James Layton Ralston was a Canadian lawyer,soldier,and politician. A Nova Scotian and a lawyer by training,Ralston fought with distinction during the First World War and pursued a career in the Canadian Army,before becoming a Liberal Member of Parliament. During the Second World War,he served as Minister of National Defence from 1940 to 1944,when he was forced to resign by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King because of his support for the introduction of conscription.
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta was a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta that existed from 1905 to 2020. The party formed the provincial government,without interruption,from 1971 until the party's defeat in the 2015 provincial election under premiers Peter Lougheed,Don Getty,Ralph Klein,Ed Stelmach,Alison Redford,Dave Hancock and Jim Prentice. At 44 years,this was the longest unbroken run in government at the provincial or federal level in Canadian history.
There have been various groups in Canada that have nominated candidates under the label Labour Party or Independent Labour Party,or other variations from the 1870s until the 1960s. These were usually local or provincial groups using the Labour Party or Independent Labour Party name,backed by local labour councils made up of many union locals in a particular city,or individual trade unions. There was an attempt to create a national Canadian Labour Party in the late 1910s and in the 1920s,but these were only partly successful.
Ernest Lapointe was a Canadian lawyer and politician. A member of Parliament from Quebec City,he was a senior minister in the government of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King,playing an important role on issues relating to legal affairs,Quebec and French-speaking Canada.
The 1905 Alberta general election was the first general election held in the Province of Alberta,Canada,shortly after the province entered Canadian Confederation on September 1,1905. The election was held on November 9,1905,to elect twenty-five members to the 1st Alberta Legislative Assembly.
Calgary-West is a provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta,Canada.
Little Bow was a provincial electoral district in Alberta,Canada,mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 2019.
Ewan Alexander McPherson was a politician in Manitoba,Canada. He served in the House of Commons of Canada from 1926 to 1930. He was also a member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1920 and from 1932 to 1936,and served as a cabinet minister in the government of John Bracken.
Vegreville was a provincial electoral district in Alberta,Canada,mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1909 to 1963 and again from 1971 to 1993.
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.
Stanley Gilbert Tobin was a farmer,businessman,teacher and political figure in Alberta,Canada. Tobin served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and a Member of the House of Commons of Canada.
George Douglas Stanley was a Canadian politician and physician. Born in Exeter,Ontario,he began as a pioneer medical doctor in Alberta in 1901. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1921 as a member of the Conservative Party,and he served in the Canadian House of Commons from 1930 to 1935 sitting with the federal Conservatives.
Duncan McLean Marshall was a Canadian journalist,publisher,rancher and politician in the provinces of Ontario and Alberta.
Thomas Henry Blow was a Canadian provincial level politician and physician from Alberta.
James Gray Turgeon was a broker,soldier,and provincial and federal level politician from Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1921 sitting with the Alberta Liberal caucus in government. During that time he also served in World War I.
Herbert Bealey Adshead was a farmer,author and a municipal and federal level politician from Canada.
John Chantler McDougall (1842–1917) was a missionary,civil servant and published author in Alberta,Canada.
Alexander Andrew McGillivray was a lawyer and provincial level politician from Alberta,Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Calgary from 1926 to 1930. He served as leader of the Alberta Conservative party from 1925 to 1929.
By-elections to the 42nd Canadian Parliament were held to fill vacancies in the House of Commons of Canada between the 2015 and the 2019 federal elections. The 42nd Canadian Parliament existed from 2015 to 2019 with the membership of its House of Commons having been determined by the results of the Canadian federal election held on October 19,2015. The Liberal Party of Canada had a majority government during this Parliament.
