Jamie Burton This is Me

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   Published on: 5/17/2002   Last Visited: 5/17/2002

   "His main emphasis was his love of the regiment," said Jamie Burton, who followed his father into the cavalry. His son, Lt.-Col. Burton's grandson, was the third generation of the family to serve in the regiment.
   
   "The motto of his regiment, Nulli Secondus (`second to none'), is appropriate to the man," Jamie Burton said.
   
   "He was known as Uncle Al to everyone in the regiment, those he served with during the war and afterward."
   
   But Lt.-Col. Burton "was also a man of a million different things," his son said.
   
   The colonel, made a member of the Order of Canada in 1985, won the Distinguished Service Order for his wartime service and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1949.
   
   He was passionate about his large family; he took his hunting in Pennsylvania passionately; he took his salmon fishing on the East Coast passionately; and he loved the family holding in Milton, where he farmed everything from cattle to cash crops.
   
   "My fondest memory of him was going salmon fishing on the Restigouche River ... of watching the sheer delight on his face after he and his guide returned from a day of fishing, quietly having got their limit," his son said.
   
   Lt.-Col. Burton cracked a vertebra in the Bahamas and succumbed to complications at Hamilton General Hospital.
   
   Born in Toronto, Jan. 20, 1915, he had chronicled his remarkably full life in the autobiography A Store of Memories. He was also a passionate horseman, golfer and watercolour painter who believed in giving back to his community, which he did in many ways.
   
   Commissioned as a lieutenant in 1933, he saw active service with the Horse Guard in England, Italy, Holland and Germany in 1940-45. As lieutenant-colonel, he commanded the Horse Guard 1948-50.
   
   At various times, he led the United Appeal Metro Toronto, the Toronto Board of Trade, the Metro Toronto Industrial Commission and the Redevelopment Advisory Council of Metro Toronto.
   
   He also served as a trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children, as joint master of the Eglinton Hunt, president of the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, and chair of the Halton Region Conservation Foundation. He was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity and a Freemason; former chairman of theYork Club, president of the Restigouche Salmon Club, and life member of the Arts and Letters Club and the Hamilton Golf and Country Club.
   
   He was a director of many major companies, serving more than 20 years on the Bell and Royal Bank boards.
   
   He leaves his wife; his four children by his first wife, the late Audrey Caro Syer, his son and daughters Gail Kendall, Lynn Bennett and Janice Baker; his wife's four children, Mark, Shawn, D'Arcy and Tracy Kennedy, and her stepchildren, Glen Chapman, Nancy Paterson, Gerhard and Anthony Kennedy; 15 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.
   
   The funeral was held at St. James' Cathedral yesterday.