{"id":7591,"date":"2018-11-21T14:09:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T19:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jjcardinal.ca\/?p=7591"},"modified":"2019-06-17T14:10:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-17T18:10:48","slug":"dr-donald-leith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/dr-donald-leith\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Donald Leith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"date-deces\"><strong>Passed away \u00a0on\u00a0November 21st, 2018 at the age of\u00a083 years old<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"texte\">\n<div class=\"texte\">\n<p>Peacefully, on November 21, 2018 in Montreal. Beloved husband of Margaret for 57 years. Loving father of Janet (Steve) and Beverly (Marc). Cherished Grandfather of Alexander and Matthew. Predeceased by his loving parents Arthur and Gladys and his brother Arthur.<br \/>\nDonald was born in Verdun and later raised in Lachine. He attended Sir George Williams University (later Concordia) and graduated with his Doctor of Dental Surgery from McGill University in 1961. He practiced for 42 years in Lachine and Dorval. His passion for clinical dentistry was his life\u2019s work and led him to become an Assistant Professor at McGill\u2019s Faculty of Dentistry, teaching in the Crown and Bridge and Occlusion programs. In 1993 he was inducted as a Fellow of the International College of Dentists. He explored many hobbies over his lifetime including fly-fishing, skiing, skeet shooting and hunting, cycling, rowing, trailering across Canada, bible study, Triumph motorcycles and English Bulldogs.<br \/>\nMany thanks to the staff at the CHSLD Herron and Belv\u00e9d\u00e8res Residence who cared for him over the last year.<br \/>\nVisitation to be held on Sunday November 25, from 1 to 3pm at Cardinal Funeral Home 560 Lakeshore Drive, Dorval, QC H9S 2B3. A private internment will be held at a later time.<\/p>\n<p>In lieu of flowers, please send donations to the International College of Dentists-Spence foundation (c\/o Dr. Gordon Thompson 2318 Rutherford Way SW Edmonton T6W 1P4) or the Atlantic Salmon Federation (www.asf.ca\/donationcanada.html)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spacing-top-40px\">\n<h3>R\u00c9SIDENCE FUN\u00c9RAIRE J.J. CARDINAL<\/h3>\n<p>560, chemin Bord du Lac, Dorval (Qu\u00e9bec)\u00a0\u00a0H9S 2B3<\/p>\n<p>Tel.:\u00a0514-631-1511\u00a0|\u00a0Fax:\u00a0514-631-1516\u00a0|\u00a0Email:\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:info@jjcardinal.ca\">info@jjcardinal.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"links\"><a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/XzRHS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Driving directions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"spacing-top-40px\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Passed away \u00a0on\u00a0November 21st, 2018 at the age of\u00a083 years old Peacefully, on November 21, 2018 in Montreal. Beloved husband of Margaret for 57 years. Loving father of Janet (Steve) and Beverly (Marc). Cherished Grandfather of Alexander and Matthew. Predeceased by his loving parents Arthur and Gladys and his brother Arthur. Donald was born in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":4839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jjcardinal.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}