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10 nov 2009 · This allowed Oliver Mowat to do what earlier Reform leaders could not have done: enforce the local claims in court. Résumé Dans les années 1930, le Comité judiciaire du Conseil privé a été critiqué pour avoir supposément déformé la signification de l'acte de l'Amérique du Nord britannique et les intentions de ses auteurs.
Sir Oliver Mowat (mō´ət), 1820–1903, Canadian statesman, b. Upper Canada (now Ontario). A lawyer, he entered (1857) the Legislative Assembly and held cabinet posts before becoming vice-chancellor of Ontario (1864–72).
As a youth, Oliver Mowat “studied the evidence of Christianity very earnestly … and came to the conclusion that Christianity was no cunningly devised fable, but was very truth.” From his father, Mowat learned the value of good literature and poetry, history, biography, science, and theology earned him the reputation as a true renaissance Christian gentleman.
Sir Oliver Mowat received his knighthood in 1892. The year after he was appointed to the Canadian Senate, Mowat was chosen to be Ontario’s eighth lieutenant-governor on November 18, 1897. When Mowat died on April 19, 1903 he was succeeded as the King’s representative in Ontario by William Mortimer Clark (Plot I, Lot 14).
Few political leaders in Ontario's history have had as lasting an impact on the province, and perhaps on the nation, as Oliver Mowat, premier from 1872 to 1896. Under his leadership Ontario flourished economically, socially, and politically. Among the many political skills that Mowat brought to office, one of the most useful was pragmatism.
On becoming premier of Ontario in October 1872, Oliver Mowat con-fronted a threat to the province's constitutional status. John A. Macdonald had obtained from the imperial law officers an opinion to the effect that lieutenant-governors could not of their own mere motion create queen's counsel, though they might be empowered to do so by provin-
Plaque (s) Born in Kingston, where he was trained as a lawyer, Oliver Mowat served as a Toronto alderman before his election to the legislature of the united Canadas as a Reformer in 1857. He joined the Great Coalition in 1864 and attended the Quebec Conference. From 1872 to 1896 he served as premier and attorney-general of Ontario, a period of ...
