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• Education: Belleville, Hastings County, Ontario, Canada; Albert College
• Occupation: Minister of Agriculture and Railways
• Occupation: Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada; Reeve of Dufferin
• Occupation: Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada; School Trustee
• Occupation: Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada; Warden of Dufferin
• Occupation: 1877, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Grain Merchant
• Residence: 1877, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada
• Occupation: 1881; Merchant
• Residence: 1881, Dufferin, Manitoba, Canada
• Occupation: 1900-1907, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Railway Commissioner
• Occupation: 1900-1911, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Minister of Agriculture
• Occupation: 1911-1913, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Provincial Secretary
• Occupation: 1900-1915, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; President of the Council
• Occupation: 1905-1915, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Provincial Lands Commissioner
• Occupation: 1908-1915, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Railway Commissioner
• Occupation: 29 Oct 1900-12 May 1915, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Premier of Manitoba

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Name appears in Aaron B. Fosters teachers ledger for 1865 Dominion Elevator Company shares May 24 1897 applicant Rodman P. Roblin

-The Hon. Sir Rodmond Palen Roblin, K.C.M.G., of Carman and Winnipeg, Premier of Manitoba (1900-1915), Minister of Agriculture and Railways, b. 15 Feb. 1853 in Sophiasburg Tp., Prince Edward Co., Canada West, d. 16 Feb. 1937 at Hot Springs, Arkansas.(5) In 1881 Roblin, then called a merchant, is found at Dufferin, Manitoba, with his wife and their eldest child, Wilfrid.(6) He was elected to the Manitoba Legislature as an Independent in 1888, and in 1896 he was elected as a Conservative for Woodlands. Soon afterward he was chosen leader of the party, and became Premier in 1900, by which time he was living at Winnipeg (in 1906 he was of Garry Street). He was knighted in 1912. He resigned from political life in 1915 over the scandal concerning misappropriation of materials used in the construction of the Legislative Building. He m. 13 Sept. 1875, presumably in Ontario, -From Loyal She Remains: born Sophiasburgh, Knighted 1912, Premier of Manitoba 1900-1915, grandfather of Dufferin 'Duff' Roblin moved to Winnipeg 1877 elected to legislature 1888. Conservative. Elected Oct 29 1900 -from Canadian Parliamentry Companion 1889, 1891, 1897: educated Albert College, Belleville ; grain merchant; municipal Treasurer Sophiasburg 1878-79; went to Manitoba 1880; elected Legistative Assemby for East Dufferin 12 March 1888 (bielection - acclaimed); a liberal; reelected 1892 and 1896 -premier from 1900 to 1915.He was born in Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1853 and came to Manitoba in 1877 to farm near the town of Carman. In 1889 he entered the Provincial Legislature as a Conservative and as Leader of the Opposition. In 1900, he succeeded Hugh John Macdonald as Premier, taking also the two important cabinet posts of Minister of Agriculture and Railway Commissioner. Rodmond Roblin himself was strongly opposed to women's suffrage, and there was a very public feud between himself and the suffragist leader Nellie McClung. Roblin was similarly unwilling to make dramatic changes to labour relations, or even to take steps to ensure that existing labour standards were properly enforced. --Library and Archives Canada: Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: HARRIS, JOSEPH ... in July 1897 Harris joined with several other merchants, including Rodmond Palen Roblin, Samuel A. McGaw, and Frederick Phillips, to found the Dominion Elevator Company. With an authorized capital of $200,000, the firm quickly became one of the major grain companies in western Canada. (By 1900 it operated 64 elevators

