Hundreds gather to pay their respects to Dr. Wilbert Keon

Hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered at St. Patrick’s Basilica on Thursday to pay their respects to Dr. Wilbert Keon, who died on Sunday following a series of strokes.
Keon’s lifetime of outsized achievements in Ottawa — a cardiologist and heart surgeon, he founded the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and was a senator for 20 years — may have accounted for some in attendance. Former prime minister Joe Clark and his wife, Maureen McTeer, were at the funer