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Canadian authors on the shelves of the Methodist Sunday School. Robbins eventually completed grade eleven and took an elementary school teaching job in Saskatchewan where his uncle, Everett Brown, was a school inspector. After working at a few rural schools in Saskatchewan he became convinced that he needed to attain a university degree. He returned to Manitoba and completed grade twelve at Melita, the only rural Manitoba school offering this grade for university entrance. From 1923-1925 he taught in
239:. Arriving in Ottawa he found a boarding house not far from the offices and there he met a young D.B.S. employee named Catherine Saint-Denis. He immediately began serving at the D.B.S., becoming its director from 1936 to 1952. Robbins married Catherine during their time at D.B.S. and they had two children, Bernard and Emmett.
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Robbins, now with three children to support, married William C. White, a widowed farmer the Robbins family met during their time in Darlingford. With the family moves and the need for help on the farm through world war one John's education suffered many interruptions, however, he did well in
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Robbins set his sights on a master's degree, completed his bachelor of arts in 1928. Upon completing his B.A. he then wanted to earn a Phd. In 1929 he completed the master's degree, majoring in economics and minor in political science and a thesis titled, "A study of the revenue system of the
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