Francis Laurence Jobin

Francis Laurence Jobin (August 14, 1914 – August 25, 1995) was a politician and the 18th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba, Canada.

The Honourable Francis Laurence Jobin
18th Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba
In office March 15, 1976 – October 23, 1981
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governors General	Jules Léger Edward Schreyer
Premier	Edward Schreyer Sterling Lyon
Preceded by	William John McKeag
Succeeded by	Pearl McGonigal
Manitoba Minister of Industry and Commerce
In office July 6, 1956 – June 30, 1958
Premier	Douglas Lloyd Campbell
Preceded by	Ronald Turner
Succeeded by	Gurney Evans
Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba for Flin Flon The Pas 1949–1958
In office June 16, 1958 – May 14, 1959
Preceded by	new constituency
Succeeded by	Charles Witney
In office November 10, 1949 – June 16, 1958
Preceded by	Beresford Richards
Succeeded by	John Carroll
Personal details
Born	(1914-08-14)August 14, 1914 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Died	August 25, 1995(1995-08-25) (aged 81) Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Political party	Liberal
Alma mater	University of Manitoba
Occupation	Labourer, miner, surveyor

Jobin was born in Winnipeg, and was educated at the University of Manitoba. He moved to Flin Flon, in the northern part of the province, in 1935. He worked for Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting as a labourer, miner and surveyor, later working in the company's purchasing department.

Jobin was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in the 1949 provincial election, as a Liberal candidate supporting the government of Premier Douglas Campbell. Running in The Pas, he easily defeated independent incumbent Beresford Richards, who opposed the governing Liberal-Conservative coalition.

Jobin was re-elected in the 1953 election, easily defeating opponents from the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and Social Credit. On July 6, 1956, he was sworn in as Railway Commissioner and Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Campbell government. Provincial CCF leader Lloyd Stinson later referred to Jobin as Campbell's only "labour-oriented" minister.

Campbell's Liberals were defeated by Dufferin Roblin's Progressive Conservatives in the 1958 election, but Jobin was able to retain the redistributed riding of Flin Flon. He was defeated by Progressive Conservative Charles Witney in the following year's election, however, as Roblin's Tories won a majority government.

When Campbell resigned as Manitoba Liberal Party leader in 1961, Jobin was one of four candidates who sought to replace him. He was accused by some of representing "radical" elements within the party, though he denied this, using his friendship with the arch-conservative Campbell as evidence. Jobin was a somewhat marginal candidate, however, and received only 79 votes in the leadership convention, compared to 475 for the winner, Gildas Molgat.

Jobin ran as a Liberal candidate in the sprawling northern riding of Churchill in the federal election of 1962, but finished a distant second against Progressive Conservative candidate Robert Simpson. In early 1963, he lost a deferred provincial election in Churchill to Progressive Conservative Gordon Beard, albeit by a relatively close margin. Jobin again lost to Simpson in the federal election of 1965.

Jobin was elected to the Flin Flon Municipal Council in 1966. He made another bid for the provincial legislature in the 1969 election, this time finishing third against Witney and the successful New Democratic candidate, Thomas Barrow. Jobin received a Centennial Medal from the Manitoba Historical Society in 1970, and continued his work on the municipal council. In October 1974, he was elected mayor of Flin Flon.

On March 15, 1976, Jobin was sworn in as the Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba. He served in this position until October 23, 1981. He died in Winnipeg on August 25, 1995.