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                  Mowat’s government (he reputedly introduced 150 public and private bills, many of them amendments), but he also paid careful attention to those pragmatic and occasionally unpleasant details of
                  Mowat had been appointed. Judicial preferment was reserved for politicians, wrote Gwynne; his seven years of public service as a railway promoter counted for nothing. “Responsible Government
                   
                  . In 1878 Lyon, a Reform supporter of Oliver Mowat, entered provincial politics as mpp
                   
                  visibility was rewarded. On 1 May 1888 he was named minister of agriculture in Oliver Mowat’s government, a new
                  Mowat during the late 1870s, when Ontario’s future seemed threatened both by the population drain to Manitoba and by the attraction the west
                   
                  *, Premier Oliver Mowat’s Catholic lieutenant, and his attack on clerical interference in provincial and Toronto school
                  appealed to provincial and federal politicians such as Sir Oliver Mowat and Sir John A
                   Act was essentially similar to the view propounded by Oliver Mowat
                   
                  Mowat to serve on the Ontario agricultural commission. At this time agriculture was trying to recover from a depression and there was a general feeling that Ontario was “indifferently farmed
                   
                  acclamation or with comfortable majorities. Passed over three times for a place in the cabinet of Liberal premier Oliver Mowat, he had to be satisfied with terms as speaker (1880–86) and chairman of the public
                  . Macdonald*. Provincially Rathbun backed the Liberal governments of Oliver Mowat and Arthur Sturgis
                  Mowat. He thus became useful to the Liberals, who were able to benefit from his name without feeling pressure to alter their policies toward francophones. While the Conservatives argued for a
                  was recognized as an adviser of Sir Oliver Mowat, premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, and of George
                   
                  public economy. Like Meredith, he was critical of the Liberal government of Sir Oliver Mowat for enhancing the
                   
                  Mowat]. On 1 Oct. 1887 Burbidge became the first justice of the
                   Oliver Mowat, he never held a cabinet position though he sat on several committees, including railways, and was a
                   
                  gerrymandered by Premier Oliver Mowat to form one electoral district, with three seats in the legislature. In a five-way
                  McDougall, Oliver Mowat, Donald McDonald
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