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Robert Jan Van Pelt
Robert Jan Van Pelt, professor, architectural historian, author (b at Haarlem, The Netherlands 15 August 1955).
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Robert Jan Van Pelt, professor, architectural historian, author (b at Haarlem, The Netherlands 15 August 1955).
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Robert John Parsons, journalist, politician (b at Harbour Grace, Nfld, c 1802; d at St John's 20 June 1883). With William Carson and other Newfoundland Liberals, he founded the weekly Newfoundland Patriot in 1833 and became its sole owner and editor (1840).
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Robert (Christopher) Jordan. Guitarist, teacher, b Oxford 22 Jul 1933, naturalized Canadian 1957. He studied violin 1949-52 with Charles de Reyghere in Bedford.
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While at the University of Toronto in 1972 Robert Joy won the prestigious Rhodes scholarship and attended Oxford University to study English literature.
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Robert Keith (Bob) Rae, CC, OOnt, PC, lawyer, politician (born 2 August 1948 at Ottawa, Ontario). A prominent lawyer, community activist and author, Rae has served as a federal (1978-82; 2008-2013) and provincial politician (1982-96), premier of Ontario (1990-1995), interim leader of the federal Liberal Party (2011-2013), and as a government-appointed official. In July of 2020, Rae was named Canadian ambassador to the United Nations. Rae's family had substantial ties to Ottawa; his father Saul had been a senior diplomat, while his brother John was a long-time advisor to former Liberal Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
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Baker received his BFA (Hons) from the University of Alberta (1974), where he co-founded and co-directed the Alberta Barter Theatre during his undergraduate years.
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Robert Kent Rowley, (b at Montréal 25 Oct 1917; d at Toronto 5 Feb 1978).
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Robert Kerr, track and field athlete, coach (b at Enniskillen, Ire 1882; d at Hamilton, Ont 12 May 1963). Despite the "marathon craze" of the time, Robert Kerr took advantage of the speed required for his occupation as
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Robert (Bogdan) Klymasz. Folklorist, b Toronto 14 May 1936; BA Russian (Toronto) 1957, MA Slavic Studies (Manitoba) 1960, PH D (Indiana) 1971.
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Robert Kroetsch, writer, editor, teacher (born at Heisler, Alta 26 Jun 1927, died at Edmonton, 21 Jun 2011). Kroetsch grew up on his father's farm and studied at the University of Alberta and the University of Iowa.
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Robert Laidlaw MacMillan, cardiologist (born 23 May 1917 in Toronto, Ontario; died 5 September 2007 in Toronto, Ontario). Robert MacMillan was a cardiologist and professor of medicine at the University of Toronto and co-founder of the world’s first coronary care unit in 1962. He is the father of acclaimed historian and author Margaret MacMillan.
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Robert Lalonde, novelist and actor (b at Oka 22 Jul 1947). He completed classical studies at the Collège de Montréal and the Séminaire de Sainte-Therese earning a BA in 1968.
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Robert Lantos, CM, film and television producer and executive (born 3 April 1949 in Budapest, Hungary). A key figure in the development of contemporary Canadian cinema, Robert Lantos is one of Canada’s most powerful producers of film and television. In the 1970s, he founded the distribution company Vivafilm and the production company RSL Productions. In the 1980s and 1990s, he was chair and CEO of Alliance Communications Corporation, Canada’s largest film and television production and distribution company, before leaving to produce films through his own Serendipity Point Films. He is a Member of the Order of Canada and the Canadian Film and Television Hall of Fame and has received numerous awards and honours, including five Genie Awards, four Gemini Awards, two Golden Reel Awards, the Air Canada Award and the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award for Lifetime Achievement.
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Robert LaPalme, political cartoonist (b at Montréal 14 April 1908; d at Montréal 19 June 1997).
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Robert Leckie, CB, DSO, DSC, DFC, CD, pilot, air marshal (born 16 April 1890 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom; died 31 March 1975 in Ottawa, Ontario). Robert Leckie was a decorated flying-boat pilot who served in the Royal Naval Air Service in the First World War. Leckie served with the Royal Air Force in the interwar period and was seconded to the Canadian Air Board from 1919 to 1922. After further senior posts in the RAF, he returned to Canada during the Second World War to oversee the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCAPT) from 1940 to 1944. Leckie transferred to the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1942 and served as Chief of the Air Staff from 1944 to 1947.
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