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January - May, 2021
Pegi experienced many joyful moments in nature while hiking, cross country skiing, horse back riding, and walking around the ravines and the neighbourhood with friends and partner, Philip. Zoom dinners allowed us to eat with Pegi’s stepsons, Alexander and Christopher, and our friends in the U.S. and Hong Kong. Easter was a special time with Peg’s great nieces, Maya and Noa, and their father, Mark. The traditional—and hilarious—Dover Easter egg roll was held in our backyard and created a buffet of egg yolks and whites for the racoons that evening!
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HIking the Leslie Street Spit with Mary Macdonald, April 14, 2021.
Riding Kelly Hall-Holland's horse, Rudolf, a gentle soul, on a farm in King.
Pegi and Kelly prepare a "tailgate lunch" for five.
Kelly Hall-Holland, Pegi, Beth, and May Massijeh after tending the horses.
Decorating Easter eggs with great nieces Maya and Noa and their father, Mark.
Peg decorated her Easter eggs with colourful abstract designs.
Contemplating slow moving Wilket Creek below a glacial morraine.
Sunning and listening to birds at Wilket Creek after hiking a glacial moraine.
After the snow melted, Peg cleared Riverdale Park of trash, joined by Beth and Philip.
Hiking Toronto's Scarborough Bluffs with Kelly Hall-Holland.
Birding in Serena Gundy Park with Maria and Steven Price.
Pegi joined a protest in Ajax of Ontario's destruction of wetlands in a campaign coordinated by Environmental Defence Canada.
Lower Don Valley hike with Philip along the Go Train tracks.
Hello! It's a long climb up to Riverdale Park Viaduct from the Lower Don path!
Pegi conducted a tree inventory in Withrow Park and the surrounding neighbourhood using an iPhone app.
Poised to ski with Julia Langer at the Leslie Street Spit, am artificial headland extending into Lake Ontario.
Raclette dinner on Peter Sanders and Carole Saint-Laurent's back porch, complying with COVID restrictions, with a large propane heater making it cozy at 0 degrees.
Valentines Day. Red roses were Pegi's favourite.
Cross country skiing with Mary Macdonald on Mary and Dennis Starkey's farm in Durham, Ontario.
Cross country skiing trips with Julila Langer at the Leslie Street Spit (see video section).
2020—Discovery
Apart from radiation and chemo treatments—fortunately the side effects were negligible—throughout the year Pegi made new discoveries about tree communities, intensified her spiritual journey, and had unforgettable activities with friends and family members. Highlights included gatherings at the Dover family’s Go Home lake cottage, a week-long canoe trip with Julia Langer and Kai Millyard in Wabakimi Provincial Park, a canoe trip with Philip and daughter, Beth, in Killarney Provincial Park, and a fall reprise of Pegi and Philip’s honeymoon at Arowhon Pines in Algonquin Provincial Park.
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Pegi shovels the walk at 130 Riverdale after a snowstorm in December.
Dinner at the famous Drake Hotel in Prince Edward County, September.
Hiking in the Sandbanks Provincial Park in Prince Edward County, September.
Canoeing in Little Joe Lake, Algonquin Park, with Philip in October. A second honeymoon at Arowhon Pines Lodge.
A tall old growth pine dwarfs us in Algonquin Park, October.
A rest break in Wabakimi Park with Julia Langer and Kai Millyard in August.
Peg's 69th b-day at the family's Go Home Lake Cottage, October. Chocolate cake by Philip.
Pegi's favorite wilderness in Toronto, the Leslie Street Spit, summer.
Exploring a logging boat exhibit at the Algonquin Logging Museum, October.
A pine tree split apart a glacial erratic in Algonquin Park, October.
Conversing with Cailie Dover in the family motor boat on Go Home Lake, July.
Reading is a pleasure at the Go Home Lake cottage, July.
Portrait of Pegi in the Dover family motorboat, July.
A fast ride on Go Home Lake with Thomas Swerdfager, Cailie's partner, and Beth, July.
Dinner party before the COVID stay at home mandate with Tessa Devlin, Irene Lang, Peter Sanders, Beth, and Carole Saint-Laurent, (left to right), February.
Keeping her journal on a week long canoe trip in Wabakimi Provincial Park, August.
Overseeing Philip's photography at Cell One, Leslie Street Spit, a former toxic waste disposal site where wetlands have been created. Spring.
