Robinson served in the North-West Mounted Police (precursor to the RCMP) when he first moved to Canada.

[1] During World War I he served with the 19th Alberta Dragoons, and then with the British Army, Royal Field Artillery.

[3] After he returned to Canada, following the war he served as an Inspector with the Soldiers Settlement Board.

[1] In the early 1920s he travelled to the North-West Territories, spending five years working as a trapper, a guide, and later as purser on the steamship Mackenzie River.

Following his work in the timber industry he then became a game warden, a position he held until 1938, when he and his wife spent two years in Ireland.