Donald Hogarth

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Donald McDonald Hogarth (June 15, 1879 – June 27, 1950) was an Ontario politician and mining financier.

Donald Hogarth was born in in Osceola, Ontario in 1879. As an associate of real estate promoter and politician John James Carrick, he moved to Port Arthur, Ontario in February 1905. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Port Arthur riding in Northern Ontario as a Conservative in the December 1911 provincial election. He was re-elected in 1914 and 1919, serving until May 1923. Re-entering provincial politics, he was elected as an Independent-Conservative in December 1926 and re-elected as a Conservative in October 1929, ending his political career in May 1934. During his long political career he focused his efforts on the development of the mining and pulp and paper industry.

While still a member of the assembly, Don Hogarth enlisted in 1914 for World War I and rose rapidly through the Canadian military ranks, from lieutenant to captain to major in 1915 in charge of military supplies and transport in London. In January 1917 he was appointed a lieutenant-colonel and made director of supply and transport for the Canadian forces. He was awarded the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) in June 1917, the year he became acting quartermaster-general of the Canadian Expeditionary Force. In February 1918 he was appointed Quartermaster-General with the rank of Brigadier-General, and left the military in 1919 with the rank of Major-General.

As a mining financier and political operator, he was associated with the Little Long Lac gold mine near Geraldton, Ontario. His greatest venture was the development of the Steep Rock Iron Mines Limited at Steep Rock Lake near Atikokan, Ontario. He was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame. He died in Toronto in 1950.