Family
Family was at the centre of Pegi’s life. It came first. Family provided a compass for her values; the way she treated people; her commitment to her partner, daughter, and stepsons; her regard for animals; and her outlook on the world. She grew up in London, Ontario in a farmland area with horses, dogs, and turtles. Animals were not excluded from her definition of family. When daughter Beth joined stepsons Alexander and Christopher in her life, her horizons expanded. Nieces, nephews and great nieces further enhanced her life.
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The Dover family on the dock at the family's Go Home Lake cottage, July 2020.
Mindbender: how was this shot was done? The Art Gallery of Ontario's Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors exhibit, 2018.
Flowers from her brother, Mac, are enjoyed by Pinto as well, 2020.
Peg and May Massijeh in Ajax's waterfront. May, a Syrian refugee, joined us as a tenant but quickly became one of the family. Fall 2020.
One of many annual poses outside the kitchen as a cherry tree blooms for a mere few days. Pegi and Beth in spring, May 2019.
Mother and daughter snuggle with Pinto and Satch, 2020.
Kornelia Otto-Zimmermann lived with us for a year as a student and became part of the family. We attended her marriage To Philipp in Freiburg, Germany in summer, 2019.
Peg, Beth and Phil visited Price and Sherry Jessup, Philip's brother and sister-in-law, in their Lorton, VA home on holidays.
Brother and sister dancing at the Go Home Lake cottage, summer 2018.
The Dover family supports Philip at his first professional exhibit at the Dylan Ellis Gallery, January 2015.
Christopher, the cat whisperer, at Xmas, 2016.
Cailey Dover finds the gravestone of a long lost relative in a French WWI graveyard. March 2014.
Liz Jessup, Philip's sister at dinner at Jon Sanders and Sandy Callier's home in Washington DC. October 2013.
Alexander and Beth at the Dover home in London on Easter, 2012.
Posey, the lab, was a member of the family.
Mother and daughter, Easter 2012.
Kornelia Otto-Zimmermann lived with us for a school year and become family. At Point Pelee National Park, 2011.
Family gathered around a stump in the backyard at home on Easter, 2013.
Reading to Beth on a holiday cottage Cornwall, spring, 2005.
Backyard frolic with Beth, 2001.
Attending the wedding of Emily Sanders on Martha's Vineyard, May 2011.
The family's Easter at home on the back deck, 2005.
A wintry day at Christmas in London, 2002.
Relaxing with Alexander on the front porch, 1988.
Oh, the Lord is good to me! At the Dover family home in London.
Beth and Dad snuggle in the Pool at the Dover home in London, 2005.
Christopher at Beth's 6th b-day, 2004.
Mother and daughter, 2005.
It's peek-a-boo time with Beth as she sits in her high chair in the kitchen, age 2, 2000.
The official handover of Beth for adoption in Nanchang, China, January 1999.
Peg and Philip married June 22, 1991, at Church House (since demolished).
Bagpipes greeted us at our home after the wedding, June 22, 1991.
Embarking with Christopher on a long hike and camping, Alberta. 1989.
The lineup at Lexi and Tony Belton's wedding.
No time like the present for a toast!
Siblings and niece Bridget gathered at the family home.
Father and daughter loved to bird together.
The Dover kitchen on Byron Baseline Road, London, is for hugs!
The Dover family gathers for Easter, 1978.
The three Dover amigas, mom Joan, and sisters Lexi and Peg.
The Dover family, Joan, Dean, Lexi, Mac, and Pegi when the backyard was still farmland!
Byron Southwood public school yearbook photo, 1959.
The Dover family's home on Byron Baseline Road in London, Ontario, where Pegi grew up.
Byron Southwood Class photo, 1959.
Pegi scotch taped these two photos together and pinned them to her office wall. Beth And Pegi at age 5 or 6!
Friendship
Friends and colleagues were an extension of family. Pegi treated everyone the same way, with love, respect, and kindness. Of course, there were lifelong friends with whom she had deep relationships and colleagues with whom she worked for many years who became dear friends. And there were Philip’s friends from high school and college, many of whom became close to Pegi over the years after so many canoe trips, Vermont summer weekends, and “Big O (Operation)” trips to Italy, Mexico, and Newfoundland. Friendship wasn’t just a notion to Pegi, it was fundamental to her being.
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Pegi and Thea SIlver, her colleague, on her retirement day with a gift of a paddle from the Environment Funders Canada Board, March 2020.
Dinner at Beth Savan and Tony Easty's new condo, February 2020.
Pegi and Sandy Hoang, her colleague, at a climate march at Queen's Park, September 2019.
Carroll Perry points out features at Sandy Point, Plum Island, Massachusetts, 2019.
