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Sir Oliver Mowat GCMG PC QC (July 22, 1820 – April 19, 1903) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario . He was the eighth lieutenant governor of Ontario and one of the Fathers of Confederation .
- Early Life and Career
- Political Career
- Confederation
- Premiership and Late Political Career
- Legacy
Oliver Mowat’s father was a military veteran of Scottish descent who came to the Canadas as part of the British army in 1814. Upon discharge, he settled near Kingston, and became a partner at a general store. Mowat was raised in a Presbyterian family and privately educated in Kingston before becoming John A. Macdonald’s first articled law student. ...
Oliver Mowat was somewhat weak-voiced, bespectacled and pale — but appearances were deceiving. He was known for his rigid sense of duty, even temperament and moderate manner. Mowat initially became director of the Upper Canada Bible Society and then the Anti-Slavery Society of Canada. Later, he was appointed to the senate at the University of Toron...
Oliver Mowat attended the Québec Conferenceof October 1864 and was a very active participant. He is often credited as the delegate responsible for putting decisions made at the conference into constitutional and legal shape. During the conference, Mowat expressed support for the elective principal, representation by population, and a uniform system...
Soon after the Québec Conference, in November 1864, Oliver Mowat was appointed vice-chancellor of the Upper Canada Court of Chancery. He quickly became known as a judge who was not readily thwarted by technicalities in rendering justice. Following Confederation, he maintained his post as vice-chancellor of Ontario until 1872, when he succeeded Edwa...
Mowat is considered one of Canada’s first political giants and the first great premier of Confederation. Though he’d always been a skillful electoral politician, as premier he was able to build a pragmatic and moderate Liberal Party that represented Ontario’s diverse electorate, including Protestant, Catholic, ruraland urbanvoters.His tenure in off...
Sir Oliver Mowat GCMG PC QC (Kingston, 22 de julho de 1820 – Toronto, 19 de abril de 1903) foi um advogado e político canadense pertencente ao Partido Liberal, um dos Pais da Confederação do Canadá. [1]
The main business of equity was the determination and enforcement of property rights, a field that could be expected to flourish as the provincial economy grew. By 1850 Mowat was the busiest equity practitioner in the province and was being retained in cases of the highest value.
17 de abr. de 2024 · On the afternoon of 1 September, 1921, the three-masted schooner, the Oliver Mowat, set out from Picton for Oswego to collect 550 tons of coal, doing the kind of run she had done since her first launch in 1873. At the helm was the capable and careful Captain VanDusen.
Oliver Mowat remained in office as premier of Ontario for twenty-four years, longer than any other first minister in a commonwealth parliament to that date. He is perhaps best known for his successful resistance to Sir John A. MacDonald’s imposition of a strong centralist government, by advocating instead a strengthening of provincial rights.
1872. Following Edward Blake’s resignation, Oliver Mowat is sworn in as Ontario Premier. Along with his reputation as a lawyer and as a Father of Confederation, his many reforms would shape the province with programs such as worker’s compensation and children’s aid.
