Edward Chester Plow

Edward Chester Plow

22nd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia
In office January 15, 1958 – March 1, 1963
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Governor General	Vincent Massey Georges Vanier
Premier	Robert Stanfield
Preceded by	Alistair Fraser
Succeeded by	Henry Poole MacKeen
Personal details
Born	(1904-09-28)September 28, 1904 St. Albans, Vermont
Died	April 25, 1988(1988-04-25) (aged 83) Brockville, Ontario
Awards	C.B.E., D.S.O., C.D.
Military service
Allegiance	Canada
Service/branch	Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
Rank	Major General
Commands	1st Canadian Corps

Edward Chester Plow, CBE DSO CD (September 28, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was a Canadian soldier and the 22nd Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia.

Education

Born in St. Albans, Vermont, he was educated at Lower Canada College and then entered the Royal Military College of Canada in 1921, student # 1649.

Career

He was commissioned in the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery in 1925. He served in Canada and England before World War II began. During World War II, he commanded the artillery of the 1st Canadian Corps. In 1944, he was promoted to Brigadier, Royal Artillery.

Flag of the Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia - a Union Flag defaced with the Shield of Arms of Nova Scotia, surrounded by a chain of green maple leaves.

The residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia, in Halifax.

After the war, he was promoted to Major-General and became the commander of the Eastern Command in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1958, he was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Scotia by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker^[1] and served until 1963.

He died of lung cancer in Brockville, Ontario in 1988.

References

↑ The Canadian Press (December 14, 1957). "Maj.-Gen. E. C. Plow Named N.S. Governor". Ottawa Citizen. p. 10. Retrieved December 15, 2014.

"Edward Chester Plow Career army officer held vice-regal post". The Globe and Mail. 1988-04-27.
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Lieutenant Governors of Nova Scotia

Post-Confederation (1867–present)	Williams Doyle Howe Archibald Richey McLelan Daly Jones D. Fraser McGregor MacKeen M. Grant Douglas Tory Stanfield Covert Irwin Mathers Kendall McCurdy A. Fraser Plow MacKeen Oland Gosse Shaffner Abraham Crouse Kinley Freeman Francis J. Grant

Lieutenant-Governors before Confederation (1786–1867)	Parr Bulkeley Wentworth Prévost (Croke) Sherbrooke Smyth Dalhousie Kempt Jeffrey Maitland Jeffrey C. Campbell Falkland Dickson Harvey Bazalgette Le Marchant Phipps Doyle MacDonnell Williams

Lieutenant-Governors of Cape Breton Island (1784–1820)	Desbarres Macarmick Mathews Ogilvie Murray Despard Nepean Swayne Ainslie

Governors before Confederation (1710–86)	Vetch Nicholson Caulfeild Vetch Caulfeild Philipps Doucett Armstrong Cosby Mascarene Cornwallis Hopson Lawrence Ellis Belcher Wilmot W. Campbell Green Francklin Legge Francklin Arbuthnot Hughes Hamond Parr

Lieutenant-Governors who served in the absence of Governors are listed in parentheses. Acting administrators are listed in italics.

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