Partners Jon Sanders and Sandy Callier tour Ontario's wine region with Pegi and Philip, July 2018.
Pegi whipping up her dance moves at CEGN's 2018 conference in Banff, Alberta, 2018.
Julia Langer and her daughter Arlie Millyard sing at Kai Millyard' 60th birthday, May 2018.
Mary Macdonald volunteered at Pegi's CEGN AGM at Banff, Alberta, May 2018.
Pegi with foundation colleagues including Jehad Aliweiwi, Executive Director, Laidlaw Foundation. March 2018.
Pegi with attendees of the CEGN's AGM at the Gardiner Museum, Toronto, 2016.
Peg and Philip's American friends assemble bi-annually in Greensboro, Vermont over long August weekends, when the corn is high and the cows are mooing. August 2018.
Nick Ruiter and Pegi walk along the western shore of the Bruce Peninsula. September 2017.
Pegi and Eva Ligeti stroll down a road on the Bruce Peninsula. September 2017.
Dinner at a rented ancient manor house in Lucca, Italy with our American friends, September 2016.
Sandy Callier and Pegi on a hike leaving Corniglia in Cinque Terra, Italy, September 2016.
Blackwater Falls, West Virginia with partners Jon Sanders and Sandy Callier, July 2014.
Mary Macdonald and Kathy Stewart assist at Pegi's CEGN AGM near Saint John, New Brunswick, May 2017.
Neuchâtel reunion at Allan Stratton's home, Toronto, October 2016.
The three amigas at Tofino, B.C., for Pegi's CEGN AGM, 2016.
The Rutgers-Vasic family gather with us on Lake Temagami for a week of canoeing, reading, and sleeping! Summer 2008.
American friends reuniting in Greensboro, Vermont, August 2014.
Sandy Callier, Michelle Ratcliffe, and Nora Wells gather at Bob and Michelle Ratcliffe's home in Bethesda, Maryland. October 2013.
Pegi pinned this program for the funeral service of Betty Love to her office wall. Betty was a long-term friend of the Dover family. March 2010.
Since 2009, Pegi and Philip have canoed through Minesing Wetlands, near Barrie, with canoeists led by Steven Price, May 2013.
Pegi organized communications for Prince Philip' visit to WWF-Canada staff to promote the Endangered Spaces Campaign, 1996.
Our daughters practically grew up together at the Christian Island cottage. Carole Saint-Laurent, Peter Sanders, Isabel Sanders, 2005.
Mary Macdonald and Dennis Starkey's wedding party, Tortola, BVI, December 1991.
Friends gather at Pegi's cottage.
A WWF-Canada Christmas party held at Glen Davis's home in Toronto, 1994.
Liz Stephenson and Pegi on the Ojibwa Christian Island Indian Reserve No. 30, summer 1984.
Pegi and David Stewart, a serious Canadian Gothic pair who didn't quite make it into a painting, 1982.
Kathy Stewart and Audrey Robinson take a holiday in Cape Cod, 1981.
Snuggling up in Kathy Stewart's Montreal apartment, 1980.
Celebrating Pegi's birthday with Mary Mcdonald, October 1992.
Ice cream break with Kelly Hall-Holland on an excursion to Geneva from Neuchâtel Junior College, 1968.
Pegi, that handsome Neuchâtel guy has opened his arms to you. Don't scamper away! The Pont du Mont-Blanc bridge, Geneva, 1968.
Pegi turns age 17 at Neuchâtel Junior College, October 1968.
Adventure.
Pegi had an abiding curiosity about other places and people. Her 13th high school year at Neuchâtel Junior College in Switzerland opened her eyes to the world. She spent a year travelling around the world 1978-79, picking up new friends and cultural experiences. Pegi accompanied Philip on many of his photographic trips to wetlands across Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. They went to the Marshall Islands (in the Pacific) in 2015, where Philip revisited Arno Atoll where he had spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer. Pegi fit right in. Marshallese children were instinctively drawn to her and gathered around her wherever she went on the atoll.
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Pegi pinned this illustration to her office wall, Alex Colville, Woman, Dog and Canoe (1982), the Art Gallery of Ontario.
Flying over Wabakimi Provincial Park, August 2020.
At home in a kayak in Minesing Wetland, Ontario, May 2019.
Tenting in a RV camp at Codroy, Newfoundland, June 2019.
Looking over the Grand Codroy Estuary, Newfoundland as dusk approaches, June 2019.
Whalewatching off the coast of Newfoundland with U.S. friends, June 2019.
