Norman McLeod Rogers

The Honourable Norman McLeod Rogers PC, MP


Member of the Canadian Parliament for Kingston City
In office 1935–1940
Preceded by	Arthur Edward Ross
Succeeded by	Angus Lewis Macdonald
Personal details
Born	(1894-07-25)July 25, 1894 Amherst, Nova Scotia
Died	June 10, 1940(1940-06-10) (aged 45) near Newtonville, Ontario
Political party	Liberal
Cabinet	Minister of Labour (1935-1939) Minister of National Defence (1939–1940)

Norman McLeod Rogers, PC^[1] (July 25, 1894 – June 10, 1940) was a Canadian lawyer and statesman. He served as the member of parliament for Kingston, Ontario, Canada and as a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. He was also an early biographer of King.

Rogers was born in Amherst, Nova Scotia and served in the military during World War I. He was educated at Acadia University and in 1919 he was elected a Rhodes Scholar. He went to University College, Oxford (University of Oxford), where he was awarded a BA Honours (MA) degree in Modern History, the B.Litt., and the BCL.

Rogers was private secretary to King from 1927 to 1929, then worked as a professor at Queen's University in Kingston. He was elected to the Parliament in 1935, and served under King as Minister of Labour until 1939, and then Minister of National Defence from 1939 until his death in 1940.

Rogers died in a plane crash on June 10, 1940 near Newtonville, Ontario, while en route from Ottawa to Toronto for a speaking engagement. On the day National Defence Minister Rogers died, Canada declared war on Italy.^[2]

Prime Minister King took the death of Rogers extremely hard. Rogers was a key Cabinet minister, and close advisor, and Canada was in the midst of World War II. The two men were friendly on a personal basis, and King may have been grooming Rogers to become his successor as prime minister.^[3]

Kingston/Norman Rogers Airport is named in his honour, as is a street in Kingston. A Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker was named after him; it has since been sold to Chile and renamed Contraalmirante Oscar Viel Toro.

Bibliography

W. A. M., 'Obituary: Norman McLeod Rogers, 1894-1940', Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science/Revue canadienne d'Economique et de Science politique, vol. 6, no. 3 (August, 1940), pp. 476–478

References

↑ http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/index.asp?lang=eng&page=information&sub=council-conseil&doc=members-membres/hist/1911-1940-eng.htm#1931-1940
↑ "Allies Take Sicily". CBC Digital Archives. Retrieved May 22, 2011.
↑ Canada and the Age of Conflict, volume 2, 1981, by C. P. Stacey

External links

Biography at Collections Canada

Norman McLeod Rogers – Parliament of Canada biography

Ministers of Defence

Ministers of Militia and Defence (1867–1923)	Cartier Langevin (acting) McDonald Ross Vail Jones Masson Campbell Caron Bowell Patterson Dickey Bowell Desjardins Tisdale Borden Hughes Kemp Mewburn Calder (acting) Guthrie G. Graham

Ministers of National Defence (1923–)	G. Graham E. Macdonald Guthrie Robb (acting) Ralston Sutherland Stirling Mackenzie Rogers Power (acting) Ralston McNaughton Abbott Claxton Campney Pearkes Harkness Churchill Hellyer Cadieux Drury (acting) D. Macdonald Benson Dubé (acting) Drury (acting) Richardson Danson McKinnon Lamontagne Blais Coates Clark (acting) Nielsen Beatty McKnight Masse Campbell Siddon Collenette Young Eggleton McCallum Pratt B. Graham O'Connor MacKay Nicholson Kenney Sajjan

Associate Ministers of National Defence (1953–2013, 2015-)	Power Campney Hellyer Sévigny Cardin Cadieux Andre Dick Collins Guarnieri Bélanger Fantino Valcourt Findlay Fantino Hehr

Ministers of the Naval Service (1910–1922)	Brodeur Lemieux Hazen Ballantyne G. Graham

World War I	Ministers of the Overseas Military Forces (1916–1920) Perley Kemp

World War II	Ministers of National Defence for Air (1940–1946) Power Macdonald (acting) Gibson Ministers of National Defence for Naval Services (1940–1946) Macdonald Abbott Ministers of National War Services (1940–1948) Gardiner Thorson Laflèche McCann

Ministers of Labour

Ministers of Labour (1900–1996)	Mulock Aylesworth Lemieux¹ W. L. M. King Crothers Robertson Murdock J. H. King (acting) Elliott Manion (acting) Jones Heenan Robertson Gordon Rogers McLarty Mitchell Martin (acting) Gregg Starr MacEachen Nicholson Pépin Mackasey O'Connell Munro Ouellet (acting) O'Connell Alexander Regan Caccia Ouellet McKnight Cadieux Corbeil Danis Valcourt Axworthy Robillard

Ministers of Human Resources Development (1996–2005)²	Young Pettigrew Stewart Frulla Dryden

Ministers of Human Resources and Skills Development (2005–2013)	Stronach Finley Solberg Finley

Ministers of Employment and Social Development (2013–2015)	Kenney Poilievre

Minister of Families, Children and Social Development (2015–present)	Duclos

Ministers of Labour (1996–2015)	Robillard Gagliano MacAulay Bradshaw Fontana³ Blackburn Ambrose Raitt Leitch

Minister of Employment, Workforce and Labour (2015–present)	Mihychuk

¹Until 1909, the office of the minister of Labour was a secondary function of the Postmaster-General of Canada. W. L. M. King was the first to hold the office independently. ²The office of Minister of Employment and Immigration, and Minister of Labour were abolished and the office of Minister of Human Resources Development went in force on July 12, 1996. Under the new provisions, a Minister of Labour may be appointed. However, when no Minister of Labour is appointed, the Minister of Human Resources Development shall exercise the powers and perform the duties and functions of the Minister of Labour. ³Styled "Minister of Labour and Housing".

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