Illness and Death
In 1996, Stanfield suffered a debilitating stroke that left him severely disabled. He died on December 16, 2003 in Ottawa, Ontario, only eight days after the Progressive Conservative Party merged with the Canadian Alliance to form the new Conservative Party of Canada. Fellow Nova Scotian and final PC Party Leader Peter MacKay suggested in an interview on CBC Newsworld on December 16, 2003, that he had not personally spoken to Stanfield in regard to his opinions on the merger. It is unknown what Stanfield thought of the creation of the new Conservatives.
He was buried in Camp Hill Cemetery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, next to his first wife Joyce Frazee, mother of his four children: Sarah, Max, Judith and Miriam, and with his second wife Mary Hall.
The Halifax Robert L. Stanfield International Airport is named after him.
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