
Erin<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
Original prompt to write this article: Gerarda Canning Facebook post, 1 June 2019<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Moore_tornado<br />
<br />
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barbara-garcia-dog-bowser-oklahoma-tornado_n_3339950<br />
<br />
https://www.news9.com/story/24026861/reunited-after-the-tornado-moore-woman-dog-have-a-new-home<br />
<br />
https://oklahoman.com/article/3864137/nonprofit-organization-working-from-the-ground-up-on-new-home-for-74-year-old-moore-resident<br />
<br />
https://www.google.com/maps/place/113+SW+8th+St,+Moore,+OK+73160,+USA/@35.3303623,-97.487686,3a,53.4y,22.86h,88.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgYh-ddR4jHo_a3ZXaxo-DQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DgYh-ddR4jHo_a3ZXaxo-DQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D86%26h%3D86%26yaw%3D6.250617%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x87b26b2c6f936a37:0xfe4a998ade1498e8!8m2!3d35.3304924!4d-97.4876105<br />
<br />
http://www.city-data.com/cleveland-county-ok/S/SW-8th-Street-1.html#googleMap<br />
<br />
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Barbara-June-Farley-Garcia/Moore-OK/15jaua6f<br />
<br />
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Barbara-June-Self/Moore-OK/99dm3hc<br />
<br />
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-tornado-survivors-determined-to-stay-in-moore/</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Barbara_Garcia&diff=8059Barbara Garcia2024-03-10T06:25:47Z<p>Admin: /* Tornado */</p>
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<div>[[File:BarbaraGarcia.jpg|thumb|Barbara Garcia, May 2013. Credit: CBS News]]<br />
<br />
'''Barbara June Farley-Garcia (nee Self)''' (born circa 1939) is an Oklahoma woman whose house was destroyed in a tornado on 20 May 2013. She gained brief fame after her dog Bowser was found live on television while Barbara was being interviewed.<br />
<br />
==Early Life==<br />
Barbara June Self was born circa 1939, likely in or near Oklahoma.<br />
<br />
She married a Mr. Farley and/or a Mr. Garcia. <br />
<br />
Barbara moved to 113 SW 8 Street, in Moore, Oklahoma circa 1973. The home had been built in 1963.<br />
<br />
==Tornado==<br />
On the afternoon of Monday 20 May 2013, at about 14:56 CDT, [a tornado touched down https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Moore_tornado] for 37 minutes, killing 25 people in Moore, Oklahoma (a suburb of Oklahoma City). Barbara's home was destroyed but she was unharmed. She lost her dog, "Bowser", and assumed it was dead.<br />
<br />
At about 18:00 CDT the same day, Barbara was interviewed by CBS news' [https://www.cbsnews.com/team/anna-werner/ Anna Werner]. Live on television the dog was found alive.<br />
<br />
[[File:113SW8MooreOklahoma2012.PNG|thumb|Her house at 113 SW 8, Moore Oklahoma before the tornado]]<br />
[[File:113SW8MooreOklahoma2016.PNG|thumb|And here is her new Operation Blessing-made house, at the same location. No wonder she's not very thrilled with her new house]]<br />
[[File:MooreOaklahoma2.png|thumb|Garcia's home, circa 2022. She is still living there since the car is the same. The home beside has also been rebuilt.]]<br />
<br />
==Post-Tornado==<br />
After coverage of this event circulated widely, Barbara received an outpouring of $73,940 in donations from 1,632 people [https://www.gofundme.com/Home4Barbara from a GoFundMe] to help her buy a new house after this event. The GoFundMe was organized by a stranger, Erin DeRuggiero of Minneapolis.<br />
<br />
On 26 July 2013, Erin went to Moore to meet Barbara [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgj96Y2kYE].<br />
<br />
By November 2013 she had moved into a new home, built on the same location by a volunteer nonprofit organization from Virginia called Operation Blessing.<br />
<br />
"Things change and I chose to believe that they change for the better," Barbara said. "God, he missed the best chance he had to take me. He'll never have a better chance. He left me here for a reason. I don't know exactly what that reason is, but I know there's a reason and I know I'll find it and I will find comfort in it."<br />
<br />
The *pro bono* legal team who helped Barbara into the new home and handle the money coming in was Carrin and Simone at Whitten Burrage Law Firm and Oklahoma Lawyers Care. They have been helping Barbara sort through the home re-build process and all that she will need to consider (taxes, insurance, etc.) Please visit their fanpage https://www.facebook.com/LawyersCare.<br />
<br />
"Heavy hearts today. Barbara's beloved Bowser passed away this morning after having a stroke. He had been on medication after the tornado, due to fluid build up in his lungs and had been doing well, despite everything he'd been through. Please keep Barbara in your thoughts and prayers. Her address is pasted below if you want to send a note or a card."<br />
- Erin DeReuggiero, circa January 2014<br />
<br />
Later that year Barbara got a new dog, BJ ("Bowser Junior").<br />
<br />
As of 2022 she still lives at the same address. In fact only three houses lie between her home and the Moore Aquatic Center, with exciting outdoor waterslides. It's only 120 metres away.<br />
<br />
No obituary of her is evident online as of 2023, so it is likely she is still alive.<br />
<br />
==Names==<br />
All news articles use the name "Barbara Garcia", but her property listing uses the name "Barbara June Self".<br />
<br />
The White Pages give Barbara June Farley-Garcia, aka Barbara June Self. It's possible Self is her maiden name, whereas Farley and Garcia are her married names?<br />
<br />
Her phone number is listed as (405) 794-3050.<br />
<br />
==Property Assessment, 2013, prior to tornado==<br />
Owner: BARBARA JUNE SELF<br />
<br />
Assessed land value: $9,000 <br />
<br />
Assessed building value: $85,334 <br />
<br />
Total value for property: $94,334 <br />
<br />
Assessments for tax year: 2013 <br />
<br />
Property use: Urban Residential, Single Family Property <br />
<br />
class: Residential <br />
<br />
Land size: 7,303 square feet <br />
<br />
Building area: 1,631 square feet <br />
<br />
Number of bedrooms: 3 <br />
<br />
Number of bathrooms: 2.0 <br />
<br />
Number of stories: 1.0 <br />
<br />
Year property was built: 1963 <br />
<br />
Land use: Urban Residential Land <br />
<br />
Land type: Residential <br />
<br />
Property type: Residential <br />
<br />
Occupancy: Urban Residential, Single Family <br />
<br />
Built as: 2 Story <br />
<br />
Condition: Good <br />
<br />
Quality: Fair Plus <br />
<br />
Heating, ventilation, air conditioning: Central Air to Air <br />
<br />
Exterior: Frame Masonry Veneer <br />
<br />
Interior: Drywall <br />
<br />
Roof type: Gable <br />
<br />
Roof cover: Composition Shingle <br />
<br />
Floor cover: Allowance <br />
<br />
Garage: 540 square feet <br />
<br />
Porch: 280 square feet<br />
<br />
Read more: http://www.city-data.com/cleveland-county-ok/S/SW-8th-Street-1.html#googleMap<br />
<br />
==Update from GoFundMe organizer, circa July 2014==<br />
Just talked to Barbara! She got a new dog in July 2014 (BJ for Bowser Junior) who goes by Junior. He is only 6 pounds fully grown and quite the lap baby. He's loving life in his new house. I'd never seen a teacup schnauzer before, but he's a handsome devil.<br />
<br />
She IS getting some of her mail, delivery has restarted, but it is not always timely. Post Office is still sorting it out, she went there yesterday to give em' what for, but she said you can send cards or whatever you wish to her work address, which she will indeed receive.<br />
<br />
Work (until about 2014):<br />
https://www.facebook.com/pg/Elegant-Decor-608656139171787/<br />
Barbara Garcia/Elegant Decor<br />
11629 South Western Avenue<br />
Oklahoma City, OK 73170<br />
<br />
Home:<br />
113 SW 8th Street <br />
Moore OK 73160<br />
<br />
Barbara's Email:<br />
elegantdecor@sbcglobal.net<br />
<br />
Thanks for all of your emails, means a lot<br />
<br />
Happy Holidays!<br />
Erin<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
Original prompt to write this article: Gerarda Canning Facebook post, 1 June 2019<br />
<br />
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Moore_tornado<br />
<br />
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/barbara-garcia-dog-bowser-oklahoma-tornado_n_3339950<br />
<br />
https://www.news9.com/story/24026861/reunited-after-the-tornado-moore-woman-dog-have-a-new-home<br />
<br />
https://oklahoman.com/article/3864137/nonprofit-organization-working-from-the-ground-up-on-new-home-for-74-year-old-moore-resident<br />
<br />
https://www.google.com/maps/place/113+SW+8th+St,+Moore,+OK+73160,+USA/@35.3303623,-97.487686,3a,53.4y,22.86h,88.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sgYh-ddR4jHo_a3ZXaxo-DQ!2e0!6s%2F%2Fgeo1.ggpht.com%2Fcbk%3Fpanoid%3DgYh-ddR4jHo_a3ZXaxo-DQ%26output%3Dthumbnail%26cb_client%3Dsearch.TACTILE.gps%26thumb%3D2%26w%3D86%26h%3D86%26yaw%3D6.250617%26pitch%3D0%26thumbfov%3D100!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x87b26b2c6f936a37:0xfe4a998ade1498e8!8m2!3d35.3304924!4d-97.4876105<br />
<br />
http://www.city-data.com/cleveland-county-ok/S/SW-8th-Street-1.html#googleMap<br />
<br />
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Barbara-June-Farley-Garcia/Moore-OK/15jaua6f<br />
<br />
https://www.whitepages.com/name/Barbara-June-Self/Moore-OK/99dm3hc<br />
<br />
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oklahoma-tornado-survivors-determined-to-stay-in-moore/</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Loraine_Currie&diff=8058Loraine Currie2024-03-10T06:17:22Z<p>Admin: </p>
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<div>[[File:LoraineJasmineCurrie.jpg|thumb|Loraine, with the mother of two of her grandchildren, [[Jasmine Currie|Jasmine]], at home at 1020 Williams Avenue, circa 2018]]<br />
'''Loraine Currie (nee Hill)''', born {{Birth date and age|1946|9|12|df=yes}}, is a Canadian woman from [[Thunder Bay]] living in Fort Frances, Ontario. She is [[Michael Currie]]'s aunt.<br />
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==Early life==<br />
'''Loraine Hill''' was born 12 September 1943 in Fort William to [[Neil Hill|Neil]] and [[Myrt Hill|Myrtle "Myrt" Hill]]. <br />
<br />
She lived at 812 Pruden Street in Fort William until about 1950.<br />
<br />
She and her parents then moved out to a more rural location [now called Ridgecrest Road according to her cousin [[Marilyn Smyth|Marilyn]] in 2020] along the McIntyre River until "high school", so about 1961. Her uncle [[Harvey Smyth]] and his family, including her cousin [[Marilyn Smyth|Marilyn]], followed. At the time, the harbour expressway had not been built, so access to her road terminated and there was no access to Fort William except by going doing around on Central Avenue. Now the area is fully integrated and a central part of Thunder Bay.<br />
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From 1961, presumably until her marriage in 1967, she lived at 16 Rupert Street in Port Arthur. Her parents kept this home until the early 1990s, when they moved to be closer to her in Fort Frances.<br />
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==Marriage and family==<br />
