The following obituary appears on the Guardian Newspaper's website today:
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Peacefully at the Mount on Monday, November 16, 2015 of The Reverend Canon Robert C. Tuck of Charlottetown, age 88 years. Beloved husband of Catherine (Greene). Loving father of Beth (Tuck) (Jonathan) Eayrs and Alan. Foster parent to Rick (Barbara) Rayner and Helen Rayner. Grandpa to Sylvia and Edith Eayrs, Isabel MacLellan and Ivan Morse. Brother of Mary Tuck Corelli and Barbara McAndrew. Also survived by sister-in-law Barbara Tuck and numerous nieces and nephews. Predeceased by grandson Frederick Eayrs and brother The Reverend Edward Tuck. Resting at MacLean Funeral Home Swan Chapel. Funeral from St. Peter's Cathedral on Thursday at 10 a.m. Interment in St. Peter's Cathedral Anglican Cemetery. If so desired, memorials to St. Peter's Cathedral would be appreciated. Visiting at All Souls' Chapel, St. Peter's Cathedral on Wednesday from 3 to 6 p.m. Online condolences may be made at www.macleanfh.com.
CBC PEI website also reports the passing of CanonTuck...
A pillar of the Anglican church in P.E.I., Canon Robert Tuck, has died in Charlottetown at the age of 88. His son, musician Alan Tuck, said his father died early Monday morning of old age after suffering from dementia. Robert Tuck was a great-nephew of William Critchlow Harris, a prolific Island architect of the late 1800s.
"He brought attention and regard to William Harris that had been pretty much been lacking," said Alan Tuck. Tuck authored Gothic Dreams: the Life and Times of a Canadian Architect William Critchlow Harris, as well as Churches of Nova Scotia, and co-authored Heritage Houses of Prince Edward Island.
He also released two collections of his editorial cartoons, which appeared originally in the Journal Pioneer newspaper and the Eastern Graphic, and wrote and spoke extensively about Island architecture, religion, and history. Tuck was born in in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia in 1927, graduated from Dalhousie University with an arts degree, then trained for the Anglican priesthood at St Michael's College in Wales before being ordained in 1954. He married his wife Catherine in 1959 and had two children, Al and Beth, as well as two foster children, Rick and Helen Rayner. He served at churches in Nova Scotia before working at St. Mary's in Summerside from 1964 to 1975 and was priest in charge of King's County for 1975 through 1993. He was also a Canon of St. Peter's Church in Charlottetown. Following in his great-uncle's footsteps, Tuck also designed churches he had built for Anglican use in Montague and Souris. He received recognition for his historical scholarship with awards from the PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation and the Canadian Historical Association, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of King's College in Halifax. He is survived by his wife Catherine, sisters Barbara MacAndrew and Mary Corelli, children Alan and Elizabeth, and grandchildren Edith & Sylvia Eayrs, Isabel MacLellan, and Ivan Morse.
Below are images of the books Canon Tuck published / co-published ( images come from www.amazon.ca website ).He also released two collections of his editorial cartoons, which appeared originally in the Journal Pioneer newspaper and the Eastern Graphic, and wrote and spoke extensively about Island architecture, religion, and history. Tuck was born in in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia in 1927, graduated from Dalhousie University with an arts degree, then trained for the Anglican priesthood at St Michael's College in Wales before being ordained in 1954. He married his wife Catherine in 1959 and had two children, Al and Beth, as well as two foster children, Rick and Helen Rayner. He served at churches in Nova Scotia before working at St. Mary's in Summerside from 1964 to 1975 and was priest in charge of King's County for 1975 through 1993. He was also a Canon of St. Peter's Church in Charlottetown. Following in his great-uncle's footsteps, Tuck also designed churches he had built for Anglican use in Montague and Souris. He received recognition for his historical scholarship with awards from the PEI Museum & Heritage Foundation and the Canadian Historical Association, as well as an honorary doctorate from the University of King's College in Halifax. He is survived by his wife Catherine, sisters Barbara MacAndrew and Mary Corelli, children Alan and Elizabeth, and grandchildren Edith & Sylvia Eayrs, Isabel MacLellan, and Ivan Morse.
Canon Tuck was an artist and cartoonist. Many may recall his political cartoons in the 1970s. Over the years he produced a large collection of sketches of Island historic buildings - below is an example of an article he wrote and illustrated about the Town of Alberton which appeared in "The Island Magazine" No. 24, Fall/Winter 1988. Bob Tuck penned 13 articles for the Island Magazine.
