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Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Winnipeg-born ice cream giant dies

A past Winnipegger who co-founded the Baskin-Robbins ice cream kingdom has died.

Irvine Robbins was 90 when he died on Monday in California.

Marsha Veit, Robbins’ daughter, said he was born in Winnipeg on Dec. 6, 1917, to Aaron and Goldie Chmelnitsky Robbins. His father had immigrated from Poland while his mother came from Poland.

Veit said her father, who moved to Tacoma, Wash., when he was six, only had a few recollections of the city of his birth.

"I do keep in mind him telling me about the fire department putting out fires in the wintry weather and seeing the ablaze house covered with icicles because it was cold," she said.

"It made an impression on him."

Veit said her father and his family lived at 98 Ethelbert St., in the Wolseley area of the city.

Years later, Robbins used the insurance policy his father had gifted him to open his first ice cream store.

By the time Robbins retired in 1978, the ice cream chain he founded with his brother-in-law, Burton Baskin, had more than 1,600 stores around the world.

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