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

in 1899 he had offered him the lieutenant governorship of Ontario, to replaced the ailing Sir Oliver Mowat, but Wood declined for personal and business reasons

); 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. He thus became useful to the Liberals, who were able to benefit from his name without feeling pressure to alter their policies toward francophones. While the Conservatives argued for a