Robert Popple

Robert Popple was born and raised in Penetanguishene, Ontario and attended the Midland-Penetanguishene District High School (MPDHS), Class of '59. He attended Queen's University (Engineering Physics, Science '63) and had a 32-year career with Ontario Hydro in their nuclear-electric programme.

He is currently President of RTP Associates Inc., a small firm that specializes in operational readiness assessments of nuclear-electric stations.

Mr. Popple is an avid collector of early Canadian art and published his first book Northern Belle: The Life Story of Haliburton's Ethel Curry including her connections to the Group of Seven in 2003. He met John Arpin in the early 1950s and they became lifelong friends until Arpin's untimely death in 2007; Arpin's biography John Arpin: Keyboard Virtuoso was authored by Mr. Popple and published by Dundurn Press in 2009.

Mr. Popple met Lawrence Fox in May 2015 and published his story, Cold War Warrior: Canadian MI-6 Agent Lawrence Fox, in April, 2016.