Physician.
Born at Winnipeg on 15 May 1923, one of two sons of Louis Crust (1892-1950) and Pearl Hechter (1894-1966), he was educated at Earl Grey School and Kelvin High School. During the Second World War, he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force (1941-1945).
After his military discharge, he enrolled in the Manitoba Medical College and graduated in 1951. He practiced for a year at Bassano, Alberta then for the next 33 years at Fort Garry. He was active in medical education, being a demonstrator in Anatomy at the Medical College (1957-1966) and a supervisor for the third-year medical electives program (1975-1980). He was Preceptor for many years.
He was President of the Manitoba Medical Association (1977-1978) and served on the executive board of the Canadian Medical Association (1976-1979). He was President of the Manitoba Chapter of the College of Family Practice of Canada (1962-1963), a representative to the Board of Directors of the College of Family Practice (1963-1964), President of the General Practitioners Association of Manitoba (1972-1973), President (1970-1971) and Archivist of the Manitoba Medico-Legal Society, and a member of the Canadian Association of Anatomists (1983-1985), and a member of the Association of Independent Physicians. He was a founding member and President of the Fort Garry Unit of the Canadian Cancer Society.
On 9 June 1945, he married Dorothy Greenstone (1922-2011) at Winnipeg and they had a son and four daughters. He was a member of the Winnipeg Art Gallery, Friends of the Hebrew University, Manitoba Historical Society, Pembina Investment Group, and Jewish Historical Society of Western Canada.
He died suddenly at the Health Sciences Centre on 10 May 1985 and was buried in the Shaarey Zedek Cemetery.
Birth registration [John Herbert Crust], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Pearl Crust], Winnipeg Free Press, 6 June 1966, page 32.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 18 May 1985, page 38.
Obituary [Dorothy Crust], Winnipeg Free Press, 5 March 2011.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 9 February 2025
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