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
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.
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
Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal
…controlled by the government, and paid to the railway as the line was constructed. The Rutherford government had just been resoundingly re-elected in the 1909 provincial election, winning 36 of the legislature's 41 seats, when the new legislature first met in February 1910. There was initially no sign of controversy in relation…
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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.