Francis Hunt Stirling
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 10 Jul 1912 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Christening: Death: 1989 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 77) Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Frederick Stirling 10 Mother: Gertrude Hunt 10
Spouses and Children
1. *Margaret Gunn 10 Marriage: Children: 1. Living 2. Living 3. Living 4. LivingLiving
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Francis Hunt Stirling 10 Mother: Margaret Gunn 10
Spouses and Children
1. Living Children: 1. Living 2. Living 2. LivingFrederick Stirling
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 18 Sep 1878 - Military Rd., St. John's, Nfld Christening: Death: 8 Nov 1933 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 55) Burial: in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Cause of Death:Events
• Residence: 115 Gower St., 15 Nov 1906, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Residence: 151 Gower St., 2 May 1911, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. 1911 May 02
Stirling, May 1 day May 02 151 Gower St.
.
Parents
Father: William Rabbitts Stirling 10 Mother: Mary Jane Gaden 10
Spouses and Children
1. *Gertrude Hunt 10 Marriage: 1905 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Children: 1. Mildred Stirling 2. Gordon McKenzie Stirling 3. May Stirling 4. Francis Hunt Stirling 5. Living
Notes
General:
He was born at the family residence, Military Rd. according the the ne wspaper
Living
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Geoffrey William Stirling 5,10,292,1154 Mother: Jean Carter Fox 5,10,292
Spouses and Children
1. Living Marriage NotesGeoffrey Shyam Stirling
140815:Children: 1. Living 2. Geoffrey Shyam Stirling 3. Living
From Jean Carter Stirling's family tree -- marriage took place at the KCS Chapel of Kings-Edgehill School
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 25 Aug 1979 - Los Altos, Los Angeles, California, United States of America 10,11 Christening: Death: 18 Apr 2025 - Newport Beach, Orange, California, United States of America ( at age 45) 8175 Burial: Cause of Death:Events
• Living: 19 Aug 2021.
• Occupation: Model and Actor, amongst many other pursuits, Bef 18 Apr 2025, Los Altos, Los Angeles, California, United States of America. Geoff Stirling Jr. was an avid sportsman and skateboarder in his youth and was scouted by a modeling agency in La Jolla, California when he was sixteen years old. He went on to a lucrative modeling career before spring-boarding into acting.
Geoff Stirling Jr. graduated Phi Beta Kappa in Communication Studies from the University of San Diego. He has been employed as an international male model, an actor, a stuntman, a personal trainer, a karate instructor for expert village, a sailing and windsurfing instructor, a salesman, a baker and a television producer.
Geoff Stirling Jr. heads a production company, Shyam Bird Productions LLC, out of Southern California.
- IMDb Mini Biography By: Ray Penton.
Parents
Father: Living Mother: Living
Notes
General:
040618:
Not married at this time according to Jean Carter Stirling.
Geoffrey William Stirling
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 22 Mar 1921 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 172,1154 Christening: Death: 21 Dec 2013 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 92) Burial: 4 Jan 2014 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada 4016 Cause of Death:Events
• Occupation: Chairman of the Board of Stirling Communications International, Broadcaster, Owner Of NTV, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Established Sunday Herald, 1946, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Founded CJON Radio and TV, Between 1946 and 1950, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
• Occupation: Established Apache Communications International, 1965, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Parents
Father: Weston Edgar Stirling 10,70 Mother: Ethel Mary Uphill 10,11
Spouses and Children
1. *Jean Carter Fox 5,10,292 Marriage: 28 Jul 1947 - Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, CanadaMarriage Events
• Single: 28 Jul 1947, Topsail, Conception Bay South, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Marriage Notes
140114 from NGB website:Children: 1. Living 2. Living 2. Living Children: 1. Kimberley Stirling 2. Living 3. Living
Avalon South Region
Vital Statistics
1941 - 1954
TOPSAIL ANGLICAN (ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH)
MARRIAGES 1867 - 1963 (WITH GAP FOR PERIOD 1885-1896) FROM ORIGINAL PARISH RECORDS (taken from photocopies in the possession of Randy Whitten.
