Oliver Aiken Howland
Oliver Howland | |
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Ontario MPP | |
| In office 1894–1898 | |
| Preceded by | Riding established |
| Succeeded by | James Joseph Foy |
| Constituency | Toronto South |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 18, 1847 Lambton Mills, Canada West (Etobicoke) |
| Died | March 9, 1905 (aged 57) Toronto |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Relations | William Holmes Howland, brother |
| Residence | Toronto |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto |
| Profession | Lawyer |
Oliver Aiken Howland,
He was born in Lambton Mills,
He authored several books: The Irish problem as viewed by a citizen of the Empire (1887); The New Empire - reflections upon its origin and constitution and its relation to the great republic (1891), in which he reprinted views he had previously presented in columns in the Toronto Week. He also was an advocate of electoral reform calling for proportional representation.[1] Shortly after his mayoralty, Toronto began to use cumulative voting to elect the board of control.[2]
He was first elected as an MPP in 1894 and to the mayor's chair in Toronto in 1901.
Howland was president of the Internal Deep Waterways Association and chairman of the Canadian branch of the International Commission on Deep Water Ways. He was also a director of Bishop Ridley College. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada.
Howland was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) during the visit to Toronto of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901.[3]
His older brother William Holmes Howland also served as 25th Mayor of Toronto a decade and a half earlier.
References
- ^ Spence. Ever Yours, C.H. Spence. p. 155.
- ^ The Proportional Representation Review (September 1903).
{{cite journal}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "No. 27364". The London Gazette. 11 October 1901. p. 6641.
- Ontario Legislative Assembly parliamentary history
- Gemmill, J.A., ed. (1897). The Canadian Parliamentary Companion. Ottawa: J. Durie & Son.
- Morgan, Henry James, ed. (1898). The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Handbook of Canadian Biography (first ed.). Toronto: William Briggs.
- Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of York, Ontario. Toronto: J.H. Beers. 1907.
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