Daughter of Guy DeLancey Robinson and Constance Gordon {Smith} Robinson of Saint John, New Brunswick, and of Montreal

Margaret 'Peggy' deLancey Robinson married firstly in 1937 to Lieut-Col Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt O'Neil Meighen (1905-1979), a lawyer, politician and philanthropist, the eldest son of Canada's ninth Prime Minister, Arthur Meighen and his wife, Jessie Isabel {Cox} Meighen

Peggy and Teddy's younger son was Edward Arthur Meighen, who rose to become Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at McGill University, Montreal

Their eldest son, Michael Arthur Meighen, was named to the Senate of Canada in September 1990. Widowed in 1979, in that same year (1990), Peggy married Senator Hartland Molson. She remains the only Canadian ever to have both a son and a husband sitting in the Canadian Senate simultaneously

Margaret deLancey Meighen Molson (nee Robinson) passed away in Montreal on December 18th, 2000, after a long struggle with ill health, borne with patience and dignity. She will be greatly missed by her surviving family, her cousins, nephews and nieces, and by her many friends of all ages who knew and loved her. She will be remembered always for her service to her family and her community and her abiding love for her country, particularly the Town of St Andrews, New Brunswick, and the City of Montreal where she lived happily for nearly 86 years. A private family service was held. A service of thanksgiving for her life took place on January 22nd, 2001 in St George's Church, Montreal. Internment St Andrews, New Brunswick, where a memorial service was to be held at a later date

[The last paragraph above was adapted from an obituary published in The Globe and Mail, Toronto, ON, on 2000-12-20, with names of the living respectfully removed]
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National Post (Toronto), http://www.nationalpost.com/
Thursday, January 4, 2001

Tory activist was wild about hockey
Husband, son in senate

Peggy deLancey Meighen Molson, who has died aged 85, was a woman with some of the strongest personal ties to the Conservative party. She was the daughter-in-law of a prime minister and, a first in Canadian political life, was both the wife and the mother of sitting senators

Mrs Molson's son Michael, a former president of the Progressive Conservative Party, still sits in the Senate. At her death she was married to Hartland Molson, who sat in the Senate until his mid 80s. Her late husband, Theodore Meighen, was the son of Arthur Meighen, the Conservative who was prime minister twice in the 1920s

Senator Molson broke the string of Conservative men in Peggy Molson's life. The Senator, a member of the Montreal brewing family, was appointed in 1955 by the Liberal Prime Minister, Louis St Laurent, though he sat as an independent

Mrs Molson was born Margaret deLancey Robinson on Jan 5, 1915, in Toronto. Her family, from Saint John, were staunch Tories, descendants of United Empire Loyalists who came north after the American Revolution. Her middle name was from deLancey's Brigade, which fought the American rebels. Peggy's father was a grain broker and the family moved to Montreal when she was a baby

Although the family lived in Montreal, the Robinsons kept their ties with New Brunswick and spent every summer at St Andrews. For high school, young Peggy attended Netherwood at Rothesay, a suburb of Saint John

At school she was athletic and acquired a strong tennis game, which stayed with her all her life. Along the way she also mastered ballroom dancing. Even as a teenager she started volunteer work, and continued that in her adult life

As a girl in Montreal she was wild about hockey and used to go to the Forum to watch the old Montreal Maroons practise. Her second husband later owned and was president of the rival Montreal Canadiens. In the 1920s, her brother, Barclay, played for the Montreal Victorias, an NHL farm team. He was said to be the first goalie pulled during a game to add an extra attacker. The referee disallowed it

She married Theodore Meighen in 1937 and helped him build his law career in Montreal

Mrs Meighen was active in charity work and in entertaining, a key ingredient in the life of successful men of the era. Although her husband had the stronger political pedigree, it was Mrs Meighen who was involved in politics. She worked in Tory committee rooms in the Westmount riding. Her son, Michael, ran and lost in the riding in 1972 and 1974

At Christmas in 1965, Mrs Meighen opened a box full of dirt. It was a gift from her husband, and was from a piece of land in St Andrews, where the couple then built a house. After Mr Meighen's death in 1979, Mrs Meighen continued with volunteer work and the family's charitable foundation

She married Hartland Molson in 1990.
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