Howard Brown Chase, CBE (19 May 1884 – 19 February 1973) was a British-born Canadian trade union leader and public official.
[1] Chase was born in Essex, England on 19 May 1884, the son of an American father and an English mother who were visiting at the time.
[2][3] He served as technical adviser to the Canadian government's delegation to the International Labour Conference in Geneva in 1938.
[2][4] When the Board was taken over by the Department of Munitions and Supply in 1940, Chase became its director general of labour relations, negotiating settlements in numerous strikes.
[8][2] He died in Montreal in 1973, survived by three sons; his wife, Muriel Chase, née Jones, predeceased him.