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	Oliver Mowat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Honourable Sir Oliver Mowat, QC (July 22, 1820 – 19 April 1903) was a Canadian politician, and premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896.
		Mowat was born in what was then the most important town in Upper Canada — Kingston, Ontario.
		Mowat was a member of the Great Coalition government of 1864 and was a representative at that year's Quebec Conference, where he helped work out the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.
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	Canadian History - Hon. Oliver Mowat
		Mowat soon became of of the leaders of his profession, and at the bar of the remodelled Court of Chancery, his presence was always felt.
		Mowat was elected for North Oxford; in 1875 he was again chosen by acclamation, and was again triumphant in 1879 and 1883.
		Mowat had always maintained that this territory belonged to Ontario; Sir John A. Macdonald took opposite grounds; so that now, for that and other reasons, followers of the Ontario premier say that their chief has brought from England the belt for the championship on constitutional law.
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	Oliver Mowat
		Sir Oliver Mowat (1820-1903) was a Canadian politician, and premier of Ontario from 1872-1896.
		As a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1858-1864 he was closely associated with George Brown, and he was also an avid supporter of "representation by population." With Brown, he was a member of the Great Coalition.
		Mowat was a representative at the Quebec Conference in 1864, where he helped work out the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.
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	Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
		Mowat’s position was consistent with the imperial model, the language of the relevant resolutions (language which was reproduced in the BNA Act), and the guidelines for disallowance which Macdonald himself set out as prime minister in 1868.
		Mowat is labouring to do is inserted.” A year later the JCPC affirmed the decision, after a hearing which Mowat influenced by having the province assume the respondent’s costs and by briefing the respondent’s lawyers to argue that the provincial legislative jurisdiction should be broadly defined and the dominion prevented from encroaching upon it.
		Mowat offered to refer the dispute to the JCPC provided that the disputed lands were surrendered to Ontario until it was resolved, a condition he insisted on lest the proceedings be made an occasion for indefinite delay while the dominion continued to plunder the territory’s natural resources.
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	Oliver Mowat -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Oliver Mowat (July 22, 1820-1903) was a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian politician, and (Click link for more info and facts about premier of Ontario) premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896.
		Mowat was a member of the Great Coalition government of 1864 and was a representative at that year's (Click link for more info and facts about Quebec Conference) Quebec Conference, where he helped work out the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments.
		Mowat was (Originally a person of noble birth trained to arms and chivalry; today in Great Britain a person honored by the sovereign for personal merit) knighted in 1892.
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	Sir Oliver Mowat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Oliver Mowat was born at Kingston, July 22, 1820.
		In this way, Mowat was responsible, possibly more than any other Canadian, for the power won by the Provincial governments to act as fully responsible bodies in provincial matters.
		Sir Oliver Mowat died at the age of 82 in 1903.
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	SIR OLIVER MOWAT - LoveToKnow Article on SIR OLIVER MOWAT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He entered parliament in 1858 as a Liberal and in took a prominent part in the proceedings of the Quebec Conference of 1864, which settled the terms of the Confederation of the British North American provinces, and in the same year was appointed vice-chancellor of Upper Canada.
		In eight important cases which he argued before the Judicial Committee of H.M. Privy Council, he established, as against the contention of Sir John A. Macdonald, the proposition that the provincial legislatures were co-ordinate with and not subordinate to the parliament of Canada.
		Sir Oliver Mowat saw in this veiled annexation, and by letters, speeches and pamphlets he crushed the movement so completely as to make his party more imperialist than the Conservatives had ever been.
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	Oliver Mowat - Canadian History
		He was elected for North Oxford, and he continued to be prime minister and attorney-general of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, a period of office unparalleled in the history of British parliamentary government.
		Though cautious and even conservative, he was actuated by high ideals; at the same time, he was a practical politician, and the description of "Christian statesman" which he once applied to himself was sometimes thrown back in his face.
		In 1896 Mowat was appointed to the Senate, where he became the government leader, and he was included in Laurier's "ministry of all the talents" as minister of justice.
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	Oliver Mowat
		Oliver was educated in Kingston, subsequently studied law, was called to the bar of Upper Canada in 1841, and was created a Queen's counsel in 1856.
		Mowat is a bencher ex-officio of the Law society of Ontario, was a commissioner for consolidating the general statutes for Canada and Upper Canada, respectively, in 1856, and was a delegate to the Quebec union conference in 1864.
		Mowat is the author of many important legislative measures in the provincial parliament, among which is the judicature bill, an act for the fusion of law and equity in the courts of Ontario.
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	Sir Oliver Mowat
		As a cabinet minister, Mowat was a delegate to the Quebec Conference where he was responsible for the resolution concerning the legislative powers of the provincial governments.
		Mowat was not one of the chief architects of confederation but he did much to determine the form taken by confederation in its first forty years.
		In this way, Mowat was responsible, possibly more than any other, for the power acquired by the provincial legislatures to act as fully responsible bodies in matters of provincial concern.
	www.hpedsb.on.ca /SMOOD/fathers/mowat.htm (346 words)

	Sir Oliver Mowat. by Peter E. Paul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Mowat produced a formidable record, and it is for the most part ably presented in these pages.
		Moreover, Mowat's espousal of `no sectarian legislation at all, no exclusive privileges, no connection between church and state in any form' (28) as a young Reformer seems to be contradicted by his later and more expedient stand.
		Either Mowat's early attacks on the very principle of separate schools were wrong, or his subsequent assistance to these institutions was motivated by something less than profound conviction.
