Mackenzie Bowell

Sir Mackenzie Bowell PC, KCMG (* December 27 1824 in Rickinghall, England; † December 10, 1917 in Belleville, Ontario ) was a Canadian politician, journalist and printing entrepreneur. He was a member of the Conservative Party of Prime Minister and was the fifth of the country. His term lasted 21 December 1894 to 27 April 1896.

Work and private life

1833 emigrated with his parents to Bowell Belleville, Ontario from where I already had settled relatives. There he made an apprenticeship with the local newspaper, The Intelligencer. He became a successful printer and editor of this newspaper and took over in 1848 along with his brother. In 1859, he was among the founders of the Canadian Press Association and was 1865/66 the President.

1842 kicked Bowell at the Orange Order and was from 1870 to 1878 the Canadian Grand Masters. In 1847 he married Harriet Moore ( 1829-1884 ), with whom he had four sons and five daughters. Bowell was a Freemason and was 1864 in the St. Lawrence Lodge No.. 640 ( now St. Lawrence Zetland No. 14. ) Was added to ER Montreal. On February 4, 1897, he joined the Belleville Lodge No.. 123 in Belleville, Ontario.

Policy

After he was not elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario, 1863, Bowell abolished in September 1867 in the constituency of North Hastings election to the Canadian House of Commons. For the first time he fell to a wider audience when he became Speaker of the Orange Order in 1874 called for the expulsion of Louis Riel, the leader of the Red River Rebellion, from the House of Commons. In October 1878 he was appointed by John Macdonald to the Minister of Customs.

After Macdonald's death Bowell took over in June 1891 for half a year, in addition, the Ministry of railways and canals. From January to November 1892 he was Secretary of Defense. In May 1892 he was appointed by John Thompson in the Senate of Canada and took over at the same time the newly created Trade and Ministry of Economy. The end of 1893 he stayed on several months of negotiations in Australia, which proved so successful that he organized the first trade conference between British colonies, held in Ottawa in June 1894. On December 12, 1894 Prime Minister John Thompson died suddenly during a state visit to the UK. As the longest-serving Minister Bowell took over nine days later the post of head of government.

Barely in office, be Bowell had to deal with tensions within the government. These related to the school crisis in Manitoba. 1890, the government of that province had dissolved the Catholic school board, which was a breach of the Manitoba Act of 1870. Bowells predecessors had been searched in vain for a solution to this problem confessional. As Bowell on January 2, 1896 began a new Catholic School Board for the province, left seven anti-Catholic ministers set to protest the government. Bowell she called " a nest of traitors " and gave his imminent resignation on January 8, 1891 known. The renegade minister returned on January 15 back to the government after they had agreed on Charles Tupper, the Canadian High Commissioner in the UK, as the successor to Bowell. Bowell led the official duties until the return of Tupper further and resigned on April 27.

Bowell was continued after his resignation the Senate until his death at the age of almost 94 years. Until 1916 he continued to work regularly for his newspaper. At his funeral in Belleville, not a single incumbent or former Minister was present, however, a delegation of the Orange Order.

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