Loraine married [[Doug Currie]] on 26 July 1967 [http://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/panc-social-notices-and-news-1962-1972.pdf] and built a home with him in Fort Frances. They had two children:<br />
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* [[Ian Currie]] (born 2 February 1968)<br />
* [[Jeff Currie]] (born 1 August 1970)<br />
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She has lived in Fort Frances ever since.<br />
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Her mother died on 11 April 2007 in Fort Frances: https://www.legacy.com/ca/obituaries/chroniclejournal/name/myrtle-hill-obituary?id=43244620<br />
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==Professional Life==<br />
<br />
Loraine was a professional patient advocate at Fort Frances' hospital, Le Veredyre Hospital. This role began in the early 1980s and was initially a volunteer position. In this role she would speak with elderly patients, understand their concerns, and make them feel validated as well as passing their concerns to doctors and other hospital staff.<br />
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On 22 October 2007, (about 6 months after her mother died), Fort Frances Times reported: [3] <br />
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"Performing “Walk Like A Babe,” the “Boobettes” (Shawne Crowe, Sue Jones, Shawn McCaig, and Loraine Currie) entertained the 220 women who gathered at La Place Rendez-Vous on Saturday for the Rainy River District Breast Health Network’s seventh “Luncheon of Hope.” Women got a chance to enjoy lunch, socialize, and enter raffles, as well as get an update on advances in breast cancer care from La Verendrye Hospital’s newest surgeon, Dr. Carole Spread."<br />
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As of Tue, 2008-03-25 11:06, the Rainy River Record reported that "In March 1981, Riverside Health Care Facilities, Inc. established a Quarter Century Club to honour employees of the corporation and auxiliary members with 25 years or more of service. In 2001, physicians who have had 25 or more years with hospital privileges at Riverside were included in the Quarter Century Club. This year Rainycrest Staff and Auxiliary have been invited to participate in the Quarter Century Club.<br />
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Members reaching 25, 30 or 40 years of service are honoured at a special recognition ceremony. This will take place on Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at the Fort Frances Legion.<br />
<br />
*Loraine Currie-La Verendrye Hospital -25 years of service" [4]<br />
<br />
==Autobiography==<br />
A brief history of Myrt and Neil as per your request<br />
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Myrt, lovingly dubbed Mort, come to be in 1911, and Neil a year later. He called her the older woman.<br />
<br />
Both grew up in [[Thunder Bay]]. Neil's parents not long there from Finland and Mort's via Winnipeg from England. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigan Wigan] to be exact. Bellingham cottage on the registry notice that stated her grandfather was a cowkeeper. We've decided that he was likely the one from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downton_Abbey Downton Abbey]. Although that may not resemble fact, it does resemble fancy.<br />
<br />
Purely from the one photo I saw of my dad's folks, and a few comments, life in Finland was austerish [sic], harsh on body and being. Dad has 2 sisters, one died as a child. Aunt Saimi I met but a few times. His parents both passed away before I was born.<br />
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Dad the navy man was stationed in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia Halifax] and there learned the blacksmith trade, repairing ships until discharge. He became the last smithy at the provincial paper mill. At a previous workplace, he organized and led a strike over poor wages. Increase was achieved. Neil was fired. Employees refused to return unless he was hired back. He was. He stood for a number of social issues, was a communist for a while. As a kid, I remember we weren't to talk about that with anyone. Neither were we to mention the still in the basement. The msterious contraption that seemed to bubble and bew - My cousins and I later making the discovery that dandelion whisky or some other peculiarity was prepping for Sat. night. Dad was rather booky and broody. He'd read poetry to me as a small child. I tried to cipher [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare Shakespeare], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Barrett_Browning Browning], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_W._Service Robert Service]. Something stuck though because I find the wolrd of words and meaning attractive. Cousin Gary said dad would recite as he showed him the stars through his telescope. Classical music the soundtrack of his world, the wonders of words, and stargazing, his go to space.<br />
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Mom had 3 brothers. A bit of a rascally bunch. She managed to escape punitive measures as she told me she was the apple of her dad's eye (the archaic version of being the fav, if you're not familiar)<br />
<br />
Her father was a railway engineer, train no. 5353 and my beloved gram, a regal sort of soul, very women's institute and other such standard bearers of the era. It was a reasonably comfortable upbringing.<br />
<br />
She became a bookkeeper. Ahead of her time in numerous ways, she stood up to harassing bosses with charity, calm and humour - a few colourful stories there! She was independent and collaborative. At ease with herself and others. She loved dancing, big band music. Her brother [[Harvey Smyth|Harvey]], whom Yubby all his life, was a crooner, with a Frank Sinatra kind of style. [[Harvey Smyth]] and his all girl band. Big clowns them. She was fun and smart with heart, that morphed itself into wisdom's wit.<br />
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Myrt and Neil were married in Montreal and were close to mid thirties before their only child [Loraine] was born. Older parents for the time, raising a quietish child. We lived on Pruden Street - 812 [in Fort William] - till I was about 8, and moved to the country. My aunt, Uncle, and 3 cousins bought the house next door and became my substitute siblings. Country bumpkins each and all. The McIntyre river was our hangout. Plus a tree fort we fashioned with imagination and a few sticks. And FYI - full reveal - I was the president of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Lanza Mario Lanza] Fan Club at age 11, a self appointed position, but still. Roped my cuz [[Marilyn Smyth|Marilyn]] into being secretary. Stenographers' pad required. We put posters on trees but oddly, of the few neighbours, not a one came forward enthusiastically, or at all. But we pressed on, holding meetings with cousin Ron, then 7, and I, singing a robust version of one of my Mario favs - reprise of last summer when Ron came to visit. It was as stirring and gobsmackering [sic] as the original! And available upon request I might add, as we recorded the command preformance. Other than my dad teaching me to shoot a bow and arrow at the archery club he formed, it was a kind of cloistered wee world. Except for Sat. night, when our parents got all 'gussied' up for the Elks club. When they returned, entourage inclusive, in varying states of overserve (?) - suffice to say, many stories from there to here.<br />
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They moved to Rupert St when I was in high school. Until illness, they continued living engaged lives, active in allsorts [sic], including politics.<br />
<br />
Mom and dad moved to Fort Frances when dad had a stroke at 80ish, and could no longer live at home. It was a good move, an opportunity to not only help them, but to know them in a new way. Dad lived for several years and although he was [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphasia aphasic], he and I had many conversations, communicating on a different, depper level. His doctor said she'd never met anyone with such expressive eyes. He remained lucid till the end and met the challenge of illness with dignity and strength of character.<br />
<br />
Mom lived till just shy of 96, retaining her remarkable perspective - ever the playful pragmatist, humour literally till the last, with acceptance and appreciation. A friend she made here said Myrt taught me how to laugh again. Noble work, that.<br />
<br />
Apologies if I've overshared. I misplaced your questions so just jotted a general overview. As with any life or family, the book of being has many chapters, paragraphs, and passages.<br />
<br />
Myrt and Neil did so enjoy your pop bys, thought of you as a dear and delightful wee laddie.<br />
<br />
That you were. And I trust that remains intact, along with the all of the all the makes Michael, AKA Mickelmoose, his very own self.<br />
<br />
Hugs from here<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] A letter from Loraine to Michael Currie from February 2019.<br />
<br />
[2] Port Arthur News-Chronicle, 26 July 1967. Page 10 (with picture). [http://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/panc-social-notices-and-news-1962-1972.pdf]<br />
<br />
[3] https://fftimes.com/news/photo-gallery/thinking-pink/<br />
<br />
[4] https://rainyriverrecord.com/node/4554</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8057Donald Hood2024-02-11T13:21:52Z<p>Admin: /* Volunteer Work */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession, one of a wave of foreign-trained professionals who filled the ranks of Canadian hospitals during the 20 years between when the profession was founded in the 1960s and when Canadian universities finally started graduating nationally-educated professionals. [6]<br />
<br />
He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of Audiology in 1973.<br />
<br />
He left this position in August, 1978, around the same time that his 1977-1978 term as President of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech-Language_and_Audiology_Canada The Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA)] expired.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "'''Connect Hearing'''", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was Thunder Bay Audiology's website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career:<br />
<br />
* From 1970-1978 he worked at a large government-run hospital, which was normal for employed audiologists ('''similar to surgeons''') and<br />
* In 1978, he quit and pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics owned and operating by audiologists ('''run similar to dentists''') rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals.<br />
* Then in 2006, at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, ('''like optometrists at eyeglass stores''') turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients.<br />
<br />
So it seems he got in (1978) and got out (2006) at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by '''Sonova Group''', a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved their Thunder Bay branch to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" [1] to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8056Donald Hood2024-02-11T13:20:53Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession, one of a wave of foreign-trained professionals who filled the ranks of Canadian hospitals during the 20 years between when the profession was founded in the 1960s and when Canadian universities finally started graduating nationally-educated professionals. [6]<br />
