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69-476: Settlers were attracted to the area by the farmland, and creeks for water mills. The lands which would later become Bowmanville were first purchased by John Burk, who began to clear the forest. Mills were built first on Barber's Creek (now called Bowmanville Creek ), including one still standing, now called Vanstone's Mill, at the present-day intersection of King Street and Scugog St. More mills were built on nearby Soper Creek, including another mill still standing as

138-584: A 25-year renaissance in appreciation and awareness (led largely by local historians and LACAC members) helped to preserve the precious remnants of days gone by. Bowmanville was incorporated as a village in 1852 and as a town in 1858. In 1974, the town was amalgamated with neighbouring Clarke Township and Darlington Township to form the Town of Newcastle which in turn was renamed the Municipality of Clarington in 1994. Subdivided housing developments first arrived in

207-437: A POW camp by surrounding the existing school buildings with a barbed wire fence. The facility, which had been designed to house 300 boys, was cramped and undersized for grown men. Two 12-foot-high (3.7 m) fences with electric lights every twelve feet and nine guard towers surrounded the 14-acre (57,000 m) site. The fence had sixty miles of barbed wire looped around the small perimeter. Lieutenant Colonel R.O. Bull M.C. had

276-463: A conservative inclination in politics. But he instead joined the Reformers . Mowat was called to the bar of Upper Canada on November 5, 1841. In 1846, he married Jane Ewart, a daughter of John Ewart of Toronto . Mowat and his wife had three sons and four daughters. In 1856 Mowat was appointed Queen's Counsel . He was known to be a tenacious legal practitioner, with two of his cases being upheld by

345-526: A federal compact. He credited Mowat with giving Ontario "a Government which can be cited as a model for all Governments: a Government which was honest, progressive, courageous, and tolerant". By nature a secretive individual, he left instructions in his will that resulted in the destruction of nearly all his papers. Mowat is honoured by a statue in Queen's Park. Mowat Avenue in Kingston is named in his honour. Mowat

414-399: A generous support from the liquor interest and a still more generous support from Prohibitionists". His government was moderate and attempted to cut across divisions in the province between Roman Catholics and Protestants as well as between country and city. He also oversaw the northward expansion of Ontario's boundaries and the development of its natural resources, as well as the emergence of

483-476: A hotly contested matter, with the federal government attempting to extend Manitoba's jurisdiction eastward to the Great Lakes, into the areas that Ontario claimed. In 1882, Premier Mowat threatened to pull Ontario from Confederation over the issue. Mowat sent police into the disputed territory to assert Ontario's claims, while Manitoba (at the behest of the national government) did the same. The Judicial Committee of

552-493: A skull fracture from a thrown jar of jam. After calm had returned, 126 of the prisoners were transferred to other camps. Bowmanville is surrounded by rural areas on three sides, and Lake Ontario to the south. Farmland formerly covered central Bowmanville until the population increased, thus establishing a nascent downtown core by the early 19th century. There is a harbour to the south of Bowmanville in Port Darlington. Under

621-475: A support staff plus the Veterans Guard of Canada, consisting of nine officers and 239 other ranks under his command to guard the prisoners. When the naval prisoners arrived at Bowmanville, there were no recreational facilities. The naval officers quickly transformed the camp. Flower and vegetable gardens were planted, sports fields, tennis courts and a swimming pool were built. The quarters were expanded, giving

690-520: A two-volume biography of Mowat in 1905. Their son Oliver Mowat Biggar became Canada's first Chief Electoral Officer. Sir Oliver Mowat's son Frederick Mowat was the father-in-law of the diabetologist Andrew Almon Fletcher . Sir Oliver Mowat was also the great-granduncle of the Canadian author, Farley Mowat . The son of Angus Mowat , a famed Canadian librarian that served in the Battle of Vimy Ridge . Mowat

759-702: Is a fully accredited hospital located in Bowmanville, which is run by the Lakeridge Health Corporation . A significant redevelopment and expansion of the Hospital was announced in January 2018, which will allow the Hospital to provide greater patient programs and services and an improved health care experience. Since the 1950s, Bowmanville has been accessible via Highway 401 and Highway 407 which are about 13,480 meters away from each other (via Liberty Street) and

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828-571: Is a stream in the municipality of Clarington , Regional Municipality of Durham in south-central Ontario , Canada. It flows from the Oak Ridges Moraine to Lake Ontario at Bowmanville . The creek is under the auspices of the Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority . The headwaters of Bowmanville Creek border the headwaters of Oshawa Creek (to the west) and those of its left tributary Soper Creek (to