Rodmond married Adelaide DEMILLE on 13 Sep 1875 in Demorestville, Sophiasburgh Township, Ontario, Canada. Adelaide (daughter of Nathaniel Solmes DEMILLE and Wealthy Ann PALMER) was born on 12 Feb 1853 in Demorestville, Sophiasburgh Township, Ontario, Canada; died on 24 Jan 1928 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Rodmond married Ethel M LEGGETT on 5 Feb 1929 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA. Ethel was born in 1878; died in 1962. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Wilfred married Mary Christine LYON on 27 Apr 1921 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada. Mary was born on 1 Nov 1884 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; died in Jan 1956 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; was buried on 5 Jan 1956 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Arthur married Iowa Evelyn Maud SNELL on 4 Aug 1909 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada. Iowa and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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George married Elizabeth Eleanor WARREN on 11 Sep 1918 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada. Elizabeth and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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His house, at 83 Kingsway Ave., Winnipeg, built about 1908, has been designated as an historical site. In his marriage record, he is called a soldier, of 211 Garry Street, Winnipeg, aged 23 years, a Methodist, and his wife a librarian, of 181 Home Street, Hamilton, Wentworth Co., Ontario, aged 24 years, an Anglican. The witnesses were Charles Fraser, of 80 Spence Street, and Frank De Mill, of 36 Casa Loma Block [on the corner of Sherbrook Street and Portage Avenue].

Charles married Sophia May MURDOCH on 14 Sep 1915 in Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada. Sophia was born on 6 May 1891 in Ontario, Canada; died on 15 Jan 1974. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Education: Abt 1931, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; St. John
• Education: Abt 1932, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Kelvin Technical High School
• Education: Abt 1934, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; University of Manitoba
• Education: Abt 1935, Chicago, Cook, Illinois, USA; University of Chicago
• Education: Abt 1937, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; University of Manitoba
• Military: 1939-1946; He served overseas with the Royal Canadian Air Force during the Second World War and retired in 1946 as Wing Commander
• Occupation: Bef 1949, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Car Dealer
• Occupation: 1949, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; First elected to the Manitoba legislature
• Occupation: 1954, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; He became leader of the provincial Conservatives
• Occupation: 1949-1958, Manitoba, Canada; Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Winnipeg South
• Occupation: 30 Jun 1958-27 Nov 1967, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; 14th Premier of Manitoba
• Occupation: 1958-1968, Manitoba, Canada; Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Wolseley
• Occupation: Aft 1968; Vice-President of Canadian Pacific Investment
• Occupation: 1979-1980, Ottawa, , Ontario, Canada; Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate
• Occupation: 1980-1984, Ottawa, , Ontario, Canada; Deputy Opposition Leader
• Occupation: 1984, Ottawa, , Ontario, Canada; Leader of the Government in the Senate
• Occupation: 1978-1992; Senator for Red River, Manitoba
• Obituary: 31 May 2010, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Winnipeg Free Press
• Obituary: 1 Jun 2010, Winnipeg, , Manitoba, Canada; Winnipeg Free Press

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He is probably best-known for his role in urging, against considerable opposition, the construction of the Red River Floodway, which since its completion in 1968 has repeatedly saved the city from flooding, and is considered a model of its kind. He is the author of Speaking for Myself: Politics and Other Pursuits (Winnipeg, 1999)

Education:
an elite private school, but family finances suffered during The Depression and he had to change schools.

Education:
for Grades 10 and 11

Education:
He dropped out of the University of Manitoba after a year and instead enrolled in a local business college before heading south to take courses at the business school of the University of Chicago.

Education:
Eventually, he moved back to Winnipeg to study for a diploma in agriculture at U of M. Equipped with this motley assortment of courses and qualifications, he made an appointment with the president of the U of M and proposed that he had fulfilled the requirements for a university degree. The president begged to differ and quickly showed young Mr. Roblin the door.

Military:
When the Second World War erupted in 1939, he enlisted in the Canadian Army as a private. Longing to become a pilot, he took private flying lessons and achieved a transfer in the spring of 1940 to the fledgling Royal Canadian Air Force. His eyesight wasn't good enough for him to qualify as a pilot, but he was shipped overseas as a junior officer in 1942 in a tactical and operations unit. Deeply involved in the tactical planning for D-Day, he landed in Normandy on June 30, 1944, and helped chase the retreating Axis forces through France into Holland, all the way to Hamburg, Germany. By the time he was demobilized in 1946, he had the rank of a wing commander in the RCAF.

Occupation:
to June 29 1986

Occupation:
Appointed by Pierre Trudeau

Obituary:
Province loses 'tremendous premier'
Roblin hailed as visionary leader

Duff Roblin, Manitoba's 14th premier from 1958 to 1967, died Sunday evening.

