6th Alberta Legislature

6th Alberta Legislature
6th Alberta Legislature
Majority parliament
10 February 1927 – 10 May 1930
Parliament leaders
Premier	John Edward Brownlee ; November 23, 1925 – July 10, 1934
Cabinet	Brownlee cabinet
Party caucuses
Government	United Farmers of Alberta
Opposition	Liberal Party
Crossbench	Dominion Labor Party
	Conservative Party
Legislative Assembly
Speaker of the; Assembly	George Norman Johnston ; February 10, 1927 – July 22, 1935
Members	60 MLA seats
Sovereign
Monarch	George V ; May 6, 1910 – January 20, 1936
Lieutenant; Governor	Hon. William Egbert ; October 29, 1925 – May 5, 1931
Sessions
	1st session; February 10, 1927 – April 2, 1927
	2nd session; February 2, 1928 – March 21, 1928
	3rd session; January 31, 1929 – March 20, 1929
	4th session; January 30, 1930 – April 3, 1930
← 5th	→ 7th

Last updated December 29, 2023

The 6th Alberta Legislative Assembly was in session from February 10, 1927, to May 10, 1930, with the membership of the assembly determined by the results of the 1926 Alberta general election held on June 28, 1926. The Legislature officially resumed on February 10, 1927, and continued until the fourth session was prorogued on April 3, 1930, and dissolved on May 10, 1930, prior to the 1930 Alberta general election.^[1]

Alberta's sixth government was controlled by the majority United Farmers of Alberta for the second time, led by Premier John Edward Brownlee. There was no Official Opposition in Alberta between 1926 and 1941 due to the Independent Movement which saw a majority of non-UFA candidates elected as independents. The Speaker was George Norman Johnston.

The 1926 Alberta general election formed the first legislature that was elected under Single Transferable Vote.

Bills

Sexual Sterilization Act

The Sexual Sterilization Act was an act passed by the Alberta Legislature in 1928. The Act, drafted to protect the gene pool, allowed for sterilization of mentally disabled persons in order to prevent the transmission of traits to offspring deemed undesirable, the act also created the Alberta Eugenics Board.

At that time, eugenicists argued that mental illness, mental retardation, epilepsy, alcoholism, pauperism, certain criminal behaviours, and social defects, such as prostitution and sexual perversion, were genetically determined and inherited. Further, it was widely believed that persons with these disorders had a higher reproduction rate than the normal population. As a result, it was feared the gene pool in the general population was weakening.

During the time the Sexual Sterilization Act was in effect, 4,800 cases were proposed for sterilization in the province of Alberta, of which 99% received approval. Examination of sterilization records demonstrates that legislation did not apply equally to all members of society. Specifically, the Act was disproportionately applied to those in socially vulnerable positions, including females, children, unemployed persons, domestics, rural citizens, unmarried, institutionalized persons, Roman and Greek Catholics, and persons of Ukrainian, Native and Métis ethnicity.^[2]

The Act was repealed in 1972.

Alberta Natural Resources Act

The Alberta Natural Resources Act was an act passed by the Alberta Legislature in the fifth session in 1930. The Act facilitated the transfer from the Parliament of Canada and to the province of Alberta control over crown lands and natural resources within these provinces from the federal government to the provincial governments. Alberta through the Alberta Act had not been given control over their natural resources when they entered Confederation, unlike the other Canadian provinces.^[3]

The Alberta Natural Resource Transfer Agreement^[4] restricts the inherent hunting and fishing rights for indigenous peoples. “The Natural Resource Transfer Agreements with the three Western Provinces provide that laws respecting game in the province shall apply to Indians within the boundaries of the province”.^[5]