897-467: Is about 170 square kilometres (66 sq mi); almost all of the drainage basin is within Clarington, with the exception of a small part of the headwaters which are in the township municipality of Scugog to the north. Bowmanville Creek begins at the confluence of three unnamed streams near the settlement of Enfield at an elevation of 255 metres (837 ft). It flows southeast then turns south near

966-636: Is bisected by the Canadian Pacific Railway , while the Canadian National Railway runs to the south of the town. Bowmanville had its own transit system, Clarington Transit from 2002–05, and is now served by Durham Region Transit , which offers connections to GO Transit and Via Rail . GO Transit plans to extend the Lakeshore East line train service to Bowmanville by 2024. Public elementary and secondary education in Bowmanville

1035-732: Is operated by the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board . There are eight public elementary schools in Bowmanville: Central Public School, Charles Bowman Public School, Dr. Ross Tilley Public School, Duke of Cambridge Public School (French Immersion), Harold Longworth Public School, John M. James Public School, Vincent Massey Public School, and Waverley Public School. There are two public secondary schools, Bowmanville High School and Clarington Central Secondary School . Bowmanville Creek Bowmanville Creek ( French : ruisseau Bowmanville )

1104-462: Is served by three interchanges: Bowmanville Ave (formerly Waverley Road) — Durham Road 57 (Exit 431), Liberty Street — Durham Road 14 (Exit 432) and Bennett Road (Exit 435), that also serves the retirement community of Wilmot Creek on the Lake Ontario shore. The interchange with Highway 35 and Highway 115 to Lindsay and Peterborough (exit 436) lies 500 metres east of Bennett Road. Bowmanville

1173-574: Is the former Goodyear dam, originally built to provide electricity for a factory. This dam was a barrier to fish migration, and until the construction of a fish ladder trout and salmon were lifted over the dam by volunteers and conservation workers. A little further north, in what is now downtown Bowmanville, a dam provided water power for the Vanstone Mill until it was washed out in a storm in 1986. Oliver Mowat Sir Oliver Mowat GCMG PC QC (July 22, 1820 – April 19, 1903)

1242-693: Is the home of the Clarington Tigercats - Durham Knights Football Club which was founded in 1999. In 1997 the Oshawa Green Gaels lacrosse franchise moved to Clarington. They play out of the Garnet B Rickard complex. Since relocating to Clarington in 97 the Gaels have been one of the most dominant lacrosse franchises in the Jr B loop. They have never had a losing season to date and have won 4 Founders Cup championships as

1311-574: Is the inspiration for the naming of The Mowat Centre , an independent Canadian public policy think tank associated with the School of Public Policy & Governance at the University of Toronto . The Sir Oliver Mowat Collegiate Institute in Toronto was named in his honour. Queen's University organized a two-day historical colloquium in 1970 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Mowat's birth. Mowat

1380-653: The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council . In the 1858 case Bowes v. City of Toronto , John George Bowes (previously mayor of Toronto ) was successfully sued for recovery of the share of the profit he was suspected to have made in collaboration with co-premier Francis Hincks out of a speculation in city debentures. Afterwards, Mowat admitted, "I cannot speak with much force unless I have an opponent, and things are said by others which I do not altogether coincide with." Mowat first entered politics as an alderman of

1449-597: The Köppen climate classification Bowmanville has a humid continental climate with warm summers and cold winters. Unlike many other locations on similar latitudes on the eastern half of the North American continent the winters are relatively mild, with cold extremes being moderated by the proximity to Lake Ontario. In spite of this the average low is around −10 °C (14 °F) in January. Summers are normally moderately warm with averages of around 26 °C (79 °F) during

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1518-562: The Liberal Party of Canada . Mowat was a member of the Great Coalition government of 1864 and was a representative at that year's Quebec Conference , where he helped work out the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments. On November 14, 1864, he was appointed to the judiciary as Vice-Chancellor of the Court of Chancery of Upper Canada , He held this position until he

1587-673: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Toronto East Detachment under "O" Division. The detachment was closed in May 2017 because it was the smallest detachment in the Greater Toronto Area, and was identified as being appropriate for closure. There is one fire station in Bowmanville, located at 7075 King Street East. In 2014, the fire station underwent significant renovations to accommodate growth and to meet accessibility legislation. Lakeridge Health Bowmanville

