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Robert Henry Winters, (August 18, 1910 – October 10, 1969) was a Canadian politician, and businessman. Life and career Born in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, the son of a fishing captain, Winters went to Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, and then to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to complete his degree in electrical engineering. He worked for Northern Electric before joining the army in World War II, eventually becoming a lieutenant-colonel. He was first elected to the House of Commons in the 1945 general election as a Liberal for the riding of Queens—Lunenburg in Nova Scotia. Winters was appointed to Cabinet in 1948, and served as minister of public works, among other portfolios, under Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent. Defeated along with the St. Laurent government in the 1957 election, Winters entered the corporate world, becoming a chief executive officer at a series of companies. He was hired as a special advisor to the Newfoundland government to help negotiate the Churchill Falls deal, for which he became highly popular in that province. He was persuaded to return to politics by Lester Pearson, and won the Toronto seat of York West in the 1965 election, becoming minister of trade and commerce in Pearson's government. He was seen as close to the business community and far more fiscally conservative than Walter L. Gordon. He originally announced that he would not seek to replace the retiring Pearson, but changed his mind and ran to succeed Pearson at the 1968 Liberal leadership convention, coming in second to Pierre Trudeau. Winters then left politics, to become president and director of Brazilian Light and Power and a vice president of CIBC. Also, he was very involved in the new York University and served as the first chair of its board of governors. Death In 1969, while in California, he suffered a heart attack during a game of tennis. He died at age 59 in an ambulance on his way to hospital. Winters College at York University is named in his honour. Electoral record References Marble, A.E. Nova Scotians at home and abroad: biographical sketches of over six hundred native born Nova Scotians (1977) pp. 409–10 ISBN 0-88999-074-3 Robert Winters – Parliament of Canada biography Robert Winters fonds, Library and Archives Canada. Discover the Robert Winter popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Robert Winter books.
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Chance
Kem NunnFrom Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Kem Nunn and “principal heir to the tradition of Raymond Chandler and Nathanael West” (The Washington Post)an intense psychological suspens...
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The Return of Kid Cooper
Brad SmithWESTERN WRITERS OF AMERICA 2019 SPUR AWARDS WINNER! "[A] firstrate novel."True West magazine "Smith has written tight, fastpaced novels his entire career…and reading one ...
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The Three of Us
Kim LockSpanning fifty years, this is a sweeping tale of heartbreak and forbidden love from the author of The Other Side of Beautiful.When seventyfiveyearold Thomas Mullet reluctantly sits...
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In Plain Sight
Ross CoulthartAn awardwinning journalist investigates a story largely ignored by mainstream media but right there, in front of our eyes ...Are we not alone? The moment we have an answer might ha...
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Her Last Request
Mari Hannah'Terrific' Ian RankinSome victims leave clues to their killers...A Hidden ClueA victim leaves a note for the SIO who will investigate her death. This not what DCI Kate Daniels expe...
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The City of God
Michael RussellItaly, 1943. Irish detective Stefan Gillespie leaves the chaos of Nazioccupied Rome for neutral Switzerland on a mission his government knows nothing about. Waiting for a latenigh...
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A Fortress of Grey Ice
J. V. Jones"Wonderful . . . J. V. Jones is a striking writer." So says Robert Jordan, the author of The Wheel of Time epic fantasy series. And Jones lives up to that praise in the highly char...
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Boston Bruins
Stan FischlerWritten by hockey's most authoritative author, this is the definitive collection of Boston Bruins history. In his newly revised edition of Boston Bruins: Greatest Moments and Playe...
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Winter Work
Dan FespermanAn exhilarating spy thriller inspired by a true story about the precious secrets up for grabs just after the fall of the Berlin Wallfrom the acclaimed author of The Cover Wife “Fes...
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A Collection of Poems by Robert Frost
Robert Frost & Ken MondscheinThe early works of beloved poet Robert Frost, collected in one volume.The poetry of Robert Frost is praised for its realistic depiction of rural life in New England during the earl...
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Boston Bruins
Stan FischlerWritten by hockey's most authoritative author, this is the definitive collection of Boston Bruins history. In his newly revised edition of Boston Bruins: Greatest Moments and Playe...
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Serviceman J
Jamie PennellA gripping memoir by a former NZSAS commander on serving in Afghanistan over five deployments and operating at the edge of his limitsIn 2011, following the Taliban seige on Kabul's...
