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Famend Canadian puppeteer Noreen Younger lifeless at 85

Editorial Board Published April 20, 2025
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Noreen Younger, a famend Canadian puppeteer maybe greatest identified for creating the favored CBC kids’s present Beneath the Umbrella Tree, has died.

Younger, who was born in Ottawa and labored in puppetry for over 50 years, produced Beneath the Umbrella Tree from 1987 to 1993 and portrayed Gloria Gopher, one of many present’s major characters.

She was additionally the primary creative director of the Puppets Up! Worldwide Puppet Pageant in Almonte, Ont., which started in 2005 and — save for a hiatus between 2017 and 2022 — remains to be working.

Younger died after struggling a stroke late final week, her household informed CBC. She was 85.

A forged picture from Beneath the Umbrella Tree. Noreen Younger, not pictured within the picture, portrayed the puppet Gloria Gopher (centre). Her brother Stephen Brathwaite performed Jacob Bluejay (proper). (Fred Phipps/CBC Nonetheless Photograph Assortment)

Puppetry was an ‘act of love,’ says brother

Younger was named a member of the Order of Canada in 1995, and her biography describes her as a “masterful puppet builder and puppeteer.”

Her work had an enduring impression on a era of youngsters who grew up watching Canadian kids’s programming, mentioned Puppets Up! chair and govt director Jane Torrance.

“I don’t think that there’s a kid who was born in the 80s or 90s who … watched CBC as a kid who doesn’t know Noreen’s work,” Torrance informed CBC.

Younger’s youthful brother, Stephen Brathwaite, can be a puppeteer and performed the character of Jacob Bluejay in Beneath the Umbrella Tree. 

He mentioned Younger “was a wonderful sister” and mentioned her work was “an act of love, really, for kids and for the community.”

“Her character was her. Gloria Gopher was Noreen Young. She was a sweet, creative problem solving bulldozer,” he informed CBC.

A woman handling puppetsFor Noreen Younger, puppetry was an ‘act of love,’ mentioned her youthful brother Stephen Brathwaite. (Robyn Miller/CBC)

Born in 1939, Younger grew up in Previous Ottawa South. Brathwaite mentioned she was interested by puppets since she was 12 12 months previous and would carry out puppet exhibits at shops and occasional retailers on the town, together with the famend Le Hibou Espresso Home on Sussex Drive. 

Brathwaite mentioned Younger went on to artwork faculty, however discovered herself returning to puppetry afterwards.

“I think she thought, ‘Oh, puppets aren’t cool. I’ll do drawing and painting and sculpture.’ Which she did,” he mentioned. “And then as soon as she’s graduated, she was back at, at puppets.”

A few of her earliest work was with one other CBC puppet present, Hello Diddle Day, which aired from 1968 to 1976. She additionally labored on Sesame Park, the Canadian model of Sesame Road.

“I think once she started with puppets and saw where they could take her and where they could take her artistic career, it just became something she was going to do,” Torrance mentioned.

Created caricatures of public figures

Tributes to Younger have been coming in from folks in Almonte, who’ve laid flowers for her close to a bronze statue of Gloria Gopher within the city simply outdoors Ottawa.

Different puppeteers have written condolences on social media. Canadian puppeteer Ronnie Burkett mentioned in a submit that he knew Younger for virtually 60 years and known as her a mentor.

“I wrote her a fan letter when I was ten years old. Foolish woman replied and was stuck with me for life,” he wrote on Instagram.

“I am incredibly sad as I mourn her, but so very grateful for knowing Noreen Young.”

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