1656-525: The Teme-Augama Anishnabai indigenous people all or some of the 2,770 square miles as a reserve, for which that band's head chief, Ignace Tonené , had campaigned with the federal authorities for many years, Mowat blocked the land transfer, primarily concerned about the value of the red and white pine lumber at the location. It was not until 1943 that lands were finally set aside for the Temagami, and

1725-623: The "Lane Era" of Bowmanville. Camp 30 , the Lake Ontario Officers' Camp-Bowmanville, held captive German army officers from the Afrika Korps, Luftwaffe aircrew and naval officers from the Kriegsmarine. Farms surrounded the camp that had been a delinquent boys' school prior to the war. In several accounts by former prisoners of war (POWs), the prison was represented as very humane, in that the prisoners were well treated and well fed. Among

1794-431: The 1830s, on the east side of Wellington Street between Princess and Brock Streets in Kingston, was renovated, restored, and expanded, from 2014 to 2018, but has had its heritage elements preserved, insofar as possible, under direction from Kingston City Council. The building re-opened as the 'Kensington' in 2018, and now features, on its street level, an alley portraying historical and heritage aspects of its past, along with

1863-462: The 1880s a series of disputes with the Dominion arose over Provincial boundaries, jurisdiction over liquor licenses, trade and commerce, rivers and streams, timber, escheats, and other matters. In 1890, it was said: The attacks made on Provincial Rights he has succeeded in repelling. Not a single case remains unfinished; not a single case did he lose. These court battles resulted in a weakening of

1932-412: The 1950s, with a significant increase in housing development through the 1980s and 1990s. The population rose to about 10,000 in the 1970s, about 20,000 in the 1980s, about 25,000 in the 1990s and today is about 35,000. Transportation improvements in the 1980s included a widening of Highway 401 (first built through Bowmanville in 1952) to six lanes and of Highway 2 to 4/5 lanes. Many have referred to this as

2001-676: The 20th century, with the Dominion Organ and Piano factory, Specialty Paper Company, the Bowmanville Foundry , and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (1910) all providing steady work for Bowmanville's ever-growing working populations. Goodyear even went so far as to provide affordable housing for its employees, and present day Carlisle Ave. (built by Goodyear president W.C. Carlisle) in the 1910s still stands as one of Ontario's best preserved examples of industrial housing. The land on which

2070-689: The Bowmanville Hospital was built was donated by J.W. Alexander, the owner of the then-prospering Dominion Organ and Piano factory. Formal education evolved in-step with Ryersonian philosophies of the day, and the advent of the Central Public School (1889) and the Bowmanville High School (1890), (both designed by Whitby architect A.A. Post) were the finishing touches to the town that was a model of then-Ontario Premier Oliver Mowat 's philosophy of education, expansion and innovation for

2139-612: The City of Toronto in 1857. From there, he became a member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada for South Ontario. As a member of the Assembly from 1858 to 1867, he was closely associated with George Brown . Mowat served as Provincial Secretary (1858) and Postmaster-General (1863–1864) in the pre- Confederation governments of George Brown and John Sandfield Macdonald for

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2208-703: The Eagles were one of the clubs on the contraction list. In their inaugural season back as a Junior C club, the Eagles won the Central Ontario League Championship. The Eagles won playoff rounds over Uxbridge, Little Britain and Lakefield. In the Provincial round of the playoffs the Eagles went up against the Campbellford Rebels of the Empire Jr C league where they lost out in seven games. Bowmanville

2277-458: The German officers transferred from England to Bowmanville was Korvettenkapitän Otto Kretschmer , who was the top U-boat ace of World War II. Kretschmer assumed the duties of the senior naval officer, sharing the command with the senior Luftwaffe officer Oberstleutnant Hans Hefele and the senior army officer General Leutnant Hans von Ravenstein. The Bowmanville boys' school had been quickly turned into

2346-775: The Junior A level in 1995. The Eagles were a powerhouse team in the 1980s winning the Charles Schmalz Cup (Provincial Jr C Championship) in 1982. They won the Central Ontario Championships in 1981, 82, 84, 85, 92, 93 and 94. In their final season as a Jr. C team before moving to Jr. A, the Eagles went to the Schmalz Cup Final. The Eagles did not have success at the Jr A level until approximately 2004. They had moderate success from there until 2010. The Jr. A league decided it needed to contract some clubs and unfortunately

