Editing John Robarts (section)

==Later life==
After retiring from office, Robarts co-chaired the Task Force on Canadian Unity with [[Jean-Luc Pépin]], and joined a Toronto law firm as well as the boards of directors of several major corporations.

He served as chancellor of the [[University of Western Ontario]] from 1971 to 1976. He served as chancellor of York University from 1977 to 1982.

Robarts and his wife divorced in the early seventies, and he remarried to a woman 28 years his junior.<ref name="theglobeandmail.com"/>

Robarts died by [[suicide]] on October 18, 1982. He had been suffering from depression as a result of the 1977 suicide of his son, Timothy, and a series of debilitating [[stroke]]s.<ref name="Robarts Doc">{{cite web |last=Gallagher |first=Noel |title=Robarts 'A man for his time' |url=http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/TV_Shows/L/Life_And_Death_Of_John_Robarts/2001/11/29/733990.html |work=The Life And Death Of John Robarts |publisher=Canoe.ca |access-date=2011-07-02 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115105858/http://jam.canoe.ca/Television/TV_Shows/L/Life_And_Death_Of_John_Robarts/2001/11/29/733990.html |archive-date=2013-01-15 |date=2001-11-29 |url-status=usurped}}</ref>

He was given a [[State funerals in Canada|state funeral]] at [[St. Paul's, Bloor Street|St. Paul's Anglican Church]] in Toronto.<ref>{{cite news |title=Last respects |url=https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/307262/last-respects-st-pauls-anglican-church-on-bloor-st-e-wa |access-date=January 22, 2023 |work=The Toronto Star |date=October 21, 1982}}</ref> He is buried in [[St. James Cemetery (Toronto)|St. James Cemetery]].