constituency death_place death_date predecessor birth_place successor profession party office birth_date term_start residence article_title term_end name
cape sydneys cape breton -- the sydneys breton north and victoria cape breton -- the coxheath , nova scotia 31 august 2011 william murdoch buchanan -- liberal electoral district established edinburgh , scotland electoral district abolished russell maclellan -- liberal miner , businessman , salesman progressive conservative member scotia of parliament member of parliament senator for nova 10 november 1919 10 june 1957 25 june 1968 28 march 1979 coxheath , nova scotia robert muir -lrb- politician -rrb-
 24 june 1968 26 march 1979 10 november 1994 robert muir
robert muir -lrb- politician -rrb-

robert -lrb- bob -rrb- muir -lrb- 10 november 1919 -- 31 august 2011 -rrb- was a canadian member of parliament , first in the house of commons and later in the senate .
muir sat in both chambers as a member of the progressive conservative party of canada .
he was born in scotland and raised on cape breton island , nova scotia .
before he became a politician , he was also a miner , a union official , a salesman and a businessman during his career .
he died at his home in the cape breton regional municipality in 2011 .
