Walter Stewart Owen

Infobox Governor General | name =The Honourable Walter Stewart Owen, OC, QC
nationality =Canadian


order =23nd Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia}
term_start =1973
term_end =1978
predecessor =John Robert Nicholson
successor =Henry Pybus Bell-Irving
birth_date =birth date|1904|1|26|df=y
death_date =death date and age|1981|1|13|1904|1|26|df=y|

Walter Stewart Owen, OC, QC (Atlin, British Columbia January 26, 1904 – January 13, 1981, Vancouver) was Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia from 1973–1978.

In his youth, Owen was the first premier of the British Columbia Older Boys' Parliament, which later became the British Columbia Youth Parliament. He became a prominent lawyer in Vancouver. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia in 1928 and in 1933 was named the youngest crown prosecutor in Canada at that time. [Daniel Francis, ed. "The Encyclopedia of British Columbia"] He later went into private practice and co-founded the Vancouver law firm Owen Bird. In 1958, he was elected as the president of the Canadian Bar Association.

In 1956, Owen and business partner Frank Griffiths purchased New Westminster radio station CKNW and co-founded Western International Communications Ltd. ("WIC"). ["ibid"]

He is the father of Philip Owen, who served two terms as the mayor of the city of Vancouver.

In 1978, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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* [http://www.ltgov.bc.ca/office/WalterOwen.htm Biography from the website of the Lieutenant Governor of British Columbia]