Robert Fletcher Shaw (16 February 1910 – 22 March 2001) was a

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businessman, academic, civil servant and deputy commissioner general of the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967. Born in

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, he was raised in

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. He received a degree in engineering from

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in 1933. In 1937 he started as an engineer with the

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, rising to become its president. After Expo, he was vice-principal of administration at McGill University until 1971. He then became Canada's first deputy minister of the environment. In 1975 he became president of the Engineering Institute of Canada. He retired in 1985. In 1967 he was made a Companion of the

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. In 1935 he married Johann MacInnes. Their only son, Robert Jr., a commercial airline pilot, was killed in a plane crash in 1966.

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