Mowat. Named to the Ontario fees commission in 1894, he was made head of an inquiry into the province’s toll-roads the following year. (He had done a similar study for Wentworth County in 1886

public economy. Like Meredith, he was critical of the Liberal government of Sir Oliver Mowat for enhancing the

gerrymandered by Premier Oliver Mowat to form one electoral district, with three seats in the legislature. In a five-way

. In 1878 Lyon, a Reform supporter of Oliver Mowat, entered provincial politics as mpp

*’s nomination in an election which pitted Macdonald against Oliver Mowat

Mowat during the late 1870s, when Ontario’s future seemed threatened both by the population drain to Manitoba and by the attraction the west

government of Oliver Mowat had produced early legislation relating to the functioning and regulation of insurance

McDougall, Oliver Mowat, Donald McDonald

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

Mowat’s Liberal government. The judge became a personal friend of Mowat, and in 1876 the premier appointed him a member of the commission that produced the Revised statutes of Ontario

Mowat, and took part in the election of 1879, “editing the literature of the campaign, and addressing public meetings.” In 1880 he was appointed to the Ontario agricultural commission, an

Mowat to make him minister of agriculture after Charles Alfred Drury was defeated in the

visibility was rewarded. On 1 May 1888 he was named minister of agriculture in Oliver Mowat’s government, a new

Mowat; in Ottawa he became such a staunch supporter of Sir John A. Macdonald* that most of his contemporaries

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

Premier Oliver Mowat

was recognized as an adviser of Sir Oliver Mowat, premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, and of George

 Oliver Mowat, he never held a cabinet position though he sat on several committees, including railways, and was a

Mowat]. On 1 Oct. 1887 Burbidge became the first justice of the