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Journalist,MP (1896-1900),MP (1900-1904),MP (1917-1921).
Born at Balderson, Lanark County, Ontario on 28 June 1860, son of Joseph and Harriet Richardson, he was educated at Balderson public school. He commenced business as a reporter with the Montreal Star in 1878, and joined theToronto Globe in 1880.
He came toWinnipeg in 1882 and participated in the establishment of theWinnipeg Sun, serving as its City Editor. The paper was merged into theManitoba Free Press in December 1889. In partnership withDuncan Lloyd McIntyre, in January 1890 he established theWinnipeg Tribune, using the former building and press equipment of the now-defunctSun, and was its Publisher.
He was elected to the House of Commons in1896 and was reelected in1900. His bids for re-election in1902 and1904 were unsuccessful. He was a Liberal candidate for the Killarney constituency in the1907 provincial general election and for the Macdonald constituency in a1912 federal by-election. He was elected to Parliament in1917, as a Conscriptionist for Springfield.
On 11 March 1885, he married Clara Jane Mallory (1862-1931) of Mallorytown, Ontario with whom he had five daughters: Hazel Geraldine Richardson (1886-?, wife of Kenneth Clark MacPherson), Gwendoline Richardson (1888-?, wife of Percy Boyce), Sharmion Emily Richardson (1890-?, wife of George Ernest Murray), Irma Richardson (1895-?, wife of Murray Jones), and Dorothy Richardson (1903-?, wife of James Harcourt Vernon). He published two novels,Colin of the Ninth Concession (1903) andThe Camerons of Bruce (1905).
He died atWinnipeg on 6 November 1921 and was buried in theElmwood Cemetery. He is commemorated byRichardson Avenue in Winnipeg.
Birth and marriage registrations,Manitoba Vital Statistics.
1901 and 1906 Canada censuses,Automated Genealogy.
A History of Manitoba: Its Resources and People byProf. George Bryce, Toronto: The Canadian History Company, 1906.
The Story of Manitoba byF. H. Schofield, Winnipeg: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1913.
“R. L. Richardson for Killarney,”Manitoba Free Press, 19 February 1907, page 1.
Who’s Who in Western Canada: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living Men and Women of Western Canada, Volume 1, edited by C. W. Parker, Vancouver: Canadian Press Association, 1911.
“Widow of R. L. Richardson dies; invalid many years,”Winnipeg Tribune, 22 July 1931, page 3.
The Canadian Directory of Parliament, 1867-1967, edited by J. K. Johnson, Public Archives of Canada, Ottawa [Library and Archives Canada], 1968.
“To hell with Afghanistan” by Marjorie Earl inTorch on the Prairies: A Portrait of Journalism in Manitoba, 1859-1988, The Nor-Westers, 1988, page 36.
Dictionary of Manitoba Biography byJohn M. “Jack” Bumsted, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 1999.
Obituaries and burial transcriptions,Manitoba Genealogical Society.
This page was prepared byGordon Goldsborough.
Page revised: 25 February 2022
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