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"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. The verdict was, on the way home, that he behaved splendidly.
These were: Sir Oliver Mowat, William Stevens Fielding, Andrew G. Blair prime ministers respectively of Ontario, Nova Scotia, and New Brunswick and Clifford Sifton, attorney-general of Manitoba, who joined the Ottawa Ministry a few months later. Mr Laurier's administration was formed as follows: Prime Minister and President of the Council, WILFRID LAURIER.
"We should arrive at the Ukon to-morrow, if my calculations are right or nixt day, whatever," said MacSweenie to his interpreter and steersman, as he sat smoking his pipe beside him. "Bartong is of the same opeenion," returned Mowat, "so between you we should come right. But Bartong is not quite sure about it himself, I think. At least he won't say much."
Brown's power did not lie in the manipulation of combinations of men, he succeeded on this occasion in enlisting the services of colleagues of high character and capacity, including besides Dorion, Oliver Mowat, John Sandfield Macdonald, Luther Holton and L. T. Drummond. On Saturday morning Mr.
There is evidence that his influence was potent in the constitutional conferences, and that during his term as minister he had a strong hand in shaping public policy. Oliver Mowat left politics for the judicial bench immediately after the Quebec Conference.
Indeed it is worthy of note that from the Scottish stream of immigration there came not only the earlier agitators, Gourlay and Mackenzie, but, at a later date, George Brown, the first great political journalist in Canada, Alexander Mackenzie and Oliver Mowat, future leaders of Canadian liberalism, and John A. Macdonald, whose imperialism never lacked a tincture of traditional Scottish caution.
"Are we to use the inch or the inch-an'-a-half nails?" asked Mowat, after a moment's pause. "Whichever you like, Tonal'. There iss plenty of both in the store, an' ye are as goot a judge o' these metters as I am myself. Just help yoursel', man; only see that the work is done well, for there iss a rough trup before us when we do git away.
They had not to wait long, for, after tickling the fiddle once or twice to get it in perfect tune, Mowat raised his eyes to the pine-plank ceiling and glided softly into one of those exquisite Scottish airs by means of which a first-rate performer on the violin can almost draw the soul out of a man's body. We think it was "The Flowers of the Forest."
Dispensing with the services of Mowat, Nazinred turned to the Eskimos and acted the part of his own interpreter. They received his words with an emphatic "Hoh!" as if they were equally clear on the subject of the last words being indisputable. "Our white father has said," continued the chief, "that the first and most important thing in producing peace is good-feeling. That is true.
Mills, versed above most Canadian public men in political and constitutional knowledge, was not brought in until some time later, when Sir Oliver Mowat, the veteran minister of justice, was appointed to the lieutenant-governorship of Ontario. A notable acquisition was Mr.
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