The Honourable George Alexander Drew

Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2011, at 1:30 p.m.

Location: Woodlawn Mausoleum, Woodlawn Memorial Park, 762 Woolwich Street, Guelph

Directions: From Highway 401, take Exit 295 to merge onto Highway 6 North towards Guelph. Head north on Highway 6 and follow the Hanlon Parkway to Woodlawn Road West. Turn right onto Woodlawn Road West. Turn right onto Woolwich Street. Woodlawn Memorial Park is on the right. Visit this gravesite

Bio: Born in Guelph, George Drew was a distinguished First World War veteran and Ontario's fourteenth premier. A practising lawyer, he was also mayor of Guelph in 1925. Drew became leader of the Ontario Conservatives in 1938. He won the election of 1943, and so founded the "Conservative Dynasty" that would rule the province for the next 42 years. He was leader of the federal Conservative party from 1948-56. Drew was the first chancellor of the University of Guelph until 1971.