4th Alberta Legislature

4th Alberta Legislature
4th Alberta Legislature
Majority parliament
7 February 1918 – 23 June 1921
Parliament leaders
Premier	Charles Stewart ; October 30, 1917 – August 13, 1921
Cabinet	Stewart cabinet
Leader of the; Opposition	George Hoadley ; February 7, 1918 – April 17, 1919
	James Ramsey ; February 17, 1920 – April 10, 1920
	Albert Ewing ; February 15, 1921 – April 19, 1921
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	Conservative Party
Legislative Assembly
Speaker of the; Assembly	Charles W. Fisher ; March 15, 1906 – May 15, 1919
	Charles Pingle ; February 17, 1920 – July 18, 1921
Members	58 MLA seats
Sovereign
Monarch	George V ; May 6, 1910 – January 20, 1936
Lieutenant; Governor	Hon. Robert George Brett ; October 20, 1915 – October 29, 1925
Sessions
	1st session; February 7, 1918 – April 13, 1918
	2nd session; February 4, 1919 – April 17, 1919
	3rd session; February 17, 1920 – April 10, 1920
	4th session; February 15, 1921 – April 19, 1921
← 3rd	→ 5th

Last updated April 09, 2024

The 4th Alberta Legislative Assembly was in session from February 7, 1918, to June 23, 1921, with the membership of the assembly determined by the results of the 1917 Alberta general election held on June 7, 1917. The Legislature officially resumed on February 7, 1918, and continued until the fourth session was prorogued on April 19, 1921 and dissolved on June 23, 1921, prior to the 1921 Alberta general election.^[1]

Alberta's second government was controlled by the majority Liberal Party led by Premier Arthur Sifton, who would resign shortly after the 1917 election on October 30, 1917 to contest the 1917 Canadian general election for the Unionist Party under Prime Minister Robert Borden in support of the Borden government during the Conscription Crisis of 1917. Charles Stewart would be Sifton's choice as replacement as Premier, which was accepted by Lieutenant Governor Robert Brett. The Official Opposition was the Conservative Party led by George Hoadley for the first session, and James Ramsey for the remaining sessions. The Speaker was Charles W. Fisher who continued in the role from the 1st, 2nd and 3rd assembly, and would serve in the role until his death from the 1918 flu pandemic on May 5, 1919. Fisher was replaced as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly by Charles Pingle.

The 4th Assembly would be the final time the Alberta Liberal Party would hold government, being replaced by the United Farmers of Alberta following the 1921 general election.

Members of the 4th Legislative Assembly

Sifton Cabinet

Stewart Cabinet

Government

	Member	Party	First elected
Acadia	John McColl	Liberal	1913
Athabasca	Alexander Grant MacKay	Liberal	1913
Athabasca
George Mills	Liberal	1919
Beaver River	Wilfrid Gariépy	Liberal	1913
Bow Valley	Charles R. Mitchell	Liberal	1917
North Calgary	William McCartney Davidson	Liberal	1917
Camrose	George P. Smith	Liberal	1909
Cardston	Martin Woolf	Liberal	1912
Clearwater	Joseph State	Liberal	1917
Cochrane	Charles W. Fisher	Liberal	1905
Cochrane
Alexander Moore	United Farmers	1919
Didsbury	Henry B. Atkins	Liberal	1917
Edson	Charles Wilson Cross	Liberal	1905
Grouard	Jean Côté	Liberal	1909
Hand Hills	Robert Eaton	Liberal	1913
Innisfail	Daniel Morkeberg	Liberal	1917
Leduc	Stanley Tobin	Liberal	1913
Little Bow	James McNaughton	Liberal	1913
Macleod	George Skelding	Liberal	1917
Olds	Duncan Marshall	Liberal	1909
Peace River	William Archibald Rae	Liberal	1917
Pembina	Gordon MacDonald	Liberal	1913
Redcliff	Charles Pingle	Liberal	1913
Ribstone	James Gray Turgeon	Liberal	1913
Sedgewick	Charles Stewart	Liberal	1909
St. Albert	Lucien Boudreau	Liberal	1909
Stettler	Edward Prudden	Liberal	1917
St. Paul	Prosper-Edmond Lessard	Liberal	1913
Sturgeon	John Boyle	Liberal	1905
Taber	Archibald J. McLean	Liberal	1909
Vegreville	Joseph McCallum	Liberal	1913
Vermilion	Arthur Lewis Sifton	Liberal	1910
Vermilion
Arthur Ebbett	Liberal	1917
Victoria	Francis A. Walker	Liberal	1905
Warner	Frank Leffingwell	Liberal	1913
Wetaskiwin	Hugh John Montgomery	Liberal	1914
Whitford	Andrew Shandro	Liberal	1913

