*, Premier Oliver Mowat’s Catholic lieutenant, and his attack on clerical interference in provincial and Toronto school

conference at Quebec, chaired by Oliver Mowat of Ontario. There they opposed a Manitoba scheme that would have weakened

Mowat, then for James David Edgar*, and only on the third ballot for Laurier. Several years later, however, in a letter of 1

in the Liberal government of Oliver Mowat. In 1891–94