Jim Robson

Jim Robson (born January 17, 1935) is a former radio and television broadcaster for the Vancouver Canucks from 1970 to 1999. His family moved to British Columbia when he was eight years old and he eventually graduated from Maple Ridge Secondary School.

Broadcasting career

Robson started his career at the age of 17 covering senior men's basketball for CJAV radio station in Port Alberni. In 1955, Robson started working for CHUB radio in Nanaimo covering the Mann Cup lacrosse finals.

By 1956, Robson found himself in Vancouver covering the BC Lions football team, the Vancouver Mounties baseball team and the then WHL Vancouver Canucks hockey team on CKWX.

Vancouver Canucks

When the Vancouver Canucks became an NHL expansion team in 1970, Robson moved to CKNW where he was known as the voice of the Canucks for nearly three decades. For the first seven years, he usually worked alone. For road games, he would broadcast the game without a colour commentator and also provide the pre-game, intermission, and post-game shows. In 1977–78, he began working alongside former BC Lions player and broadcaster Tom Larscheid. From 1983–84 until 1987–88, his broadcast mate was ex-Canuck Garry Monahan, before Larscheid returned in 1988–89.

Jim Robson (politician)

James Hutchins "Jim" Robson (23 September 1895 – 3 December 1975) was an Australian politician. He was the Labor member for Hartley in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly from 1956 to 1965.

Robson was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in England to George Robson, a drayman, and Jane Ann Mackay. He began working in the mines in 1909 and enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in 1914. In 1927 he and his family arrived in Australia, settling in Lithgow where Robson continued to work as a miner. He joined the Australian Labor Party in 1927 and was president of the federal electorate council for Macquarie, directing Ben Chifley's local campaigns. He was also vice-president of the Federated Ironworkers' Association, and was a member of Lithgow Council from 1947 to 1956.

In 1956, Robson was selected as the Labor candidate for the state seat of Hartley; sitting Independent Labor MP Jim Chalmers was contesting Nepean. Robson won the seat by 132 votes against Independent Labor candidate William Black. In 1962 he held on only narrowly against Independent Harold Coates; he retired in 1965, allowing Coates to win the seat. Robson died in 1975 in Lithgow.