The information was transcribed by JILL MARSHALL <mailto:NJillMarshall@aim.com> While I have endeavored to be as correct as humanly possible, there may be typographical errors.
NOTE: the first group of marriages 1867-1885 were from handwritten notes and are NOT complete.Volume 33 Vital Statistics covers the period 1880-1891. Marriages from 1896 - 1963 are complete.
Information under the RESEARCH NOTES COLUMN was added by JILL MARSHALL and was NOT in the original records.
KEY: fish=fisherman, carp=carpenter, lab=labourer;
July 28 1947William Geoffrey STIRLING 26, bach, journalist, St Johns Weston Edgar Stirling, manager Jean Carter FOX 24, spin, St Johns Ernest Fox, manager Anne? Carter? Weston E Stirling, W? (illegible), Helen Fox, Marion Herder, Ernest Fox
Notes
General:
150710: Bio from Canadian Communications Foundation:
Pioneer - Member of CAB Hall of Fame
Stirling, Geoffrey W. (1921- )
Geoff Stirling - Chairman of the Board of Stirling Communications International - broadcaster, printer, publisher, author and film maker - will be best remembered for his spectacular career as a broadcaster.
Born in St. John's Newfoundland in 1921, Geoff's professional career began in 1946 when he founded The Sunday Herald, in St. Johns. After Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949, Geoff launched St. Johns' second commercial radio station - CJON. In 1955. he launched St. Johns' first television station CJON-TV.
Geoff then turned his attention westward, with new broadcasting enterprises that included CKGM Montreal (1959), CKWW Windsor, Ontario (1964) CKPM Ottawa (1964), CHOM-FM Montreal (1965), CJOM-FM Windsor (1966) and KSWW Arizona (1967).
Back in Newfoundland, Geoff built CJCN-TV in Grand Falls (1965). CJOX-TV, Grand Bank (1966), CJCR- TV Gander (1974), CJWN-TV Corner Brook (1974) and in 1977 set-up the OZ FM Radio Network throughout Newfoundland. CJON-TV has been acclaimed as being the first 24-hour television broadcaster in North America.
Over the years, Geoff's service to the community as a broadcaster has resulted in millions being raised for Newfoundland charities. Geoff, himself, has received many honours throughout his career from many distinguished organizations, including the New York Writers Association, the California Film Board and the New Delhi Film Board.
In 2001, Geoffrey W. Stirling was inducted into the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame.
Written by J. Lyman Potts - October, 2001 300513 from Dictionary of Newfoundland Biography:
STIRLING, GEOFFREY WILLIAM (1921- ). b St John's 22 Mar; established the Sunday Herald 1946, CJON radio 1950, CJON-TV 1955, Apache Communications International 1965. After finishing school Stirling attended the University of Tampa in Florida on an athletic scholarship, where he became involved in journalism as a correspondent for Time and the Chicago Tribune. In 1946 he dropped out of university and returned to Newfoundland to start the Sunday Herald. Stirling became involved in the debate over Newfoundland's future form of government and in the referenda of 1948 supported economic union with the United States. Once Confederation became a reality, however, Stirling realized the economic opportunities that were available and began to expand his business interests in communications, in partnership with Donald C. Jamieson. He and Jamieson established a radio station and then the first television station in the province, while the Herald was developed into the most widely circulated magazine in the province -- as the Newfoundland Herald. In the 1960s Stirling acquired radio stations in Montreal, Toronto, Winsor and Arizona as well as in Newfoundland, building Apache International into a communications empire. In 1975 Stirling entered the world of partisan politics, assisting Joseph K. Smallwood's Liberal Reform party. Stirling was himself a Liberal Reform candidate in Humber West, where he finished second to Premier Frank D. Moores. In the late 1970s and into the 1980s Stirling earned a reputation as a flamboyant and rather eccentric tycoon, dabbling in eastern religions, attacking the Canadian Radio and Television Commission (CRTC) for interfering in the operation of his stations, decrying government subsidization of the CBC and taking to the air to make his views known. BWC
140114 from Wikipedia:
Geoffrey William Stirling (March 21, 1921 '96 December 21, 2013) was a Canadian businessman. He was born in St. John's. Stirling, (along with other members of his family), had owned several media outlets in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador under the corporate brand Stirling Communications International.[1] Specifically, these properties are CJON-DT which goes by the slogan Canada's Superstation; radio station CHOZ-FM; and the Newfoundland Herald, a weekly news, gossip and TV listings magazine.
