William Mulock served as vice-chancellor of the University of Toronto from 1881 to 1900, negotiating the federation of denominational colleges and professional schools into a modern university.
65 Facts About William Mulock
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William Mulock was elected to the House of Commons of Canada as a Liberal Member of Parliament and served from 1882 to 1905.
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William Mulock initiated the final agreement for a transpacific cable linking Canada to Australia and New Zealand, and he funded Marconi to establish the first transatlantic radio link from North America to Europe.
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William Mulock was Chief Justice of the Exchequer Division of the Supreme Court of Ontario from 1905 until appointed by King in 1923 as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ontario, a position he held until 1936.
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William Mulock was born in Bond Head, Canada West, the son of Irish immigrant Thomas Homan William Mulock and Mary, the daughter of John Cawthra.
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The family endured genteel poverty after the father's death, so William Mulock spent much time chopping wood, milking the family cow, growing vegetables in the family garden, and on outside work such as repairing the local corduroy roads.
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On November 9,1861, William Mulock captained one of the teams in the first gridiron football game ever recorded.
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At the time of the Fenian Raids in 1866, William Mulock received training at the Royal Military School and served in the regiment for three weeks, but he never saw action.
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The defence of the university culminated in a large meeting at the St Lawrence Hall on March 5,1863, where William Mulock moved the concluding motion.
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William Mulock was elected and remained a member for 71 years.
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William Mulock moved and passed the first requirement that University finances be reported to the senate and made public.
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In 1873, the Law Society of Upper Canada established a law school, and William Mulock soon became Lecturer and Examiner in Equity.
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When William Mulock became Vice-Chancellor, one of his goals was to establish the best law faculty on the continent.
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William Mulock believed that a single federated university would be more efficient, less expensive, and provide better educational opportunities to students, especially in sciences and the professions.
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In opposition to followers of John Rolph who believed medical education should be paid for by students since they would soon have a good income treating patients, William Mulock thought it better to reduce disease by spending public money to train doctors.
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William Mulock efforts were not popular with everyone, but he survived several attempts to remove him from office, resigning in 1900 because of his increased political responsibilities.
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In June 1893, William Mulock provided the articling position needed by pioneering student-at-law Clara Brett Martin.
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In 1897, William Mulock hired surgeon Herbert Bruce into the Faculty of Medicine without consultation.
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William Mulock later helped finance Bruce's new Wellesley Hospital and was the first chair of its board of directors.
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William Mulock later spoke out against this "reactionary step", especially since the act "put the elected members of the senate in a hopeless minority" and reduced the senate's responsibilities to academic matters only.
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William Mulock was supported by most elected representatives, but opposed by most professors.
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William Mulock was elected unanimously as Chancellor on April 28,1924 and served until his death.
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William Mulock entered politics in 1881, unsuccessfully seeking the Liberal nomination in the then strongly Conservative federal riding of York North.
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William Mulock remained in Opposition through two subsequent elections until 1896 when the Liberals under Wilfrid Laurier took power.
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William Mulock inherited an inefficient bureaucracy that was losing almost a million dollars a year, but he believed that improved service and lower prices would increase revenue and better connect Canada and the British Empire.
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William Mulock campaigned for lower rates throughout the Empire, and when met by resistance decided to go it alone, announcing that at the end of 1897 Canada would unilaterally lower the letter rate to Britain from five to three cents.
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William Mulock took advantage of this meeting to negotiate the final financial agreement for the transpacific cable first proposed by Sir Sandford Fleming to link Canada to Australia and New Zealand.
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William Mulock initiated a program to provide Post Office employment for the deaf.
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When William Mulock learned this, he immediately negotiated an agreement with Marconi for him to set up his North American radio station in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, where the first transatlantic message from North America was sent on December 17,1902.
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William Mulock was Canada's representative at the opening of Australia's first Parliament in 1901, and was one of Canadian representatives at the coronation of King Edward VII.
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William Mulock was knighted in 1902 for his services, in particular for the Penny Post, Transpacific Cable, and wireless telegraphy between Canada and Great Britain.
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William Mulock was active in the negotiations that led to the formation of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in 1905.
