After a long tenure of serving the Royal Family, one of his last public acts before his own death was to offer public commentary on the demise of the monarch
A philanthropist, long-serving provincial cultural bureaucrat and escort to royalty, John Crosbie Perlin acted for decades as Queen Elizabeth II’s personal link to Newfoundland and Labrador. One of Mr. Perlin’s last public acts before his own death was to offer public commentary on her death.
Mr. Perlin volunteered for more than 50 charity and community groups over seven decades. He was active with the Duke of Edinburgh awards, served on the board of Rising Tide Theatre in Trinity, N.L., and was still on the board with the Fluvarium, a public centre in St. John’s for environmental education. He was recently given honourary life presidency of the Royal Regatta Committee, which he first joined in the 1950s.
The merchant family lineage began with Israel Perlin, who emigrated from Minsk, Russia, via New York, and after working as a peddler in Fortune and Placentia bays established I.F. Perlin and Co. Ltd. in St. John’s in 1893. The wholesale dry goods firm operated until 1971, employing many Jewish immigrants as peddlers, selling goods ranging from jewellery and tea to stationery and pocket knives.
It was a lot of power and he was often criticized for the ACC’s programming of symphonies, ballet and middle-of-the-road entertainment, considered by some to be overly conservative and catering to upper-middle-class audiences. Mr. Perlin would argue it was a matter of budget.
When he was inducted into the Order of Newfoundland, premier Danny Williams said, “His lifelong legacy of community and charitable work is formidable. He has touched the lives of literally hundreds of thousands of our people.”He also received the Victorian Order from the Queen herself, at Buckingham Palace in 1990.
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