In some circles, Stirling is regarded as an eccentric for the way in which he has used his media outlets to promote a variety of personal interests such as eastern mysticism and intestinal health. For example, he devoted many hours of, often unscheduled, broadcast time to conversations with gurus such as Ram Dass and Swami Shyam and to a variety of esoteric subjects ranging from pyramids to unidentified flying objects, a practice which continues today as the station is run by his son Scott, and Scott and Judy's son, Jesse. When he watched his own television station he would sometimes phone Master Control to order that a favorite tape immediately preempt the current broadcast, or, that the technician apply a particular effect to the screen. Stirling himself claimed that after being diagnosed with arthritis he had a doctor inject liquid gold directly into his blood.[citation needed]
Stirling appeared in the 1974 documentary film Waiting for Fidel about a trip he made to Cuba along with former Newfoundland premier Joey Smallwood and director Michael Rubbo. The trio never met the Cuban leader. Almost all of the program is a poolside conversation between Smallwood and Stirling as to what they would like to ask Castro. Some of the dialogue occurs while Stirling is demonstrating yoga and standing on his head while conversing with Smallwood.[2] Although considered eccentric by some, Stirling pioneered many television firsts in North America. NTV was the first station to broadcast 24 hours a day. In the late 1970s, in between television programs and late at night, Stirling would broadcast, what were called at the time, promotional films by popular music and rock bands, a precursor to music videos.
Stirling supervised the creation of the graphic novel Atlantis featuring the superheroes Captain Atlantis (a.k.a. Captain Newfoundland) and Captain Canada, drawing on elements of Canadian history as well as New Age philosophy. Captain Canada has become a mascot for the NTV station and has appeared in television programs, commercials, and numerous public events.
Stirling was a co-founder in the Economic Union Party, a late-1940s political movement that sought closer ties to the United States for the Dominion of Newfoundland, which, at that time, was still independent from Canada. It was one of two organizations that unsuccessfully opposed the dominion's confederation into Canada, which eventually occurred in 1949.
In 2001 Stirling was inducted into the CAB Broadcast Hall of Fame. From 2012 until his death, he split his time between Torbay, Newfoundland and Labrador, and his ranch in Wickenburg, Arizona. Stirling had also owned homes in India and Hong Kong. Stirling died at the age of 92 on December 21, 2013.[3]
Obituary from In Memoriam, as published in the Telegram:
Passed on: December 21st, 2013
(March 22, 1921-December 21, 2013) -A sad day for broadcasting in this province and this country. Media pioneer Geoff Stirling has passed away. The founder and Chairman of the board of Newfoundland Broadcasting passed away peacefully overnight. He was 92. A star athlete, Geoff Stirling's career in Journalism began the 1940's. He founded the Sunday Herald in 1946, spawning what would become a media empire in this province, which also included NTV and OZ FM. He is a legend in the industry, and was a key political player as the province wrestled with confederation. He will be remembered as one of the country's most innovative media and business figures. Geoff is predeceased by his daughter Kimberly Stirling and his brother Bruce Stirling. He leaves to mourn with so many loving, happy memories, his wife of 56 years, Joyce Cutler Stirling, Children: Scott Stirling (Judy), Anne Stirling, Greg Stirling, Shawn Stirling Schuck (Kevin), Jean Fox Stirling; Grandchildren: Jesse Stirling, Geoffrey Stirling Jr., Lydia McLaughlin (Doug), Kaitlin Schuck, Hannah Schuck, Weston Schuck, Abbey Joy Stirling, Aiden Stirling, Luke Stirling; Great grandchildren: Stirling & Maverick McLaughlin; Brother: Rex Stirling Sister: Enid Jones; Brother in Law: Craig Cutler (Victoria). Special thanks to a loyal, devoted and deeply appreciated friend LANEY SMITH. Mr. Stirling wanted to specifically express his appreciation and gratitude to the loyal employees of Stirling Communications; each and everyone had a place in his heart. Geoff Stirling will be