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	Dufferin Roblin biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dufferin Roblin (born June 17, 1917) is a Canadian businessman and politician.
		Roblin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba and was educated at the University of Manitoba and the University of Chicago.
		Roblin was a part of the latter group, and was elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1949 as an Independent Progressive Conservative opposing the coalition.
	duff-roblin.biography.ms (877 words)

	Rodmond Palen Roblin - Wikpedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roblin was born in the town of Sophiasburgh, in Prince Edward County, Canada West.
		Roblin played a crucial role in the 1911 federal election on reciprocity by putting his electoral machine at the disposal of the federal Tories, helping to defeat Sir Wilfrid Laurier and put Robert Borden in power.
		Roblin's government was weakened by a scandal involving the construction of a new legislative building (the accusations concerned misappropriation of funds and overspending).
	www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Sir_Rodmond_P._Roblin (1093 words)

	Roblin, Dufferin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roblin, Dufferin, businessman, politician, premier of Manitoba 1958-67 (b at Winnipeg 17 June 1917).
		In Sept 1984 Roblin was appointed to the MULRONEY Cabinet as government house leader in the Senate.
		Roblin is significant as an exponent of classic conservatism, in the John A. tradition, advocating an active government role in social reform.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0006888 (184 words)

	Stewart McLean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir, and unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 1967.
		McLean was born and raised in Dauphin, Manitoba, and received a B.A. and an LL.B. from the University of Saskatchewan.
		He retained this position after Roblin's Tories won a majority government in 1959, and was responsible for overseeing the consolidation of several school boards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stewart_McLean (340 words)

	Dufferin Roblin - Linix Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roblin resigned in 1967 to run for the leadership of the federal Progressive Conservative Party at its 1967 leadership convention.
		In the 1974 federal eleciton, Roblin ran for the House of Commons in the Ontario riding of Peterborough.
		Following Brian Mulroney's landslide victory in the 1984 election, Roblin was appointed Leader of the Government in the Senate, and served in Mulroney's cabinet until June 29, 1986.
	web.linix.ca /pedia/index.php/Duff_Roblin (922 words)

	Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roblin's government was progressively oriented, negotiated the extension of the railway, bought Manitoba's Bell telephone operations in order to establish a government run system, introduced corporate taxation, and created a public utilities commission while running a budgetary surplus.
		Roblin was forced to resign as Premier, and James Albert Manning AikinsJames Aikins/ led the party to a disastrous loss later in the year.
		In 1958, Roblin's Tories ran and were elected to a minority government on a progressive platform of increased education grants, crop insurance, extension of hydro to the north, and road construction.
	www.infothis.com /find/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Manitoba (1601 words)

	Articles - Rodmond Palen Roblin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roblin was born in the town of Sophiasburgh, in Prince Edward County, Canada West (later Ontario).
		Roblin served as reeve of Dufferin for five years and as warden for two, and was also a school trustee in the community.
		Roblin was the Conservative Party's de facto leader in the legislature between 1890 and 1892.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Rodmond_Palen_Roblin?mySession=c2f6439ae5fc76bf0edfa909d44b0f4f (1251 words)

	Dufferin Roblin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dufferin Roblin (born 1917) is a Canadian businessman and politician.
		Roblin's government also improved postsecondary education and promoted urban development by consolidating the municipalities in the Winnipeg area into a single metorpolitan entity.
		Roblin was appointed to the Senate in 1978, and served as Leader of the Government in the Senate from 1984 to 1986 which also gave him a seat at the Mulroney cabinet.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/dufferin_roblin (250 words)

	Sterling Lyon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Roblin's Tories won a majority in 1959, and Lyon was easily re-elected in his own riding.
		When Roblin moved to federal politics in 1967, Lyon was one of four candidates who sought to replace him.
		Dufferin Roblin has argued that the Lyon governments's right-wing reputation was undeserved, but few others have as yet agreed with this assessment.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Sterling-Lyon.htm (714 words)

	Abram Harrison - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Abram Harrison (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1943 to 1966, initially as a Conservative and later as a Progressive Conservative, after the party changed its name.
		Harrison defeated Liberal-Progressive candidate Walter E. Clark by 238 votes in the redistributed constituency of Rock Lake, and was appointed by Roblin as Speaker of the Manitoba legislature on October 23, 1958.
		He was replaced as Speaker on February 27, 1963, and formally entered Roblin's government as a minister without portfolio.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Abram-Harrison.html (431 words)

	All words on George Johnson
		He served as a Cabinet Minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 1967.
		A Progressive Conservative, he was appointed Minister of Health and Public Welfare in the minority government of Dufferin Roblin, who had personally recruited him to run for the party.
		When Roblin shifted to federal politics in 1967, Johnson was the only candidate from the party's left wing to seek its leadership.
	www.allwords.org /ge/george-johnson.html (721 words)

	Gurney Evans - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Gurney Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Edward Gurney Vaux Evans (born September 3, 1907 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, died January 8, 1987) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
		He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir.
		Evans was a longtime friend of Dufferin Roblin, and was personally encouraged by Roblin to run for the provincial Progressive Conservatives.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Gurney-Evans.html (486 words)

	New Winnipeg : Background information - Sterling Lyon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Lyon was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in 1958, in the south-central Winnipeg riding of Fort Garry (famous as the site of Louis Riel's Red River Rebellion in 1870).
		A Progressive Conservative, Lyon defeated incumbent Liberal-Progressive MLA Raymond Fennell, and was subsequently named as Attorney General in Dufferin Roblin's minority government.
		Although Weir and Lyon were both politically to the right of Roblin, they represented different constituencies in the party: Weir was a rural populist, Lyon a supporter of urban business development.
	www.newwinnipeg.com /news/info/sterling-lyon.htm (649 words)

