Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I.
Sir Henri Charles Wilfrid Laurier,was a Canadian lawyer,statesman,and politician who served as the seventh prime minister of Canada from 1896 to 1911. The first French Canadian prime minister,his 15-year tenure remains the longest unbroken term of office among Canadian prime ministers and his nearly 45 years of service in the House of Commons is a record for the House. Laurier is best known for his compromises between English and French Canada.
Charles Stewart,was a Canadian politician who served as the third premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane,Ontario,in then Wentworth County,Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm. There he became active in politics and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 election. He served as Minister of Public Works and Minister of Municipal Affairs—the first person to hold the latter position in Alberta—in the government of Arthur Sifton. When Sifton left provincial politics in 1917 to join the federal cabinet,Stewart was named his replacement.
Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton was a Canadian lawyer,judge and politician who served as the second premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917. He became a minister in the federal cabinet of Canada thereafter. Born in Canada West,he grew up there and in Winnipeg,where he became a lawyer. He subsequently practised law with his brother Clifford Sifton in Brandon,where he was also active in municipal politics. He moved west to Prince Albert in 1885 and to Calgary in 1889. There,he was elected to the 4th and 5th North-West Legislative Assemblies;he served as a minister in the government of premier Frederick Haultain. In 1903,the federal government,at the instigation of his brother,made Sifton the Chief Justice of the Northwest Territories. After Alberta was created out of a portion of the Northwest Territories in 1905,Sifton became the first Chief Justice of Alberta in 1907 and served until 1910.
The Saskatchewan Act,S. C. 1905,c. 42. is an Act of the Parliament of Canada which established the new province of Saskatchewan,effective September 1,1905. Its long title is An Act to establish and provide for the government of the Province of Saskatchewan. The Act received royal assent on July 20,1905. The Saskatchewan Act is part of the Constitution of Canada.
The 1896 Canadian federal election was held on June 23,1896,to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 8th Parliament of Canada. Though the Conservative Party,led by Prime Minister Charles Tupper,won a plurality of the popular vote,the Liberal Party,led by Wilfrid Laurier,won the majority of seats to form the next government. The election ended 18 years of Conservative rule.
Sir Hugh John Macdonald,was the only surviving son of the first prime minister of Canada,John A. Macdonald. He too was a politician,serving as a member of the House of Commons of Canada and a federal cabinet minister,and briefly as the eighth premier of Manitoba.
The 1891 Canadian federal election was held on March 5,1891,to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 7th Parliament of Canada. It was won by the Conservative Party of Prime Minister Sir John A. Macdonald.
William Stevens Fielding,was a Canadian Liberal politician,the seventh premier of Nova Scotia (1884–96),and the federal Minister of Finance from 1896 to 1911 and again from 1921 to 1925.
Sir Rodmond Palen Roblin was a businessman and politician in Manitoba,Canada.
The 1911 Canadian federal election was held on September 21,1911 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 12th Parliament of Canada.
Theodore Arthur Burrows was a politician and office-holder in Manitoba,Canada. He served as the tenth Lieutenant Governor of the province from October 6,1926 until his death.
The 1905 Alberta general election was the first general election held in the Province of Alberta,Canada on November 9,1905,to elect twenty five members of the Alberta legislature to the 1st Alberta Legislative Assembly,shortly after the province was created out of the Northwest Territories on September 1,1905.
William Henry Cushing was a Canadian politician. Born in Ontario,he migrated west as a young adult where he started a successful lumber company and later became Alberta's first Minister of Public Works and the 11th mayor of Calgary. As Minister of Public Works in the government of Alexander Cameron Rutherford,he oversaw the creation of Alberta Government Telephones.
Valentine Winkler was a politician in Manitoba,Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal for Rhineland from 1892 to 1900,and again from 1900 to 1920. Winkler was a cabinet minister in the government of Tobias Norris. His brother,Enoch Winkler,was also a member of the provincial legislature from 1888 to 1899.
Charles Wilson Cross was a Canadian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the House of Commons of Canada. He was also the first Attorney-General of Alberta. Born in Ontario,he studied law at Osgoode Hall Law School before coming west to practise in Edmonton. He became active with the Liberal Party of Canada,and when Alberta was created in 1905 he was chosen by Premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford to be its first Attorney-General. Implicated in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal,he resigned in 1910 along with the rest of Rutherford's government.
Francis "Frank" Oliver was a Canadian federal minister,politician,and journalist from the Northwest Territories and later Alberta. As Minister of the Interior,he was responsible for discriminatory Canadian government policies that targeted First Nations' land rights and Black immigration.
Post-Confederation Canada (1867–1914) is history of Canada from the formation of the Dominion to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Canada had a population of 3.5 million,residing in the large expanse from Cape Breton to just beyond the Great Lakes,usually within a hundred miles or so of the Canada–United States border. One in three Canadians was French,and about 100,000 were aboriginal. It was a rural country composed of small farms. With a population of 115,000,Montreal was the largest city,followed by Toronto and Quebec at about 60,000. Pigs roamed the muddy streets of Ottawa,the small new national capital.
William Franklin Puffer was a Canadian politician who served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1905 until 1917. Born in Ontario,he came west and settled in Lacombe,where he operated a butchery,among other interests. He was elected to the legislature in Alberta's first provincial election,and returned to office in each of the next two before being defeated in the 1917 election. He subsequently made two unsuccessful attempts to reclaim his seat.
John Wright Sifton was a 19th-century Manitoba politician and the founder of an important political family in Western Canada.