2415-529: The Privy Council in Britain, serving as Canada's highest appeal court, repeatedly issued rulings taking the side of provincial rights. These decisions would to some extent neutralize the power of the central government, creating a more decentralized federation. John Ibbitson writes that by 1914: George William Ross praised Mowat's ability to read the public mind, and John Stephen Willison remarked that his political genius rose from "the fact that for so long he had

2484-458: The Vanstone Mill, fueled by the machinery of the Crown's land grant program, led to the rapid expansion of the Bowmanville settlement in the early years of the 19th century. Under the generous yet discriminate eyes of wealthy local merchants such as John Simpson and Charles Bowman, small properties would often be sold to promote settlement and small business. The town soon developed a balanced economy; all

2553-751: The best Canadian Jr B lacrosse team in the Country. Policing in Bowmanville is handled by the East Division of the Durham Regional Police . The new police station in Bowmanville opened in February 2016, which includes the DRPS forensic identification building. The provincially maintained highways near Bowmanville are under the jurisdiction of the Ontario Provincial Police . Bowmanville was formerly home to

2622-504: The citizens of the province. The 20th century saw a steady rise in the construction of area schools, with Vincent Massey P.S. (1955); St. Joseph Catholic Elementary (1962, 2000 at present site); Waverly P.S. (1978); Dr. Ross Tilley P.S. (1993); St. Elizabeth Catholic Elementary (1998); John M. James P.S. (1999); Harold Longworth P.S. (2003); and Holy Family Catholic Elementary School (2007), all accommodating gradual population increases and building developments in specific demographic areas of

2691-574: The conditions were good in the Canadian POW camps, there was very little to do, and the routine was always the same. In October 1942, in a prisoner of war uprising known as the Battle of Bowmanville , between 150 and 400 mostly German prisoners revolted against the guards at Camp 30 after they were shackled as retribution as part of the escalation of Germany's new Commando Order. Lt.Col. James Taylor had asked German senior officer Georg Friemel to supply 100 prisoners to volunteer to be shackled as part of

2760-646: The current plant in Toronto , Ontario, at the intersection of Lambs Road and Baseline Road. Toyota also plans to add a new nature trail known as the "Toyota Trail" that will connect the Soper Creek Trail to the new plant. The facility is planned to open in 2019. An outlet mall was planned to be built in Bowmanville near the Highway 401/Waverley Road interchange, but the company abandoned the project shortly thereafter due to "cost prohibitive complexities". On June 10, 2019 it

2829-551: The day but with nights cooling off rapidly to fall below 15 °C (59 °F) on many occasions. Starting in the 19th century, Bowmanville has served as the home of many diverse manufacturers including the historic Bowmanville Foundry , the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station , a Royal Canadian Mounted Police regional office, Goodyear conveyor belt factory (recently sold). There is a marina on Lake Ontario at Port Darlington, south of town. Bowmanville

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2898-563: The duration of the war. A daily routine of exercise, sporting events and work assignments was established. As well as English being taught, professors from the nearby University of Toronto gave lectures for university credit classes. A school was also formed, which taught midshipmen seamanship and navigation courses. Current movies were shown each week. National and religious holidays were observed, and music concerts were given regularly. Elaborate stage plays were produced. Extraordinary puppets were designed and fabricated for puppet shows. Although

2967-475: The east), the headwaters of all of which are in the Oak Ridges Moraine. Between the mouths at Lake Ontario of Oshawa Creek (to the west) and Bowmanville Creek there are five smaller creeks (from west to east): Farewell Creek , Robinson Creek, Tooley Creek , Darlington Creek and Westside Creek. The next named watercourse to the east is Wilmot Creek. The area of the drainage basin of Bowmanville Creek

3036-484: The extension of suffrage beyond property owners. He also extended laws regulating liquor and consolidated the laws relating to the municipal level of government. His policies, particularly regarding liquor regulation and separate schools , routinely drew criticism from political conservatives, including the Orange Lodge and its associated newspaper, The Sentinel . The boundary between Ontario and Manitoba became

3105-666: The impressively ornate Trinity United Church (site of an old Auld Kirk church) still serve the community. All of these edifices, appropriately, lie on or are in close proximity to present-day Church Street. In the 19th century, in 1857, the Ontario Bank was founded in Bowmanville, with local resident John Simpson as its first president. The bank, while appearing to be a local enterprise, was primarily controlled by 16 Montreal businessmen. The Ontario bank eventually opened local branches including locations in Whitby, Oshawa, and Port Hope. In 1874, it

