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3 unusual facts about Charles Edward Johnston


Austin Claypool

He ran in a five way race as a Liberal candidate but was defeated finishing a close second to incumbent Charles Johnston.

Charles Edward Johnston

After being defeated from federal politics he would run for a seat to the Alberta Legislature as the governing Alberta Social Credit candidate in the new provincial electoral district of Calgary Bowness.

Edward Joseph Garland

He was a founding member of that party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, when it was officially launched in 1932 and stood as a CCF candidate but was defeated on his bid for a 5th term in office in the 1935 Canadian federal election by Charles Edward Johnston from the Social Credit Party of Canada.



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