Reverend Norman Rawson was a World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

 veteran, attaining the rank of captain, and minister at Centenary Church in Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton, Ontario

Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian province of Ontario. Conceived by George Hamilton when he purchased the Durand farm shortly after the War of 1812, Hamilton has become the centre of a densely populated and industrialized region at the west end of Lake Ontario known as the Golden Horseshoe...

 from 1937 until 1954. In 1938, he was a candidate in the 1938 Conservative Party of Ontario leadership convention receiving 22 votes and coming in last of four candidates behind the winner, George Drew

George Drew

George Alexander Drew, was a Canadian conservativepolitician who founded a Progressive Conservative dynasty in Ontario that lasted 42 years...

. He subsequently became a speaker for the Leadership League, a conservative movement established by Globe and Mail publisher George McCullagh

George McCullagh

Clement George McCullagh was an influential Canadian newspaper owner between 1936-52. He created The Globe and Mail by merging the Liberal-allied Globe and Conservative-allied Mail and Empire newspapers in 1936...

which proposed one party rule in Canada under direction of business leaders.