January 1988

Regan Clark Grant

Following graduation from MUCC, Regan enrolled at the University of Regina in the Music and Drama program.  He earned a double Major in Voice and Drama in 1984.  The summers after leaving school he spent at the Banff School of Fine Arts and two summers in B.C. with the Canada Opera Picola.  He worked a year at the University Hospital in Saskatoon and performed with the Gateway Players and Persephone Theatre.  He then moved on to the Opera College, University of Toronto, graduating in June 1988 with a Diploma in Operatic Performance.  During those training years he worked in the University Book Store to supplement his income and returned to Saskatoon to work with Co-Opera, as well as performing in Boston, Hamilton and various points in Ontario.  He sang three years with the Canadian Opera Company.  

Regan was diagnosed in 1986 with HIV infection and battled through a number of illnesses associated with AIDS (e.g. pneumonia, shingles, side effects of medication), until the fall of 1990, when he was stricken with a near fatal Meningitis.  After a month in the hospital in Toronto, he returned to live with his parents in Tisdale, recovering well enough in the next year and half to be able to perform again, in Saskatoon, Regina and Tisdale and to travel to Texas and Calgary to visit with friends and family.

Nothing we can write would be able to do justice to Regan's warmth, humor and love for life and his generosity to friends and co-workers.  Bringing him home in October of 1990 was a small miracle, and we wrenched as much joy and gratitude as we could from the year and a half he had with us.  His death leaves such a huge empty space in our family.

Regan soldiered on courageously as his health continued to fail.  He died peacefully at home on June 28, 1992.       Mary Grant

                     Saskatoon 1991 - Regan and his mother Mary

                                         Calgary 1985

                                         Calgary 1985