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7 unusual facts about Legislative Assembly of Alberta


Douglas Breton

He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1926 to 1930 sitting with United Farmers caucus in government.

Edmonton Airports

Edmonton Airports, officially the Edmonton Regional Airports Authority, was formed in 1990, under the Regional Airports Authorities Act passed by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1989, and is responsible for the management and operation of three airports in the Edmonton area.

Henry B. Atkins

Atkins was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Alberta Liberal Party in the 1917 Alberta general election.

Holocaust Memorial Day and Genocide Remembrance Act

A law passed in the Alberta Legislature with unanimous consent of all parties in November 2000.

Manmeet

Manmeet Bhullar, a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Michael Copps Costello

He ran unsuccessfully as a Conservative MLA candidate in the Calgary electoral riding in the 1921 and 1926 Alberta general elections.

Mo Elsalhy

He was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing Edmonton McClung in the 2004 general election for the Alberta Liberal Party.


Accurate News and Information Act

The Accurate News and Information Act was a statute passed by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada, in 1937, at the instigation of William Aberhart's Social Credit government.

Alberta Alliance Party

The Alliance gained its first Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta (MLA) on June 29, 2004, when Gary Masyk crossed the floor, quitting the Progressive Conservative Party to protest Ralph Klein's handling of health care issues during the 2004 federal election.

Bonnyville-Cold Lake

It is currently represented by Progressive Conservative MLA Genia Leskiw who was first elected in 2008.

Charles M. O'Brien

O'Brien was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election for the Socialist Party of Alberta.

Colin Genge

Genge was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election.

David Warnock

Warnock was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Pincher Creek electoral district in the 1909 Alberta general election.

Joe Anglin

He was the leader of the Alberta Greens from 2008 until its dissolution in 2009, and as of April 23, 2012 is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Rimbey-Rocky Mountain House-Sundre, representing the Wildrose Party.

Louis Roberts

Louis was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election, for the Alberta Liberal Party.

Martha Bielish

Bielish ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1959 Alberta general election as a provincial Progressive Conservative candidate in the electoral district of Redwater.

Peter Sandhu

Parmjit Singh "Peter" Sandhu is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Manning and is currently sitting as an Independent MLA after withdrawing from the Progressive Conservative Caucus due to an ongoing investigation by Alberta's ethics commissioner over business dealings.

Peter Sekulic

Peter was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 Alberta general election.

Ron Gostick

His mother, Edith Gostick, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1935 provincial election that brought Social Credit to power for the first time, making Aberhardt Premier of Alberta.

Shiraz Shariff

Shariff was elected to his first term in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a hotly contested by-election in Calgary McCall on April 20, 1995 defeating Liberal Jeet Shergill and future New Democratic Party president Anne McGrath by just a few hundred votes.

Tony Caterina

After losing in the municipal election, Caterina ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the electoral district of Edmonton-Centre in the 2004 Alberta general election.


see also

Alex Moore

Alexander Moore, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1919–1926

Arthur Dixon

Arthur J. Dixon (1919–2007), former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Duncan Marshall

Marshall was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the first time in the 1909 Alberta general election to the new Olds electoral district.

Fred Archer

Fred W. Archer, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1913–1917

Harold Riley

Harold William Hounsfield Riley (1877–1946), member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Henry Atkins

Henry B. Atkins former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

Hong Kong Canadian

Teresa Woo-Paw - provincial politician, Member of Legislative Assembly of Alberta

James Foster

James L. Foster, former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1971–1979

John M. Glendenning

Glendenning first ran for a seat to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election in the new Nanton electoral district.

John T. Moore

Moore was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1905 Alberta general election defeating high profile Conservative candidate and the founder of Red Deer Leonard Gaetz.

Lelant

Philip Christophers, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada.

Samuel Barnes

Samuel A. Barnes (1876–1941), former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta