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Something wrong?Clarence Decatur Howe was an American-born Canadian engineer, businessman and Liberal Party politician. Howe served as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent continuously from 1935 to 1957.
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Terminal elevator at Port Arthur, Ontario, built by Howe for the Board of Grain Commissioners
The 1939 Mackenzie King Cabinet; Mackenzie King in centre front row, Howe, second from the right in the rear row
L-R: Major-General G. R. Pearkes, VC and Howe, during memorial service for General James Wolfe, 1 January 1941
Three men, including the Hon. C. D. Howe and Brigadier Kenneth Stuart, inspecting the first Canadian-built Valentine tank at Angus Shops of the Montreal Locomotive Works (MLW), 27 May 1941
Howe speaking to a worker at an aircraft factory, March 1941
Howe watches a scientist test the curve of a lens by interference fringes at the Instruments Division in the Canadian Arsenals Ltd. optical plant.
Howe and Vermont Governor William H. Wills join the US and Canadian segments of an oil pipeline.Awards
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Clarence Decatur Howe was an American-born Canadian engineer, businessman and Liberal Party politician. Howe served as a cabinet minister in the governments of William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent continuously from 1935 to 1957. He is credited with transforming the Canadian economy from agriculture-based to industrial. During the Second World War, his involvement in the war effort was so extensive that he was nicknamed the "Minister of Everything".
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