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Walter Stewart Owen

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Monarch
  
Name
  
Walter Owen

Role
  
Lawyer


Preceded by
  
Arthur Kelly, Q.C.

Nationality
  
Canadian

Children
  
Philip Owen

Walter Stewart Owen

Governor General
  
Roland MichenerJules Leger

Premier
  
Dave BarrettBill Bennett

Born
  
January 26, 1904Atlin, British Columbia (
1904-01-26
)

Died
  
January 13, 1981, Vancouver, Canada

Succeeded by
  
Preceded by
  

Walter Stewart Owen, OC, QC (January 26, 1904 – January 13, 1981) was the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1973–1978.

In his youth, Owen was the first premier of the British Columbia Older Boys' Parliament, which later became the British Columbia Youth Parliament. He became a prominent lawyer in Vancouver. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1928 and in 1933 was named the youngest crown prosecutor in Canada at that time. He later went into private practice and co-founded the Vancouver law firm Owen Bird. In 1958, he was elected as the president of the Canadian Bar Association.

In 1956, Owen and business partner Frank Griffiths purchased New Westminster radio station CKNW and co-founded Western International Communications Ltd. ("WIC").

He is the father of Philip Owen, who served three terms as the mayor of the city of Vancouver.

In 1978, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

References

Walter Stewart Owen Wikipedia


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