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The Honourable
John Robarts
PC CC QC
Robarts in 1960
17th Premier of Ontario
In office November 8, 1961 – March 1, 1971
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Lieutenant Governor
John Keiller MacKay William Earl Rowe William Ross Macdonald
October 18, 1982(1982-10-18) (aged 65) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Resting place
St. James Cemetery
Political party
Progressive Conservative
Spouses
Norah McCormick (div. 1970s)
Katherine Sickafuse (m. 1976)
Children
Timothy (1956–1977), Robin Hollis Jeffrey (1953–2010)
Alma mater
University of Western Ontario Osgoode Hall Law School
Cabinet
Minister without portfolio (1958-1959)
Military service
Allegiance
Canadian
Branch/service
Royal Canadian Navy
Years of service
1942–1945
Rank
Lieutenant
Unit
HMCS Uganda
Battles/wars
Pacific War
John Parmenter RobartsPC CC QC (January 11, 1917 – October 18, 1982) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 17th premier of Ontario from 1961 to 1971. He was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
Conservative Party of Ontario. Robarts was born in Banff, Alberta, to Herbert Roberts and Ellen Florence May Robarts, making him the only Ontario premier...
The John P. Robarts Research Library, commonly referred to as Robarts Library, is the main humanities and social sciences library of the University of...
Robarts or Robartes may refer to: Charles Robartes (1660–1723), Second Earl of Radnor Gerald Robarts (1878–1961), British soldier and squash rackets player...
delivered crucial support for JohnRobarts to defeat Kelso Roberts on the final vote. Davis was appointed to Robarts' cabinet as Minister of Education...
legislature leaving in 1951 when he was defeated by Progressive Conservative JohnRobarts. He died at the University Hospital in London in 1994. Normandin, P.G...
in 1959. In 1961, JohnRobarts became the 17th premier of Ontario. He was one of the most popular premiers in years. Under Robarts's leadership, the party...
partners were added, Donald Bowman and JohnRobarts, and the Toronto office became Stikeman, Elliott, Robarts and Bowman. One of the first national firms...
[citation needed] The Robarts family had been bankers since the founding of Robarts, Curtis & Co. in 1791. This later became Robarts, Lubbock & Co., and...
cabinet in the governments of Leslie Frost and JohnRobarts. He was born in Montreal, the son of John W. Wardrope and educated at the University of Toronto...
made up much of the political base of Premier JohnRobarts' Ontario Progressive Conservatives. Robarts, after coming up with the idea with his adviser...
candidate in London North in 1955 against future Premier of Ontario JohnRobarts, and again as a federal Liberal candidate in 1963 in London. Both of...
was later charged with manslaughter in connection with the incident. JohnRobarts, 17th Premier of Ontario Sir Frederick Banting, awarded the Nobel Prize...
leadership convention finishing third on the fifth ballot. The victor, JohnRobarts, made Macaulay his Minister of Economics and Development. Macaulay retained...
West and Chatham—Kent. He was a cabinet minister in the governments of JohnRobarts and Bill Davis. Due to McKeough's senior position in cabinet as Treasurer...
served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Leslie Frost and JohnRobarts. Dymond was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and emigrated to Canada...
as a senior cabinet minister in the governments of Leslie Frost and JohnRobarts. Roberts was born in Belleville, Ontario in 1898. Roberts was married...
6, 1965, by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Ontario Premier JohnRobarts. Costing $7 million at the time of its construction, the Skylon Tower...
Frost resigned in 1961, and was succeeded as Tory leader and Premier by JohnRobarts. Upon retirement from politics, Frost served on the Board of Governors...
faculty until the 1980s. He was constitutional adviser to Ontario Premier JohnRobarts between 1965 and 1971. In 1981, he was made an Officer of the Order of...
Corp.'s company director. Former premiers of Ontario Bill Davis and JohnRobarts of the Progressive Conservatives have both sat on Power Corp.'s national...
after Simcoe's death, Harmsworth gave a deed to then-Premier of Ontario JohnRobarts, alongside a deed making a permanent right of way to access the property...
Ontario staged its first state funeral in October 1982 for former Premier JohnRobarts. Alexander lay in state in the Ontario Legislative Building in Toronto...