On Jan. 6, Hazen Argue was born in Kayville, Saskatchewan. He was elected to the House of Commons as a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in 1945 and served in Parliament until 1963. From 1960 to 1961, he was the third and last...
1905 On Sept. 1, 1905, Alberta was officially declared to be the newest province in Canada, along with Saskatchewan. Carved out of the Northwest Territories, this new province needed to have an election. Alexander Rutherford, the leader of the...
After Alberta’s first premier resigned over the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Company scandal, a new person was called to take over as premier, Arthur Sifton. Arthur Sifton was born in Arva, Canada West to John Wright Sifton and Catherine...