<br />
He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of Audiology in 1973.<br />
<br />
He left this position in August, 1978, around the same time that his 1977-1978 term as President of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech-Language_and_Audiology_Canada The Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA)] expired.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "'''Connect Hearing'''", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was Thunder Bay Audiology's website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career:<br />
<br />
* From 1970-1978 he worked at a large government-run hospital, which was normal for employed audiologists ('''similar to surgeons''') and<br />
* In 1978, he quit and pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics owned and operating by audiologists ('''run similar to dentists''') rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals.<br />
* Then in 2006, at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, ('''like optometrists at eyeglass stores''') turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients.<br />
<br />
So it seems he got in (1978) and got out (2006) at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by '''Sonova Group''', a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved their Thunder Bay branch to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8055Donald Hood2024-02-11T13:19:49Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession, one of a wave of foreign-trained professionals who filled the ranks of Canadian hospitals during the 20 years between when the profession was founded in the 1960s and when Canadian universities finally started graduating nationally-educated professionals.<br />
<br />
He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of Audiology in 1973.<br />
<br />
He left this position in August, 1978, around the same time that his 1977-1978 term as President of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech-Language_and_Audiology_Canada The Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists (CASLPA)] expired.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "'''Connect Hearing'''", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was Thunder Bay Audiology's website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career:<br />
<br />
* From 1970-1978 he worked at a large government-run hospital, which was normal for employed audiologists ('''similar to surgeons''') and<br />
* In 1978, he quit and pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics owned and operating by audiologists ('''run similar to dentists''') rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals.<br />
* Then in 2006, at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, ('''like optometrists at eyeglass stores''') turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients.<br />
<br />
So it seems he got in (1978) and got out (2006) at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by '''Sonova Group''', a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved their Thunder Bay branch to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8054Donald Hood2024-02-11T13:13:45Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "'''Connect Hearing'''", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was Thunder Bay Audiology's website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career:<br />
<br />
* From 1970-1978 he worked at a large government-run hospital, which was normal for employed audiologists ('''similar to surgeons''') and<br />
* In 1978, he quit and pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics owned and operating by audiologists ('''run similar to dentists''') rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals.<br />
* Then in 2006, at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, ('''like optometrists at eyeglass stores''') turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients.<br />
<br />
So it seems he got in (1978) and got out (2006) at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by '''Sonova Group''', a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved their Thunder Bay branch to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8053Donald Hood2024-02-11T13:12:27Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "'''Connect Hearing'''", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was Thunder Bay Audiology's website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career:<br />
<br />
* at the beginning he quit his job at a large government-run hospital which up until the 1970s had normally employed audiologists ('''similar to surgeons''') and<br />
* pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics owned and operating by audiologists ('''run similar to dentists''') rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals.<br />
* And then at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, ('''like optometrists at eyeglass stores''') turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients.<br />
<br />
So it seems he got in and got out at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by '''Sonova Group''', a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved their Thunder Bay branch to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8052Donald Hood2024-02-11T13:12:09Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "'''Connect Hearing'''", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was Thunder Bay Audiology's website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career:<br />
<br />
* at the beginning he quit his job at a large government-run hospital which up until the 1970s had normally employed audiologists (similar to surgeons) and<br />
* pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics owned and operating by audiologists ('''run similar to dentists''') rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals.<br />
* And then at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, ('''like optometrists at eyeglass stores''') turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients.<br />
<br />
So it seems he got in and got out at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by '''Sonova Group''', a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved their Thunder Bay branch to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
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Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8051Donald Hood2024-02-11T13:10:47Z<p>Admin: </p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career:<br />
<br />
* at the beginning he quit his job at a large government-run hospital which up until the 1970s had normally employed audiologists (similar to surgeons) and<br />
* pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics owned and operating by audiologists ('''run similar to dentists''') rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals.<br />
* And then at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, ('''like optometrists at eyeglass stores''') turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients.<br />
<br />
So it seems he got in and got out at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by Sonova Group, a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
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Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Lucy_Currie&diff=8050Lucy Currie2024-02-10T06:56:12Z<p>Admin: </p>
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<div>[[File:LucyCurrie1994-12-25.gif|thumb|Lucy at Doug's house, Christmas 1994 (age 76)]] <br />
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'''Edith Lucy Currie''' (8 January 1918 - 9 May 2003) was a housewife born in Transcona, Manitoba, who from 1954 lived at or near Port Arthur, Ontario.<br />
<br />
She was the first child born to [[John Cooke]] and his wife after they had emigrated from Wales to Canada. Six years later, they had their final child, [[Rosalind Foot|Rosalind]].<br />
<br />
She married [[Jack Currie]] on 3 June 1939. They had three boys: [[Bill Currie|Bill]], [[Doug Currie|Doug]], and [[Ron Currie|Ron]].<br />
<br />
In the late 1970s and 1980s she lived in a cabin with her husband on Surprise Lake, in Lappe, Ontario, just a few minutes from Thunder Bay.<br />
<br />
In about 1992 Jack and Lucy moved back into town, first to Academy Towers and later in about 1998 to St. Joseph's Heritage, an assisted-care facility, where she lived until the end of her life.<br />
<br />
==Death==<br />
Lucy became afflicted with Alzheimer's disease around 1998. In characteristic fashion, it progressively robbed her of her long-term memories. She died Friday, 9 May 2003, widowing her husband Jack, who went on to live another five years.<br />
<br />
==Obituary==<br />
<br />
{{quote|1=<nowiki /><br />
Mrs. Edith Lucy Currie (nee Cooke), a resident of Thunder Bay, passed away at St. Joseph's Care Group on Friday, May 9, 2003.<br />
<br />
Lucy was born on January 8, 1918 in Transcona, Manitoba. She was educated there and worked as a sales clerk at Eaton's in Winnipeg.<br />
<br />
On June 3, 1939 she married [[Jack Currie]], not realizing she would be his wife for the next 64 years.<br />
<br />
Lucy was a fine singer and sang in many choirs including Trinity Church and later the Lakehead Choral Group. She was actively involved with her husband in the Port Arthur Gyro Club and the Lakehead Housebuilders. Her tables at the Dessert of the Month were the envy of all for many years. Lucy's children and grandchildren continue to enjoy the many knitting and craft projects she created.<br />
<br />
She is survived by her loving husband Jack, sister [[Rosalind Foot]] of Toronto, brother [[Ernie Cooke]] of Newfoundland, 3 sons, [[Bill Currie|Bill]] ([[Eleanor Currie|Eleanor]]) in Ottawa, [[Doug Currie|Doug]] ([[Loraine Currie|Loraine]]) in Fort Frances and [[Ronald Currie|Ron]] (The Baby) ([[Mary Ann Currie|Mary Ann]]) in Thunder Bay as well as 6 Grandchildren: [[Ian Currie|Ian]] ([[Jasmine Currie|Jasmine]]), [[Jeff Currie|Jeffrey]] ([[Bonnie Currie|Bonnie]]), [[Janet Kelk|Janet]] ([[Owen Kelk|Owen]]), [[Dave Currie|David]] ([[Jackie Currie|Jackie]]), [[Michael Currie|Michael]] and [[Carolyn Trottier|Carolyn]] and 3 Great-Grandchildren ([[Jacob Kelk|Jacob]], [[Grady Currie|Grady]], [[Abbey Currie|Abbey]]).<br />
<br />
Cremation has taken place with a private interment at Sunset Memorial Gardens. A private family memorial service has been planned. Friends are invited to drop in to a reception at 71 S. Hill St anytime between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 24. Should friends desire donations to the charity of your choice would be appreciated. On-line condolences may be made at www.sargentandson.com<br />
|author=[[Ronald Currie]]; originally published in the [[Chronicle Journal]], May 2003<br />
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<div>'''Grace Dorothy Ensworth''' (1894 - 19 January 1947) was an English-Canadian resident of the Twin Cities and the [[Dance Studios of Thunder Bay|first serious ballet teacher in the Lakehead]].<br />
<br />
{{quote<br />
