Norman Hindsley (February 11, 1886 – January 30, 1966) was a Canadian politician, accountant and published author from
Alberta.
Hindsley was born in
Walsall, Staffordshire, England, to Thomas and Lucy Hindsley.
[''1891 England Census''] He emigrated, arriving in Alberta in 1910.
[''1921 Census of Canada'']
In 1927, Norman wrote a report ''Into the Advisability of the Establishment of a Forty-Eight Hour Working Week in Alberta'' the title was published by the
University of Alberta.
Norman Hindsley was elected to the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a hotly contested 1933
Calgary
Calgary ( ) is the largest city in the western Canadian province of Alberta and the largest metro area of the three Prairie Provinces. As of 2021, the city proper had a population of 1,306,784 and a metropolitan population of 1,481,806, makin ...
by-election after the resignation of
Harold McGill. The by-election shaped up to be a tight race between Norman and
Amelia Turner who ran under a combined Labor/
Cooperative Commonwealth
The Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF; french: Fédération du Commonwealth Coopératif, FCC); from 1955 the Social Democratic Party of Canada (''french: Parti social démocratique du Canada''), was a federal democratic socialistThe follo ...
banner. Norman edged out Amelia to take the seat.
He served in the legislature until the
1935 Alberta general election
The 1935 Alberta general election was held on August 22, 1935, to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. The newly founded Social Credit Party of Alberta won a sweeping victory, unseating the 14-year government of the United Farmer ...
as an Independent but did not run for re-election.
References
External links
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University of Alberta Libraries, Author Hindsley, NormanNorman Hindsley 1933 by-election platform
1886 births
1966 deaths
People from Walsall
English emigrants to Canada
Canadian non-fiction writers
Independent Alberta MLAs
20th-century non-fiction writers
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