William Pearce Howland

Sir William Pearce Howland, PC, KCMG (* May 29, 1811 in Pawling, New York, † January 1, 1907 in Toronto ) was a Canadian politician. From 1867 to 1868, he was a member of the House of Commons and Minister, then he served until 1873 as Vice- Governor of the Province of Ontario. As one of the Fathers of Confederation, he is among the pioneers of the Canadian federal government established in 1867.

Biography

Howland received his education at the Kinderhook Academy. In 1830 he moved to Upper Canada and led with his brother a store in Cooksville ( Mississauga ). In 1841, he received British citizenship. In the following years he built at the Humber River on a sawmill and a flour mill in 1851 was a market hall in Toronto added. Howland's political career began in 1857 with the election to the House of Representatives of the Province of Canada. From 1859 to 1862 he presided over the Chamber of Commerce of Toronto.

Increasingly, Howland began to unite the various colonies in British North America into a federal state to pass. From May 1862 to May 1863 he was a member of the Cabinet as Minister of Finance by John Sandfield Macdonald, then to May 1864 as treasurer. Under John Macdonald, he served from November 1865 to August 1866 as Postmaster General, then a second time as finance minister. Howland was a member of that delegation, which participated in the London Conference in December 1866. In this later Constitution of Canada has been developed.

In the first Canadian general election in 1867 Howland won the electoral district York West. In the cabinet of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald, he was from July 1, 1867 Minister for Internal taxes until he resigned for health reasons on 18 July 1868. Three days earlier sworn Governor General Lord Monck him as Vice- Governor of the Province of Ontario. This representative office exercised from Howland to 11 November 1873. Subsequently, he was Chairman of the Board of several companies.

His sons William Holmes Howland and Oliver Aiken Howland were later mayor of Toronto.

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