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

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

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

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

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

 Act was essentially similar to the view propounded by Oliver Mowat

MOWAT, Sir OLIVER, lawyer, politician, judge, and office holder; b

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

, 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 in following George Brown across the floor of the assembly to form the “Great Coalition,” which proposed to break political deadlock through a confederation of British North American

Mowat to serve on the Ontario agricultural commission. At this time agriculture was trying to recover from a depression and there was a general feeling that Ontario was “indifferently farmed

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

appealed to provincial and federal politicians such as Sir Oliver Mowat and Sir John A

Mowat]. Upon the promotion of Samuel Henry Strong

. Macdonald*. Provincially Rathbun backed the Liberal governments of Oliver Mowat and Arthur Sturgis

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

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

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

Mowat to the Ontario statute on regulation. Strong characteristically delivered his more elaborate opinion in the former, reserving only a few lines for a dissenting comment in the reference