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Souris-Estevan
Souris-Estevan is a former provincial electoral district for the Legislative Assembly of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. This district was created for the 7th Saskatchewan general election in 1934 by combining the districts of Souris and Estevan. The constituency was dissolved and divided between the districts of Estevan and Cannington (as " Souris-Cannington") before the 18th Saskatchewan general election in 1975. Members of the Legislative Assembly Election results , - , Conservative , William Oliver Fraser , align="right", 2,960 , align="right", 38.39% , align="right", – , Farmer-Labour , H. Gordon Gallaway , align="right", 1,215 , align="right", 15.75% , align="right", – , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="right", 7,711 !align="right", 100.00% !align="right", , - , CCF , William Glenroy Allen , align="right", 3,467 , align="right", 41.82% , align="right", +26.07 , - bgcolor="white" !align="left" colspan=3, Total !align="r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norman Leslie McLeod
Norman Leslie McLeod (February 17, 1892 – September 23, 1949 ) was a teacher, and school principal in Unity Saskatchewan, and a farmer, merchant and political figure in Estevan Saskatchewan. He was a member of the legislative assembly of Saskatchewan for Estevan area ridings. He represented Estevan (former electoral district), Estevan from 1931 to 1932 and from 1934 to 1938 (when his riding was named Bromhead) and he represented Souris-Estevan from 1938 to 1944 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Saskatchewan Liberal Party, Liberal. Early life He was born in Melita, Manitoba, the son of John McLeod (1860-1938) and Sarah Hannah Harding (1866-1952). His parents soon moved to the future town of Estevan, Saskatchewan, Estevan in mid-1892, opening up a shop (McLeod's Meat Market) in town soon after, and homesteaded north of town by 1901. Norman was educated in Estevan public and high schools, followed by Regina Normal School for teacher training (1909 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Brown (Saskatchewan Politician)
Russell Brown (December 11, 1911 – October 19, 1971) was a political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Last Mountain from 1952 to 1964 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member and Souris-Estevan in 1971 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He was born in Fort William, Ontario, the son of Ernest Albert Brown and Hetty McKeen, and was educated in Saskatchewan, in England and in the United States. From 1931 to 1940, he was a grain buyer for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. In 1933, he married Edith May Cummings; he later married his second wife Lorie following Edith's death. Brown served in the Canadian Army during World War II. From 1946 to 1949, he was an auditor for the Saskatchewan Department of Co-operation and Co-operative Development. In 1949, he was hired as a field representative based in Regina for the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. In the following year, Brown became general secretary for the Saskatchewan CCF. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Saskatchewan General Election
The 1975 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 11, 1975, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. Blakeney and the NDP were re-elected to a majority government. Both the New Democratic government of Premier Allan Blakeney and the opposition Liberal Party, led by David Steuart, dropped in support to the resurgent Progressive Conservative Party. The Tories, who were a minor force in the previous election, drew over a quarter of the 1975 electorate. Campaign One of the main issues of the campaign was natural resources management. On the onset of the campaign, Saskatchewan was facing court challenges and a capital strike from multinational resource extraction companies. The potash industry was opposed to the new provincial reserve tax on the mineral Blakeney's government had introduced the previous year. The federal government under Pierre Trudeau supported the companies' court challenges, and announced in his November 1974 budget that it would en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Saskatchewan Provincial Electoral Districts
Current electoral districts * Athabasca (1934) * Arm River (2016) * Batoche (2003) * Biggar-Sask Valley (2016) * Cannington (1995) * Canora-Pelly (1995) * Carrot River Valley (1995) * Cumberland (1975) * Cut Knife-Turtleford (2003) * Cypress Hills (1995) * Estevan (1975) * Humboldt-Watrous (2016) * Indian Head-Milestone (1995) * Kelvington-Wadena (1975) * Kindersley (1975) * Last Mountain-Touchwood (1975) * Lloydminster (1995) * Lumsden-Morse (2016) * Martensville-Warman (2016) * Meadow Lake (1934) * Melfort (2003) * Melville-Saltcoats (2003) * Moose Jaw North (1995) * Moose Jaw Wakamow (1991) * Moosomin (1905) * Prince Albert Carlton (1991) * Prince Albert Northcote (1991) * Regina Coronation Park (1995) * Regina Douglas Park (2003) * Regina Elphinstone-Centre (2003) * Regina Gardiner Park (2016) * Regina Lakeview (1995) * Regina Northeast (1995) * Regina Pasqua (2016) * Regina Rochdale (2016) * Regina Rosemont (2003) * Regina University (2016) * Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 Saskatchewan General Election
The 1948 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 24, 1948, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation government of Premier Tommy Douglas was re-elected with a reduced majority in the legislature. Although the share of the popular vote won by the Liberal Party of Walter Tucker fell by almost five percentage points, the party increased its representation in the legislature from 5 seats to 19. The Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan, which had won 2 seats and 16% of the popular vote in the 1938 election – only to disappear in the 1944 election – returned to win over 8% of the vote, but no seats. The Progressive Conservative Party – now led by Rupert Ramsay – continued to decline, and was also shut out of the legislature. In some ridings, the Progressive Conservatives appear to have run joint candidates with the Liberals in failed attempts to defeat the CCF. These candidates ran as Liberal-PC candidate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1944 Saskatchewan General Election
