Honorific-Prefix: | The Honourable |
Robert Gordon Rogers | |
Honorific-Suffix: | OC, OBC |
Nationality: | Canadian |
Order: | 24th Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia |
Term Start: | 15 July 1983 |
Term End: | 9 September 1988 |
Predecessor: | Henry Pybus Bell-Irving |
Successor: | David Lam |
Governor General: | Edward Schreyer Jeanne Sauvé |
Premier: | Bill Bennett Bill Vander Zalm |
Birth Date: | August 19, 1919 |
Birth Place: | Montreal, Quebec |
Death Place: | Victoria, British Columbia |
Robert Gordon Rogers, (August 19, 1919 - May 21, 2010) was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1983 to 1988.[1]
Born in Montreal, he was a graduate of the University of Toronto Schools, the University of Toronto, and the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston.[1] During the Second World War, he served with the 1st Hussars of the Royal Canadian Armoured Corps, landing on Juno Beach on D-Day in 1944.[2]
From 1991 to 1996, he served as Chancellor of the University of Victoria.[1]
In 1989, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.[3] In 1990, he was awarded the Order of British Columbia.[4]
Rogers died on May 21, 2010.[5]