Personal Life

Robertson was born and raised in Stratford in Ontario. His parents were Lilly Frances and Mr. George Henderson. Robertson’s father married twice in his life, where he had 8 children with his 1st wife and after she deceased he got married to another woman and had 2 children namely Gordon and Lloyd. Among all children, Lloyd was the little one. His father was employed at the Canadian Pacific Railway and his mom was a homemaker. Roberts’s family has a mixed origin where his dad has Scottish background and his mom was an England immigrant.

His childhood wasn’t so smooth like everyone elses. Roberts’s mom suffered from mental illness and psychological disorders and this ended up in his mother undergoing a procedure known as a prefrontal lobotomy. Robertson’s father also suffered out of cancer disease and he died when Lloyd was 21. When Robertson was little, he was most likely cared for by his siblings, particularly Irvin and Ethel the twin siblings took care of him much better.

Career

Robertson was very fond of becoming a journalist right from his little age when he was 12. He always enjoyed watching the marching walk of the soldiers and he enjoys listening to the commentaries from the CJCS. In his career, Robertson has captured and brought-forth plenty of events which were breathe-taking and breaking too. He covered the Expo 67 at Montreal, Moon landing at 1969, Terry Fox’s Marathon, Olympic Games, Quebec Referendum in the year 1980 and 1995, the terrorist attack on September 11th, power outage crisis and many more.

During the year 1956, Lloyd applied to service at CBWT at Winnipeg. This was the first TV job ever. Till the year 1956, 25th December Robertson worked in local channels. Staying 4 years at Winnipeg, Lloyd had an audition at CBOT in Ottawa. Later he migrated to Toronto after 2 years time and served as an anchor for CBC Weekend program during 1960’s and he worked as an anchor for The National during 1970 – 76 prior becoming a member of CTV in the month of October the same year. Robertson mainly left CBC channel due to hindrance of union regulations amidst the news hosts and the script writers taking the editorial decisions.

In the year 1976 – 1984, Lloyd co-hosted the CTV National News sharing the screen with Harvey Kirck. After the retirement of Kirck in the year 1984, Robertson joined as the senior news host for CTV. During the year 2004, Lloyd worked as one of the co-anchor at CTV’s Current Affairs W5. In the year 2011, September 1st when Robert was 41 years after hosting CBC and CTV, he turned out from CTV National News.

Lloyd has out lasted every other news anchor in history. Everyone from Harvey Kirck, the late great Walter Cronkite, Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, and Bob Schieffer. By doing so, he became the longest working network news anchor in in television history. He was 77 years old when he finally decided to call it quits and retire from his news anchoring position. He also holds the record for being the oldest TV news anchor in Canada, as well as the oldest TV news anchor in network television period. That is truly an amazing career if anyone should say so.