Edward Arthur August (15 May 1860
– 31 December 1935
) was a politician in
Manitoba, Canada. He served in the
Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1915 to 1922, as a member of the
Liberal Party.
August was born in
Toronto,
Canada West, the son of William August and Mary Ann Ward, and was educated at
Horning's Mills in the same province. He worked as a canner, and moved to the
Carman district of
Manitoba in 1899. In 1884, he married Isabella, the daughter of
Robert McGhee.
[, ] A devout
Methodist, he was also active in
Christian
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outreach.
August served on his local municipal council from 1902 to 1904. In the
1907 election, he contested the provincial riding of
Dufferin against
Conservative Premier
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A premier will normally be a head of governm ...
Rodmond Roblin.
Roblin won the challenge by 171 votes. August challenged Roblin again in the
1914 election, and lost
by 139 votes.
Roblin's government was forced to resign amid a corruption scandal in 1915, and the Liberal Party won a landslide majority government in
that year's provincial election.
August defeated his Conservative opponent,
, by 286 votes. In the legislature, he served as a backbench supporter of
Tobias Norris's ministry.
The Liberals were reduced to a
minority government
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in the
1920 provincial election. August was re-elected,
defeating Conservative candidate
Alexander Morrison by 77 votes. He did not seek re-election in 1922.
August died at
Dufferin, Manitoba in 1935.
References
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Manitoba Liberal Party MLAs
Canadian Methodists
People from Old Toronto
1860 births
1935 deaths
People from Carman, Manitoba