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OCR: THE CHIEF'S LAST DAYS Even in defeat the Chief was unbowed He continued to sit in the Parliament he loved, thorn in the side of Liberal and Conservative alike He was elected fora thirteenth time in May 1979 He died in Auqusi of the same year His last public act was his own funeral, which he had planned wellin advance When the train that carried his casket crossed the country from Ottawa to Saskatoon mourners stood beside the track to pay their last respects to the man who, for all his foibles and failures, S still remembered for his fiery oratory his affection for the people pue his inspiring vision qrea Canada BIOGRAPHY ofo August welli Saska toon great