Newton Rowell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian politician, religious leader, Supreme Court judge
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Place of Birth: Middlesex Centre, Ontario, Canada
About Newton Rowell
- Newton Wesley Rowell, (November 1, 1867 – November 22, 1941) was a Canadian lawyer and politician and leading lay figure in the Methodist church.
- Rowell led the Ontario Liberal Party from 1911 to 1917 and put forward a platform advocating temperance.
- Rowell's Liberals failed to oppose the Whitney government's passage of Regulation 17 which restricted the teaching of the French language in schools alienating the province's French-Canadian minority.
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