About to jump into a cenote with Judy Salerno and Sandy Callier in Mexico's state of Quintana Roo, 2018.
Exploring the extensive mangroves in Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in Mexico, 2018.
Pegi, a founding volunteer of the Ripple Refugee Project, with Nahla Al Abdallah from the first family. Pegi helped find housing for the Abdallah's. 2015 onward.
Canoeing the Cheat River, West Virginia with Jon Sanders and Sandy Callier, summer 2015.
Looking over the Dolly Sods Wilderness, West Virginia, summer 2015.
Enjoying Monica Glitz's Ancient Splendours photography exhibit at the Dylan Ellis Gallery. Pegi was a regular art gallery goer, May 2016.
Traditional Marshallese weavers, with Richard and Christine Sundt, on Majuro Atoll, July 2015.
Yokwe yok! Arno Atoll, Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2015.
Low tide stroll with Tobo Robert, the chief of Arno Atoll, Marshall Islands, July 2015.
Pegi helped Philip with timings for a series of photos of the weather changing over Arno Atoll's lagoon, Marshall Islands, July 2015.
Guided tour of New Brunswick's Meduxnekeag River watershed with long-term friend and co-conspirator, Lois Corbett, July 2014.
Meeting with the Northern Manitoba Food Culture and Community Collaborative, 2014.
A Globe and Mail photographer captured Pegi cross country skiing in Riverdale Park, date unknown.
Where did Mom go, wonders Beth and Arlie Millyard at a banyan tree, Cuba, 2001.
Dusk at Assateague National Seashore, Virginia, summer, 2013.
Philip was fortunate Pegi was sherpa for many photographic shoots, such as this wetland on Martha's Vineyard, 2011.
Putting up a sail while canoeing north on Lady Evelyn Lake in Temagami, summer 1996.
Washing dishes at a camp site on the Bruce Peninsula, Georgian Bay, Lake Huron, 1987.
Picnic on the Ganaraska Trail, Ontario, 1987.
Brushing sand out of her hair at at the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia, 1986.
Pegi takes a break after a hike along the Nova Scotia Coast, 1986.
Pegi explored Spain with friends Kathy Stewart and John McNee made at Neuchâtel, summer 1986.
Camping out in Mary Macdonald's trailer on Christian Island, 1984.
Hiking with Mary Macdonald in B.C's Chilkoot Pass, 1984.
Doing the boogie on a beach at sub-tropical Lucarno, Switzerland during Neuchâtel's study week, 1969.
Headed off on a skiing trip from Neuchâtel, 1968.
Pegi joined the Overland tour and travelled from London to Katmandu on buses, trains, and, yes, camels, 1978.
Pegi and Helen McCallie visit a Catholic nunnery in Kerala state, India, 1979.
Hitchiking with Joyce Grant in the rough Mazare Sharif area of Afghanistan, 1979.
Portraits
Philip took many portraits of Pegi over the course of their relationship. Here are some of his favorites, including a painting by his sister, Liz, and a photo taken by Mary Macdonald.
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Pegi at the Leslie Street Spit, April 2021. Photo by Mary Macdonald.
Portrait by Liz Jessup, 2020.
A storm is brewing in Minesing Wetlands, May 2020.
Irresistible friend on the Big Pine Trail, Algonquin Park, October 2020.
Dusk is approaching on the Leslie Street Spit at Embayment D, fall 2019.
Are there any birds left on Peninsula D, Leslie Street Spit, fall 2019?
Pegi's favourite wilderness in Toronto, the Leslie Street Spit, as cormorants return home after fishing, summer 2019.
Farm field next to the Gran Codroy Estuary, Newfoundland, June 2019.
A snuggle with Pinto and an Ugly Doll, 2019.
Looking out at 10,000 northern gannets nesting on a huge rock at Cape St. Mary's Ecological Reserve, Newfoundland, 2019.
Canada Day at the family's Go Home Lake cottage, 2016.
Walking Frannie at Devil's Glen Ski Club, October 2018.
Taking a break from the CEGN AGM at Tofino, B.C. , 2016. Photo by Mary Macdonald.
At the Beachcomber Lodge on Arno Atoll, July 2015.
Sunset on Temagami Lake, July 2013.
Ganaraska Trail, Ontario, 1987.
The dock at Island #902, Temagami Lake, July 2013.
On a canoe trip in Algonquin Provincial Park with Philip and Pegi's stepsons, Alexander and Christopher, 1990.
Looking out at Lake Ontario from the Leslie Street Spit—one of Pegi's favorite respites, 2020.