The 1909 Alberta general election was the second general election held in the province of Alberta, Canada. It took place on March 22, 1909, to elect 41 members to the 2nd Alberta Legislature. The incu
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Members of the first Legislative Assembly of Alberta, taken in 1906.
R. B. Bennett was elected as a Conservative candidate in the Calgary district.
The Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal was a political scandal in Alberta, Canada in 1910, which caused the resignation of Liberal premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford. Rutherford and his gov
1909 Alberta general election
…riding. Despite the election being an overwhelming success for the Liberal government of Premier Rutherford, his administration was embroiled with the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal shortly after the election. The scandal divided the Liberal Party and forced Rutherford to resign in 1910. Arthur Sifton, Alberta's chief justice was…
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a popular premier who enjoyed the support of his party before the scandal broke.
John R. Boyle took an early stand against his own leader and tried to bring down Rutherford's government over the scandal.
R. B. Bennett led the tiny Conservative opposition during the scandal.
Though John Alexander McDougall seconded an amendment considered friendly to the government, he would prove not to be its ally.