serve along with James Robert Gowan, John Wellington

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

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

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

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

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

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