The Greatest Manitoban died late Sunday afternoon almost at the moment that Duff's Ditch was once again rescuing Winnipeg

Duff Roblin, our 14th premier from 1958 to 1967, died about 6 p.m. Sunday in Victoria General Hospital with his daughter Jennifer by his side, said Roblin's longtime friend Bill Neville.

Roblin, who would have turned 93 next month, will be forever remembered for relentlessly pursuing and achieving his vision of a floodway to carry the Red River around the city of Winnipeg, a quest he launched as an opposition backbencher shortly after the devastating 1950 flood.

Sunday afternoon was one of the countless times the floodway has been operated to avert possible disaster after near-record rainfall this weekend unleashed torrents of water into the Red.

When the Winnipeg Free Press published The Greatest Manitobans book in 2008, the province's citizens named Roblin as our Greatest Manitoban.

Roblin was ridiculed mercilessly in the early 1950s, recalled Neville: "It was unnecessary, it wouldn't work, or it would cost too much, or all three."

Roblin went on to become premier in 1958, the promise of a floodway one of his key election planks. And Roblin lived every politician's dream of being derided, struggling, and eventually being vindicated, said Neville.

Vindicated indeed.

Flood-threatened communities from all over North America come here to study Duff's Ditch, provincial flood forecaster Alf Warkentin said Sunday.

The floodway was ready for the ominous 1969 flood, Warkentin said. "We've had about 10 serious floods that the floodway has protected the city from," none more potentially catastrophic than the 1997 Flood of the Century.

"It's a great loss

Obituary:
THE HONOURABLE DUFF ROBLIN PC, CC, OM, LLD, DCL 1917 - 2010 Following a brief illness, Duff Roblin died peacefully in the late afternoon of May 30, 2010 at the Victoria Hospital. He is survived by his wife Mary; his son Andrew of Emmaus, Pennsylvania, his former daughter-in-law Patricia, and grandchildren Lily and Rachel; his daughter Jennifer of Toronto (Craig Lathrop), grandchildren Sian, Bronwen, and Euan; his sister Marcia of Barrie, Ontario and his brother Rod of Winnipeg; and numerous nieces and nephews. Born June 17, 1917 in Winnipeg, the son of Charles D. and Sophia May Roblin and the grandson of Sir R. P. Roblin, Premier of Manitoba from 1900 to 1915, Duff Roblin was educated in Winnipeg schools and studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Chicago. He was first elected to the Manitoba Legislature as an Independent Progressive Conservative in 1949 and was re-elected in five subsequent general elections. Chosen leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1954, he was elected premier in 1958, which office he held until he retired from office in 1967. The reform, improvement and expansion of the educational system in all its aspects was his first priority and was the achievement from which he derived the greatest satisfaction. However, his initiative in advocating and building the Red River Floodway, and the Floodway's subsequent positive impact, caught the public imagination in an enduring way and, became an important element of his legacy as a public man. In 2001, the Floodway was declared a National Historic Site in recognition of it as an outstanding example of Canadian engineering and technology and in recognition of its broader significance in humankind's age-old struggle to find accommodation with nature. Appointed to the Senate in 1978, he was an active member until 1992. He served as Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1984 to 1986. Following his retirement he chaired an important provincial commission on post-secondary education in which he returned to the over-riding focus of his whole public life. There will be a private funeral service. A Book of Condolence will be open in the rotunda of the Manitoba Legislature. Flowers are gratefully declined. Those wishing to commemorate his life and career may wish to consider donations to the Duff Roblin Scholarship Fund at the University of Winnipeg, the Duff Roblin Professorship at the University of Manitoba or the Duff Roblin Fellowship Fund at the University of Manitoba. THOMSON FUNERAL HOME 669 BROADWAY, WINNIPEG, MB R3C OX4 783-7211 Condolences may be sent to www.thomsonfuneralchapel.com

Died:
About 6pm

Victoria General Hospital

Charles married Mary Linda MCKAY [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Living as of May 30 2010 in Barrie

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Living as of May 30 2010 - Winnipeg

Family/Spouse: Patricia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Craig LATHROP. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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