|text=Turn-of-the-century Port Arthur was a small, ethnically diverse town focussed on the primary resource-based industries of forestry and mining, with secondary industries in manufacturing. The local diversity, including immigrants from Ukraine, Finland, and Denmark, meant that a variety of cultural dance forms was part of the community, though training in ballet was not available. It was not until World War I that classical ballet classes were offered by Grace Ensworth, a ballet teacher who moved from England to the Lakehead.<br />
|author=''Sylvia Horn: Inspiring Generations'' by Jane Nicholas<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
<br />
'''Grace Ensworth''' was born in England in 1894 to [https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/edmund-nugent-ensworth-24-qbylsd Edmund Nugent Ensworth] and Eleanor Louise Perrins. (Grace's marriage certificate spells her mother's given name as "Elinear", but this is surely a misspelling)<br />
<br />
Sometime before 1918 she immigrated to the Lakehead in Canada.<br />
<br />
In June 1924 she travelled from Montreal to Southampton aboard the [http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=melit Melita] in England, arriving on 20 June 1924.<br />
<br />
From 7 June to 26 September 1926 she took another trip to England, according to border crossing documents in Niagara. She departed 18 September from Southampton aboard the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905) RMS Carmania], arriving in New York on 26 September.<br />
<br />
==Marriage and family==<br />
<br />
On 6 July 1927, in Fort William, Grace married [[Charles Boyle|Charles Joseph Boyle]] (19 May 1893 - 8 July 1966), a man born in Orillia, Ontario, [https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/marriage-records/grace-ensworth-and-charles-boyle.html]. He played music for her students.<br />
<br />
At the time of her marriage she was living with Charles at 133 Bethune Street. They are both listed as Anglicans, and also with the United Church of Canada. Charles is listed as a "department manager" (possibly at Chapples?) and she as a "dancing teacher". He had previously been married to a Gladys Andrea Holliday (1894 – 1968) from 1915 - 1927.<br />
<br />
Interestingly, the witnesses for the wedding are "C. CHAPPLE" and Grace's mother, Eleanor Louise Ensworth, perhaps the Chapple being related to the wealthy family that had the department store and sponsored the Santa Claus shows she started in the 1940s. (which were later taken over by [[Sylvia Horn]])<br />
<br />
==Death==<br />
<br />
Grace Boyle died 19 January 1947, at the young age of 54. [4]<br />
<br />
==Students==<br />
* [[Sylvia Horn]] (1914 - 2005), who ran dozens of annual revues and taught dance in Thunder Bay for 70 years from 1930 until the 2000s. Her legacy is at least three studios currently active and run by former students of hers.<br />
* Maxine Lecky (nee McKinnon) (1923 - 2018) [https://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/maxine-lecky-1067603151] taught with Grace and then had her own studio until she moved to Edmonton with her husband in 1956. Lecky's Dance Studio in Edmonton has been running for at least 61 years up to 2020 now. [https://www.leckydance.com/history]. "Maxine McKinnon was born in the city of Port Arthur (now called Thunder Bay), Ontario in July of 1923. At an early age she began studies in ballet, tap, highland dancing and figure skating. She became a very accomplished dancer with a great enthusiasm for her craft. In 1947 Maxine married Harry Lecky. In the mid 1950’s Maxine began teaching part time with her old instructor, Grace Ensworth and in 1954 she started her own studio! She rented the Finnish Hall in Port Arthur and began teaching classes on Saturdays. By the second year of operation she had over fifty students. In 1956, her husband Harry, a salesman for the Carnation Milk Company, was promoted to Sales Manager and was offered a transfer to Edmonton, Alberta. They were unhappy to close down their new studio and also sad to move away from their family and friends."<br />
* Cecilia Parker (1914 - 1993) was a Hollywood actress with over 60 film credits. "Born in Fort William in 1914, Cecilia Parker showed early promise as a “star pupil” of dance instructor Grace Ensworth. Newspapers called her the “child darling of Fort William entertainment.”" [https://northernwilds.com/legendary-ladies/]<br />
<br />
Grace ran the Chapples Santa Claus show in 1943. Sylvia ran it from 1959 to 1971. Sponsored by Chapples Department Store (a department store locally owned and operated; the premiere department store in Fort William, located where VictoriaVille Mall now sits; existed from 1915 - 1981).<br />
<br />
"Chapples founded in 1915 as a family dry goods and ladies fashion store soon expanded to becoming Fort William's(now Thunder Bay) premier department store with branches throughout NW Ontario communities. They later built the "home store" shown above. Sadly Chapples closed for business in 1981 after an incredible run of business for almost 70 years." [http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmasthe-best-days-of-our-lives-in.html] [https://www.chroniclejournal.com/opinion/columns/a-troubled-history/article_08a1ca54-4c21-11e6-862b-7b4ff2156934.html]<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
<br />
[1] The Port Arthur Daily News and Port Arthur News-Chronicle 1915 - 1942<br />
<br />
* Ensworth, Grace M 6 Jul 1927 6 Jul 1927 p.3 To Chas. Boyle<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 4 Apr 1929 p.2 Revue Review<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 30 Mar 1929 p.2 pic New 1929 revue<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 12 Sep 1928 p.5 Back-dance course in NY<br />
* Ensworth, Grace PIC n/a 9 Apr 1928 p.2 Annual revue<br />
* Ensworth, Grace PIC n/a 9 Apr 1927 p.3 To give concert<br />
* Parker, Cecilia NEWS n/a 8 Sep 1937 p.6 Entertains Grace Ensworth<br />
<br />
[2] The Port Arthur News-Chronicle Chapples Santa Claus show NEWS 4 Dec 1943 6 Dec 1943 p.5 At Orpheum/Grace Ensworth [http://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/social-notices-news/panc-social-news-and-notices-with-intro-.pdf]<br />
<br />
[3] Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150951862/person/322178878630/facts<br />
<br />
[4] Fort William Obituary Index https://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/fwdtj-death-index-1900-1972.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Grace_Ensworth&diff=8048Grace Ensworth2024-02-10T05:17:40Z<p>Admin: </p>
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<div>'''Grace Dorothy Ensworth''' (1894 - 19 January 1947) was an English-Canadian resident of the Twin Cities and the [[Dance Studios of Thunder Bay|first serious ballet teacher in the Lakehead]].<br />
<br />
{{quote<br />
|text=Turn-of-the-century Port Arthur was a small, ethnically diverse town focussed on the primary resource-based industries of forestry and mining, with secondary industries in manufacturing. The local diversity, including immigrants from Ukraine, Finland, and Denmark, meant that a variety of cultural dance forms was part of the community, though training in ballet was not available. It was not until World War I that classical ballet classes were offered by Grace Ensworth, a ballet teacher who moved from England to the Lakehead.<br />
|author=''Sylvia Horn: Inspiring Generations'' by Jane Nicholas<br />
}}<br />
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==Early life==<br />
**Grace Ensworth** was born in England in 1894 to [https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/edmund-nugent-ensworth-24-qbylsd Edmund Nugent Ensworth] and Eleanor Louise Perrins. (Grace's marriage certificate spells her mother's given name as "Elinear", but this is surely a misspelling)<br />
<br />
Sometime before 1918 she immigrated to the Lakehead in Canada.<br />
<br />
In June 1924 she travelled from Montreal to Southampton aboard the [http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=melit Melita] in England, arriving on 20 June 1924.<br />
<br />
From 7 June to 26 September 1926 she took another trip to England, according to border crossing documents in Niagara. She departed 18 September from Southampton aboard the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905) RMS Carmania], arriving in New York on 26 September.<br />
<br />
==Marriage and family==<br />
<br />
On 6 July 1927, in Fort William, Grace married [[Charles Boyle|Charles Joseph Boyle]] (19 May 1893 - 8 July 1966), a man born in Orillia, Ontario, [https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/marriage-records/grace-ensworth-and-charles-boyle.html]. He played music for her students.<br />
<br />
At the time of her marriage she was living with Charles at 133 Bethune Street. They are both listed as Anglicans, and also with the United Church of Canada. Charles is listed as a "department manager" (possibly at Chapples?) and she as a "dancing teacher". He had previously been married to a Gladys Andrea Holliday (1894 – 1968) from 1915 - 1927.<br />
<br />
Interestingly, the witnesses for the wedding are "C. CHAPPLE" and Grace's mother, Eleanor Louise Ensworth, perhaps the Chapple being related to the wealthy family that had the department store and sponsored the Santa Claus shows she started in the 1940s. (which were later taken over by [[Sylvia Horn]])<br />
<br />
==Death==<br />
<br />
Grace Boyle died 19 January 1947, at the young age of 54. [4]<br />
<br />
==Students==<br />
* [[Sylvia Horn]] (1914 - 2005), who ran dozens of annual revues and taught dance in Thunder Bay for 70 years from 1930 until the 2000s. Her legacy is at least three studios currently active and run by former students of hers.<br />
* Maxine Lecky (nee McKinnon) (1923 - 2018) [https://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/maxine-lecky-1067603151] taught with Grace and then had her own studio until she moved to Edmonton with her husband in 1956. Lecky's Dance Studio in Edmonton has been running for at least 61 years up to 2020 now. [https://www.leckydance.com/history]. "Maxine McKinnon was born in the city of Port Arthur (now called Thunder Bay), Ontario in July of 1923. At an early age she began studies in ballet, tap, highland dancing and figure skating. She became a very accomplished dancer with a great enthusiasm for her craft. In 1947 Maxine married Harry Lecky. In the mid 1950’s Maxine began teaching part time with her old instructor, Grace Ensworth and in 1954 she started her own studio! She rented the Finnish Hall in Port Arthur and began teaching classes on Saturdays. By the second year of operation she had over fifty students. In 1956, her husband Harry, a salesman for the Carnation Milk Company, was promoted to Sales Manager and was offered a transfer to Edmonton, Alberta. They were unhappy to close down their new studio and also sad to move away from their family and friends."<br />
* Cecilia Parker (1914 - 1993) was a Hollywood actress with over 60 film credits. "Born in Fort William in 1914, Cecilia Parker showed early promise as a “star pupil” of dance instructor Grace Ensworth. Newspapers called her the “child darling of Fort William entertainment.”" [https://northernwilds.com/legendary-ladies/]<br />
<br />
Grace ran the Chapples Santa Claus show in 1943. Sylvia ran it from 1959 to 1971. Sponsored by Chapples Department Store (a department store locally owned and operated; the premiere department store in Fort William, located where VictoriaVille Mall now sits; existed from 1915 - 1981).<br />
