Robert Randolph Bruce

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Robert Randolph Bruce

Robert Randolph Bruce
13th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia
In office
January 21, 1926  July 18, 1931
Monarch George V
Governor General The Viscount Byng of Vimy
The Viscount Willingdon
The Earl of Bessborough
Premier John Oliver
John Duncan MacLean
Simon Fraser Tolmie
Preceded by Walter Cameron Nichol
Succeeded by John William Fordham Johnson
Personal details
Born (1861-07-16)July 16, 1861
Lhanbryde, Scotland
Died February 21, 1942(1942-02-21) (aged 80)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Nationality Canadian
Political party Liberal
Alma mater University of Glasgow
Occupation engineer, mining proprietor
Profession Politician, Diplomat

Robert Randolph Bruce (July 16, 1861 – February 21, 1942) was an engineer, mining proprietor and the 13th Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1926 to 1931.

Bruce was born in Scotland and educated at the University of Glasgow where he studied engineering. He emigrated to the United States in 1887 before arriving in Canada to work for the Canadian Pacific Railway. In 1897 he settled in British Columbia to become a prospector. Bruce and his partner established a lead and silver mine near Windermere Lake in the East Kootenay region of British Columbia. He purchased land from the railway and promoted it in England for settlement.

Bruce became the province's lieutenant-governor in 1926. Unusually for former vice-roys, he attempted to enter politics following his tenure as the Queen's representative and stood for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 1935 federal election but was narrowly defeated by Henry Herbert Stevens in the riding of Kootenay East.[1] The government of William Lyon Mackenzie King appointed Bruce as Canada's second envoy to Japan with the title of Minister Plenipotentiary in 1936. He served for two years before retiring to Montreal.

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