Daniel Mowat

{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Daniel Mowat | office2 = [[Mayor of Regina]] | predecessor2 = [[David Lynch Scott]] | successor2 = [[W. Cayley Hamilton]] | term_start2 = 1886 | term_end2 = 1887 | office1 = Member of the [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]] | constituency1 = [[South Regina (N.W.T. electoral district)|South Regina]] | term_start1 = 1891 | term_end1 = 1898 | predecessor1 = [[John Secord]] | successor1 = [[James B. Hawkes|James Hawkes]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1848|5|09}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1923|09|19|1848|5|09}} | occupation = Rancher }}

'''Daniel Alexander Mowat''' (May 9, 1848 – September 19, 1923 ) was a merchant and political figure in [[Saskatchewan]] (then the [[Northwest Territories]]), Canada. He represented [[South Regina (N.W.T. electoral district)|South Regina]] in the [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories]] from 1891 to 1898 as a Conservative.<ref name="gemmill">{{cite book |url=https://www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.32962/422 |page=405 |title=The Canadian Parliamentary Companion |year=1897 |publisher=J. Durie & Son |editor-last=Gemmill |editor-first=J.A. |location=Ottawa |accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref>

He was born in [[Ottawa]], [[Canada West]], the son of Alex Mowat, of [[Scotland|Scottish]] descent. In 1871, he married Amelia M. Hoy. Mowat was a member of the Ottawa public school board. He came to the [[Northwest Territories]] in 1880<ref name="gemmill"/> and opened the first store in Regina in 1882. Mowat served on the Regina town council and was mayor from 1886 to 1887.<ref name="simmons">{{cite book |url=http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=8539 |title=Regina, the street where you live : the origins of Regina street names |last=Simmons |first=Dale |page=76 |year=2000 |accessdate=2009-08-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110615064158/http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=8539 |archive-date=2011-06-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref> With his brother Alex, also a partner in the Regina store, Mowat owned a large horse ranch near the current village of [[Avonlea, Saskatchewan|Avonlea]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=&ex=00000197&sl=3495&pos=1 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115150134/http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/pm.php?id=story_line&lg=English&fl=&ex=00000197&sl=3495&pos=1 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-15 |title=Avonlea's Prairie Pioneers |publisher=Avonlea and District Museum - Heritage House |accessdate=2009-08-23 }}</ref>

While a member of the assembly, Mowat proposed that [[English language|English]] be the sole language of instruction in schools in the Northwest Territories. A compromise was reached that allowed a course in [[French language|French]] at the primary level.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/forgingalbertasc00conn |url-access=registration |title=Forging Alberta's constitutional framework |page=[https://archive.org/details/forgingalbertasc00conn/page/114 114] |year=2005 |last=Connors |first=Richard |author2=Law, John M |ISBN=0-88864-458-2 |publisher=University of Alberta |accessdate=2009-08-23}}</ref>

He moved to British Columbia and so retired from territorial politics in the 1890s. He died in Burnaby, British Columbia, and was buried in Ocean View Burial Park, Burnaby. ==References== {{reflist}}

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