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href="/wiki/Joshua_George_Beard" title="Joshua George Beard">Joshua George Beard</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />1861–1863</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Adam_Wilson" title="Adam Wilson">Adam Wilson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Henry_Medcalf" title="Francis Henry Medcalf">Francis Henry Medcalf</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">ca. 1812<br />near Clones, County Monaghan, <a href="/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland">Ireland</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">May 20, 1864<br />Toronto, Canada West</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John George Bowes</b> (ca. 1812 – May 20, 1864) was a railway promoter and politician in the <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canada" title="Province of Canada">Province of Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-macleans1989-05-22_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macleans1989-05-22-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DictBioJohnGBowes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was also a member of the <a href="/wiki/Orange_Order_in_Canada" title="Orange Order in Canada">Orange Order in Canada</a>. </p><p>He was born in <a href="/wiki/Clones,_County_Monaghan" title="Clones, County Monaghan">Clones, County Monaghan</a>, Ireland around 1812 and came to <a href="/wiki/Upper_Canada" title="Upper Canada">Upper Canada</a> in 1833.<sup id="cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DictBioJohnGBowes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He worked for his brother-in-law in <a href="/wiki/York,_Upper_Canada" title="York, Upper Canada">York, Upper Canada</a> (later <a href="/wiki/Toronto" title="Toronto">Toronto</a>), then opened a dry goods business with another brother-in-law in 1838. </p><p>He was president of the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Toronto_and_Guelph_Railway&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Toronto and Guelph Railway (page does not exist)">Toronto and Guelph Railway</a> and also served on the board of directors of several other companies.<sup id="cite_ref-macleans1989-05-22_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-macleans1989-05-22-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DictBioJohnGBowes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1850, he was elected to city council and council selected him as mayor in 1851, 1852 and 1853. </p><p>His <a href="/wiki/Mayor_of_Toronto" title="Mayor of Toronto">mayoralty of Toronto</a> was clouded by claims of corruption.<sup id="cite_ref-DictGeorgeTaylorDenisonJr_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DictGeorgeTaylorDenisonJr-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1853 <a href="/wiki/George_Taylor_Denison_II" title="George Taylor Denison II">George Taylor Denison II</a>, and several other alderman, resigned mid-term to protest what they described as Bowes corruption. Bowes and <a href="/wiki/Francis_Hincks" title="Francis Hincks">Francis Hincks</a> had benefitted from a bailout of the <a href="/wiki/Toronto,_Simcoe_%26_Lake_Huron_Union_Railroad" class="mw-redirect" title="Toronto, Simcoe & Lake Huron Union Railroad">Toronto, Simcoe & Lake Huron Union Railroad</a> (later the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Railway_of_Canada" title="Northern Railway of Canada">Northern Railway</a>. Hincks, in his capacity as the Province of Canada's Inspector General (effectively Finance Minister), had sponsored legislation to issue bonds to pay back the railway's investors, without revealing that he and Bowes had bought out a large block of the stock, at a discounted value. The pair netted a quick gain of 10,000 pounds - a fortune in those days. </p><p>Although he was cleared of any charges, Bowes was forced to pay the profit that he had made to the city.<sup id="cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DictBioJohnGBowes-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1854, he was elected to the <a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_the_Province_of_Canada" title="Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada">Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada</a> representing Toronto. He was elected to city council again in 1856 and served as mayor from 1861 to 1863. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-06-08</span></span>. <q>Lt.-Gov. Sir Francis Bond Head commissioned a study for the park plan but by 1850 (the true Toronto appears!), John G. Bowes was elected alderman on a platform of railway development. The population of the new centre of Upper Canada had zoomed to 30,000. Bowes also happened to be an owner of the Toronto and Guelph Railway, which obviously eyed the harbor for shipping and wanted its trains allowed into the centre of the city. By 1851, he was mayor and rich, selling his railway to the Grand Trunk Railway, and rail lines on the supposed park land easily got council approval.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Maclean%27s+magazine&rft.atitle=Protecting+a+city+from+its+lake&rft.date=1989-05-22&rft.au=Allan+Fotheringham&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.macleans.ca%2Farticle%2F1989%2F5%2F22%2Fprotecting-a-city-from-its-lake&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+George+Bowes" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DictBioJohnGBowes-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DictBioJohnGBowes_2-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=4315">"John George Bowes"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Canadian_Biography" title="Dictionary of Canadian Biography">Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a></i> (online ed.). <a href="/wiki/University_of_Toronto_Press" title="University of Toronto Press">University of Toronto Press</a>. 1979–2016.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=John+George+Bowes&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+Canadian+Biography&rft.edition=online&rft.pub=University+of+Toronto+Press&rft.date=1979%2F2016&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.biographi.ca%2F009004-119.01-e.php%3F%26id_nbr%3D4315&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJohn+George+Bowes" class="Z3988"></span> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFW.G._Ormsby" class="citation web cs1">W.G. 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Denison II, or George T. Denison of Rusholme, to avoid confusion with his father and eldest son)"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_Canadian_Biography" title="Dictionary of Canadian Biography">Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20190416005725/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/denison_george_taylor_1816_73_10E.html">Archived</a> from the original on 2019-04-16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2019-06-08</span></span>. <q>George Taylor Denison's grandfather, John, was among the first inhabitants of York. He established the family's position as minor landed gentry, a status that was enhanced by his son G. T. 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