Oliver Aiken Howland
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Oliver Aiken Howland (April 18, 1847 – November 9, 1904) was a Toronto lawyer and political figure. He represented Toronto South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1894 to 1898 and was mayor of Toronto from 1901 to 1902.
He was born in Lambton Mills, Canada West (later Etobicoke) in 1847, the son of Sir William Pearce Howland, and was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He studied law with Matthew Crooks Cameron, was called to the bar in 1875 and set up practice in Toronto. Howland was later named King's Counsel. He was a vice-president of the Canadian Bar Association and served on the council of the Canadian Institute from 1894 to 1895. 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.
His older brother William Holmes also served as mayor of Toronto.
[edit] References
- The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1897 JA Gemmill
- Member's parliamentary history for the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography, HJ Morgan (1898)
- Commemorative biographical record of the county of York, Ontario ... (1907)
| Political offices | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Ernest A. Macdonald |
Mayor of Toronto 1901–1902 |
Succeeded by Thomas Urquhart (politician) |
|
|||||||
