Robert Stanfield

Robert Lorne Stanfield was born to the Truro textile manufacturing family (Stanfield's Underwear). Educated at Dalhousie and Harvard Law School, Stanfield was elected Premier of Nova Scotia in 1956, ending twenty-three years of Liberal rule and winning four consecutive majorities.

Stanfield established Industrial Estates Ltd. (IEL) to modernize Nova Scotia's economy, created the Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning Board, and overhauled public education and hospitals. Chosen federal leader of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1967, Stanfield championed bilingualism and wage-price controls, earning universal admiration across all parties as "the best Prime Minister Canada never had."