- Hewitt Bostock
Hewitt Bostock, PC (
May 31 1864 –April 28 1930 ) was a Canadian publisher, businessman andpolitician .He was born in
Walton Heath, Epsom ,England and studied atTrinity College, Cambridge graduating with honours in mathematics. Bostock then studied law and was called to the bar in 1888. Rather than begin a legal practice he touredNorth America ,Australia ,New Zealand ,China andJapan before settling inBritish Columbia in 1893 starting aranch and lumber company.He founded the "Province" newspaper and then entered politics winning election to the
Canadian House of Commons as a Liberal in the 1896 election, representing the riding ofYale—Cariboo for one term (until the 1900 election).In 1904, he was appointed to the
Canadian Senate by the prime minister,Wilfrid Laurier . A decade later he becameLeader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate . Bostock broke with theLaurier Liberal s over theConscription Crisis of 1917 , and became aLiberal-Unionist , campaigning in favour of the Union government of SirRobert Borden during the 1917 election.Following
World War I , Bostock reconciled with the Liberals and, in 1921, became Minister of Public Works in the Liberal government ofWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King . Several months later, in 1922, he becameSpeaker of the Canadian Senate and held the position until his death in 1930. In 1925, he served as a member of the Canadian delegation to the Assembly of theLeague of Nations .There is a Mount Hewitt Bostock (2183 m or 7162 ft) named in his honour in the northern end of the
Canadian Cascades , about 20 kilometres northeast of theFraser Canyon town of Boston Bar, which is in what had been the riding ofYale—Cariboo where his political career began (today inChilliwack—Fraser Canyon ).References
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* [http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/key/bio.asp?lang=E&query=2138&s=M Political biography from the Library of Parliament]
* [http://bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=1133 Canadian "Mountain Encyclopedia" entry on Mount Hewitt Bostock]s-ttl|title=
Member of Parliament forYale—Cariboo
years=1896–1900
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