Membership in the 6th Alberta Legislature

	Member	Party
Acadia	Lorne Proudfoot	United Farmers
Alexandra	Peter Enzenauer	United Farmers
Athabasca	John Frame	Liberal
Beaver River	John Delisle	United Farmers
Bow Valley	Joseph Shaw	Liberal
Calgary	Alexander McGillivray	Conservative
	George Harry Webster	Liberal
	John Irwin	Conservative
	Fred J. White	Dominion Labor
	Robert Parkyn	Independent Labor
Camrose	Vernor Smith	United Farmers
Cardston	George Stringam	United Farmers
Claresholm	Gordon Walker	United Farmers
Cochrane	Robert McCool	United Farmers
Coronation	George Johnston	United Farmers
Cypress	Perren Baker	United Farmers
Didsbury	Austin Claypool	United Farmers
Edmonton	John Lymburn	United Farmers
	Charles Weaver	Conservative
	Charles Gibbs	Dominion Labor
	Warren Prevey	Liberal
	David Milwyn Duggan	Conservative
Edson	Christopher Pattinson	Dominion Labor
Empress	William Smith	United Farmers
Gleichen	John Buckley	United Farmers
Grouard	Leonidas Giroux	Liberal
Hand Hills	Gordon Forster	United Farmers
High River	Samuel Brown	United Farmers
Innisfail	Donald Cameron	United Farmers
Lac Ste. Anne	Charles McKeen	United Farmers
Lacombe	Irene Parlby	United Farmers
Leduc	Douglas Breton	United Farmers
Lethbridge	Andrew Smeaton	Dominion Labor
Little Bow	Oran McPherson	United Farmers
Macleod	William Shield	United Farmers
Medicine Hat	Charles Pingle	Liberal
Nanton	Daniel Harcourt Galbraith	United Farmers
Okotoks	George Hoadley	United Farmers
Olds	Nelson Smith	United Farmers
Peace River	Hugh Allen	United Farmers
Pembina	George MacLachlan	United Farmers
Pincher Creek	Earle Cook	United Farmers
Ponoka	John Brownlee	United Farmers
Red Deer	George Wilbert Smith	United Farmers
Ribstone	William Farquharson	United Farmers
Rocky Mountain	Philip Christophers	Dominion Labor
Sedgewick	Albert Andrews	United Farmers
St. Albert	Lucien Boudreau	Liberal
St. Paul	Laudas Joly	United Farmers
Stettler	Albert Sanders	United Farmers
Stony Plain	Willard Washburn	United Farmers
Sturgeon	Samuel Carson	United Farmers
Taber	Lawrence Peterson	United Farmers
Vegreville	Archie Matheson	United Farmers
Vermilion	Richard Reid	United Farmers
Victoria	Rudolph Hennig	United Farmers
Wainwright	John Russell Love	United Farmers
Warner	Maurice Conner	United Farmers
Wetaskiwin	Evert Sparks	United Farmers
Whitford	George Mihalcheon	United Farmers

Composition changes during the 6th Assembly

Number of members per party by date		1926	1928		1930
Number of members per party by date		Jun 28	Jan 10	May 1	?
	United Farmers	43			44
	Liberal	7	6	7	6
	Dominion Labor	5
	Conservative	4
	Independent Labor	1
	Total members	60	59	60
	Vacant	0	1	0
	Government Majority	26	27	26	28


Date	Name	District	Party	Reason
June 28, 1926	See List of Members			Election day of the sixth Alberta general election
January 10, 1928	Charles Pingle	Medicine Hat	Liberal	Died of a stroke
May 1, 1928	Hector Lang	Medicine Hat	Liberal	Elected in a by-election
1930	John Frame	Athabasca	United Farmers	Crossed the floor from the Liberals to the United Farmers caucus

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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. 496. ISBN 0-9689217-3-6 . Retrieved August 9, 2020.
↑ Grekul, Jana Marie. The Social Construction of the Feebleminded Threat: Implementation of the Sexual Sterilization Act in Alberta 1929 – 1972. University of Alberta, Ph.D. Thesis, 2002.
↑ Constitution Act, 1867 , 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3. (U.K.), R.S.C. 1985, App. II, No. 11, s. 109.
↑ Alberta Natural Resources Act, S.C. 1930, c. 3
↑ Hawley, Donna. The Indian Act Annotated (2nd ed). Toronto: Carswell.

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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. 496. ISBN 0-9689217-3-6 . Retrieved August 9, 2020.

[2] Grekul, Jana Marie. The Social Construction of the Feebleminded Threat: Implementation of the Sexual Sterilization Act in Alberta 1929 – 1972. University of Alberta, Ph.D. Thesis, 2002.

[3] Constitution Act, 1867 , 30 & 31 Victoria, c. 3. (U.K.), R.S.C. 1985, App. II, No. 11, s. 109.

[:0-4] Alberta Natural Resources Act, S.C. 1930, c. 3

[5] Hawley, Donna. The Indian Act Annotated (2nd ed). Toronto: Carswell.

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