Frederick O. Robinson fonds
Politicians
Political candidates
City council members
Members of Provincial Parliament
Mayors
Forestry
Forest products industry
Hydroelectric power
Electricity
Electric utilities--costs
Fish and game licenses
Roads
Labour unions
Mines and mining
National parks
Provincial parks
Unemployment insurance
Workers' compensation
Education and learning
Robinson, Frederick O.
Canadian National Railway
Legislative Assembly of Ontario
Port Arthur Board of Education
Port Arthur City Council
Port Arthur Public Utilities Commission
International Association of Machinists
Port Arthur Trades and Labour Council
Lakehead Council of the Canadian League for Peace and Democracy
Canadian League for Peace and Democracy
Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
Fisher, Douglas
New Democratic Party
Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario
Lakehead University
Lakehead College of Arts, Science and Technology
Lakehead Technical Institute
Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association
Canadian Federation of Mayors and Municipalities
City of Port Arthur (Ont.)
Frederick O. Robinson was born in Port Arthur, Ontario on Aug. 2, 1903. He attended public and high school in Port Arthur and then served his apprenticeship to the machinist trade in the C.N.R. shops. He worked for 25 years as a skilled machinist in the Port Arthur shops of the C.N.R. until his election to the Ontario legislature in 1943. He continued to work as a C.N.R. machinist between sessions of the legislature, and after his election to the office of mayor, he worked in the C.N.R. shops on weekends.
He entered public life in January 1943 when he was elected to the Port Arthur Board of Education. In August of the same year he was elected to the Ontario legislature as C.C.F. member for Port Arthur. He was M.L.A. for Port Arthur until his defeat in 1951. In civic affairs, he remained on the Board of Education until 1946 when he was elected as alderman. In 1949, he became Mayor of Port Arthur; he remained in this post except for 1952 when he was defeated until 1955 when he resigned to become personnel manager for the Public Utilities Commission. He left active political life at this time. He resigned from the Public Utilities Commission in 1966 because of ill health. In July, 1969, he died.
The Frederick O. Robinson fonds comprises 7 feet of correspondence, clippings, pamphlets, articles and other material and is contained in seventeen transfer cases. The folder titles in the main are those designated by Mr. Robinson. Some re-arrangement of the material has been effected in order to comply with the folder titles. Since the folders themselves were in no apparent order when .they were donated to the university, the following arrangement was thought to be most suitable for research purposes:
I. Pre-1943 Period
II. Political Affairs (relating to the C.C.F.)
III. The Ontario Legislature and Provincial Affairs, 1943-51
IV. Provincial and Local Affairs.
V. Local and Municipal Affairs.
VI. General
VII. Miscellaneous
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Some confidential correspondence with people in prisons, people seeking worker's compensation, and people on welfare has been placed in restricted access folders.