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Robert Lorne Stanfield PC QC FRCGS (April 11, 1914 – December 16, 2003) was a Canadian politician who served as the 17th premier of Nova Scotia from 1956 to 1967 and the leader of the Official Opposition and leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1967 to 1976.
Jan 19, 2004 · Stanfield, Robert (Obituary) All things seemed possible when Robert STANFIELD won the nation's first made-for-TV leadership convention in 1967. His victory - orchestrated by backroom strategist Dalton Camp - laid the foundation for the modern Progressive Conservatives.
Feb 18, 2008 · Robert Lorne Stanfield, lawyer, politician, premier of NS (b at Truro, NS 11 Apr 1914). Member of a family that had long contributed to the industrial and political life of NS and Canada, Stanfield began the rehabilitation of the provincial Conservative Party in 1946 during the only period in which it held no assembly seats.
Robert L. Stanfield (born April 11, 1914, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada—died December 16, 2003, Ottawa) was a Canadian politician who, as leader of the Progressive Conservative Association in Nova Scotia, served as that province’s premier from 1956 to 1967.
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Dec 17, 2003 · Former federal Conservative leader and Nova Scotia premier Robert Stanfield died in Ottawa Tuesday. He was 89 years old. He died at the Montfort Hospital, Senator Lowell Murray said Wednesday.
Dec 17, 2003 · The former Nova Scotia premier and federal PC leader died in Ottawa in 2003. He was the country's youngest premier and came close to becoming Canada's 15th prime minister in 1972.
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Dec 18, 2003 · Robert Stanfield was a federal Conservative leader and Nova Scotia premier who lost to Pierre Trudeau in three elections. He was remembered as a man of integrity, humility and humour by his political peers and rivals.
