Schacter, Clarence Clarke Jacob 'Jake'

Birth Name Schacter, Clarence Clarke Jacob 'Jake'
Birth Name Schacter, Clarke 'Jake'
Call Name Clarence
Call Name Clarke
Gender male
Age at Death 88 years, 8 months, 24 days

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Event Date Place Description Notes Sources
Birth February 20, 1922 Montreal, Quebec, Canada  

 
Education   Baron Byng High School, Montreal, Quebec, Canada  

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Baron Byng High School was named after Julian Hedworth George Byng, 1st Viscount Byng of Vimy, the Governor General of Canada from 1921 to 1926.
Baron Byng was a World War I hero at the battle of Vimy Ridge,
In 1926, he was involved in the King-Byng Affair, a political scandal dealing with the succession of the Canadian Government.

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Established in 1921, by the Protestant School Board of Greater Montréal (PSBGM), Baron Byng High School taught mostly Jewish students

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Famous Alumni of Baron Byng High School:
* Morris Fish, Supreme Court of Canada judge
* Sam Gesser, record producer and concert promoter
* A. M. Klein, poet
* Irving Layton, poet
* David Lewis, Rhodes Scholar, labour lawyer, Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada 1971-75
* Frederick Lowy, medical educator and president & vice-chancellor of Concordia University
* Rudolph A. Marcus, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1992
* Louis Nirenberg, mathematician
* Simon Reisman, civil servant
* Mordecai Richler, author
* Philip Seeman, schizophrenia researcher
* William Shatner, actor

 
Education   Commercial & Technical High School, le Plateau-Mont-Royal, Montréal, Québec, Canada  

 
Military Service 1942 Canadian Army Land Force Command (LFC), Department of National Defence (DND) Clarke Schacter shipped out for four years duty

Event Note

Carke Schacter served in the Army Dental Corps, stationed at Lesters Field.
He worked at the Naval Barracks, HMCS Avalon, in Saint John's.

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Clarke Schacter was stationed at Botwood, Newfoundland, where he had the honour of shaking the hand of Winston Churchill, who had stopped over.

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Clarke Schacter was stationed at Dorval, after his return from Newfoundland.
He was later transferred to PNE Cow Barn, in Toronto.

 
Boat 1942 HMS Lady Rodney  

 
Marriage December 17, 1950 Montreal, Quebec, Canada Clarke Schacter married Una Kerman on 8 Tevet, 5711, ח׳ שבת תשי״א

 
Occupation   Crown Royal Clothing Company,Montreal, Quebec, Canada Clarke Schacter worked with his brothers, Joe and Bernie

 
Death November 15, 2010 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Clarence Clarke 'Jake' Schacter passed away peacefully at 11:15AM, 8 Kislev, 5771 ח׳ כסלו תשע״א, at age 88 years young

 

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