Walter Stewart Owen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Honourable Walter Stewart Owen, OC, QC
23nd Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia}
In office 1973 – 1978
Preceded by	John Robert Nicholson
Succeeded by	Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
Born	26 January 1904(1904-01-26)
Died	13 January 1981 (aged 76)
Nationality	Canadian

Walter Stewart Owen, OC, QC (Atlin, British Columbia January 26, 1904 – January 13, 1981, Vancouver) was Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1973–1978.

In his youth, Owen was the first premier of the British Columbia Older Boys' Parliament, which later became the British Columbia Youth Parliament. He became a prominent lawyer in Vancouver. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1928 and in 1933 was named the youngest crown prosecutor in Canada at that time.^[1] He later went into private practice and co-founded the Vancouver law firm Owen Bird. In 1958, he was elected as the president of the Canadian Bar Association.

In 1956, Owen and business partner Frank Griffiths purchased New Westminster radio station CKNW and co-founded Western International Communications Ltd. ("WIC").^[2]

He is the father of Philip Owen, who served two terms as the mayor of the city of Vancouver.

In 1978, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Daniel Francis, ed. The Encyclopedia of British Columbia
2. ^ ibid

[edit] External links

• Biography from the website of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia

v • d • e     Lieutenant Governors of British Columbia     Trutch · Richards · Cornwall · Nelson · Dewdney · McInnes · de Lotbinière · Dunsmuir · Paterson · Barnard · Prior · Nichol · Bruce · Johnson · Hamber · Woodward · Banks · Wallace · Ross · Pearkes · Nicholson · Owen · Bell-Irving · Rogers · Lam · Gardom · Campagnolo · Point