Sandra Faire, right, and Ivan Fecan with Awards at the The St George Society of Toronto's Red Rose Ball 2009 on April 1, 2009.Sandra Faire, who died at home in Toronto on Feb. 27, produced television that people wanted to watch. From, to television specials with singers Anne Murray, Rita McNeil, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Bryan Adams. Ms. Faire produced variety and comedy programs for more than four decades for CBC, CTV and her own production company.
Ms. Faire was known as a hard-working television producer who would not hesitate to reshoot things when needed. Most of the performers who worked with her appreciated that, since it was their faces and voices on the screen, whereas only Ms. Faire’s name appeared in the credits. Sandra Allard was born in Edmonton. Her father, Jim Allard, was a broadcaster and her mother, Alice Tonstad, was a homemaker. Sandra went to Carleton University for a while but left when she landed a job at CJOH in Ottawa. Later she moved to CFTO in Toronto, and then the local CBC station in Toronto where she worked as the entertainment producer., which she produced for CFTO in 1977-78.
“Sandra was a trailblazer in that she was the first woman to do many things. She changed the lives of a lot of young people she worked with. She expected excellence of them, and they appreciated it,” said Susanne Boyce, the former president of creative, content and channels for CTV. “She was a gorgeous force, and not just in television.”Ms. Faire was attentive to even the smallest details of her productions. Onshe hired six hair stylists to engineer and maintain the contestants’ coiffures.
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