Robert Stanfield: A Nova Scotian and a Canadian Remembered.
By Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date: 2004-03-22
- Genre: Law
Description
Robert Lorne Stanfield was born on April 11, 1914, in Truro, Nova Scotia. A lawyer he became president of the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party in 1947; party leader in 1948;first elected to the provincial legislature in 1949 and premier of the province from 1956-67. He won the federal PC leadership in September 1967 and was elected to the House of Commons in June 1968. He resigned as party leader in 1976 having failed three times to lead his party to victory in general elections. He relinquished his Commons seat in 1979. Robert Stanfield died in December 2003. This article is based on a eulogy delivered in St. Bartholomew's Church, Ottawa, on December 19, 2003. **********
