Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: Da zarar an kafa shi a matsayin lardin, Ontario ya ci gaba da tabbatar da ikonsa na tattalin arziki da majalisa. A shekara ta 1872, lauya Oliver Mowat ya zama Firayim Ministan Ontario kuma ya kasance firaminista har zuwa 1896. Ya yi gwagwarmaya don haƙƙoƙin lardin, yana raunana ikon gwamnatin tarayya a cikin al'amuran lardin, yawanci ta hanyar yin kira mai kyau ga Kwamitin Shari'a na Privy Council. Yaƙe-yaƙen sa da gwamnatin tarayya sun rarraba Kanada sosai, suna ba larduna iko fiye da yadda John A. Macdonald ya yi niyya. Ya ƙarfafa da kuma fadada cibiyoyin ilimi da na lardin Ontario, ya kirkiro gundumomi a Arewacin Ontario, kuma ya yi gwagwarmaya don tabbatar da cewa waɗancan sassan Arewa maso Yammacin Ontario ba a tarihi ba ne na Upper Canada (manyan yankuna arewa da yammacin tafkin Lake Superior-Hudson Bay, wanda aka sani da District of Keewatin) zai zama wani ɓangare na Ontario, nasarar da aka samu a cikin Kanada (Ontario Boundary) Dokar, 1889. Ya kuma jagoranci fitowar lardin a cikin ikon tattalin arzikin Kanada. Mowat shine mahaliccin abin da ake kira Empire Ontario.  Tambaya: Lokacin da Oliver Mowat ya yi yaƙi da gwamnatin tarayya don rarraba Kanada, wane shahararren mutum ne ƙoƙarinsa ya wuce a cikin rarraba ikon da ake so?
John A. Macdonald