| Honorific Prefix: | The Honourable Doctor |
| Augustus Rowe | |
| Birth Date: | 2 August 1920 |
| Birth Place: | Heart's Content, Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Death Place: | Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Office1: | MHA for Carbonear |
| Term Start1: | 1971 |
| Term End1: | 1975 |
| Predecessor1: | George W. Clarke |
| Successor1: | Rod Moores |
| Office2: | Minister of Health |
| Term Start2: | January 1972 |
| Term End2: | 1975 |
| Party: | Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Occupation: | physician |
| Allegiance: | Dominion of Newfoundland |
| Unit: | Royal Newfoundland Regiment |
| Battles: | World War II |
Augustus Taylor Rowe (August 2, 1920 – July 20, 2013) was a Canadian physician and politician. He served as a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly for Carbonear from 1971 to 1975.[1] He also spent three years as the province's Health Minister within the cabinet of the former Premier Frank Moores from January 1972 to 1975.[1] [2]
Rowe was born on August 2, 1920, in Heart's Content, Dominion of Newfoundland (the present-day province of Newfoundland and Labrador).[1] [2] He enlisted in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War II.[1] [2] He completed medical school at St Mary's Hospital Medical School (which was part of the University of London at the time) in London following the war.[1] He returned to Newfoundland and settled in Carbonear in 1954, where he began his medical career as a general practitioner.[1] [2]
In 1957, Dr. Rowe founded Carbonear's first hospital, Carbonear Community Hospital.[1] He led the efforts to raise approximately $37,000 Canadian dollars to establish the new hospital, which provided regional patients which a local medical center. Previously, patients needing hospital treatment had to travel to St. John's or Old Perlican.[1] Rowe served as the director of Carbonear Community Hospital from its opening in 1957 until October 1971, when he resigned upon his election to the House of Assembly.[1]
Rowe was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly as a MLA from Carbonear in October 1971 as a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Newfoundland and Labrador.[1] Rowe was re-elected to the House of Assembly in 1972.[1] Rowe was appointed as provincial Health Minister within the cabinet of Premier Frank Moores from January 1972 to 1975.[2]
He retired from politics in 1975 to pursue family medicine.[1] He later joined the faculty of Memorial University of Newfoundland and became the university's chairman of Family Medicine from 1978 to 1985.[1] [2] A university honor, the Gus Rowe Teaching Award, which is bestowed by the Faculty of Medicine was named for Rowe.[1]
He retired from the University in 1985 and moved to Toronto with his wife, Beatrice.[1] [2] He died in Toronto on July 20, 2013, at the age of 92.[1] He was survived by wife of 68 years, Beatrice "Bea" (née Adams) Rowe; two children, David and Jane, and two grandchildren.[2]