Realtor, MP (1979).
Born at Winnipeg on 29 November 1927, only child of Robert George Lane (1882-1940) and nurse Marjorie Hall McPhail (1894-1992), he attended Bannatyne School, Linwood School, and St. John’s College School, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy and served from 1946 to 1949. The following year, he moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta where he was Assistant Manager of a Beaver Lumber store. From there, he went to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan to be a rent collector for the real estate firm of Aronovitch and Leipsic. He returned to Winnipeg and opened the realty and general insurance firm of Campbell, Lane and Haliburton in St. James.
He served as President of the Winnipeg Real Estate Board (1970s) and Manitoba Real Estate Board, and was a director of the Canadian Real Estate Board, and a board member of the Manitoba Housing and Renewal Corporation and the Deer Lodge Hospital Foundation. He served on the City of Winnipeg Conflict of Interest Commission and Winnipeg Board of Revision. Elected as a Progressive Conservative to the House of Commons in the 1979 federal general election, he served barely eight months before being narrowly defeated in the 1980 general election. In recognition of his community service, he received a 125th Anniversary of Canadian Confederation Medal (1992) and a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (2012).
In November 1950, he married Violet “Vi” Cabel (1928-2021) and they had three daughters and a son. He was a member of the Royal Canadian Legion (St. James #4), Masons (Sturgeon Creek Lodge #14), Khartum Shriners, St. Andrew’s Anglican Church, St. James Chamber of Commerce, West Winnipeg Rotary Club, Assiniboine Golf Club, and St. Charles Golf and Country Club.
He died at Winnipeg on 13 January 2025. His cremains were interred in the Memorial Garden at St. Andrew’s Anglican Church.
Marriage registration [Robert George Lane, Marjorie Hall McPhail], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Death registration [Robert George Lane], Manitoba Vital Statistics.
Obituary [Marjorie Lane], Winnipeg Free Press, 20 March 1992, page 20.
Obituary [Violet Lane], Winnipeg Free Press, 6 March 2021.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 8 February 2025.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 16 February 2025
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