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4 unusual facts about Casimir Gzowski


Kazimierz Gzowski

Casimir Gzowski (1813–1898), engineer and acting Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, 1896–1897

Queen Elizabeth Way Monument

The monument was moved in August 1975 in order to accommodate widening of the original QEW, and is now located in the nearby Sir Casimir Gzowski Park along Lake Ontario, on the east side of the Humber River.

Queen's Plate

Initiated in 1859 by the then president of the Toronto Turf Club, Sir Casimir Gzowski, the Queen's Plate was inaugurated on June 27, 1860, at the Carleton racetrack in Toronto, Ontario, with the prize of 50 guineas awarded by Queen Victoria.

Semih Tezcan

He received the Gzowski Gold Medal, Best Civil Engineering Paper Award from Engineering Institute of Canada.



see also

Elmore Harris

This group was led by Elmore Harris, and included the well-known Casimir Gzowski Jr. (son of the builder of the Grand Trunk Railway and grandfather of broadcaster Peter Gzowski), Robert Kilgour of the Kilgour Brothers (a manufacturer of paper bags and paper boxes), John Drysdale Nasmith (a baker) and Samuel J. Moore of the business forms fame (a Sunday school leader at Dovercourt Road Baptist Church).