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.House of Commons Debates, Official Report
(Hansard), Volume 142, Issues 38-47 E. Cloutier, Queen's Printer and Controller of Stationery, 2008 p 2524 STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS nglishROBBERT HARTOG Mr. Bruce Stanton (Simcoe North, CPC): "Mr. Speaker, a week ago Sunday, my riding lost one of its most celebrated community leaders and builders."..

Background

Born and raised in Nijmegen as the son of Arthur Hartog and Jenny Catz, Hartog immigrated to Canada in 1940/1941. He enrolled at the

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and graduated with a master's degree in Economics in 1942.(?) He immediately returned to Europe to join the Allied war effort serving in the Netherlands Forces as an economist, and helped bring the financial situation back in balance. Hartog asked to be demobilized in Canada after his tour of duty, and returned to settle in Canada in 1946, when he founded Kindred Industries Limited, which became a multi-national corporation eventually employing 1,400 people. In the 1970s, Hartog merged Wallaceburg Brass with Kindred Industries, becoming the founding Chair and CEO of Waltec Incorporated in Midland. In 1984, the year he sold the company, Waltec was listed by

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as one of the 25 most profitable companies in Canada. Hartog was an active supporter of the Boy Scouts, served as the Chairman of the Educational Methods Group of the

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, and was awarded the 147th ''

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'' in 1981, the only distinction of the

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, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting. Hartog was a donor to philanthropic causes. The

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Robbert Hartog Midland Campus is named after him. He served as Prssident of the Midland, Ontario YMCA Men's Club in 1969, and was a benefactor of the

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. He also supported Canadian Executive Service Organization, The Wye Marsh, World Wildlife Federation, Canadian Crossroads International, and University of Waterloo.

References

External links

*Teahen, Shannon. ''Robbert Hartog: A Lifetime of Changing Lives''. University of Waterloo Press, 2009 .Biography of Robbert Hartog
First Chair of CCI's Board, Going to Print {{DEFAULTSORT:Hartog, Robbert 1919 births 2008 deaths 20th-century Canadian businesspeople 20th-century Canadian inventors Dutch emigrants to Canada Naturalized citizens of Canada People from Nijmegen Recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award Scouting and Guiding in Canada University of Toronto alumni