Hewitt Bostock

Hewitt Bostock is a Canadian politician who was president of the Senate starting from February 7th, 1922 until February 28th, 1930.

Hewitt Bostock was born on May 31st, 1844 with the “Hermitage”, Walton Heath, in Epsom, in England. Graduate of Trinity College, in Cambridge, with specialization in mathematics, it undertook the study of the right and was allowed with the British bar in 1888, in Lincoln' S In. Instead of following the lawyer occupation, it spent the years which followed its professional training to travel to America, to Australia, to New Zealand, to China and in Japan. Its heat to visit what we call today the countries of the littoral of the Pacific had what to surprise, but its decision, in 1893, to buy grounds as a Colombia-British, in Monte Creek, rose from the certainty which it had very quickly acquired of the future development of the Eastern countries and its importance for our country.

During all its life in Canada, Hewitt Bostock was interested especially in the development of agriculture and the natural resources of the Colombia-British. It builds in Monte Creek a culture and cattle-breeding farm of the fruits and set up Kootenay Lumber Company which it sold thereafter.

Firmly acquired with the political and legal traditions English, it was interested in the edition and the policy. In 1894, it founded Weekly Province, in Victoria; thereafter, he moved his presses in Vancouver and founded there with Walter C. Nicol Daily Province. With the general elections of 1896, he was elected appointed of Yale-Cariboo to the House of Commons under the liberal banner, and the party did one of its whips of it.

Hewitt Bostock was named with the Senate on June 6th, 1904 and there became the leader of the liberal senators in 1914. It took a very active share with the debates of the Upper House, especially during the stormy meetings during which, during the war, the Senate studied bills like the bill on the marine of 1913, the question of the right to vote of the soldiers, the Law on the elections in time of war and the Law on the military service. He however refused to support to sir Wilfrid Laurier in his opposition to the conscription or the government of Union, and he made an active campaign in the West of Canada to promote the government of Union, which was re-elected with elections of 1917.

In December 1921, the senator Bostock was named public Minister for Labor within the government Mackenzie King. He was named with the presidency of the Senate on February 7th, 1922. In 1923, it was selected among the representatives of the Canadian government to accommodate president Harding of the United States at the time of its visit in Vancouver. It again represented the government in 1925 at the time of the Sixth Parliament of the Company of the Nations held in Geneva, and it belonged to the first and third commissions.

The senator Bostock died in his station on April 28th, 1930. According to a contemporary, he was the president of the devoted Senate, most kind and most courteous.

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