Businessman.
Born at Winnipeg, youngest son of Conrad Stephenson Riley and Jean Isabel Culver (1883-1965), he was educated at St. John’s Ravenscourt School, the University of Manitoba, and McGill University, graduating with a mechanical engineering degree in 1948. He worked for the Dominion Engineering Works in Montreal for five years before returning to Winnipeg to become Director and General Manager of Dominion Bronze and Iron Company in June 1954. In 1950, he married Hope Meribeth Cameron Stobie (1927-2024) of Belleville, Ontario. They had two sons and a daughter. After his death, his widow married James Elliott Coyne. He died at his Winnipeg home, 241 Oxford Street, on 22 August 1955 and was buried in the St. John’s Cathedral Cemetery.
Obituary, Winnipeg Free Press, 22 August 1955, page 21.
“R. S. Riley dies age 29,” Winnipeg Free Press, 22 August 1955, page 30.
“The man who refused to go quietly” by Gordon Sinclair Jr., Winnipeg Free Press, 17 July 2010, page B1.
Obituary [Hope Meribeth Cameron Riley Coyne], Winnipeg Free Press, 13 April 2024.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 14 April 2024
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