, a Catholic weekly that “sustained the principles of the [Ontario] Catholic League.” It seems likely that his appointment on 1 July 1879 by the Ontario Liberal government of Oliver Mowat to the

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. 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

Oliver Mowat. In 1858 he was elected an alderman for St Patrick’s Ward, and he sat on more than a dozen

); Minutes of the annual meeting (Strathroy, Ont.), 1893–95. S. E. D. Shortt, “Social change and political crisis in rural Ontario: the Patrons of Industry, 1889–1896,” Oliver Mowat

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

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

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

Mowat]. Upon the promotion of Samuel Henry Strong

. Biggar, Sir Oliver Mowat . . . a biographical sketch (2v., Toronto, 1905). Can., Parl., Sessional papers, 1886, no.43: 199–209; Statutes, 1878, c.16

Mowat, declined to interfere in the matter, and Walker never obtained his qc. Recognition came later in the form of an honorary doctorate, presumably

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

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

of Oliver Mowat appointed him deputy minister of education for Ontario, a position he occupied until his death. While in St Thomas, he was

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’s Reform government, which included pro-labour legislation regarding trade-dispute arbitration, mechanics’ liens, and employee profit-sharing. In the general election of 1875

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

General Oliver Mowat reported that the greater sophistication and organization of criminals required an experienced

Premier Oliver Mowat

 Oliver Mowat]. In an important 1904 decision, In re Vancini, he affirmed the power of the dominion to give