best known for his pioneering work in radio and for bringing commercial television to Newfoundland and Labrador. He does however cast a much longer shadow than that. In the 1940's in Newfoundland he was a track and field star and introduced a new high jump technique known as "the western roll" to the sport. When the great debate over Responsible Government and the future of Newfoundland began Mr,. Stirling campaigned with Ches Crosbie and Don Jamieson in a movement that sought an economic union with the United States. When Newfoundland decided to go in the direction of Confederation with Canada Geoff Stirling turned to the communications business. He partnered with Don Jamieson to open CJON radio in 1950 in premises on Prince of Wales Street in St John's. In 1955 Newfoundland Broadcasting opened CJON Television which has become the current NTV Network. As part of that broadcasting career Geoff Stirling was involved in the groundbreaking National Film Board feature Waiting for Fidel in which a journey to Cuba with his friend Joseph R. Smallwood in search of an interview with Cuban Premier Fidel Castro was documented. Mr. Smallwood and Mr. Stirling often appeared on television to discuss the issues facing the province. It was in television where Geoff Stirling pushed the boundaries of broadcasting. He began innovative and experimental work in 24 hour television, an idea that has become industry standard today. He also opened the doors of his television network to political debate in a way never seen before in the province. He himself often spoke out on late night television on matters of public concern. Always in the vanguard of technological advance Geoff Stirling also brought to Newfoundland the first FM radio station when he opened CHOZ known today as OZ FM Radio. In his life Geoff Stirling had many careers. He was an athlete and a publisher, a political activist and a broadcaster, all of which were duly recognized by his induction in the Canadian Halls of Fame for broadcasting, sports and business as well as the Royal St. John's Regatta Hall of Fame. When he was awarded the Order of Newfoundland and Labrador John Crosbie, a one time political foe said of him "Geoff Stirling left deep footprints in the Newfoundland landscape." Resting at Carnell's Funeral Home, 329 Freshwater Road, visitation will take place on Thursday January 2, 2014 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. and Friday January 3, 2014 from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Funeral Service will take place from St. Thomas` Anglican Church, 8 Military Road on Saturday January 4, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Geoff's memory to the Janeway Children's Hospital. To send a message of condolence or to sign the memorial guest book, please visit www.carnells.com
Funeral home(s)
Carnell's Funeral Home
ANNOUNCEMENT PUBLISHED IN
St. John's Telegram
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There is a wealth of information on the family (both descendants and ancestors) of Geoff Stirling in Jean Carter Stirling's family tree but I am not copying most of it over because it is irrelevant to my main line of research in this case, the Carters.
Living
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Dr. William Archibald Stirling M. D. 10,6448 Mother: Emma Mayne 10Georgina Ann Stirling
Sex: FAKA: Mlle. Marie Toulinguet
Individual Information
Birth Date: 3 Apr 1867 - Twillingate, Newfoundland 1389 Christening: Death: 21 Apr 1935 - Twillingate, Newfoundland ( at age 68) 1389 Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Dr. William McClary Carrington Stirling M.D., FRSE 10,6449,6450 Mother: Ann Eleanor Peyton 6449,6450Gordon McKenzie Stirling
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 4 Nov 1907 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Christening: Death: 15 Sep 1985 - St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada ( at age 77) Burial: in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada Cause of Death:Events
• Residence: 151 Gower St., 2 May 1911, St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Occupant)
Parents
Father: Frederick Stirling 10 Mother: Gertrude Hunt 10
Notes
General:
!Unmarried.
Living
Sex: M
Parents
Father: Geoffrey William Stirling 5,10,292,1154 Mother: Living
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