<br />
"Chapples founded in 1915 as a family dry goods and ladies fashion store soon expanded to becoming Fort William's(now Thunder Bay) premier department store with branches throughout NW Ontario communities. They later built the "home store" shown above. Sadly Chapples closed for business in 1981 after an incredible run of business for almost 70 years." [http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmasthe-best-days-of-our-lives-in.html] [https://www.chroniclejournal.com/opinion/columns/a-troubled-history/article_08a1ca54-4c21-11e6-862b-7b4ff2156934.html]<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
<br />
[1] The Port Arthur Daily News and Port Arthur News-Chronicle 1915 - 1942<br />
<br />
* Ensworth, Grace M 6 Jul 1927 6 Jul 1927 p.3 To Chas. Boyle<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 4 Apr 1929 p.2 Revue Review<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 30 Mar 1929 p.2 pic New 1929 revue<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 12 Sep 1928 p.5 Back-dance course in NY<br />
* Ensworth, Grace PIC n/a 9 Apr 1928 p.2 Annual revue<br />
* Ensworth, Grace PIC n/a 9 Apr 1927 p.3 To give concert<br />
* Parker, Cecilia NEWS n/a 8 Sep 1937 p.6 Entertains Grace Ensworth<br />
<br />
[2] The Port Arthur News-Chronicle Chapples Santa Claus show NEWS 4 Dec 1943 6 Dec 1943 p.5 At Orpheum/Grace Ensworth [http://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/social-notices-news/panc-social-news-and-notices-with-intro-.pdf]<br />
<br />
[3] Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150951862/person/322178878630/facts<br />
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[4] Fort William Obituary Index https://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/fwdtj-death-index-1900-1972.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8047Donald Hood2024-02-08T09:04:53Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This appears to have placed Dr. Hood's practice in the vanguard at both the beginning and end of his career: at the beginning he pioneered the sale of hearing aids by privately-run audiology clinics (run similar to eyeglass stores) rather than as they were previously done, at hospitals. And then at the end of his career he was swept up in a wave of consolidation where most independently-run audiology clinics got bought out by large chains like Connect Hearing, which have since de-emphasized the individual audiologist, turning them into something akin to technicians who conduct hearing tests rather than prestigious academic researchers who push the boundaries of audiology research while also helping clients. So it seems he got in and got out at just the right time.<br />
<br />
Two years later, in 2008, Connect Hearing was itself acquired, by Sonova Group, a Swiss publicly-traded hearing aid company with a market cap of $20 billion and a global market share of 25%.<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8046Donald Hood2024-02-08T08:55:50Z<p>Admin: /* Sources */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] (A training video for audiologists) Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/7603998A<br />
<br />
Contributor(s):<br />
Mitchell, David P.<br />
Hood, Donald.<br />
Platt, L. Jay.<br />
University of Toronto. Faculty of Medicine. Division of Instructional Media Services.<br />
Publication:<br />
Toronto : The Division, 1975</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8045Donald Hood2024-02-08T08:54:13Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
On Hill Street, Dr. Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1992.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood separated from his wife and moved to Parkview Place Apartments at 790 Arundel Street. It was here that Michael Currie played the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Seed_(video_game) Dark Seed] video game with Jeremy, which initiated Jeremy's "Goth" phase.<br />
<br />
Sometime in the mid- to late-1990s, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. Since at least 2001, he and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since at least 2001 until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr. Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8044Donald Hood2024-02-07T05:56:30Z<p>Admin: /* Personal Life */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber in 2007 with two children born soon afterward [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's sons. His second wife's sons now have children of their own as of at least 2019. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
Oddly, this boat name is not attested in the Transport Canada registry, except to a similar vessel from Vancouver. [https://wwwapps.tc.gc.ca/Saf-Sec-Sur/4/vrqs-srib/eng/vessel-registrations/details/392243]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8042Donald Hood2024-02-06T11:19:37Z<p>Admin: /* Sources */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf<br />
<br />
<br />
[7] Doctor, does my child hear? 1975 https://collections.nlm.nih.gov/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-7603998A-vid</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8041Donald Hood2024-02-06T11:16:12Z<p>Admin: /* Personal Life */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He met a St. Louis woman, [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] at University (?) and in 1970 they moved to Toronto so Dr. Hood could work at the Hospital for Sick Children. Seeking a quiet place to raise a family (and with a lower cost of living), they sold their Toronto house and moved to Thunder Bay, in Canada. From 1978 to 1992 he lived with her on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 she has lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia.<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber]. Since at least 2014 until at least 2024 he has lived in Woodbridge, Ontario.<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr. Hood remarried to a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8040Donald Hood2024-02-06T11:09:32Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8039Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:57:04Z<p>Admin: /* Relationship with Michael Currie */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8038Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:56:07Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005, likely to "Connect Hearing", an American franchise of Audiology Clinics founded in 1979. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
Fate of Staff:<br />
* Cathy Hunt seems to have moved to Connect Hearing's "Stratford Audiology Clinic" branch. [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] <br />
* As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005, around the time of its sale to Connect Hearing]]<br />
<br />
==Volunteer Work==<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8037Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:53:21Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] Connect Hearing claims to have been founded in about 1979. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she retired around 2008.<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8036Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:51:47Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/] Connect Hearing claims to have been founded in about 1979. In 2008, Sonova Group, a Swiss company, purchased Connect Hearing.<br />
<br />
After the Twin City Gas Building was demolished, Connect Hearing moved to 1186 Memorial Avenue (at the corner of John and Memorial), in a standalone building in the parking lot of the Shoppers' Drug Mart. It is branded as "Expert Hearing" rather than Connect Hearing for some reason. [https://www.google.com/maps/@48.4279635,-89.233163,3a,83.2y,325.88h,82.02t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sq1_dGfC4BHOtp2sfm-wgiw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656?entry=ttu]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she is retired.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8035Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:47:58Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`, which is likely the buyer of Dr. Hood's practice. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in Gardenia, California, at 879 W 190th St - Pacific Pointe as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] This location houses yet another instance of the "Connect Hearing" franchise which does not advertise the audiologist names on their staff. However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she is retired.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8034Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:44:41Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2008, Daniela Kralovec was practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love". [https://npino.com/audiologist/1720266596-ms.-daniela-kralovec-love/] However, her license has not been updated since then and she does not appear on any websites, so it's likely she is retired.<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=File:Drhoodbone.png&diff=8033File:Drhoodbone.png2024-02-06T09:41:29Z<p>Admin: Subject: Dr. Hood, 1973
Source: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</p>
<hr />
<div>== Summary ==<br />
Subject: Dr. Hood, 1973<br />
Source: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8032Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:39:46Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
[[File:drhoodbone.png|thumb|Dr. Hood, conducting "masked bone conduction audiometry" at the Hospital for Sick Children in 1973]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8031Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:38:28Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto. He was Head of the Division of<br />
Audiology in 1973. He left this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8030Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:37:41Z<p>Admin: /* Sources */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto, leaving this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))<br />
<br />
Full article: https://www.cjslpa.ca/files/1973_HumComm_Vol_01/No_02_2-92/Hood_Mueller_HumComm_1973_News.pdf</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8029Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:35:54Z<p>Admin: </p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto, leaving this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]<br />
<br />
[6] https://sacdev.sac-oac.ca/sites/default/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf<br />
<br />
Association Presidents: 1977-1978 Donald C. Hood (ON)<br />
<br />
ARTICLE 1: Hood, Donald and Peter B. Meuller. (1973) The hospital for sick children, Toronto. Human Communication Number 2, Autumn <br />
<br />
ARTICLE 2: Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history<br />
information. <br />
<br />
(For article 2, the guest editorial is not present in the archive here https://www.cjslpa.ca/ which seems to exclude it (probably it was at the beginning (pages 1-4))</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=Donald_Hood&diff=8028Donald Hood2024-02-06T09:34:54Z<p>Admin: /* Career */</p>
