
E.C. Drury
In a fiercely fought provincial election in 1919, a new political movement came to power in Ontario. The victorious party was the United Farmers of Ontario. Its leader, Ernest Charles Drury (1878-1968), became the province''s eighth premier.
Idealistic agrarian reformer, staunch temperance man, free-trade advocate, Simcoe County ''yeoman,'' and progressive populist, Drury was a man of the people an...
In a fiercely fought provincial election in 1919, a new political movement came to power in Ontario. The victorious party was the United Farmers of Ontario. Its leader, Ernest Charles Drury (1878-1968), became the province''s eighth premier.
Idealistic agrarian reformer, staunch temperance man, free-trade advocate, Simcoe County ''yeoman,'' and progressive populist, Drury was a man of the people an...