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Edmonton Centre-East
Edmonton East (formerly known as Edmonton Centre-East) was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1917 to 2015. The district included a portion of the city of Edmonton. Geography The district at first was a far-flung mixed urban and rural riding that extended from the North Saskatchewan River into the Northland northeast of Edmonton. It covered the area stretching north and east of the connection of 101st Street and the North Saskatchewan River, in the middle of present-day Edmonton, all the way to the north boundary of Alberta. In 1924 it was compressed to nearby farmland north of Edmonton (an area that is within the present limits of Edmonton), plus on the north side of the river the whole of Edmonton lying east of 101st Street, and on the south side of the river the area lying within Edmonton and east of the C&E line. Later, it became an urban riding within the City of Edmonton. In 1966, it was in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Goldring
Peter Goldring (born 12 December 1944) is a former Canadian federal politician. Early life and career Goldring was born in Toronto in 1944. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, from 1962 to 1965, as a military police officer. After living in Ontario and Quebec he settled in Edmonton, in 1972. Federal politics Goldring was a Conservative Member of Parliament in the House of Commons of Canada, representing the riding of Edmonton East from 2004 to 2015, Edmonton Centre-East from 2000 to 2004, and Edmonton East from 1997 to 2000. He was also a member of the Reform Party of Canada, (1997–2000) and the Canadian Alliance (2000–2003). From 2003 until 2011, he was a member of the Conservative Party of Canada; he resigned from the Conservative caucus in December 2011 after he was charged with refusing to provide a breath sample using a roadside screening device. He has sat as an independent Member of Parliament before being welcomed back to the Conservative caucus in 2013. G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton North
Edmonton North was a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1979 to 2004. Demographics Geography The riding consisted of the northern part of the city of Edmonton, Alberta. History It was created in 1976 from parts of Edmonton Centre, Edmonton East, Edmonton West, and Pembina ridings. It was abolished in 2003 when it was redistributed into Edmonton East, Edmonton—Sherwood Park and Edmonton—St. Albert ridings. Members of Parliament This riding elected the following members of Parliament: Election results , - , Liberal , Jim Jacuta , align="right", 14,786 , align="right", 34.32% , align="right", , align="right", $28,846 , New Democratic Party , Laurie Lang , align="right", 3,216 , align="right", 7.46% , align="right", , align="right", $815 , Progressive Conservative , Dean Sanduga , align="right", 3,010 , align="right", 6.98% , align="right", , align="right", $9,842 , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Hattersley
J. Martin Hattersley (November 10, 1932 - June 7, 2020) was a Canadian lawyer and long-time activist of the Canadian social credit movement. Born in Swinton, near Rotherham, Yorkshire, England, Hattersley earned degrees in economics and law from Cambridge University before moving to Alberta in 1956 where he worked as a lawyer. His parents met at a social credit conference in Britain. From 1962 to 1964, he was director of research of the Social Credit Association of Canada, and personal secretary and speechwriter to Social Credit Party of Canada leader Robert N. Thompson, MP. Hattersley served as national president of the party in the mid-1970s and ran for the party's leadership following the death of Réal Caouette in 1976, placing third. He ran again in 1978 when he was defeated by Lorne Reznowski at the party's national leadership convention by a margin of 356 votes to 115. Hattersley had campaigned on a platform of broadening the party's base and appealing to a wider spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Skoreyko
William Skoreyko (December 8, 1922 – September 28, 1987) was a businessman, service station owner, and politician from Alberta, Canada. Bio Skoreyko first ran for election to the House of Commons of Canada in the district of Edmonton East in the 1958 federal election; he defeated incumbent Social Credit MP Ambrose Holowach. He and 207 other Progressive Conservatives (PCs) were elected. He began his parliamentary career as a backbencher in Prime Minister John Diefenbaker's caucus. Although he never ranked highly in his party's hierarchy or that of the House of Commons, Skoreyko has a unique electoral history as regards his opponents, several of whom had been or would later be successful politicians in other offices. In the 1962 federal election, which was hotly contested both in Edmonton East and nationally, he defeated Liberal candidate John Decore, former MP for Vegreville, and Social Credit candidate Lucien Maynard, former Attorney-General of Alberta. In the 1963 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Yurko
William "Vasile" Yurko (February 11, 1926 – February 2, 2010) was a Canadian politician, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the House of Commons of Canada. Yurko was born in 1926 in Hairy Hill, Alberta of Romanian and Ukrainian descent. He served two years in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II, then graduated with distinction as a chemical engineer from the University of Alberta. He worked for 17 years (six of them within the Atomic Energy of Canada) before 1969, when he entered politics. He was elected Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) as a candidate of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta in the Strathcona East riding by-election on February 10, 1969, following the resignation of Premier Ernest Manning. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly for the Edmonton Gold Bar riding in 1971 and re-elected in 1975. In 1979 he was elected to the House of Commons for the Edmonton East riding as a candidate of the Progres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Lesick