<hr />
<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto, leaving this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
The building Dr. Hood rented his office from, the '''Twin City Gas Building''', was popularly known as the '''King's Stereo Building''' after Howard King's famous stereo store. The building stood from the 1950s until 24 May 2010, when it was demolished. [https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
[5] hearwellnow.com, Wayback Machine [https://web.archive.org/web/20010222005359/http://www.hearwellnow.com/]</div>Adminhttps://curriepedia.mywikis.wiki/w/index.php?title=File:Kingsstereo2.jpg&diff=8027File:Kingsstereo2.jpg2024-02-06T09:32:47Z<p>Admin: Subject: King's Stereo Building, Fort William, Ontario, Canada
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist by profession. He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto, leaving this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
[[File:kingsstereo1.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
[[File:kingsstereo2.jpg|thumb|[https://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2011/04/twin-city-gas-kings-stereo-and-tropics.html King's Stereo Building]]<br />
In 1978 he incorporated '''Thunder Bay Audiology Limited''', which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as '''Caribbean Hearing Limited'''. He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist <br />
<br />
He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto) Hospital for Sick Children] in Toronto, leaving this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
In 1978 he incorporated Thunder Bay Audiology Limited, which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as "Caribbean Hearing Limited". He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist <br />
<br />
He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [Hospital for Sick Children https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto)] in Toronto, leaving this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
In 1978 he incorporated Thunder Bay Audiology Limited, which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as "Caribbean Hearing Limited". He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist <br />
<br />
He initially worked for the government health care system in Ontario, starting in 1970. He worked at the [[Hospital for Sick Children|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospital_for_Sick_Children_(Toronto)]] in Toronto, leaving this position in August, 1978.<br />
<br />
In 1978 he incorporated Thunder Bay Audiology Limited, which was branded as [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], and located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005, when it was sold.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
Dr Hood sold Thunder Bay Audiology Limited in 2005. The buyer is known, but was likely not his fellow audiologist, Dr. Kralovec, since the website does not continue after this. The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LIMITED<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
Dr. Hood also sold hearing aids in the Caribbean. This began in the 1970s, as part of a charity program. The first trip was around 1976, to St. Vincent, and then to Trinidad and Tobago, from 1982. Eventually it became a business as well as a charity. In 2005 Dr. Hood incorporated it as "Caribbean Hearing Limited". He made "countless trips" to many Caribbean countries while he had that business, until he sold it to a colleague in 2021. The full list of countries visited is:<br />
<br />
* 8 Caribbean Countries (St. Vincent, Antigua, St. Kitts and Nevis, Montserrat, Dominica, St. Lucia, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago)<br />
* Chile<br />
* India<br />
<br />
He also sailed in his 29-foot sailboat, ''In the Mood'', until he lost it during Hurricane Fiona in 2022. He sold the wreck to his neighbour who has since repaired it.<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist and the owner of [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command": [[Cathy Hunt]]<br />
<br />
The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LTD.<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist and the owner of [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Cathy Hunt (Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command")<br />
<br />
The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LTD.<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
{{quote|<br />
Success<br />
Dear Sir:<br />
Once again, I want to report to your readers on the success of the Caribbean Hearing Aid Programme co-ordinated by the Ontario Ministry of Education.<br />
During 1977, Dr. Donald Hood, Audiologist, and Mrs. Hood, a Speech Therapist, visited St. Vincent in the West Indies where they did follow-up work on children previously fitted with hearing aids; conducted tests and fitted aids for other deaf children.<br />
At this time, 65 children have been fitted with hearing aids donated to this programme by Candians from coast to coast. And, like all successful ongoing and voluntary programmes we are again in need of discarded hearing aids.<br />
Anyone with a hearing aid, in any condition, is invited to support this small but productive effort to help the deaf children in St. Vincent.<br />
Hearing aids may be mailed to:<br />
Project Hearing Aids,<br />
Student Activities Branch,<br />
Ministry of Eduction, Ontrio,<br />
19th Floor, Mowat Block,<br />
Queen's Park, Bay Street,<br />
Toronto, Ontario M7A 1L2<br />
On behalf of the deaf children who have already benefitted from this programme, and those who have yet to enjoy the world of sound, I thank your readers for their warm response to my previous appeals.<br />
George J. Mason, Co-ordinator, Student Activities and Special Projects Branch<br />
}}<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
<br />
[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
<br />
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Subject: 9669 Peggy's Cove, Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
Date: August 2018<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist and the owner of [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Cathy Hunt (Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command")<br />
<br />
The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LTD.<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
<br />
[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
<br />
[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
<br />
[[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
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[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist and the owner of [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Cathy Hunt (Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command")<br />
<br />
The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LTD.<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
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[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
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[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
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==Personal Life==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
In about 1992, Dr Hood married a woman named Joan, middle initial M., and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children. He and his wife live on the coast at 9669 Peggy's Cove Road, in Hackett's Cove, Nova Scotia. [https://opencorporates.com/officers?q=JOAN+M.+HOOD].<br />
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[File:9669peggyscove.png|thumb|9669 Peggy's Cove Road, the coastal bungalow where Dr. Hood has lived with his wife Joan since the mid-1990s until at least 2024]<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
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[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
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<div>[[File:DonaldHood.PNG|thumb|Doctor Donald Hood, circa 2000]]<br />
'''Doctor Donald Hood''' (born circa 1945) is a retired American-Canadian audiologist currently living in Halifax.<br />
<br />
==Early life==<br />
Dr Hood was born and raised in America and attended Northwestern University.<br />
<br />
==Career==<br />
Dr Hood was an audiologist and the owner of [[Thunder Bay Audiology]], located in Suite 200, above King's Stereo in Fort William, at 135 Syndicate Avenue North, with phone number +1 807 623 0322. This business existed from about 1985 to 2005.<br />
<br />
From at least February 2001 to February 2005, the business had the following key staff:<br />
<br />
* Audiologists: Dr. Donald Hood and [[Daniela Kralovec]]<br />
* Hearing Instrument Practitioner: [[Silvia Martin]]<br />
* Hearing Aid Repair Technician: [[Pirkko Turmaine]]<br />
* Webmaster: [[Leslie Publicover]]<br />
* Cathy Hunt (Manager / Office Manager / "Second-In-Command")<br />
<br />
The domain `hearwellnow.com` was their website from 2001 until about 2006, when it redirected to `www.connecthearing.ca`. This website also lists Cathy Hunt as being on staff, and was also known as the "Stratford Audiology Clinic". [https://radaris.com/p/Cathy/Hunt/]<br />
<br />
As of 2022, Daniela Kralovec is practising audiology in California, as "Dr. Daniela Kralovec Love" which indicates that either she married someone called Mr. Love or else she simplified her last name "Kralovec", which already contains the word "Love".<br />
<br />
Corporate information [https://opencorporates.com/companies/ca_on/376375]<br />
* THUNDER BAY AUDIOLOGY LTD.<br />
* Company Number 376375<br />
* Status Inactive<br />
* Incorporation Date 9 March 1978<br />
* Dissolution Date 1 April 2007<br />
* Company Type: Ontario Business Corporation<br />
* Jurisdiction: Ontario (Canada)<br />
* Registered Address: Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br />
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[[File:ThunderBayAudiologySign.jpg|thumb|Donald's neighbour [[Ron Currie]] with an advertisement for Thunder Bay Audiology, circa 2006]]<br />
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[[File:Tbalogo7.gif|thumb|Thunder Bay Audiology Logo, circa 2005]]<br />
<br />
==Marriage and children==<br />
<br />
He married [[Nancy Greenwald]] [https://www.facebook.com/nancy.greenwald.7] in the 1970s and at some point for some reason, although she was from St. Louis and he was also American, they decided to move in 1978 to Thunder Bay, in Canada. They lived together on [[South Hill Street, Thunder Bay|South Hill Street]] and had two children:<br />
<br />
* [[Arleigh Hood]] (born 2 August, circa 1978) [https://www.facebook.com/barleigh.boonfeathers], living in Halifax, Nova Scotia<br />
* [[Jeremy Hood]] (born circa 1980), married to Jaclyn Haber with two children [https://www.facebook.com/jaclyn.haber], living in Woodbridge, Ontario<br />
<br />
Dr Hood was divorced from Nancy in 1992, and Dr Hood remarried to another woman and moved to Halifax. He acts as stepfather to his second wife's children.<br />
<br />
==Relationship with Michael Currie==<br />
Dr Hood lived beside Michael Currie from Michael's birth until about 1993, when he divorced and moved away.<br />
<br />