The 1944 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 15, 1944 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The election was held six years after the previous election. There is normally a five-year limit on the lifespan of Parliaments and provincial assemblies in Canada, but the emergency brought on by the Second World War allowed the government to delay the election temporarily. It marked the first time a socialist government was elected anywhere in Canada. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) leader Tommy Douglas became the premier of the province. The CCF won 47 of the 52 seats in the legislature, and over half the popular vote, despite a very negative campaign by the governing Liberal Party. The Liberals, led by William John Patterson, accused Douglas of being a communist. The Liberal popular vote fell by 10 percentage points, and they won only five seats. It is still the worst defeat of a sitting government in Saskatchewan's history. The Socia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1938 Saskatchewan General Election
The 1938 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 8, 1938, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. The Liberal Party was returned to power under its new leader, William John Patterson, but it lost twelve of the seats it had held in the previous legislature. The Liberals faced several new forces in this election. The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, a democratic socialist party led by George Hara Williams, became the official opposition winning over 18% of the vote and ten seats in its first election. The party previously had five seats after the Farmer-Labour Group became the Saskatchewan CCF following the previous election. The Social Credit Party of Saskatchewan, which promoted the social credit theories of monetary reform, rode a wave of popularity from the 1935 electoral success of its Alberta counterpart and collected almost 16% of the votes, but won only two seats. Six "Unity" candidates also ran in an attempt to create a popular front ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Hugh MacDougall
Ian Hugh MacDougall (May 29, 1928 – April 21, 2003) was an oil pipeline executive and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Souris-Estevan from 1960 to 1971 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. He was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of John A. MacDougall and Janet E. Cameron, and was educated in Bruderheim, Alberta and at St. Anthony's College in Edmonton. MacDougall was a supervisor for Producers Pipeline Ltd. He was married twice: first to Donna M. Weibe in 1956 and then to Bernice Drozda in 1964. MacDougall was an alderman for Estevan. He was defeated by Russell Brown when he ran for reelection to the Saskatchewan assembly in 1971 and then by Kim Thorson Kim Thorson (born March 2, 1932) is a lawyer and former political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Souris-Estevan from 1956 to 1960 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member and from 1971 to 1975 as a New Democratic Party (NDP ... in a by-election held later th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Thorson
Kim Thorson (born March 2, 1932) is a lawyer and former political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Souris-Estevan from 1956 to 1960 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member and from 1971 to 1975 as a New Democratic Party (NDP) member in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He was born in Macoun, Saskatchewan, the son of Miles Thorson (1900–1932) and Mary Ethel Sinclair (1911–2006). Kim, along with his step-brother Barney Kuchinka, Jr.,(1931), his half brother, Darryl Kuchinka and half sister Ann Marie where raised at Macoun, Saskatchewan by Ethel and her second husband, Barney Kuchinka, Sr, (1904–1991) Barney, Sr. and Ethel were married from 1933 until his death in 1991, Ethel died in 2006. Mr. Thorson completed Grade 12 at Macoun, and continued his education at the University of Saskatchewan, where he received a BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kohaly
Robert Kohaly (July 9, 1921 – October 24, 2001) was a lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Souris-Estevan from 1953 to 1956 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Progressive Conservative. He was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick and grew up in Toronto, Winnipeg and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He served overseas with the South Saskatchewan Regiment during World War II and was wounded at Dieppe. After the war, Kohaly continued his studies at the University of Saskatchewan, receiving a law degree in 1950. He set up practice in Estevan. Kohaly was elected to the provincial assembly in a 1953 by-election held following the death of John Edward McCormack. After he was defeated when he ran for reelection in 1956, he returned to practising law. Kohaly served as president of the Saskatchewan branch and as national president of the Royal Canadian Legion The Royal Canadian Legion is a non-profit Canadian ex-service organization (veterans' organi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles David Cuming
Charles David Cuming (April 7, 1900 – April 27, 1995) was a political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Souris-Estevan from 1944 to 1948 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member. He was born in Inchkeith, Saskatchewan and educated in Inchkeith, in Kipling and in Calgary, Alberta. Cuming was a director for the Saskatchewan section of the United Farmers of Canada and also served on the local school board. He was defeated when he ran for reelection to the provincial assembly in 1948. After leaving politics, Cuming served as sheriff for the 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. History The ... district until he retired in 1965. He died in Regina at the age of 95. References Saskatchewan Co-operative Comm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edward McCormack
John Edward McCormack (July 6, 1917 – March 14, 1953) was a lawyer and political figure in Saskatchewan. He represented Souris-Estevan from 1948 to 1953 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Liberal. He was born in Estevan, Saskatchewan, the son of Albert McCormack and Bertha Rech, and was educated there and at the University of Saskatchewan. McCormack lived in Estevan. He served as a squadron leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin .... McCormack died in office in Regina at the age of 35 as the result of an automobile accident. References Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs 1917 births 1953 deaths Road incident deaths in Canada Accidental deaths in Saskatchewan Royal Canadian Air Force pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
