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Even though on some websites it doesn't show if Oliver Mowat was in favour of confederation indeed he was.
· Mowat took the entrance examination of the Law Society of Upper Canada in November 1836. In January he had become an articled clerk in the office of John A. Macdonald in Kingston, and he remained with Macdonald until November 1840.
· As a youth, he had taken up arms with the royalists during the Upper Canada Rebellionof 1837, which suggested a conservative inclination in politics. However, he did not trust the politics of Macdonald, George-Étienne Cartier, or the other leaders of the Conservative Party and instead joined the Reformers.
· He is perhaps best known for his successful resistance to Sir John A. MacDonald's imposition of a strong centralist government, by advocating instead a strengthening of provincial rights.
· On November 14, 1864, he was appointed vice-chancellor of Upper Canada, and temporarily retired from politics.
· Sir Oliver Mowat liked to refer to himself as a "Christian statesman". And this was the attitude that dominated his political career, one of the longest and most important in Canada's history.
In 1841, he was called to the bar of Upper Canada and started practice in his home town. In 1857 he entered the legislative assembly of Canada as a Liberal member for South Ontario
· June 22, 1864 - George Brown decides to join the Great Coalition Ministry with Cartier and Macdonald to work toward Confederation, with Liberals Oliver Mowat and William McDougall already in cabinet; Taché holds nominal post of Prime Minister. Ottawa, Ontario
He was postmaster-general of Upper Canada; his postmaster-general job made him unable to join the Charlottetown Conference, but had ability to join the Quebec Conference later. He was a delegate for the Quebec Conference, but due to his appointed vice-chancellor job; he temporarily retired from politics.
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J.C Morrison has written: 'Oliver Mowat and the development of provincial rights in Ontario' -- subject(s): Constitutional history
