Karl Kenneth Homuth

Karl Kenneth Homuth (December 12, 1893 – March 15, 1951) was a Canadian manufacturer and political figure in Ontario.

[1] He was born in Preston, Ontario,[1] the son of Otto Homuth and Charlotte McDowell,[2] and was educated there and in Galt.

He was one of the few Labour MLAs who survived the 1923 provincial election that routed Drury's government and was the only Labour MLA returned in the 1926 provincial election in which he broke with his colleagues in what by then was known as the Progressive Party over the issue of temperance.

Homuth supported Conservative Premier George Howard Ferguson's proposal to liberalise Ontario's prohibition laws during the 1926 election in which liquor policy was the principal issue (the Conservatives consequently did not run a candidate against him) and continued to support Ferguson's government after the election ultimately joining the Tories and successfully running for re-election as a Conservative in the 1929 provincial election before resigning in 1930 to unsuccessfully seek the federal seat of Waterloo North for the federal Conservatives.

The ensuing by-election returned Howie Meeker, a then-active National Hockey League player who would go on to have notable careers as a coach, manager and broadcaster.