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In 1905, William Mulock chaired the select parliamentary inquiry into telephone systems, especially the unregulated Bell Telephone monopoly.
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The committee shed much light on the operations and finances of Bell, but William Mulock was replaced when it became apparent that he was likely to recommend the telephone service be a government owned utility.
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William Mulock was probably the best administrator in the Laurier Cabinet, but he did not always consider the political consequences of his actions.
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William Mulock had ample cause, but Laurier immediately ordered Dansereau reinstated, straining Laurier's relationship with William Mulock.
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William Mulock proposed the Newmarket Canal to the centre of his riding to help local industry, despite engineering reports that that natural water flow would leave the canal dry for much of the year.
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William Mulock immediately revised Post Office contracting policy so that all uniforms would be produced under Government approved conditions.
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In 1900, William Mulock introduced "The Fair Wages Resolution" governing all Canadian government contracting, and an act that created the Department of Labour and the Labour Gazette.
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William Mulock became Canada's first Minister of Labour in addition to his Post Office responsibilities.
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In 1903 William Mulock introduced compulsory arbitration to Canada through the Railway Disputes Act.
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William Mulock retired from politics in 1905 due to rheumatism and neuritis exacerbated by overwork, but the movement of his political views to the left may have contributed to his decision.
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William Mulock was appointed Chief Justice of the Exchequer and subsequently Chief Justice of Ontario.
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William Mulock served until age 93, probably a record for a Canadian court; lawyers referred to Mulock and his elderly colleagues as "murderers' row".
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William Mulock reported himself as an ardent abolitionist in his youth, and as a politician he actively campaigned in black communities, but in his ruling William Mulock denounced only mob law, not the underlying racial issues.
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The strongly anticommunist William Mulock presided over the appeal of the convictions in 1932, and despite dismissing the conspiracy charge, upheld the other convictions and his lengthy written decision established the Communist Party as an unlawful organization, effectively banning it.
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In 1880, William Mulock purchased a large property on what is the northwest corner of William Mulock Drive and Yonge Street in Newmarket.
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In political life, William Mulock was often referred to as "Farmer Bill".
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In 1926, William Mulock purchased a second farm in Markdale, Ontario for trout fishing and reforestation.
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William Mulock's firm represented many commercial interests, including Consumers Gas, the American Bank Note Company, and Sun Life.
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William Mulock was President of the Victoria Rolling Stock Company and the Farmers' Loan and Savings Co.
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William Mulock was one of the founders of The Dominion Bank, which opened for business in 1871 and in 1955 merged with the Bank of Toronto to form the Toronto-Dominion Bank, currently Canada's second largest bank.
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William Mulock was one of the founders and Directors of Toronto General Trusts, Canada's first trust company and an ancestor of TD Canada Trust.
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In 1899, as chief Liberal Party organizer in Ontario, William Mulock wanted a Liberal paper to counterbalance the Conservative Toronto Telegram.
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William Mulock led a group that purchased the ailing Toronto Star and offered Joseph Atkinson the position as editor.
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William Mulock unhappily agreed, and William Mulock and Atkinson clashed for the rest of their lives.
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Cardinal McQuigan credited William Mulock with helping Catholics fully participate in the civic life of Ontario.
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In 1925, William Mulock was the leading organizer of the Banting Research Foundation, Canada's first medical research foundation.
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William Mulock became the first president of Canada's first national, secular peace organization, the Canadian Peace and Arbitration Society, founded in 1905 by Charles Ambrose Zavitz.
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When Britain entered World War I, William Mulock immediately started organizing the Toronto and York County Patriotic Fund to assist soldier's families.
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William Mulock considered information from Canadian prison camp officials to be hearsay that could not replace direct inspection.
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William Mulock married in May 1870 Sarah Ellen Crowther, daughter of James Crowther.
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Mulock's grandson William Pate Mulock was an MP for York North.
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William Mulock was described as "The man who did", his work ethic recognized even by those who sometimes disagreed with what he did.
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At a luncheon in his honour shortly after his 87th birthday, William Mulock described his attitude on growing old:.