Oliver Aiken Howland, (April 18, 1847 – March 9, 1905) was a Toronto lawyer and political figure. He represented

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in the

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from 1894 to 1898 and was mayor of Toronto from 1901 to 1902. He was born in Lambton Mills, Canada West (later Etobicoke) in 1847, the son of Sir

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, and was educated at Upper Canada College and the University of Toronto. He studied law with Matthew Crooks Cameron, was called to the bar in 1875 and set up practice in Toronto. Howland was later named

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. He was a vice-president of the Canadian Bar Association and served on the council of the Canadian Institute from 1894 to 1895. Howland was president of the Internal Deep Waterways Association and chairman of the Canadian branch of the International Commission on Deep Water Ways. He was also a director of

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. He was also a member of the Orange Order in Canada. Howland was appointed a

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(CMG) during the visit to Toronto of the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later King George V and Queen Mary) in October 1901. His older brother William Holmes Howland also served as 25th Mayor of Toronto a decade and a half earlier.

References

''The Canadian parliamentary companion, 1897'' JA Gemmill
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''The Canadian men and women of the time : a handbook of Canadian biography''
HJ Morgan (1898)
''Commemorative biographical record of the county of York, Ontario ...'' (1907)
1847 births 1905 deaths Mayors of Toronto Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario MPPs University of Toronto alumni Upper Canada College alumni Canadian Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Canadian King's Counsel Canadian people of American descent {{Ontario-mayor-stub