Background
He was born in Bowmanville, Ontario.
He was born in Bowmanville, Ontario.
Rowe ran for the Canadian House of Commons as a candidate from the Social Cr Party of Canada. He was elected by a comfortable margin defeating 3 other candidates. He died in Lakeview, Ontario in 1978.
He would leave the Social Cr party and run for the Company-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1940 Canadian federal election and be defeated finishing a distant 3rd place by Liberal candidate Joseph Miville Dechene and Social Cr Member of Parliament William Hayhurst who had previously represented the Vegreville riding.