Edward Allen LONG

At home in Toronto, on May 30, 2024. Predeceased by Lianne (née Irving), his wife of 44 years; parents, Emma and Herb; and four siblings, Bill, Donna, Mary, and John. Survived by daughters, Suzanne, Megan (Jamie Keating), and Emily (Mike Harrison); and grandchildren, Jeremy and Natalie Foote. Having graduated from Trinity College School, Eddie attended Western University before his career in hockey took precedence, playing semi-professionally in Quebec, with a draft option to the Detroit Red Wings. His athleticism and love of the outdoors led him toward many other sports, enjoying longstanding memberships skiing with the family at Caledon Ski Club, and playing tennis and platform tennis at The Badminton & Racquet Club. Eddie's career as agency representative for various Quebec clothing manufacturers brought him success in the '60s and '70s, being one of the first to create private label clothing for major retailers in Canada and the US. Laterally, purchasing a business which manufactured and sold legal and clerical robes, D. Shuter Robes became Eddie's late career passion. A salesman by nature, Eddie eventually served as Board chair of the Canadian Professional Sales Association. Retirement from Toronto was to the Caledon area, where moving from their original "hobby farm" to a larger working farm in Terra Cotta, Eddie and Lianne made a full life of gardening, political activism, friends, family, and restoring and maintaining a larger property and an old historic stone house. Later years brought Eddie back to the city, where he enjoyed walking, dining, travelling, his clubs, friends new and old, and family. He never slowed down and always had time for a chat. Family would like to thank the kind staff and tenants at 9 Deer Park Crescent for enjoying Eddie's recent company and acknowledge his much-loved extended Long family nieces, nephews and cousins, of which there were so many. Service to be held at Grace Church On-the Hill on Thursday, September 5th, at 1 p.m.