George Nowlan

George Clyde Nowlan, PC (14 August 1898 – 31 May 1965) was a Canadian Member of Parliament and Cabinet Minister. A member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, he served from 9 August 1962–21 April 1963 as the Minister of Finance in the administration of John Diefenbaker, and was also responsible for the CBC.

The Honourable
George Nowlan
MP
Member of Parliament
for Digby—Annapolis—Kings
Annapolis—Kings (1950-1953)
In office
June 19, 1950 – November 8, 1965
Preceded byAngus Elderkin
Succeeded byPat Nowlan
In office
December 13, 1948 – June 27, 1949
Preceded byJames Lorimer Ilsley
Succeeded byRiding dissolved
Member of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly
for Kings
In office
June 25, 1925 – August 22, 1933
Preceded byJames Sealy, John Alexander McDonald
Succeeded byJohn Alexander McDonald
Personal details
Born(1898-08-14)August 14, 1898
Havelock, Nova Scotia
DiedMay 31, 1965(1965-05-31) (aged 66)
Ottawa, Ontario
Political partyProgressive Conservative
OccupationPolitician

Early life and education

Nowlan was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War. After the war ended, he returned to the Annapolis Valley of Nova Scotia and attended Acadia University to study for a Bachelor of Arts, graduating in 1920. He then studied law at Dalhousie University.

Political career

Nowlan was an MLA in the Nova Scotia Legislature in the 1920s, and was always known for his reputation as a hard worker and a Party Man. He served a term as the Progressive Conservative Party's president. While serving as Minister of National Revenue in 1962, he forbid Customs to censor or ban entrance to any publication unless a Canadian court had already ruled it to be "obscene", rather than using their own discretion. Five years later, this was overturned.[1]

There is a George Clyde Nowlan fonds at Library and Archives Canada.[2]

Personal life

His son Pat Nowlan later became a Progressive Conservative (and later Independent Progressive Conservative) MP in Nowlan's riding of Kings County.

References
  1. Petersen, Klaus & Allan C. Hutchinson. "Interpreting Censorship in Canada", University of Toronto Press, 1999.
  2. "George Clyde Nowlan fonds, Library and Archives Canada".
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