CLEMENTS, ROBERT WILKAM JAMES (1857-1934)

CLEMENTS, ROBERT WILKAM JAMES, Methodist minister, Boiestown circuit, 1895-98; b. Union Road, P.E.I., 11 Jun 1857, s/o John Clements and Margaret Anne Prouse; m. Laura J. Hayes; d. Vancouver, B.C., 11 Dec 1934.

Robert W. J. Clements was received as a probationer for the Methodist ministry in 1883 and ordained in 1887 after studying at Mount Allison University. He had assignments at Andover, N.B. and in several other small town and rural circuits in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island before being posted to Boiestown in 1895.

Clements served for the customary three years at Boiestown and was then transferred to Canterbury, N.B. He was later located at Springfield. In 1905 he went to Souris, P.E.I., but he resigned after one year and returned to New Brunswick on leave of absence from the ministry. In 1907 he left for Alberta. He was in charge of rural and small town churches there until 1917 and then became a supply minister. He retired at Sardis, near Chilliwack, B.C., in 1926. Several years later he made a final move to Vancouver. His death in 1934 was as the result of being struck down by a car at an intersection. He left a widow and seven children.