William Lesick (10 June 1923 – 9 September 2011) was a Progressive Conservative party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was a pharmacist by career. Lesick was born in Spedden, Alberta. He was elected at the Edmonton East electoral district in the 1984 federal election, thus he served in the 33rd Canadian Parliament. Lesick was defeated at the same riding in the 1988 federal election by Ross Harvey of the New Democratic Party The New Democratic Party (NDP; , ) is a federal political party in Canada. Widely described as social democratic,The party is widely described as social democratic: * * * * * * * * * * * * * The Editors of ''Encyclopædia Britann .... He died in 2011 aged 88. References External links * 1923 births 2011 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta Progressive Conservative Party of Canada MPs People from Smoky Lake County 20th-century members of the House of Commons of Canada {{Alber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ross Harvey
Ross Harvey (born 25 April 1952) is a Canadian politician who was a member of the House of Commons of Canada from 1988 to 1993. He sat as an NDP MP from 1988 to 1993, representing Edmonton-East. Biography Harvey's background is in information and research. Prior to entering into a career in politics, he was a member of Spiny Norman's Whoopee Band in Edmonton, Alberta while a university student. Bandmate and local celebrity Holger Petersen called the band a "Monty Python/Frank Zappa kind of thing." Ross worked as executive assistant to Alberta NDP leaders Grant Notley and Ray Martin between 1979 and 1986, and as caucus coordinator and research director for the 16-member NDP Official Opposition caucus elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1986. He was elected in the 1988 federal election at the Edmonton East electoral district for the New Democratic Party. This was the first time an NDP MP was elected in Alberta. He served in the 34th Canadian Parliament but lost to Judy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judy Bethel
Judith Claire Bethel (24 August 1943 – 11 March 2025) was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the House of Commons of Canada, House of Commons for the Edmonton East electoral district from 1993 to 1997. She was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. As part of the Liberal Party of Canada, Bethel was elected in the 1993 Canadian federal election, 1993 federal election. She served in the 35th Canadian Parliament, after which she was unsuccessful in gaining a second term in office. She was defeated by the Reform Party of Canada, Reform party's Peter Goldring in the 1997 Canadian federal election, 1997 federal election. Since then, Bethel made no further attempts to return to Parliament. Her son John was the Liberal nominee for the riding in the 2004 election but was unsuccessful. She died on 11 March 2025, at the age of 81.https://edmontonjournal.remembering.ca/obituary/judy-bethel-1092763201 References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Rankin
Naomi Rankin (born 1951 or 1952) is a Canadian politician who has served as the leader of the Communist Party – Alberta since 1992. She is the longest-serving party leader in Alberta, and has been a perennial candidate in the province's federal and provincial elections since 1982. Political career Rankin became leader of the Communist Party in Alberta in 1992, after the collapse of the Soviet Union sent the party into crisis. Since 1982, she has run in every provincial and federal election for the Communist Party – Alberta and the Communist Party of Canada respectively. Rankin herself usually fields around 100 votes. In a typical election campaign, Rankin goes door-to-door and distributes pamphlets, as she tries to engage voters in discussions about the party's main platforms. In the 1980s, these included the nationalization of transnational oil and gas companies, and making Alberta a nuclear weapons-free zone. Since then, issues on the Communist Party agenda have includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sue Olsen
Sue Olsen is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1997 until 2001. Political career Olsen was elected to the Alberta Legislature in the 1997 Alberta general election. She defeated incumbent Andrew Beniuk to win her only term in office. Olsen resigned her seat in the Alberta Legislature to run for a seat in the House of Commons of Canada in the electoral district of Edmonton Centre-East as a federal Liberal candidate in the 2000 federal election. The election was closely contested but, Olsen lost by 3000 votes to incumbent Member of Parliament Peter Goldring Peter Goldring (born 12 December 1944) is a former Canadian federal politician. Early life and career Goldring was born in Toronto in 1944. He served in the Royal Canadian Air Force, from 1962 to 1965, as a military police officer. After livi .... References External linksLegislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Martin (politician)
Raymond James Martin (born August 8, 1941) is a politician in Alberta, Canada and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. Martin served four terms as an Alberta MLA and two terms as an Edmonton Public School Board Trustee. In 2018, Martin published his memoir, "Made in Alberta: The Ray Martin Story." Early life Born in 1941 in Delia, Alberta, Martin attended the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He was a member of Kappa Sigma fraternity. He later attended the University of Calgary in order to earn his master's degree. He taught in Edmonton public schools. Provincial politics Martin ran for a seat in the 1975 Alberta general election in Calgary and in 1979 in Edmonton-Norwood but both times was unsuccessful. Martin ran again in Edmonton-Norwood in 1982 provincial election. This time he was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta to join Grant Notley in a two-member Alberta New Democratic Party (NDP) caucus. At the time, the two NDP-ers and two I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmonton Manning
Edmonton Manning is a federal electoral district in Alberta, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 2015. Edmonton Manning was created by the 2012 federal electoral boundaries redistribution and was legally defined in the 2013 representation order. It came into effect upon the call of the 42nd Canadian federal election, which took place on October 19, 2015. It was created out of parts of the electoral districts of Edmonton—Sherwood Park, Edmonton East and Edmonton—St. Albert. Geography Edmonton Manning is located in the northeast corner of Edmonton. Demographics :''According to the 2011 Canadian census'' Languages: 67.1% English, 6.1% Chinese, 2.3% Arabic, 2.3% Punjabi, 2.2% Spanish, 1.9% French, 1.9% Vietnamese, 1.7% Ukrainian, 1.6% Tagalog, 1.5% Polish, 1.2% Portuguese, 1.1% Hindi, 1.1% Italian, 8.0% Other Religions: 57.3% Christian, 7.5% Muslim, 3.2% Buddhist, 2.5% Sikh, 1.3% Hindu, 0.3% Other, 27.9% None Median income: $35,715 ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |