Robert Smellie

Robert Gordon "Bob" Smellie (August 23, 1923 – September 29, 2005) was a Canadian politician in Manitoba, Canada.

He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1959 to 1966, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of Dufferin Roblin.

[4] He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1958 provincial election, but lost[2] to Liberal-Progressive incumbent Rodney Clement by 130 votes in the constituency of Birtle-Russell.

He ran again in the 1959 election, and defeated Clement[1] by 224 votes as the Progressive Conservatives won their first majority government in forty-five years.

[3] This group produced a report on Winnipeg's internal boundaries in 1970, but its findings were superseded by the creation of a unicity the following year.