Sir Oliver Mowat 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. He is best known for defending successfully the constitutional rights of the provinces in the face of the centralizing tendency of the national government as represented by his longtime Conservative adversary,John A. Macdonald. This longevity and power was due to his maneuvering to build a political base around Liberals,Catholics,trade unions,and anti-French-Canadian sentiment.
Dominick Edward Blake,known as Edward Blake,was the second premier of Ontario,from 1871 to 1872 and leader of the Liberal Party of Canada from 1880 to 1887. He is one of only three federal permanent Liberal leaders never to become Prime Minister of Canada,the others being Stéphane Dion and the latter's immediate successor Michael Ignatieff. He may be said to have served in the national politics of what developed as the affairs of three nationalities:Canadian,British,and Irish. Blake was also the founder,in 1856,of the Canadian law firm now known as Blake,Cassels &Graydon LLP.
Sir James Pliny Whitney was a Canadian politician and lawyer in the province of Ontario. He served as Conservative member of the legislature for Dundas from 1888 and as the sixth premier of Ontario from 1905 until his death 1914. He is the only premier of Ontario to have died while in office.
John Sandfield Macdonald,was the joint premier of the Province of Canada from 1862 to 1864. He was also the first premier of Ontario from 1867 to 1871,one of the four founding provinces created at Confederation in 1867. He served as both premier and attorney general of Ontario from July 16,1867,to December 20,1871.
Arthur Sturgis Hardy,was a Canadian lawyer and Liberal politician who served as the fourth premier of Ontario from 1896 to 1899.
Sir Matthew Crooks Cameron,was a politician in Ontario,Canada. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1878. He represented the riding of Toronto East. He served in the cabinet of the first Premier,John Sandfield Macdonald. After Macdonald's defeat in 1871,he became leader of the Conservative Party and served as Leader of the Opposition until his retirement from politics in 1878. After the legislature,he served as Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas until his death in 1887. In 1887 he was made a Knight Bachelor.
Alexander Morris was a Canadian politician. He served in the cabinet of Prime Minister John A. Macdonald (1869–1872),and was the second Lieutenant Governor of Manitoba (1872–1877). He also served as the founder and first Lieutenant Governor of the District of Keewatin.
Lieutenant-Colonel James Farquharson Macleod,born in Drynoch,Isle of Skye,Scotland,was a militia officer,lawyer,North-West Mounted Police officer,magistrate,judge,and politician in Alberta. He served as the second full Commissioner of the North-West Mounted Police,from July 22,1876,to October 31,1880. Fort Macleod and Macleod Trail,a major Calgary,Alberta thoroughfare,are named after him.
John Wallis was a Conservative Member of Provincial Parliament in the Ontario legislature in the 1st Parliament of Ontario representing Toronto West from September 3,1867,to February 25,1871.
John Stevenson was the first Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1871 and served as Conservative MPP for Lennox from 1867 to 1871.
Richard Harcourt was a Canadian lawyer,judge,and politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for the riding of Monck from 1879 to 1908. He was Ontario's treasurer from 1890 to 1899.
John Hillyard Cameron,was an Ontario lawyer,businessman and political figure. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament representing Peel from 1867 to 1872 and Cardwell from 1872 until his death.
Abram William Lauder was a Canadian lawyer and political figure. He represented Grey South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1874 and Grey East from 1875 to 1884.
William Fisher Luxton was a Canadian teacher,newspaper editor and publisher,politician,and office holder.
Peter Gow was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1876.
Thomas Roberts Ferguson was an Ontario businessman and political figure. He represented Cardwell in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1867 to 1873 and Cardwell in the House of Commons of Canada as a Conservative member from 1867 to 1872.
Joseph Royal was a Canadian journalist,lawyer,politician,businessman,and Lieutenant Governor of the Northwest Territories.
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.
Samuel Bickerton Harman was a Canadian lawyer,accountant,politician,civil servant,and Mayor of Toronto from 1869–1870.
Catharine (Kate) McGill Crooks Smart or Kate Crooks was a botanist and member of the Botanical Society of Canada. Her pressed botanical specimens were displayed in London,England at the International Exhibition of 1862,and her botanical records were cited in the Catalogue of Canadian Plants;published as part of the Geological Survey of Canada. She was a member of the Crooks family,a prominent family of merchants,industrialists,civil servants,politicians,and landowners in the nineteenth-century British colony of Upper Canada.
