Bryce Coleman Stringam (February 8, 1920 – June 2, 2000
) was a politician and author from
Alberta
Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...
, Canada. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post f ...
from 1955 to 1959 as an independent.
Early life
Stringam's father,
George Stringam
George Lewis Stringam (May 21, 1876 – July 4, 1959) was a provincial politician and cattle rancher from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1935 sitting with the United Farmers caucus in ...
, was a member of the Alberta legislature.
Stringam graduated from
Olds College
Olds College of Agriculture & Technology is an Alberta public post-secondary institution located in Olds, Alberta, established in 1913 as Olds Agricultural College.
Total student enrolment for the 2020–2021 academic year was 5446.
The college ...
with a degree in
agronomy
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and ...
in 1937 and became a cattle rancher. He married Mary Morgan and fathered seven children.
Political career
Stringam first ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the
1955 general election. Running as an independent in the electoral district of
Bow Valley-Empress, he defeated incumbent
Wilson Cain.
Stringam ran for a second term in office in the
1959 general election and was defeated by Social Credit candidate
William Delday in a two-way race.
Late life
After his defeat, Stringam published a book titled ''The History of the Eastern Irrigation District: 25th Anniversary in 1960.
References
External links
Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing
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1920 births
2000 deaths
Independent Alberta MLAs
People from Cardston
20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta