{{Short description|Canadian politician (1864–1930)}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} [[File:Hewitt Bostock.png|thumb|The Hon. Hewitt Bostock, c.1914]] '''Hewitt Bostock''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|PC}} (May 31, 1864 – April 28, 1930) was a Canadian publisher, businessman and politician.

==Early life== He was born in Walton Heath, [[Epsom]], England and studied at [[Trinity College, Cambridge]] graduating with honours in mathematics.<ref>{{acad|id=BSTK882H|name=Hewitt, Bostock}}</ref> Bostock then studied law and was called to the bar in 1888. Rather than begin a legal practice he toured North America, Australia, New Zealand, China and Japan before settling in [[British Columbia]] in 1893. He purchased the [[Monte Creek Ranch]] (also known as the Ducks Ranch) in 1888, taking up residence there in 1894.<ref>{{cite DCB |title=Bostock, Hewitt |first1=John Douglas |last1=Belshaw |first2=Elisabeth |last2=Duckworth |volume=14 |url=https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/angel_james_14E.html}}</ref> In addition to the ranch, he also operated a lumber company.

==Career== He founded the ''[[Vancouver Province|Province]]'' newspaper in 1894.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}} He then entered politics winning election to the [[House of Commons of Canada]] as a [[Liberal Party of Canada|Liberal]] in the [[1896 Canadian federal election|1896 election]], representing the riding of [[Yale—Cariboo]] for one term (until the [[1900 Canadian federal election|1900 election]]).

In 1904, he was appointed to the [[Senate of Canada]] by the prime minister, [[Wilfrid Laurier]]. A decade later he became [[Leader of the Opposition in the Canadian Senate]]. Bostock broke with the [[Laurier Liberal]]s over the [[Conscription Crisis of 1917]], and became a [[Liberal-Unionist]], campaigning in favour of the [[Unionist Party of Canada|Union government]] of Sir [[Robert Borden]] during the [[1917 Canadian federal election|1917 election]].

Following World War I, Bostock reconciled with the Liberals and, in 1921, became [[Minister of Public Works (Canada)|Minister of Public Works]] in the Liberal government of [[William Lyon Mackenzie King]]. Several months later, in 1922, he became [[Speaker of the Senate of Canada]] and held the position until his death in 1930. In 1925, he served as a member of the Canadian delegation to the Assembly of the [[League of Nations]].

There is a Mount Hewitt Bostock (2183 m or 7162&nbsp;ft)<ref>[http://bivouac.com/MtnPg.asp?MtnId=1133 Canadian ''Mountain Encyclopedia'' entry on Mount Hewitt Bostock]</ref> named in his honour<ref>{{BCGNIS|13934|Mount Hewitt Bostock}}</ref> in the northern end of the [[Canadian Cascades]], about 20 kilometres northeast of the [[Fraser Canyon]] town of [[Boston Bar, British Columbia|Boston Bar]], which is in what had been the riding of [[Yale—Cariboo]] where his political career began (today in [[Chilliwack—Fraser Canyon]]).

His eldest daughter [[Marian Noel Sherman]] was a physician in India and a prominent [[Humanism|humanist]] in western Canada.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Block|first=Tina|date=2014-12-09|title=Ungodly Grandmother: Marian Sherman and the Social Dimensions of Atheism in Postwar Canada|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/563308|journal=Journal of Women's History|language=en|volume=26|issue=4|pages=132–154|doi=10.1353/jowh.2014.0067|s2cid=144715436|issn=1527-2036|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

==Further reading== *{{Cite book |last=Bostock |first=Hugh S. |url=https://arcabc.ca/islandora/object/tru%3A158/datastream/PDF/download/tru_158.pdf |title=The Bostocks of Monte Creek, British Columbia |year=1977 |edition=2nd}}

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{Canadian Parliament links|ID=3993}}

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