3174-458: The mess hall using only baseball bats, so the two sides remained evenly matched. After several hours of brawling, the Canadians brought high pressure water hoses and soaked the cabin thoroughly until the prisoners agreed to come out peacefully. During later incidents in the battle which spanned several days, Volkmar König was wounded by gunfire and another bayoneted, and a Canadian soldier suffered

3243-511: The most recent local hockey team to play in Bowmanville, but were merged with the nearby Cobourg Cougars in early 2010 by the CCHL and OJHL. The Bowmanville Eagles were reborn in 2011. The hockey team was admitted as a Junior C Hockey Club playing in the Central Ontario Junior C League. The Eagles were a Junior C team in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. The Eagles applied and were accepted to

3312-425: The municipality's Visual Arts Centre which has been designated as an architecturally protected historical building. Burke later sold his land to Lewis Lewis. Lewis opened the first store in what was then called Darlington Mills. The store was purchased in about 1824 by Charles Bowman (for whom the town was eventually named) who then established the first post office. Its first postmaster was Robert Fairbairn, who ran

3381-572: The official creation of their Bear Island Reserve did not occur until 1971. In 1896, the leader of the opposition , Wilfrid Laurier , convinced Mowat to enter federal politics. It was thought that the combination of a French Canadian (Laurier) and the prestige of Oliver Mowat in Ontario would be a winning ticket for the Liberal party. The slogan was "Laurier, Mowat and Victory". Victory was won, and Mowat became Minister of Justice and Senator . In 1897, he

3450-455: The ongoing international dispute. When he refused, Otto Kretschmer and Hans Hefele were also asked to provide volunteers, but refused. Taylor ordered the guards to find 100 officers to be shackled by force, and Horst Elfe, Kretschmer and others barricaded themselves in the mess hall, arming themselves with sticks, iron bars and other makeshift weapons. Approximately 100 Canadian soldiers requisitioned from another base arrived, and together stormed

3519-489: The post office from 1828 to 1857. Bowmanville incorporated as a town in 1858. By 1866, Bowmanville was a town with a population of about 3,500 in the township of Darlington, County Durham. It was a station of the Grand Trunk Railway . It was established on the north shore of Lake Ontario. It possessed a good harbour and there was extensive water power in the vicinity. The surrounding country was fertile. The success of

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3588-418: The power of the federal government in provincial matters. Although Macdonald had dismissed him as " Blake 's jackal", Mowat's battles with the federal government greatly decentralized Canada, giving the provinces far more power than Macdonald had intended. He also served as his own Attorney-General concurrently with his service as Premier, and introduced reforms such as the secret ballot in elections, and

3657-466: The prisoners better living conditions. The prisoners received money from home or earned extra money by manufacturing wooden furniture. They were able to purchase beer, cigarettes and dry goods from Eaton's mail order catalogue. It was an ideal life except that there were no women and no freedom. For some there was the urge to get back to the war and defend their country, and for others a desire to remain POWs for

3726-496: The province into the economic powerhouse of Canada. Mowat's nearly 24 years as premier of Ontario remains the longest consecutive service by any premier in Ontario history, and is the third longest by any premier in Canada, behind only George Henry Murray of Nova Scotia and Ernest Manning of Alberta . Mowat was notoriously hostile to aboriginal and treaty rights. In 1884, when the federal government urged that Ontario transfer to

3795-437: The settlement of Enniskillen, flows under Ontario Highway 407 and reaches the settlement of Hampton. It continues south into the community of Bowmanville, flows under Ontario Highway 401 , takes in the left tributary Soper Creek, and reaches its mouth at Port Darlington on Lake Ontario at an elevation of 74.1 metres (243 ft). Bowmanville Creek has been dammed in several places. About one kilometre north of Lake Ontario

3864-432: The town grew and prospered, so arrived Bowmanville's grand era of architectural building and refinement. Many excellently maintained specimens of Italianate, Gothic Revival, Colonial Brick and Queen Anne architecture remain in Bowmanville's older central neighborhoods. Much of Bowmanville's residential and commercial architectural heritage was either lost or threatened by demolition and modern development from 1950 to 1980, but

3933-528: The town their home. With local economic stability and accessible, abundant land available for the construction of housing, the town soon sported several new churches, each designated to house both Free and Auld Kirk , Anglican and Nonconformist congregations, including the Bible Christian Church , later to be a major stream of Canadian Methodism . At present, St. John's Anglican Church. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, St. Paul's United Church and