Dr Hood gave or sold Michael's father [[Ron Currie]] his first home computer as a hand-me-down, in about 1988, which had a 20-megabyte hard drive. Michael's habit of playing with the computer and causing problems led to Dr Hood coining the phrase "Pulling a Michael", which meant: unintentionally causing an unrecoverable error through curious use of the computer.<br />
<br />
In July 2001 Michael Currie had dinner with Dr Hood and his new wife, and Jeremy Hood, at their home. That was the last time Currie saw or heard from Dr Hood.<br />
<br />
==Sources==<br />
[1] Interview by [[Michael Currie]] in July 2001 [https://medium.com/@mcurrie_59915/dr-donald-hood-frontier-audiologist-8b53095fc785]<br />
<br />
[2] Opendi [https://www.opendi.ca/thunder-bay/611619.html]<br />
<br />
[3] Varia: "Canadian Speech and Hearing Association, April 21-24, 1976. The Annual Convention hosted in Halifax, Nova Scotia by The Atlantic Provinces Speech and Hearing Association. Speakers will include: Dean E. Williams, Martha Taylor Sarno, Norma Rees, Louise Getty, Joel Stark, Mark Ross, Donald Hood, Agnes Ling, and David Yoder. The conference will feature a call for convention papers and a special lecture by Eric Lenneberg. For further information, please contact Wendy McPhee, 78 Stewart Harris Drive, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia (Canada)." [https://www.karger.com/Article/Pdf/259701]<br />
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[4] History of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology in Canada: Our First Fifty Years, by Virginia Martin, 2011. “…exactly what is this (a)morphous identity we call a Canadian Audiologist?” Donald Hood asked. Then he said “Our European and U.S. counterparts have just a few years on most of us and are our professional parents…” quoted from Roberts, Margaret; Donald Hood. (1989) Guest Editorial JSLPA. 13.4. December 4 This issue also has recollections and history information. [https://www.sac-oac.ca/system/files/resources/CASLPA-History-of-S-LP-and-Aud-in-Canada-September-2012_0.pdf]<br />
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<div>[[File:ArthurCurrie.jpg|thumb|Arthur Currie, June 1917]]<br />
'''Sir Arthur William Currie''' was a military leader for Canada in World War I and "is generally considered to be among the most capable commanders of the Western Front, and one of the finest commanders in Canadian military history."<br />
<br />
Given that [[Michael Currie]] and Sir Arthur share the same family name, Michael sometimes is posed the question: are he and Sir Arthur closely related?<br />
<br />
'''The short answer is no.'''<br />
<br />
Since they are both humans of European descent, their Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) was a European who lived sometime after 1400. Since they both have ancestors from the British Isles, likely the date can be brought forward to at least 1600. However, it is currently unknown who the individual was or any other details. It is most likely that this individual is too far into the past to be known with records currently available.<br />
<br />
Michael's great-great-grandfather [[John Currie]] arrived in Canada on 8 June 1883 from Scotland.<br />
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Sir Arthur's grandfather John Corrigan fled religious strife in Ireland by emigrating to Canada in 1838, converting from Catholicism to Methodism, and changing his name to "Curry". (Arthur changed the spelling of his last name from "Curry" to "Currie" at age 22 in 1897.)<br />
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John Corrigan settled in Middlesex, Ontario upon arriving in Canada, and his children and grandchildren mostly remained there. Michael's [[Mary Ann Currie|mother]]'s [[Bruce Newman|father]]'s [[Clint Newman|father]]'s family was from that area, so it's possible there is some other connection, but not via the last name.<br />
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==More details==<br />
<br />
Michael's last name originates from [[John Currie]], a Scot born in Galashiels, Scotland. His family business was operating textile machinery, and so he immigrated to Canada, arriving 8 June 1883, to work the wollen mills of Almonte, Ontario. His youngest son [[Alex Currie|Alex]] settled in Winnipeg, and Alex's son [[Jack Currie|Jack]] settled in Thunder Bay. Jack's son [[Ron Currie|Ron]] remained in Thunder Bay, and had Michael.<br />
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{{quote<br />
|text=Arthur Currie was born to William Garner Curry and Jane Patterson on 5 December 1875 at farm near the hamlet of Napperton, Ontario, just west of Strathroy. He was the third in a family of eight children and grew up on the homestead of his paternal grandparents, John Corrigan and Jane Garner. Currie's grandparents had emigrated from Ireland in 1838 to escape religious strife, and upon their arrival in Canada they had converted from Catholicism and Anglicanism to Methodism, changing the family name from Corrigan to Curry. Arthur Currie modified the spelling of his surname from Curry to Currie in 1897.<br />
|author=[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Currie Wikipedia]<br />
}}<br />
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Thus, Michael's patrilinial roots in Canada date from 1883 via Scotland, whereas Sir Arthur's date from 1838 via Ireland. (45 years earlier)<br />
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==Middlesex possibilities==<br />
Because John Corrigan settled in Strathroy-Caradoc, in Middlesex county, it's possible that some of his descendants married into the other side of Michael's family, via [[William Newman]], who also lived in Middlesex. William Newman's wife was Mary Hillier - was she the grandchild of John Corrigan? It seems no. However, it's possible that the Newman and Hillier families interacted with the "Curry" family while they lived in the same rural community of Middlesex in the decades from 1838 to when Currie left for Victoria, BC in May 1894, and when William Newman left for Winnipeg in 1906.<br />
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==Timeline==<br />
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[[John Currie]] -> [[Alex Currie]] -> [[Jack Currie]] -> [[Ron Currie]] -> [[Michael Currie]]<br />
<br />
John Corrigan -> William Garner Curry -> Arthur Currie<br />
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February 1807 - [https://www.geni.com/people/John-Curry/6000000077862336938 John "Old John" Corrigan] born in Ballycastle, County Mayo, Ireland<br />
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1838 - John and his wife emigrate from Ireland to escape religious strife, and upon their arrival in Canada they had converted from Catholicism and Anglicanism to Methodism, changing the family name from Corrigan to Curry.<br />
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''1846 - [[John Currie]] born in Galasheils, Scotland''<br />
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1 July 1846 - [https://www.geni.com/people/William-Curry/6000000077879675057 William Garner Curry] born in Ontario.<br />
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5 December 1875 - Arthur Curry born in Napperton, Middlesex County, Ontario, to William.<br />
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''8 June 1883 - John Currie immigrates to Canada.''<br />
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''1889 - [[Alex Currie]] born.''<br />
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May 1894 - Arthur quarrels with his teacher in Ontario and moves to BC<br />
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1897 - Arthur changes his family name from Curry to Currie<br />
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''June 1914 - Alex gets married''<br />
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31 July 1914 - Currie embezzles $10,000 earmarked for his troops' uniforms to avoid bankrupcy from his Victoria real estate debts<br />
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4 August 1914 - War is declared<br />
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October 1914 - Currie sails overseas with his brigade, spending the winter training in England<br />
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February 1915 - Currie and troops sent to France<br />
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17 April 1915 - Currie and troops are assigned a trench at Ypres<br />
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22 April 1915 - Germans use poison gas on Currie's troops at Ypres. Following the battle, Currie was promoted to Major-General and given command of the entire First Canadian Division.<br />
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''10 June 1915 - [[Jack Currie]] born''<br />
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1918 - Arthur Currie is knighted<br />
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1920 - Sir Arthur is named President of McGill University<br />
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30 November 1933 - Sir Arthur Currie dies<br />
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''5 October 1947 - [[Ron Currie]] born to Jack''<br />
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<div>The '''Kenzie Speyside Estate''' is a rural home and property on the Niagara Escarpment owned by [[Jim Kenzie|Jim]] and [[Sandra Kenzie]] since the 1970s. They raised their four children there and continue to live there.<br />
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It is located in the former community of Speyside [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speyside,_Ontario], Ontario. It is a rural house at [https://www.google.com/maps/place/43%C2%B033'52.3%22N+79%C2%B059'31.1%22W/@43.5643462,-79.9931239,326m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d43.5645278!4d-79.9919722 43°33'52.3"N 79°59'31.1"W].<br />
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The address is R.R. #3, #6105, Milton, Ontario, L9T 2X7. <br />
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Around 1990, they added a pool to the backyard.<br />
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|text=The road the Kenzie house is on is the dividing line between Milton and Halton Hills. Speyside is just the intersection that used to be a little village. When we go home we say we’re going “to Speyside”, as if it’s the name of the house. Rural addresses are fun!<br />
|author=Jim's eldest daughter [[Megan Kenzie]], private Facebook group posting, August 2018 [https://www.facebook.com/groups/849915291808653/1666225490177625/?comment_id=1666392260160948&notif_id=1565441845242840&notif_t=group_comment&ref=notif]<br />
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<div>[[File:408victoria.png|thumb|408 Victoria Avenue East, as seen on Google Street View in 2009.]]<br />
'''Thunder Bay Computers''' (1986 - 2002) was a pioneering computer retail sales and service store in Fort William, Ontario, founded by Emil Morin (1932 - 2008)<br />
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It was located on 408 Victoria Avenue East.<br />
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Michael Currie's family bought their second computer from this store, (?) <br />
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==Emil Morin Obituary==<br />
