Person Profile

Yuill, Robert Frederick Murray

1924–2006

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Biography

He attended the University of Toronto graduating in 1948 in Commerce.

He was a highly visible, if not controversial, City Councillor/Official in North York/Metro Toronto from 1964 to 1988. First elected in 1964, Yuill served on what was then the North York Council and later on Metro Council in an uninterrupted 24-year political career lasting until 1988. Afterward, he served as chairman of the North York Parking Authority until retiring in 1993. As a businessman, he became successful as the creator of a business forms company that he ran for 25 years.

Military Service

He was appointed as an Ordinary Seaman (Officer Candidate UNTD) RCNVR (With seniority dated 10/1944).

In 1944 he served in HMCS York for UNTD. (He was demobilized.)

References

Bill Clearihue (Nominal List UNTD)

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