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Sir Oliver Mowat GCMG PC QC (July 22, 1820 – April 19, 1903) was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario. He was the eighth lieutenant governor of Ontario and one of the Fathers of Confederation.
18 feb 2008 · Soon after the Québec Conference, in November 1864, Oliver Mowat was appointed vice-chancellor of the Upper Canada Court of Chancery. He quickly became known as a judge who was not readily thwarted by technicalities in rendering justice.
The main business of equity was the determination and enforcement of property rights, a field that could be expected to flourish as the provincial economy grew. By 1850 Mowat was the busiest equity practitioner in the province and was being retained in cases of the highest value.
Mowat, Sir Oliver (1820-1903), statesman, was born in Kingston, Upper Canada, the eldest son of John Mowat and Helen Levack, natives of Caithnessshire, Scotland. He was educated at private schools in Kingston, and in 1841 was called to the bar of Upper Canada (Q.C., 1856).
1872. Following Edward Blake’s resignation, Oliver Mowat is sworn in as Ontario Premier. Along with his reputation as a lawyer and as a Father of Confederation, his many reforms would shape the province with programs such as worker’s compensation and children’s aid.
8th Lieutenant Governor of Ontario. November 18, 1897 to April 19, 1903. Oliver Mowat was born in 1820 in Kingston. He was called to the bar in 1841, and served as a MPP from 1857 to 1896. He held the posts of Provincial Secretary, Postmaster General and Premier (1872-1896).
…Ontario’s government was headed by Oliver Mowat, the Liberal premier who won a boundary dispute with Manitoba and the federal government that doubled the size of Ontario and helped to confirm the supremacy of provincial governments within their constitutionally assigned powers.
