| 词条 | George Lane (politician) |
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George Lane (6 March 1856 – 24 September 1925) was an American-born Canadian politician and rancher and known as one of the Big Four who helped found the Calgary Stampede in 1912. George was foreman at the Bar U Ranch and eventually returned in the early 1900s to purchase it for $250,000.[1] In 1885 he married Elizabeth Sexsmith and they raised 8 children together.[2] In the 1913 Alberta general election George was elected as the first member for the Bow Valley riding for the Alberta Liberal Party. He was somewhat of a star candidate for the Liberal Party, and helped keep a critical southern Alberta seat from going Conservative. He defeated Conservative Incumbent Harold Riley who had changed from the Gleichen district. George would spend very little time as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, he would resign a short time later so that defeated Cabinet Minister Charles R. Mitchell could re-gain a seat in the legislature. Election results{{Alberta provincial election, 1913/Bow Valley}}References1. ^{{cite book|last=Morrison|first=Elsie|title=Calgary, 1875-1950 : A souvenir of Calgary's seventy-fifth anniversary|year=1950|publisher=Calgary Publishing Co|location=Calgary|page=135|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=876989}} 2. ^{{cite book|last=Ward|first=Tom|title=Cowtown : an album of early Calgary|year=1975|publisher=City of Calgary Electric System, McClelland and Stewart West|location=Calgary|isbn=0-7712-1012-4|page=160|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=3561842}} External links
before=New District| title=MLA Bow Valley| years=1913| after=Charles R. Mitchell}}{{s-end}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Lane, George}} 6 : Alberta Liberal Party MLAs|American expatriates in Canada|1856 births|1925 deaths|Canadian cattlemen|Persons of National Historic Significance (Canada) |
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