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Monash
Grantlee KiezaStunning trade paperback edition of Grantlee Kieza's bestselling biography of Australia's greatest generalIt's December 1918 and the world war is over. General Sir John Monash atte...
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The City Under Siege
Michael Russell1941, and Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie is ferrying documents between Dublin and wartorn London. When Ireland's greatest actor is arrested in Soho, after the brutal murder o...
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The Dead City
Michael RussellIn this dead city, the vultures are circling...Berlin 1944. The beginning of the end for Nazi Germany. And the beginning of a dark journey for Garda detective Stefan Gillespie as h...
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The Christmas Blessing
Donna VanLiereAdapted to a film available on streaming and home video, The Christmas Blessing is the heartwarming sequel to the beloved New York Times bestseller, The Christmas Shoes. From NewS...
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The Falling Sword
Ben KaneCAN GREECE RESIST THE MIGHT OF ROME?Get ready for the climax of the Roman invasion of Greece in Sunday Times bestseller Ben Kane's latest historical adventure.ONE FINAL CLASHReelin...
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A Town Called Treachery
Mitch JenningsA deadbeat dad. A curious boy. A journo drowning in the past ... and a town full of secrets.Can the truth ever be found in a town called Treachery?'One of a kind ... A comingofage ...
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The City Underground
Michael RussellIreland 1941. A German spy escapes from Mountjoy Prison, clearly with inside help. Yet no one wants to catch him. When the head of Garda Special Branch sends Inspector Stefan Gille...
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Find Fix Finish
Ben McKelveyThe new book from the bestselling author of The Commando and Mosul.It was Australia's longest war, and also our most secretive.In the craggy mountains, green belts and digital batt...
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A Haunted Lifes Travels
Robert WinterThe first book in a series of short ghost stories from the authors'personal experiences as far back as a toddler through the early teens.
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The City in Darkness
Michael RussellAn evocative, literary crime thriller set in Dublin and Spain just before the outbreak of WWII.Christmas 1939. In Europe the Phoney War hides carnage to come. In Ireland Detective ...
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Tales from the Boston Bruins Locker Room
Kerry KeeneIn this fascinating collection of Bruins tales, Kerry Keene brings readers behind the scenes and captures the stories that have defined the franchise throughout its storied history...
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Adventures in Flatfrost
Jordan QuinnPrince Lucas and Clara venture to the land of the giants and train Ruskin to control his fire in this fifth chapter book in the fantastical Kingdom of Wrenly series.After a game of...
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The Dogs that Made Australia
Guy HullHunter. Worker. Legend. The untold story of the dog's role in building a nation.The Dogs That Made Australia pays tribute to the dogs that gave their all for our prosperity: the fe...
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Flinders
Grantlee KiezaThe extraordinary life, loves and voyages of the man who put Australia on the mapIn 1810, Matthew Flinders made his final voyage home to his beloved wife, Ann, his body ravaged by ...
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The Final Diagnosis
Cynric Temple-CampObscure cases of death, disease and murderAn unlikely case of autocide, a rare and deadly amniotic avalanche, a victim of roasted peanuts... The 'if' of death is certain. The 'when...
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The Time of the Assassins
Godfrey BlundenSet in Ukraine, a terrifying novel of war, occupation and the totalitarian mind in action.'Fascinating ... Blunden was in Russia during the war, and he was one of the correspondent...
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The City in Flames
Michael Russell1940. A woman lands on the Scottish coast from a German flying boat and goes to ground, hunted by British Intelligence.Suspended from the Irish police for reasons he won't explain...
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Hudson Fysh
Grantlee KiezaThe extraordinary life of the Gallipoli veteran and WWI Flying Corp gunner who founded Qantas and gave Australia its wingsBy the critically acclaimed author of bestselling biograph...
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The Anomaly
R.B. WintersEverything is more than it seems in a world where no one can truly be trusted. Alexander loses his position of power within the Council, only to be replaced by his student Jen. Her...
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September
Robert WinterA MayDecember contemporary gay romance for lovers of second chancesDavid James is smart, successful, handsome… and alone. After the death of his lover, Kyle, from cancer, he buried...
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Mental State
Dr Mark CrossA manifesto about what's wrong with Australia's mental health system and a guidebook for how to treat it, by a neurotic shrink who lives it every day.Psychiatrist Dr Mark Cross has...
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The Basis of Everything
Andrew RamseyBefore the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific quest to fathom the secrets of th...