She wanted to keep it, and offered them a lowball price, but they forced her to sell. She was also feuding intensely with her siblings over the family cottage near Buckhorn, Ont., in the Kawartha Lakes. (There is some substance to the story, which was extensively covered by the Kingston Whig-Standard years before the divorce.) The divorce grew ever uglier, as Agnes contacted media outlets to urge them to report on Stan’s father’s alleged Nazi ties in Czechoslovakia, even once trying to get this issue onto the faculty council agenda at Glendon. She left him in 1997 on the day of her mother’s funeral, moving to Montreal with Daniel Gagnon, an artist and writer whose work she translated, and with whom she had fallen in love. Article contentĪgnes and Stan fell in love at Queen’s in the 1970s, when she was an undergrad and he a young professor, and eventually both became professors at York’s francophone Glendon College. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
