About Ivan Grose
Born 1928. Ivan Grose is a Canadian politician and businessperson.
Ivan Grose (born 8 October 1928) is a Canadian businessman and politician. Grose was born in Toronto, Ontario. He was the Liberal MP of Oshawa from 1993 to 2004.
From 1947 to 1951, Grose served in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
In 1957 Grose, then 29, held up a bank in Hamilton, Ontario. Grose reportedly took a 22-year-old man who had gone to the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce branch hostage with a handgun to his back, and left the bank with $6 000 stuffed into a paper bag. Grose was tried, and eventually pleaded guilty. His time in jail for armed robbery amounted to 19 months. Grose would put his criminal past behind him, becoming a businessman. Before entering politics, he did not seek a pardon.
Grose also was the Charter President of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 637 in Oshawa.
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Canadian businessman and politician
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Ivan Grose was born on 8 October 1928 in Toronto.
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