Ivan St Clair Sequeira1

(17 July 1927 - 6 January 2008)
FatherArmand Francis Sequeira1
MotherGladys Marie Nita de Souza1 (24 Aug 1903 - 25 Jul 1948)
ChartsDescendents of Peter BAPTIST (19th C)
     Ivan St Clair Sequeira was born on 17 July 1927.1 He was the son of Armand Francis Sequeira and Gladys Marie Nita de Souza.1 Ivan St Clair Sequeira married Doreen Mary de Souza circa 1955.1,2 Ivan St Clair Sequeira died on 6 January 2008 at Toronto, Canada, , at age 80; Information from Joyce Baptist.3

Family

Doreen Mary de Souza

Research Notes

  • Ivan St Clair Sequeira was educated circa 1944 at St Joseph's School, North Point, Darjeeling, Bengal, India, .
  • He studied at St. Josephs North Point Darjeeling, St. Xaviers College, and the Government Law College in Bombay. After qualifying as an Advocate High Court of Bombay he emigrated to Uganda, where he qualified as an Advocate of the High Court. While in Uganda he rose progressively to Deputy Registrar for the High Court of Uganda, Deputy Registrar for the East African Court of Appeal, and finally Chief Magistrate. While practicing law, he was selected to study space law, consular law, and court martial law in the United Kingdom.
    As political stability in Uganda took a turn for the worse, Mr. Sequeira chose to emigrate to Canada in 1967 and became one of the Goan pioneers in Toronto, there being just a few hundred of them in the region then. Here he qualified as a Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public and practiced for twenty years in Etobicoke, and in the process was appointed Queens Counsel in 1981.
    He has served on a number of professional associations in several continents. While in Uganda he was President of the International Commission of Jurists, East Africa. He was the founding President of the Etobicoke Law Guild. Over the years he has been a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, York County Bar Association, and Canadian Bar Association.
    In that time he found time to perform a myriad of volunteer service. When the Goan Overseas Association formed in Ontario in the early 1970s, he was its first Legal Adviser. He accepted the task of becoming the first President and Director of Madeira House, a counselling and residential service facility for youth and drunk drivers. He also became a member of the Peel Drunk Driving Committee, and a Business Director of the Etobicoke Arthritis Society. He has been a member of the International Commission of Jurists, Amnesty International, and the United Nations Association of Canada.
    He retired from his law practice in 1988, and while maintaining a number of his volunteer activities he also founded the Walk and Wheel Club, a mall walking club at Square One in Mississauga, to ensure that he not only kept himself fit, but help others keep fit too. on 10 January 2008.4

Citations

  1. [S105] Jo de Souza, "Family Tree of the de Souza Family."
  2. [S355] Goa Toroto, online http://www.goatoronto.com/, SEQUEIRA, Ivan St. Clair LL.B., Q.C. Barrister and Solicitor On January 6th, 2008 at the age of 80. Ivan will be lovingly remembered and sadly missed by his surviving family: his wife of 53 years, Doreen, his children, Neil (Phillipa), Denise (David), Donovan, his grandchildren, Danielle, Ivan and Cameron.
  3. [S355] Goa Toroto, online http://www.goatoronto.com/, SEQUEIRA, Ivan St. Clair LL.B., Q.C. Barrister and Solicitor On January 6th, 2008 at the age of 80.
  4. [S125] Articles from Brochure of Silver Jubilee Celebrations
    December 1996
    GoaCom.com Bigraphies, online http://www.goacom.com/culture/biographies/mprofile.html#11