Philanthropist, businessman Rob Crosbie dead at 67

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· Posted: Apr 21, 2025 9:13 AM EDT | Last Updated: 28 minutes ago

Rob Crosbie, an entrepreneur and philanthropist from 1 of Newfoundland and Labrador's astir salient concern and governmental families, has died.

The president of Crosbie Group Limited died connected Friday astatine 67 years old.

"Rob's passionateness for radical and assemblage extended acold beyond his home. It introduced him to radical each implicit the world," reads his authoritative obituary.

"As seat of Crosbie, helium carried guardant a arrogant household bequest with integrity, compassion, and vision. He led with quiescent spot and a heavy consciousness of work — not lone to the company, but to the state helium loved truthful dearly."

He was the lad of the precocious businessman Andrew Crosbie, and nephew of erstwhile national furniture curate John Crosbie.

Crosbie's obituary says helium loved spending clip outdoors, snowmobiling and golfing, arsenic good arsenic playing h2o polo internationally and judging canine shows.

A visitation is scheduled at Carnell's Funeral Home connected Freshwater Road connected Tuesday and Wednesday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

The ceremonial volition beryllium held connected Thursday astatine St. Thomas's Anglican Church astatine 11 a.m.

Crosbie joined the household concern successful 1991 and stepped down arsenic CEO successful 2022.

Besides being a concern leader, successful 2018 helium was made a subordinate of the Order of Canada and was the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Laws grade from Memorial University. He was besides inducted into the Newfoundland and Labrador Business Hall of Fame, similar his father, gramps and great-grandfather.

He was besides a Nature Conservancy Canada volunteer, donor and Atlantic determination committee member.

'Industry titan'

In a statement, Energy N.L. CEO Charlene Johnson says the section vigor manufacture is mourning Crosbie's death, calling him an "industry titan" who was a person successful starting the province's lipid and state industry, arsenic good arsenic helping make Energy N.L.

"From the inception of the offshore lipid and state industry, Rob Crosbie was an ardent advocator for Newfoundland and Labrador radical and companies not lone participating in, but starring and gathering the offshore into what it has go today," she said.

Johnson says Crosbie was dedicated to his institution and mentoring others.

"Personally, Rob was an exceptional mentor, ever consenting to stock his cognition and acquisition erstwhile I asked him for advice. Always supportive and ever humble, his decades of concern and manufacture cognition helped maine and Energy N.L. done galore challenging situations."

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