Background
GREEN, Robert Francis was born on November 14, 1861 in Peterboro, Ontario Son of Benjamin Green and Rebecca Ann Lipsett.
GREEN, Robert Francis was born on November 14, 1861 in Peterboro, Ontario Son of Benjamin Green and Rebecca Ann Lipsett.
Peterboro, Ontario.
14 November 1861J; son of Benjamin Green and Rebecca Ann Lipsett. Married 1889, Celia Elizabeth McDonnell. One s. one d. Educated: Peterboro, Ontario Came to Winnipeg, 1882, and followed the construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway to Revelstoke.
Engaged in general merchandise business in the Kootenays till 1904. Opened a Real Estate and Insurance business in Victoria, under the firm name of Green and Burdick, Brothers, 1908. First Mayor of Kaslo, B.C., 1893.
Re-elected, 1896 and 1897. Representative of the Kaslo and Slocan Riding in the Local Legislature, 1898-1906. A Minister of the Crown, 1903-1906 (Minister of Mines, Provincial Secretary, Minister of Lands and Works, resigned 1906).
Clubs: Union, Pacific, Victoria.
Spouse 1889, Celia Elizabeth McDonnell.