	Roblin, The Honourable Duff, The Commonwealth Parliamentary Association
		You might say that our Guest of Honour was born to leadership and with politics in his veins, for his grandfather, Sir Edmond P. Roblin, was Premier of Manitoba for the first fifteen years of this century.
		DUFF ROBLIN: For those of you whose eyesight is something less than perfect, perhaps I should read the inscription on this button that I wear today on my lapel, which reads as follows: "Ask Us About Our Blue Bombers."
		I think that is all I need to say on that topic, but of course, my first reaction in standing before you today, the first reaction of a guest of the Empire Club of Canada must be to return thanks for the courtesy of your invitation and for the warmth of your welcome this afternoon.
	www.empireclubfoundation.com /details.asp?SpeechID=1440&FT=yes (2255 words)

	Laurent Desjardins biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This was the year of Progressive Conservative Premier Dufferin Roblin's first majority win, and Desjardins joined ten other Liberal-Progressives in the official opposition.
		The Roblin government took some steps on this front, but the issue was still unresolved by the 1970s.
		Despite the Roblin government's popularity, Desjardins had little difficulty being returned in the elections of 1962 and 1966 (the Liberal-Progressives had changed their name to the Manitoba Liberal Party in 1961).
	laurent-desjardins.biography.ms (1141 words)

	Articles - Dufferin Roblin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Honourable Dufferin Roblin, PC (born June 17, 1917) is a Canadian businessman and politician.
		The Progressive Conservatives were re-elected with landslide mandates in the 1962 and 1966 elections, and Roblin never faced any serious competition in his own riding.
		In the 1974 federal election, Roblin ran for the House of Commons in the Ontario riding of Peterborough.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Duff_Roblin (1030 words)

	Progressive Party of Manitoba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Although the leadership of the party remained dominated by Progressives, the government was commonly referred to as "Liberal" during the 1940s and 1950s.
		Dufferin Roblin's Progressive Conservatives swept to victory of 1958.
		The Liberal-Progressives the party formally became known as the Manitoba Liberal Party in 1961.
	www.tocatch.info /en/United_Farmers_of_Manitoba.htm (718 words)

	Harry Enns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He served as a Cabinet Minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin, Walter Weir, Sterling Lyon and Gary Filmon, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba in 1971.
		A Progressive Conservative, he was appointed Minister of Agriculture by Dufferin Roblin on July 22, 1967.
		Enns retained this position when Walter Weir replaced Roblin as Premier later in the year, also becoming the Acting Minister of Highways (Enns had supported Weir in the party's leadership contest).
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Harry-Enns.htm (615 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Manitoba
		Much of the countryside in southern Manitoba is farmland and gives the impression of a vast plain with a perfectly level horizon as far as the eye can see.
		In 1957 the electoral districts of Manitoba were redrawn to reflect the population shift from rural to urban areas, particularly to the city of Winnipeg and towns in the south, and also to the northern mining communities.
		In 1958 Dufferin Roblin, an advocate of active government stimulation of private enterprise, led the Progressive Conservative Party to an electoral victory.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /text_761559392__1/Manitoba.html (7170 words)

	Stan Roberts
		Although Dufferin Roblin's Tories won the general election, Roberts defeated his Tory opponent Stan Bisson by 1565 votes to 1395.
		When Douglas Campbell resigned as Liberal-Progressive leader in 1961, Roberts ran to succeed him.
		He represented a "left opposition" within the party, and accused its more conservative leadership of being ineffective against Roblin's centrist/progressive government.
	www.mcfly.org /en/Stan_Roberts (840 words)

	Articles - John Carroll (Manitoba politician) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		John Benson Carroll (born October 13, 1921 in The Pas, Manitoba; died December 1986) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
		He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1958 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir.
		He was retained in this portfolio after Walter Weir replaced Dufferin Roblin as Premier in 1967.
	www.gaple.com /articles/John_Carroll_(Manitoba_politician) (421 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: 1967_in_Canada (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Premier of Manitoba - Dufferin Roblin then Walter Weir
		November 25 - Walter Weir becomes premier of Manitoba, replacing Dufferin Roblin
		November 26 - A conference organized by John Robarts of Ontario brings together all the provincial premiers to discuss the constitution
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=1967_in_Canada (835 words)

	Region Fresh : Article 'Douglas Watt' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in a by-election on November 26, 1959, defeated Liberal-Progressive candidate Harry Patmore by 77 votes in the rural riding of Arthur, in the province's southwestern corner.
		He was re-elected over Patmore by a greater margin in the 1962 general election, and served as a backbench supporter of Dufferin Roblin's government.
		Weir replaced Roblin as Premier in 1967, and Watt entered cabinet as Minister of Agriculture on September 24, 1968.
	www.region-fresh.net /DisplayArticleFull422541.html (634 words)

	A History of Manitoba (1950-1975) quiz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After the flood of 1950, the question of a flood diversion around Winnipeg was raised once again.
		Premier Dufferin Roblin, after taking over the government of Manitoba in 1954, pushed for its construction.
		It wasn't completed until 1968, but it would forever be remembered as Premier Roblin's pet project.
	www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=117016&origin= (310 words)

	Manitoba
		Manitoba has been known as the Keystone Province ever since Canada's Governor-General Lord Dufferin described the province in 1877 as "the keystone of that mighty arch of sister provinces which spans the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific." Manitoba lies in the geographic center of Canada.
		Until the late l9th century, fur trading was the province's major economic activity.
		In 1958 Dufferin Roblin, an advocate of active government stimulation of private enterprise, led the Progressive Conservatives to an electoral victory.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/CanadianGeography/manitoba.htm (5903 words)

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