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/Posted on behalf of Irving Rootman/

On March 22nd the field of health promotion in Canada lost a valued 
colleague. Barbara Ronson McNichol died suddenly and tragically in 
Sudbury. I had the pleasure and privilege of working with Barbara when I 
was Director of the Centre for Health Promotion at the University of 
Toronto from 1990-2002.

During this time period she contributed significantly to the development 
and operation of the Centre as a Fellow, bringing to bear her background 
in education and evaluation.  After I left the Centre she continued to 
collaborate with myself and other colleagues in Canada on several papers 
and chapters related to literacy and health, the most recent of which 
was published last year in the 3^rd edition of /Social Determinants of 
Health /edited by Dennis Raphael.

This chapter was notable because of her addition of the meaning of 
literacy and health literacy in the context of Indigenous communities 
drawn from her work in Indigenous health promotion and her recent life 
in an Indigenous community in Northern Ontario, especially her 
experience with Camp Eagle Nest, a non-profit organization that she 
founded and ran with her husband Clyde McNichol to provide Northern 
Ontario youth with wilderness opportunities grounded in first Nations 
culture.

Moreover, she recently fought beside Clyde to save forests from logging 
in his ancestral lands. Barbara was truly an intelligent, kind and 
courageous person who will be missed sorely by her family, friends, 
community and colleagues.

Irving Rootman

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/**/A memorial service for Barbara Ronson McNichol will be held at 
Metropolitan United Church, 56 Queen Street East, Toronto on Wednesday, 
March 29, 2017 at 11:00 a.m./*,
reception to immediately follow the service. A burial will be held at a 
later date. A short outdoor ceremony was held in Benny on Sunday, March 
26, 2017.

Also see: 
http://www.thesudburystar.com/2017/03/25/battle-weighed-heavily-on-sudbury-area-activist-friend-recalls


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