ROBERT ERNEST CLAGUE

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ROBERT ERNEST CLAGUE October 4, 1914 - October 11, 2006 Robert Ernest Clague passed away quietly at the Middlechurch Home on October 11, 2006. He had a B.A. (Hons.) in History and English and a M.S, in Arts from the University of Manitoba, was well-known in the Winnipeg teaching community as a respected teacher and author, and best known for his mathematics expertise. He researched and authored several manuscripts, including Trapping the Transversals, postulating a new approach to an old problem in mathematics. His students at General Wolfe School and Churchill High were inspired by his enthusiasm and creativity. He was also very current on vitamins as they relate to health and penned many manuscripts on herbs as they relate to cancer. He applied his historian's talents to research into the causes of cancer and into alternative and herbal cures for cancer. He also wrote short poems and limericks, and self-published two books of these on Christian topics with further work underway on a variety of topics, including the Weston area, the environment, animals and a female Métis healer who lived in Winnipeg at the turn of the 19th Century. He maintained an extensive correspondence and files of information and many books on these topics. As a result of his research, he was very careful about what he ate and used a great many dietary supplements and vitamins. Robert loved gardening, music, animals and his reading and research activities. He could always be seen diligently writing or typing on an old Underwood typewriter. He knew what his cause of action should be and was determined. Robert was an original and was a devoted supporter of charities, foundations and museums and known for his quiet but widespread philanthropy. He contributed generously to a wide variety of organizations, including animal welfare, health research, the environment, the Red Cross, Lighthouse Mission and to developing countries. He will be greatly missed by his friends and colleagues. Thanks to the Middlechurch Home for their kind and sensitive care of Robert during his stay there. Donations in his memory would be gratefully received by the Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc. for cancer research. Cremation and a private funeral has taken place. His dry sense of humour and typical use of rhyme comes out well in his self-penned epitaph (he intended to be cremated): See here you blokes! This is no joke! When I have croaked, Just watch my smoke! A memorial and celebration of his life will take place on Saturday, October 28 from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. at St. Thomas Anglican Church Hall, 1567 William Avenue, Winnipeg.

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As published in Winnipeg Free Press on Oct 21, 2006