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B4 THE OAKVILLE BEAVER Wednesday July 5. 2000 Philanthropist honoured 28years after his death By W ilm a Biokhuis BEAVER FOCUS EDITOR It's been 28 years since Col. James Moore Dunwoody, a noted businessman and philan thropist died, but recently his only daughter and survivor collected two medals awarded him posthumously. `T hey came out of the blue," says Shelagh Whitaker, who accepted the Twice the Citizen Award from the Royal M ilitary Institute of Manitoba on April 15th in Winnipeg, and a Fellowship (FCA) awarded by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario on June 1st in Toronto. "Out o f the blue, two huge awards are being given to him within two months, 28 years after his death," she said in disbelief. Dunwoody is the first posthumous recipient of the FCA. However, the Royal Military Institute of Manitoba recognizes one living and one posthumous recipient annually, she said. The Twice the Citizen Award recognizes Dunwoody's lifetime of achievement in military and civilian careers, and the FCA awards out standing contribution to one's profession and community. Moving to Oakville during the final years of World War II, Dunwoody saw to it that Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital was built. "Dad was a long and loyal Oakville resident until he de died in 1972, and was the dynamite behind the creation of the Oakville hospital," said Whitaker. "W hen Dunwoody moved to Oakville, it had a 7,500 population, and ho hospital. People commuted to Toronto or Hamilton for their hospi tal care." He organized a committee to built the hospital as a tribute to Oakville's 740 members of the Armed Forces. During a three-year period, land was donated, government help was solicited, and plans for a 50-bed, $450,000 hospital were drawn up, with $100,000 to be raised by voluntary sub scription. However, when the community failed to raise the necessary $200,000, Dunwoody took the risk and ordered the construction to begin, "When the people of Oakville see the bulldozers start digging the land, they'll contribute," he said. Dunwoody became the catalyst who not only saw that suffi cient money was raised, but also fostered a strong and continued civic pride. OTMH, now a 300-bed hospital, bears a plaque identifying Dunwoody as its founder. "As a youngster I recall that he seldom made rules," she said in accepting the Twice the Citizens Award for her father. "He merely assumed that we would life up to his standards and expectations. "He was a marvelously warm man who loved people," W hitaker added later, via email. "Hevhad a delightful Irish wit and loved to sing Irish ballads or old World War songs - however badly. "When I was growing up in Oakville, I remem ber that his door was always open to anyone seek ing advice or a helping hand. He didn't care what they did - as long as they did their best. "I suppose because he, himself, had to struggle in his young life, he especially liked to help other young people who were trying to get ahead." The awarding of an FCA to her father came as a result of his partner's daughter, Joanne McGee, an associate accounting professor at York University, asking the Institute of Chartered Accountants to consider giving him an award. "My father always felt that Jim Dunwoody should have an FCA," she told Whitaker in presenting the FCA. Whitaker said 91 FCAs are presented each year, "and the award to my father was the first one ever awarded posthumously." The FCA is the Institute of Chartered Accountants' highest hon our, and only 3% of its 28,700 members ever receive this recognition. Col. Dunwoody was president of the account ing firm he founded, now known as BDO Dunwoody, until his death in December 1972. Born in Belfast, Ireland, in 1893, he immigrat ed to Canada in 1911 (with his parents and three brothers), and graduated from the University of Manitoba as chartered accountant in 1914. That year, he also enlisted in the army as a private. The following year, he was wounded in action fighting in France, and was awarded a DCM Distinguished Conduct Medal, recognizing extreme valour on the battlefield, an award second in stature to the Victoria Cross and rarely given to private soldiers. Considered "permanently med ically unfit," he was discharged. Two years later, he re-enlisted as a lieutenant with the Fort Garry Horse, and led the last cavalry charge of World War I in 1918, across 2,000 yards of open field against a barrage of 63 German machine guns. Wounded in action for a second time, he was awarded the DSO - Distinguished Service Order, a recognition also considered sec ond to the Victoria Cross. Discharged back to Winnipeg, he found him self in the midst of the Winnipeg General Strike, the labour dispute which paralyzed that city in 1919. When police walked off the job, he orga nized a 150-man Special Mounted Police Force and successfully quelled a dangerous riot. Dunwoody opened James Moore Dunwoody & Co., with only one client, in Winnipeg, in 1921. Business grew. He opened several branch offices in Manitoba and western Ontario. I Photo by Barrie Erskine Shelagh Whitaker with a photo of her father, Col. James Dunwoody, and the Twice the Citizen Award, one of two awards given posthumously to him 28 years after his death. Following yet another brief stint in the since my father died in 1972," said Whitaker. Canadian Armed Forces, as Lt. Col. (later "I am impressed with the close relationship Brigadier) in 1940, Dunwoody opened a one-man within the Dunwoody firm," she said. 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