4002-556: The town. The local school board was amalgamated with neighboring jurisdictions to form the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board in 1997. The Catholic schools are part of the Peterborough Victoria Northumberland and Clarington Catholic District School Board which had already merged four counties in 1969 (at that time it was named the Peterborough, Victoria, Northumberland and Durham Separate School Board). As

4071-418: The while gradually establishing itself as a moderate player in shipping, rail transport, metal works and common minor business (including tanneries, liveries, stables and everyday mercantile commodity exchange). By the time of Confederation , Bowmanville was a vital, prosperous and growing town, home to a largely Scots - Presbyterian community with all manner of farmers, working, and professional class making

4140-436: Was knighted in 1892, increasing his importance in Canada. Mowat was himself the author of two small books in the field of Christian apologetics : Mowat also documented his government's first 18 years of Ontario government (from 1872 to 1890) in an 1890 book. After his death, Wilfrid Laurier placed Mowat's policy of sectarian tolerance second in historical importance only to his role in giving Confederation its character as

4209-536: Was a Canadian lawyer, politician, and Ontario Liberal Party leader. He served for nearly 24 years as the third premier of Ontario . He was the eighth lieutenant governor of Ontario and one of the Fathers of Confederation . He is best known for defending successfully the constitutional rights of the provinces in the face of the centralizing tendency of the national government as represented by his longtime Conservative adversary, John A. Macdonald . This longevity and power

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4278-521: Was a finalist for the ITER project. Southern Ontario's GO Train commuter rail service is to be expanded to Bowmanville by 2024. This will increase the efficiency of public transportation to nearby cities such as Oshawa, and beyond. Currently, Darlington Nuclear Generating Station is the largest employer in Bowmanville. In 2017, Toyota Canada Inc. , announced plans to open a new parts distribution site, known as "Eastern Canada Parts Distribution Centre", to replace

4347-609: Was announced that Ontario Power Generation would have its corporate headquarters relocated next to the Darlington Energy Complex. The Canadian Tire Motorsport Park (formerly Mosport International Raceway) which hosts both minor grand prix races and major racing events by CASCAR, the SCCA , NASCAR , and the United SportsCar Championship annually is located about 25 kilometres north of Bowmanville. Bowmanville

4416-425: Was appointed premier on October 25, 1872. One of the more notable cases during his time on the Court was Dickson v Burnham in 1868, whose underlying jurisprudence would be altered during his later time as Premier, with the passage of the Rivers and Streams Act, 1884 . Mowat served as provincial member for the riding of Oxford North, about 150 km west of Toronto, for his entire term as premier. As premier in

4485-476: Was appointed the eighth Lieutenant Governor of Ontario and served until his death in office in 1903. He is buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto . The two former Kingston law partners, Macdonald as prime minister in Ottawa and Mowat as premier in Toronto, led their respective governments during the same era for a total of 14 years. Mowat was premier for just under 24 years. Mowat's daughter, Jane Helen Mowat, married Charles Robert Webster Biggar, who wrote

4554-418: Was due to his maneuvering to build a political base around Liberals, Catholics, trade unions, and anti-French-Canadian sentiment. Mowat was born in Kingston , Upper Canada (now Ontario ), to John Mowat and Helen Levack, Scottish Presbyterians who both emigrated from Caithness , Scotland . As a youth, he had taken up arms with the loyalists during the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, which suggested

4623-403: Was home to the oldest private zoo in Canada, the Bowmanville Zoo until its closure in 2016. The Bowmanville Santa Claus Parade has been held annually on the third Saturday of November since 1961. In the 1960s the Oshawa Generals and Bobby Orr played hockey in the old Bowmanville Arena on Queen Street while awaiting the Oshawa Civic Auditorium 's completion. The Bowmanville Eagles were

4692-458: Was moved to Toronto, and would later become insolvent as a result of investing in speculative stocks in 1906. The historic Ontario Bank building at the intersection of King and Temperance was demolished in 1971 In 1884, Scottish immigrant John McKay opened the Cream of Barley Mill next to Soper Creek to manufacture a cereal of his own creation. "Cream of Barley" was shipped throughout the British Empire. Local business organized and modernized in

4761-467: Was portrayed by David Onley (the 28th Lieutenant-Governor of Ontario ) in the Canadian TV series Murdoch Mysteries in 2013 in the episode "The Ghost of Queen's Park." Mowat was portrayed by Kingston actor Patrick Downes, in 2015, in Kingston-based Salon Theatre's stage productions featuring the life of John A. Macdonald, staged during the Bicentennial celebrations of Macdonald's birth. The building where Mowat and Macdonald practiced law together in

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