Donald Frederick Robinson (1919 – January 9, 1997) was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) of British Columbia from 1955 to 1966, representing the constituency of Lillooet as part of the Social Credit (Socred) caucus.[3]
Donald Frederick Robinson | |
|---|---|
| Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Lillooet | |
| In office September 12, 1955 – August 5, 1966 | |
| Preceded by | Gordon Gibson, Sr. |
| Succeeded by | Riding abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1919[1][2] |
| Died | (aged 77) Calgary, Alberta |
| Party | British Columbia Social Credit Party |
| Occupation | locomotive engineer |
Biography
editBorn in Calgary, Alberta, Robinson attended school in Swalwell before moving to Winnipeg, Manitoba, where he married his wife Anne; they had four children together.[1] The family moved to British Columbia, where Robinson became a locomotive engineer and mechanic for the Pacific Great Eastern Railway.[1][4]: 63 He contested the 1952 provincial election as a Social Credit candidate in the riding of Lillooet, but was defeated.[5]: 225 [6]
Liberal Gordon Gibson, Sr. was elected Lillooet MLA in 1953, then resigned in 1955 to trigger a by-election. He had alleged in the legislature that there had been fraudulent activities surrounding the award of forest management licences in the province (see Robert Sommers), and sought vindication from the electorate.[4]: 61 Robinson secured the Socred nomination,[2] then defeated Gibson in the September 1955 by-election to become MLA for Lillooet.[4]: 64–65 [5]: 263 He was re-elected in 1956, 1960 and 1963,[5]: 268, 279, 288 [6] but did not run again in the 1966 election, which saw the Lillooet riding dissolved and incorporated into the new district of Yale-Lillooet.
In his later years he returned to Calgary, where he died in 1997 at age 77.[1]
References
edit- 1 2 3 4 "Deaths". Calgary Herald. January 11, 1997.
- 1 2 "By-election on September 12; Socreds choose Don Robinson" (PDF). The Squamish Advance. Squamish. August 11, 1955. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 19, 2015.
- ↑ Normandin, Pierre G.; Normandin, A. Léopold (1957). "The Canadian Parliamentary Guide". Gale Canada.
- 1 2 3 O'Keefe, Betty; Macdonald, Ian (1999). The Sommers scandal: the felling of trees and tree lords. Heritage House Publishing Co. ISBN 1-895811-96-1. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
- 1 2 3 "Electoral History of British Columbia, 1871–1986" (PDF). Elections BC. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
- 1 2 "Candidates: Donald Frederick Robinson". Canadian Elections Database. Retrieved October 1, 2025.
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