Professions
Rohmer is active in a range of legal, corporate and veterans' activities. He is an active senior member of the Toronto law firm of Rohmer & Fenn with a boutique international and national aviation and commercial litigation practice. Called to the Bar in 1951, Queen's Counsel 1960, continues to practice since called to the Bar. In Court of Appeal of Ontario most recently in March 2012. He was chairman of the 60th anniversary of D-Day celebrations that took place in the presence of the Queen at Juno Beach in Normandy on 6 June 2004. He co-chaired the Ontario advisory committee that created the Veterans' Memorial, unveiled on 17 September 2006 in front of the provincial legislature at Queen's Park. He is chair of the Premier's Ceremonial Advisory Council and was a ten year member of the Advisory Council of the Order of Ontario. He chaired the significant Royal Commission on Book Publishing in 1971/72 . He is a premier Canadian author of both fiction and non-fiction works. His most recent non-fiction is The Building of the CN Tower published in April 2011 by RailCore Press Inc. of which he is president. His most recent novel, Ultimatum 2 was published in early 2007. It fictionalizes a confrontation between the US and Russia against Canada over the building of an international high level nuclear waste disposal site in arctic Canada.
General Rohmer is the Honorary Deputy Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police, the Honorary Chief of Toronto Emergency Medical Services, patron of the Toronto St. John Ambulance(1978–2007), Honorary Fire Chief of Collingwood, Ontario, and honorary detective of the Toronto Police Service.
He was twice chancellor of the University of Windsor, serving a total of 13 years. In 1978 he negotiated the donation to the university of Conrad Black's collection of Duplessis papers in exchange for an honorary degree.
He was a charter member of his local (Don Mills) Civitan club, and he served as treasurer of the international organization. His position allowed him to meet U.S. President Eisenhower to present Civitan's World Citizenship Award.
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