George Drew

George Alexander Drew was a WWI artillery officer, lawyer, and author from Guelph, Ontario. Winning the 1943 Ontario provincial election on his ambitious progressive "Twenty-Two Point Program," Drew ended a decade of Liberal administration and inaugurated forty-two uninterrupted years of Progressive Conservative government in Ontario.

As premier, Drew created the Ontario Department of Planning and Development and launched mass airborne immigration schemes bringing thousands of British professionals to Ontario. From 1948 to 1956, he served as federal Leader of the Official Opposition in Ottawa against Louis St. Laurent, later serving as Canadian High Commissioner in London.