Official Opposition

District	Member	Party	First elected
Alexandra	James Lowery	Conservative	1913
South Calgary	Thomas Blow	Conservative	1913
Coronation	William Wilson	Conservative	1917
Edmonton East	James Ramsey	Conservative	1917
Edmonton West	Albert Ewing	Conservative	1913
Edmonton South	Herbert Crawford	Conservative	1913
Gleichen	Fred Davis	Conservative	1917
High River	George Douglas Stanley	Conservative	1913
Lac Ste. Anne	George Barker	Conservative	1917
Lacombe	Andrew Gilmour	Conservative	1917
Lethbridge City	John Stewart	Conservative	1911
Medicine Hat	Nelson Spencer	Conservative	1913
Okotoks	George Hoadley	Conservative	1909
Pincher Creek	John Kemmis	Conservative	1911
Ponoka	Charles Cunningham	Conservative	1917
Red Deer	Edward Michener	Conservative	1909
Red Deer
John Gaetz	Liberal	1918
Rocky Mountain	Robert Campbell	Conservative	1913
Stony Plain	Frederick Lundy	Conservative	1917
Wainwright	George LeRoy Hudson	Conservative	1913

Opposition

District	Member	Party	First elected
Centre Calgary	Alex Ross	Labor Representation	1917
Claresholm	Louise McKinney	Non-Partisan	1917
Nanton	James Weir	Non-Partisan	1917
Province at Large	Robert Pearson	Canadian Armed Forces	1917
Province at Large
Roberta MacAdams	Canadian Armed Forces	1917

Members of the Alberta Non-Partisan League, became members of the United Farmers of Alberta on July 15, 1919.

Standings changes in the 4th general election


Date	Member Name	District	Party	Reason
November 9, 1917	George Smith	Camrose	Liberal	Resigned to run in a ministerial by-election
November 19, 1917	Arthur Ebbett	Vermilion	Liberal	Elected in a by-election
September 27, 1918	Alexander MacKay	Athabasca	Liberal	Resigned to run in a ministerial by-election
October 21, 1918	Jean Côté	Grouard	Liberal	Resigned to run in a ministerial by-election
October 28, 1918	John Gaetz	Red Deer	Liberal	Elected in a by-election
March 29, 1919	Alex Ross	Centre Calgary	Dominion Labor	Formed the Dominion Labor caucus
May 5, 1919	Charles Fisher	Cochrane	Liberal	Died
November 3, 1919	Alexander Moore	Cochrane	United Farmers	Elected in a by-election
November 3, 1919	George Mills	Athabasca	Liberal	Elected in a by-election

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References

↑ Perry, Sandra E.; Footz, Valerie L. (2006). Massolin, Philip A. (ed.). A Higher Duty: Speakers of the Legislative Assemblies. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 495. ISBN 0-9689217-3-6 . Retrieved 9 August 2020.

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[1] Perry, Sandra E.; Footz, Valerie L. (2006). Massolin, Philip A. (ed.). A Higher Duty: Speakers of the Legislative Assemblies. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. p. 495. ISBN 0-9689217-3-6 . Retrieved 9 August 2020.

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