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Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa.
When Stan and Kathleen Magwood celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in June 2010, their eldest son, Jim, brought some Bunsen burners he’d found in the basement of Lisgar Collegiate, where he teaches, to explain how, half a century earlier, his mother had her fire turned on by Stan.