John Graves Simcoe was a British Army general and the first lieutenant governor of Upper Canada from 1791 until 1796 in southern Ontario and the watersheds of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior. He founded York,which is now known as Toronto,and was instrumental in introducing institutions such as courts of law,trial by jury,English common law,and freehold land tenure,and also in the abolition of slavery in Canada.
George Howard Ferguson,PC was the ninth premier of Ontario,from 1923 to 1930. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1905 to 1930 who represented the eastern provincial riding of Grenville.
George Stewart Henry was a farmer,businessman and politician in Ontario,Canada. He served as the tenth premier of Ontario from 1930 to 1934. He had acted as minister of highways while Ontario greatly expanded its highway system. Henry continued the expansion as premier,but his party did not provide relief during the Great Depression and lost the 1934 election.
Dana Harris Porter was a Canadian politician and jurist. Porter was a member of the Ontario Legislature from 1943 to 1958 serving as a representative for Toronto St. George and was appointed Chief Justice in 1958. He was the first chancellor of the University of Waterloo.
Norman Otto Hipel was a Canadian politician,noted for his service as Minister of Labour for Ontario in the cabinet of Mitchell Hepburn. He served as MLA for Waterloo South.
Charles Winnans Cox was a politician and timber contractor in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario representing the riding of Port Arthur from 1934 to 1943 and the riding of Fort William from 1948 to 1951. He was a member of Mitchell Hepburn's cabinet from 1936 to 1937. He also served as mayor of Port Arthur,Ontario from 1934 to 1948 and again in 1952.
Lionel Pretoria Conacher,MP,nicknamed "The Big Train",was a Canadian athlete and politician. Voted the country's top athlete of the first half of the 20th century,he won championships in numerous sports. His first passion was football;he was a member of the 1921 Grey Cup champion Toronto Argonauts. He was a member of the Toronto Maple Leafs baseball team that won the International League championship in 1926. In hockey,he won a Memorial Cup in 1920,and the Stanley Cup twice:with the Chicago Black Hawks in 1934 and the Montreal Maroons in 1935. Additionally,he won wrestling,boxing and lacrosse championships during his playing career. He is one of three players,including Joe Miller and Carl Voss,to have their names engraved on both the Grey Cup and Stanley Cup.
Thomas Baker McQuesten was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1943 who represented the riding of Hamilton—Wentworth. He served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Mitchell Hepburn and Gordon Conant.
Leo Edward Bernier was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1966 to 1987,and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Bill Davis and Frank Miller. Bernier was a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. Bernier presided over a time in Northern Ontario when the economy was booming. He was also a personable and well-liked MPP who looked out for his constituents. He was known by his nickname as "Emperor of the North".
The Toronto Maple Leafs were a high-level minor league baseball club located in Toronto,Ontario,Canada,which played from 1896 to 1967.
William Herbert Price was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 to 1937 who represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale. He served as Treasurer and Attorney General in the governments of Howard Ferguson and George Stewart Henry.
Riverdale was a provincial riding in Ontario,Canada that existed from 1914 to 1999. It occupied an area east of the Don River from the city limits just north of Danforth Avenue south to Lake Ontario. It was named after the neighbourhood of Riverdale. In 1999 a major reduction in Ontario seats resulted in Riverdale being merged with part of East York into a larger riding called Broadview-Greenwood.
Arthur St. Clair Gordon was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He served as a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1945. He served in the cabinet of Mitchell Hepburn.
John Dickenson was a Hamilton,Ontario contractor and political figure. He represented Wentworth South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1896 to 1904 as a Liberal member.
Thomas Hook was an Ontario real estate agent and political figure. He represented Toronto Southeast in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 to 1919 as a Conservative member.
Morrison Mann MacBride was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who represented the riding of Brant South from 1919 to 1926 and the riding of Brantford from 1934 to 1938. He served in the cabinet of Mitchell Hepburn. He entered politics as a member of the Labour party. From 1934 to 1937 he served as an Independent and from 1937 to 1938 he was a member of the Liberal party.
William Finlayson was an Ontario lawyer,cabinet minister and political figure.
James Winfield Lyons was a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario,who served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1923 to 1934. Born in Virginia,Ontario,he married Angelina Hodgson in Toronto in 1898,and moved his growing family to Steelton,Ontario soon after the turn of the century. He served as mayor of Steelton and later of Sault Ste. Marie itself. He represented the electoral district of Sault Ste. Marie as a member of the Conservatives,and served as Minister of Lands and Forests in the government of Howard Ferguson from 1923 to 1926. As minister,his major contribution was the creation of the Ontario Provincial Air Service in 1924.
Leonard Jennett Simpson was a physician and political figure in Ontario. He represented Simcoe Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1929 to 1940 as a Liberal member.
Robert Aloysius Allen was a Canadian businessman and politician in Ontario. He was a Liberal member in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1934 to 1937 who represented the downtown Toronto riding of Riverdale.
