Clarence Decatur Howe was an American-born Canadian engineer, businessman and Liberal Party politician. Howe served as a cabinet minister in the governments of prime ministers 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".
C. D. Howe
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.
Louis Stephen St. Laurent was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th prime minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957.
St. Laurent, c. 1948
Louis and Jeanne on their wedding day, May 19, 1908
St. Laurent (left) and Prime Minister King (right) at the San Francisco Conference, May 1945
St. Laurent (bottom, centre-right) and King (bottom, centre) and other delegates negotiating the entry of Newfoundland and Labrador into Confederation, 1947
