Doug Rowland

Douglas Charles Rowland, (born June 14, 1940) is a Canadian former politician. Rowland has had extensive experience on Boards in the not-for-profit sector as well as on management committees in government and the private sector. He was, for five years, Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Former Parliamentarians (CAFP) and is now a member of the Editorial Board of the CAFP. Rowland is President Emeritus of the International Election Monitors Institute formed jointly by the CAFP, the United States Association of Former Members of Congress and the Former Members Association of the European Parliament. He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Parliamentary Centre and a past Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario and the first Canadian member of the International Solidarity Committee of the Washington-based Freedom House. He is Immediate Past President of the Friends of the Canadian War Museum. He was for nine years a member of the Board of Trustees of The Salvation Army Ottawa Grace Hospital and for six of those years, Chair. He was a member of the Founding Board of the New Ottawa Hospital. He is a Past Chair of The Salvation Army Advisory Board for Ottawa. He also chaired The Salvation Army Capital Campaign task group of Ottawa and was a member of The Salvation Army Territorial Advisory Board. He served as a member of the Ottawa committee for the Canadian War Museum Passing the Torch campaign. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Shield Foundation and is a volunteer van-driver for Unitarian House Retirement Home. Rowland was a federal Member of Parliament in the early 1970s. During both Parliaments in which he served he held the post of Defence Critic for the New Democratic Party. Prior to his election, he had been chief of staff to the Manitoba Provincial NDP leader, A. R. (Russ) Paulley, and Principal Secretary to Federal NDP leaders T. C. Douglas and David