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The Lloyd Robertson You Never Knew
A friend of mine found this somewhere and it's pretty amazing to consider it: the late Lloyd Robertson as a model? It apparently happened very early in his career when success was anything but assured.
It was 1958 and Robertson appeared as a model in an Eaton's Christmas catalogue, showing an impossibly young future national newsman dressed in a work shirt.
My friend tells me he met Robertson at a book signing many years ago and asked him about the photo. He replied that he was young, just starting out and needed some extra money during the holidays. So he made the pose, got the cash and the rest was (almost) lost to history. 
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It's interesting that Lisa Laflamme has been on CBC various times talking about Lloyd Robertson. She mentioned that Lloyd treated his staff well. Every Thursday after the final newscast the crew went out to a local hotel with Lloyd for "sippers" which was beer and wine. Everyone would debrief and talk about the newscasts over the week and relax. On Friday Lloyd always brought in a few gallons of ice cream for everyone.
Interesting that when Lisa took over the anchor position, Lloyd hung around in studio for a few weeks to help Lisa and give her support. She obviously really appreciated that and said she could call him anytime just to talk or if she needed to bounce an idea off of him.
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I hope someone mentioned his Friday night ice cream parties for everyone. Such a classy and decent guy. There are only a few I'd label as a real 'gentleman,' but he's in the top 3.
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I hope someone mentioned his Friday night ice cream parties for everyone. Such a classy and decent guy. There are only a few I'd label as a real 'gentleman,' but he's in the top 3.
Tom Korski of Blacklock's Reporter was on Gene Valaitis' CKTB show Thursday and he talked about being a copy editor working with Robertson. He specifically mentioned the ice cream treat he brought in for the whole newsroom every Friday.
"Lloyd was a completely unaffected guy," he recalled. "He was exactly as he appeared to millions of people. And every Friday, Lloyd used to buy ice cream, buckets and gallons of ice cream for the crew, come one, come all. He'd lay them out, every Friday without fail. And that was Lloyd - he was a small town man, unaffected, and just a great, great guy."
Nice tribute.
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I hope someone mentioned his Friday night ice cream parties for everyone. Such a classy and decent guy. There are only a few I'd label as a real 'gentleman,' but he's in the top 3.
Would Jean Beliveau make your gentleman's list? Even though he played for the much hated Canadiens in these parts, he was a well spoken classy fellow.
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A friend of mine worked with Lloyd and told me he was an avid and staunch monarchist and would scold writers who he felt were not writing exactly correctly about members of the Royal Family.