Donald McDonald Hogarth (June 15, 1879 – June 27, 1950) was a politician and mining financier from

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, Canada. He was a member of the

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representing the riding of Port Arthur from 1911 to 1923 and again from 1926 to 1929. He served with the

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where he achieved the rank of

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. He was a well-known mining financier who founded some of the biggest gold mines in Northern Ontario.

Background

Hogarth was born in Osceola, Ontario in 1879, the son of William Hogarth, and was educated in Mattawa. As an associate of real estate promoter and politician

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, he moved to Port Arthur in February 1905. In 1914 at the start of

, he enlisted in the army and rose rapidly through the Canadian military ranks, from lieutenant to captain to major in 1915 in charge of military supplies and transport in London. In January 1917 he was appointed a

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and made director of supply and transport for the Canadian forces. He was awarded the DSO (Distinguished Service Order) in June 1917, the year he became acting

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-general of the

. In February 1918 he was appointed Quartermaster-General with the rank of

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, and left the military in 1919 with the rank of

. As a mining financier and political operator, he was associated with the Little Long Lac gold mine near

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. His greatest venture was the development of the Steep Rock Iron Mines Limited at

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near

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. He was inducted into the

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. He died in

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in 1950.

Politics

He was elected to the

for Port Arthur riding in

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as a

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in the December 1911 provincial election. He was re-elected in

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and

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, serving until May 1923. Re-entering provincial politics, he was elected as an Independent-Conservative in December 1926 and re-elected as a Conservative in October 1929, ending his political career in May 1934. During his long political career he focused his efforts on the development of the mining and

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hogarth, Donald 1879 births 1950 deaths Canadian military personnel from Ontario Canadian generals of World War I Canadian mining businesspeople Canadian Expeditionary Force officers Canadian Companions of the Distinguished Service Order People from Renfrew County Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs Politicians from Thunder Bay