William Pearce Howland
The Honourable
Sir William Pearce Howland, PC, CB (
1811-
1907), served as the second
Lieutenant Governor of
Ontario, from
1868 to
1873.
Born in
1811 in Pawling, New York, William Howland was educated at Kinderhook Academy. In
1830 he settled in Cooksville,
Upper Canada, and became a naturalized British subject in
1841. He operated Lambton Mills and later a grocery business in Toronto. In
1857 Howland became Member of the Assembly of Canada, and later served in the cabinet as Minister of Finance, Receiver General, Postmaster General and Minister of Finance. He became a Member of Parliament in 1867 and was Minister of Inland Revenue from
1867 to
1868. Howland was appointed Ontario's second Lieutenant Governor in
1868 and served until
1873. He was knighted in
1879 and died in
Toronto in
1907.
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