Gowan that “I am like a general without artillery fighting a thoroughly equipped army. I have no newspaper to protect my movements & shell the enemy’s batteries of falsehood.” Central

GOWAN, Sir JAMES ROBERT, lawyer, judge, and senator; b

later a chair, endowed by James Robert Gowan, in political and economic science, both held by Adam

Gowan, proprietor of the Upper Canada Law Journal, who was to be one of Macdonald’s private advisers in his constitutional conflict with Mowat after confederation. During the years

. Shortly after Mowat’s elevation to the bench, judge James Robert Gowan of Barrie had commented to Macdonald: “I

commission to revise and consolidate the statutes of Upper Canada [see Sir James Robert Gowan]. As

serve along with James Robert Gowan, John Wellington