Cromie, Robert James

CROMIE, Robert James, newspaper publisher (b 4 July 1887, Scotstown, QC; d 11 May 1936, Victoria). He came to VANCOUVER in 1906 to work for FOLEY, WELCH & STEWART, a large railway-building company. He was put in charge of one of its properties, the VANCOUVER SUN newspaper, and by 1917 he owned it himself. As publisher he absorbed his main competitors, the News-Advertiser and the World, and built the Sun into one of the city's two leading dailies. When he died suddenly of a heart attack, his...

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