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MORIN Mr. Emil F. Morin, age 76 years of Shuniah Street, passed away peacefully in St. Joseph's Hospice on Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Emil was born in McCreary, Manitoba on New Years Day in 1932. He grew up there and at the age of 16 moved to Ontario and began work in a bush camp for a few years. Later, in 1949 he took a Radio College Course in Toronto. Settling in Thunder Bay in 1951, he worked as a Television Repairman. Emil married Aiko Horiguchi in 1961 whom he had met many years earlier. He continued in the television industry with his own business, Thunder Bay Colour Television until 1986 when he expanded into computers and began Thunder Bay Computers. The family continued to operate the business until 2002. Emil always had a love for technology and electronics, and this was where his livelihood had grown from. Emil will be lovingly remembered by Aiko, his wife of 47 years; his children: Jim, Randy, Margaret (Peter) Chin; grandchildren: Jenny and Michelle Chin; sister Florence Bouchard; step brother Lyle Morin; sisters-in-law: Kathy Horiguchi and Martha (George) Yanai. Numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives also survive. Funeral Services for the late Emil Morin will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, June 7th, 2008 in the Chapel of Harbourview Funeral Centre, 499 North Cumberland Street, officiated by Rev. Lloyd Ivany. Visitation for family and friends will be held one hour prior to the time of Service. As expressions of sympathy, donations may be made in Emil's memory to the Canadian Cancer Society, Canadian Diabetes Association, or to the charity of your choice."<br />
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==Aiko Morin Obituary==<br />
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Aiko Ann Morin (nee Horiguchi) passed away January 31, 2019 in Thunder Bay at the age of 83 years at home with family by her side. Born September 8, 1935 in Vancouver, BC she returned with her mother and sisters to Japan when the war broke out, and they could not leave until after the war ended, and in 1950 they were able to meet up with her father in Toronto, ON. She held various jobs: she worked at a tea bag factory, and she was a waitress at the Stanley Café in Port Arthur, ON where she met her husband. Their meeting started a life long partnership that lasted 47 years, they had 3 children. Aiko went on to be a stay at home mom but continued to work as a book-keeper for the TV repair business and then the computer business where she assembled custom built desktops and towers at Thunder Bay Computers. Aiko loved animals, mostly cats, always having one or two right up until the end. She also liked sewing and feeding the chipmunks and squirrels that came by.<br />
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Aiko is survived by sons James and Randy Morin, daughter Margaret (Peter) Chin, granddaughters Jenny and Michele Chin, sister-in-law Kathy Horiguchi, nieces Nancy Yanai and Jane Horiguchi, and nephews Michael Yanai and Don Horiguchi. Aiko was predeceased by her parents, Itaro and Haru Horiguchi, her husband Emil Morin (2008), brother Tommy Horiguchi, sister Martha Yanai, and brother-in-law George Yanai (2017). The family would like to thank Bayshore's personal care workers that came every day to make mom's stay at home possible till the end. Cremation has taken place, as per Aiko's wishes there will be no service. Also, a thanks to Doctor S. Facca and the nurses at Norwest Community Health Centre.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
https://www.bbb.org/ca/on/thunder-bay/profile/computer-dealers/thunder-bay-computers-0057-15944/details<br />
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https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/chroniclejournal/obituary.aspx?n=emil-morin&pid=174131163&fhid=31364<br />
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<div>Subject: Former location of Thunder Bay Computers<br />
Location: 408 Victoria Avenue East<br />
Date: 2009<br />
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<div>'''Grace Dorothy Ensworth''' (1894 - 19 January 1947) was an English-Canadian resident of the Twin Cities and the [[Dance Studios of Thunder Bay|first serious ballet teacher in the Lakehead]].<br />
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|text=Turn-of-the-century Port Arthur was a small, ethnically diverse town focussed on the primary resource-based industries of forestry and mining, with secondary industries in manufacturing. The local diversity, including immigrants from Ukraine, Finland, and Denmark, meant that a variety of cultural dance forms was part of the community, though training in ballet was not available. It was not until World War I that classical ballet classes were offered by Grace Ensworth, a ballet teacher who moved from England to the Lakehead.<br />
|author=''Sylvia Horn: Inspiring Generations'' by Jane Nicholas<br />
}}<br />
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==Early life==<br />
**Grace Ensworth** was born in England in 1894 to [https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/records/edmund-nugent-ensworth-24-qbylsd Edmund Nugent Ensworth] and Eleanor Louise Perrins. (Grace's marriage certificate spells her mother's given name as "Elinear", but this is surely a misspelling)<br />
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Sometime before 1918 she immigrated to the Lakehead in Canada.<br />
<br />
In June 1924 she travelled from Montreal to Southampton aboard the [http://www.norwayheritage.com/p_ship.asp?sh=melit Melita] in England, arriving on 20 June 1924.<br />
<br />
From 7 June to 26 September 1926 she took another trip to England, according to border crossing documents in Niagara. She departed 18 September from Southampton aboard the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Carmania_(1905) RMS Carmania], arriving in New York on 26 September.<br />
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==Marriage and family==<br />
<br />
On 6 July 1927, in Fort William, Grace married [[Charles Boyle|Charles Joseph Boyle]] (19 May 1893 - 8 July 1966), a man born in Orillia, Ontario, [https://www.ancestry.ca/genealogy/marriage-records/grace-ensworth-and-charles-boyle.html]. He played music for her students.<br />
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At the time of her marriage she was living with Charles at 133 Bethune Street. They are both listed as Anglicans, and also with the United Church of Canada. Charles is listed as a "department manager" (possibly at Chapples?) and she as a "dancing teacher". He had previously been married to a Gladys Andrea Holliday (1894 – 1968) from 1915 - 1927.<br />
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Interestingly, the witnesses for the wedding are "C. CHAPPLE" and Grace's mother, Eleanor Louise Ensworth, perhaps the Chapple being related to the wealthy family that had the department store and sponsored the Santa Claus shows she started in the 1940s. (which were later taken over by [[Sylvia Horn]])<br />
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==Death==<br />
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Grace Boyle died 19 January 1947, at the young age of 54. [4]<br />
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==Students==<br />
* [[Sylvia Horn]] (1914 - 2005), who ran dozens of annual revues and taught dance in Thunder Bay for 70 years from 1930 until the 2000s. Her legacy is at least three studios currently active and run by former students of hers.<br />
* Maxine Lecky (nee McKinnon) (1923 - 2018) [https://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/maxine-lecky-1067603151] taught with Grace and then had her own studio until she moved to Edmonton with her husband in 1956. Lecky's Dance Studio in Edmonton has been running for at least 61 years up to 2020 now. [https://www.leckydance.com/history]. "Maxine McKinnon was born in the city of Port Arthur (now called Thunder Bay), Ontario in July of 1923. At an early age she began studies in ballet, tap, highland dancing and figure skating. She became a very accomplished dancer with a great enthusiasm for her craft. In 1947 Maxine married Harry Lecky. In the mid 1950’s Maxing began teaching part time with her old instructor, Grace Ensworth and in 1954 she started her own studio! She rented the Finnish Hall in Port Arthur and began teaching classes on Saturdays. By the second year of operation she had over fifty students. In 1956, her husband Harry, a salesman for the Carnation Milk Company, was promoted to Sales Manager and was offered a transfer to Edmonton, Alberta. They were unhappy to close down their new studio and also sad to move away from their family and friends."<br />
* Cecilia Parker (1914 - 1993) was a Hollywood actress with over 60 film credits. "Born in Fort William in 1914, Cecilia Parker showed early promise as a “star pupil” of dance instructor Grace Ensworth. Newspapers called her the “child darling of Fort William entertainment.”" [https://northernwilds.com/legendary-ladies/]<br />
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Grace ran the Chapples Santa Claus show in 1943. Sylvia ran it from 1959 to 1971. Sponsored by Chapples Department Store (a department store locally owned and operated; the premiere department store in Fort William, located where VictoriaVille Mall now sits; existed from 1915 - 1981).<br />
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"Chapples founded in 1915 as a family dry goods and ladies fashion store soon expanded to becoming Fort William's(now Thunder Bay) premier department store with branches throughout NW Ontario communities. They later built the "home store" shown above. Sadly Chapples closed for business in 1981 after an incredible run of business for almost 70 years." [http://hotrodsandjalopies.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmasthe-best-days-of-our-lives-in.html] [https://www.chroniclejournal.com/opinion/columns/a-troubled-history/article_08a1ca54-4c21-11e6-862b-7b4ff2156934.html]<br />
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==Sources==<br />
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[1] The Port Arthur Daily News and Port Arthur News-Chronicle 1915 - 1942<br />
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* Ensworth, Grace M 6 Jul 1927 6 Jul 1927 p.3 To Chas. Boyle<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 4 Apr 1929 p.2 Revue Review<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 30 Mar 1929 p.2 pic New 1929 revue<br />
* Ensworth, Grace NEWS n/a 12 Sep 1928 p.5 Back-dance course in NY<br />
* Ensworth, Grace PIC n/a 9 Apr 1928 p.2 Annual revue<br />
* Ensworth, Grace PIC n/a 9 Apr 1927 p.3 To give concert<br />
* Parker, Cecilia NEWS n/a 8 Sep 1937 p.6 Entertains Grace Ensworth<br />
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[2] The Port Arthur News-Chronicle Chapples Santa Claus show NEWS 4 Dec 1943 6 Dec 1943 p.5 At Orpheum/Grace Ensworth [http://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/social-notices-news/panc-social-news-and-notices-with-intro-.pdf]<br />
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[3] Ancestry https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/150951862/person/322178878630/facts<br />
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[4] Fort William Obituary Index https://www.tbpl.ca/upload/documents/fwdtj-death-index-1900-1972.pdf</div>Admin