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	Oliver Mowat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Oliver Mowat (1820-1903) was a Canadian politician, and premier of Ontario from 1872 to 1896.
		As a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada from 1858 to 1864 he was closely associated with George Brown, and he was also an avid supporter of "representation by population." With Brown, he was a member of the Great Coalition.
		Also in 1864, he was appointed vice-chancellor of Ontario, a position he held until he was elected premier in 1872.
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	Pioneer Life - Mowat Page 950
		Of their children, Sir Oliver Mowat, born at Kingston, July 22nd, 1820, was destined to occupy a position unique in the history of the British Empire; having held the Premiership of Ontario continuously from 1872 until his voluntary resignation in 1896, when he left his party still firmly entrenched in power.
		John Bower Mowat, second son of the Pioneer, was a man of no less ability than his distinguished brother, although his talents and attainments appealed less strikingly to the multitude of his countrymen.
		The Sir Oliver Mowat Branch: (1) Frederick Mowat, Sheriff of county of York, m.
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	Sir Oliver Mowat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		When Edward Blake resigned as premier of Ontario in 1872, Mowat took office as premier and was elected to the legislature for North Oxford.
		In 1896, Mowat, who had been knighted in 1892, joined Sir Wilfred Laurier's "ministry of all talents" holding the justice portfolio.
		The work load was too heavy however, and Sir Oliver resigned in 1897 to take the largely ceremonial office of lieutenant-governor of Ontario.
	www.canadahistory.com /sections/eras/erasconfederationolivermowat.htm (223 words)

	Niagara Falls: Mowat Gates: a history
		In 1936, in order to remove this obstruction, the Mowat Gates were moved to their current location at the northern Falls Avenue entrance to Queen Victoria Park at Clifton Hill.
		Sir Oliver Mowat served as Premier of the Province of Ontario from 1872 to 1896, a period of 24 years.
		In 1892, Oliver Mowat was knighted and became the Minister of Justice in the 1896 Government of Canada headed by Prime Minister Sir Wilfred Laurier.
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	Encyclopedia: Oliver Mowat
		Download high resolution version (444x640, 38 KB)Oliver Mowat, from Archives Canada [1] This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		October 25 is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 67 days remaining.
		Kingston, Ontario, with a population of approximately 146,8381 people, is located in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, where the lake runs into the St....
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	The Imperialist by Sara Jeannette Duncan eBook by BookRags
		To christen a baby like that was, in a manner, a challenge to public attention; the faint relaxation about the lips of Dr Drummond—the best of the Liberals himself, though he made a great show of keeping it out of the pulpit— recognized this, and the just perceptible stir of the congregation proved it.
		“Oliver Mowat, I baptize thee in the Name of the Father—” The compliment should have all the impressiveness the rite could give it, while the Murchison brothers and sisters, a-row in the family pew, stood on one foot with excitement as to how Oliver Mowat would take the drops that defined him.
		How their father, sitting comfortably with his pipe in the flickering May shadows under the golden pippin, reading the Toronto paper, could evade his liability in the matter was unfathomable to the Murchisons; it was certainly illiberal; they had a feeling that it was illegal.
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	Oliver Mowat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Oliver Mowat (de julio el 22 de 1820-1903) era político canadiense, y primero ministro de Ontario a partir de 1872 a 1896.
		Mowat era un miembro del gran gobierno de la coalición de 1864 y era un representante en la conferencia de Quebec de ese año, donde él ayudó a resolver la división de energías entre los gobiernos federales y provinciales.
		Oliver Mowat un artículo contemporáneo de la enciclopedia
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		MOWATE South Ronaldsay, Orkney, Scotland Besse MOWATE (F)......................
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	Sir Oliver Mowat C.I. Unofficial Homepage
		This website was created as a place where former Mowat students can contact other former students, faculty and staff.
		This website was created and is maintained by Carl Ozyer, a former Mowat student from 1973-1976.
		Please note that the guestbook has been temporarily unavailable due to infiltration by spammers who find it necessary to advertise their useless products, services, and pornographic material on legitimate purpose websites.
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	AllRefer.com - Sir Oliver Mowat (Canadian History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir Oliver Mowat[mO´ut] Pronunciation Key, 1820–1903, Canadian statesman, b.
		As a member of the Quebec conference in 1864, he helped to draft the resolutions on confederation.
		Mowat was champion of provincial autonomy, and his long term (1872–96) as Liberal premier and attorney general of Ontario was markedly successful in assuring local sovereignty to that province.
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	Sir Oliver Mowat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Oliver Mowat, Q.C., L.L.D., G.C.M.G. A member of the Canadian Parliament from 1857 to 1864, where he served as the Postmaster-General of Canada.
		Long a proponent for provincial and municipal rights, the Honorable Oliver Mowat again entered politics and served as a Reform member for North Oxford in the provincial parliament from 1872-1896.
		In 1897, he resigned his federal post to accept an appointment as Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, a position he held until his death in 1903.
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	which highschool u went to - I Am Not A Geek Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If I had've graduated from Mowat then, I would've been Class of 1996, but since I dropped out in October of my OAC year, that would've meant the last time I was enrolled at Sir Oliver Mowat, was in October of 1995.
		But I was the yearbook editor at Mowat in 1993/1994, and my picture should still be up on the wall in the Hall across from the Guidance Office, right beside the library.
		I've considered stopping in at Mowat to say Hi to some of my ex-teachers from there.
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