Breton moved to Canada at the age of 20 in 1904.[3][2] He settled at Telfordville near Leduc and became a prominent farmer and merchant there.[4] He also was appointed election returning officer and was involved in local government in the Strawberry district.[5]
On 24 January 1920,Breton married Dorothy Blanche Frost,the daughter of Mark Edwin Prescott Frost OBEISO. They came as a couple back to his farm in Alberta. Together they had two children.[2]
Political career
Breton ran for a seat in the 1926 Alberta general election as a United Farmers candidate in the electoral district of Leduc. In the three-way race,he and the Liberal candidate were close in votes,with the Conservative in distant third place. No candidate had majority of votes in the first round. Under the rules of instant-runoff voting,the election method in use at the time,the least-popular candidate,the Conservative candidate,was eliminated and his votes transferred according to the back-up preference marked thereon if any. The transfer gave Breton a majority of the votes,and he won the seat for his party.[8][9]
A year after being elected to office the name of the village of Keystone,Alberta was changed to Breton in 1927 in his honor.[7]
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