SMITH Eleanor (Nori) Weld Smith (nee Mathewson). Nori passed away peacefully on March 11, 2004 in her room at Arranglen Gardens, Vancouver Island. Her closest family was able to be together at her bedside during the days preceding her death and we know that she was "ready to go." Nori was born in London, Ontario, on September 11, 1921 to Chester and Gladys Mathewson. Her childhood home was in Welland, where her father worked as an engineer on the construction of the Welland canal. Countless happy memories of weekend picnics to the countryside and summer holidays at Morrisburg with her parents and brother, Don, laid an early foundation for her profound love and respect for nature and all creatures great and small. Nori spent much of her childhood at her grandmother's home in London. Later this would become the family home, and Nori would attend school here and from there go on to Bishop Strachan School where she graduated in 1939. From the beginnings of her childhood, Nori began the habit of establishing especially close bonds with her friends and many of these friendships remained with her throughout the rest of her life. From BSS she went to the University of Western Ontario where she graduated in 1943. An early enlistment in the WRENS, where she served as an officer in Halifax and Quebec City, reinforced an already burgeoning sense of national pride. After the war ended she travelled west to study Social Work at U.B.C., again making close new friends and graduating with an MSW in 1949. During this period Nori really developed her understanding and commitment to "social justice." After graduation, she travelled north to Smithers B.C., where she fell in love with the beauty of the interior, and the man she was to marry, Alex Smith. Together, they shared the adventure of raising three fine children, Bruce, Sheena and Julie. During the early years of family life with homes in Williams Lake, Kelowna, New Westminster andBurnaby, social work took a back seat to raising a family. Nori balanced her commitment to family life with activities in the University Women's Club and volunteer work for the United Nations Save the Children Fund and Brownies and there was always space to savor the beauties of nature, and there was always space for a cat! Moving to Victoria coincided with the family's purchase of their little summer paradise, Jelina Island. The island remains in the family and stands as a legacy to Nori and Alex's deep love of untrammeled nature. Her years in Victoria allowed for a brief period of Social Work practice, membership in the Unitarian Church, enthusiastic advocacy and support for the Children's International Summer Village Program, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outsrogram, board membership with the Canadian National Institute for the Blind, and involvement as a founding member of the Mastectomy Rehabilitation Program. Those that knew her well, accepted that she was fiercely nationalistic and an often outs