Eleazer William Garner (April 28, 1887
– October 27, 1937
) was a real estate and insurance agent, lawyer, farmer and political figure in
Saskatchewan
Saskatchewan ( ; ) is a province in western Canada, bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, to the northeast by Nunavut, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North ...
. He represented
Estevan
Estevan is the eighth-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The Souris River runs by the city. This city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Estevan No. 5.
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from 1929 to 1930 in the
Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
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as a
Liberal.
He was born in
Walkerton, Ontario
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, the son of Eleazer William Garner and Lucinda Jane Brown,
and was educated there. In 1908, he came to Saskatchewan, settling in
Regina. Garner worked in the collection department of the
International Harvester Company
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in Regina from 1911 to 1913. He came to
Estevan
Estevan is the eighth-largest city in Saskatchewan, Canada. It is approximately north of the Canada–United States border. The Souris River runs by the city. This city is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Estevan No. 5.
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in 1915.
In 1916, he married Esther Gray.
Garner was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1918. He served on the city council for Estevan and was mayor from 1921 to 1923. Garner was also secretary and manager of the Estevan Agricultural Society from 1917 to 1923
and was manager of the Truax-Traer coal mine.
He resigned his seat in the provincial legislature in 1930.
References
Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs
1887 births
1937 deaths
Mayors of places in Saskatchewan
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