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Deputy Premier

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Deputy Premier
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Doug Horner
Doug Horner
Douglas Alan "Doug" Horner is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Progressive Conservative January 15, 2010 February 4, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Vacant
Progressive Conservative Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens, Q.C. is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the current Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009...

June 22, 2007 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

March 16, 2001 December 15, 2006 Klein
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Ken Kowalski
Ken Kowalski
Kenneth "Ken" Reginald Kowalski, MLA is a provincial level politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He is a current member and also dean of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and has served continuously since November 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

December 14, 1992 September 15, 1994 Klein
Progressive Conservative Jim Horsman
Jim Horsman
James "Jim" Deverell Horsman, is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993. During his time in public office he also served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Government of Alberta.-Early life:James...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Progressive Conservative David John Russell
David John Russell
David John Russell was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Born in Calgary in 1931, Russell was elected to Calgary City Council and served as Alderman on two different occasions, the first time from 1960–1961 and then again from 1963 to 1967.Russell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of...

November 1, 1985 March 1989 Getty
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Progressive Conservative Hugh Horner
Hugh Horner
Hugh Macarthur Horner was a physician and surgeon. He served as a Canadian federal and provincial politician. Horner was born in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan...

September 10, 1971 October 1, 1979 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Minister of Aboriginal Affairs

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Minister of Aboriginal Affairs
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Cal Dallas
Cal Dallas
Cal Dallas is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Red Deer-South as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Minister of Intergovernmental, International and Aboriginal Relations
Progressive Conservative Len Webber
Len Webber
Len Webber is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Foothills as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Minister of Aboriginal Relations
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Guy Boutilier
Guy Boutilier
Guy C. Boutilier is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative, and served in several capacities in the Cabinet of Alberta under Premiers Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach before being ejected from the P.C. caucus in July...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of International, Intergovernmental, and Aboriginal Relations
Progressive Conservative Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

March 16, 2001 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
No full minister responsible; Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

 was associate minister (see below)
Progressive Conservative Dave Hancock March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Milt Pahl
Milt Pahl
Milton "Milt" George Pahl was a provincial level politician and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1986. During his time in office he sat as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs
Progressive Conservative Don McCrimmon
Don McCrimmon
Donald "Don" James McCrimmon was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

November 1982 Lougheed Minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle
Robert Bogle
Robert John "Bob" Bogle is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs
Progressive Conservative Al Adair
Al Adair
James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster, published author and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.-Early life:Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister without portfolio responsible for native affairs

Associate Ministers in the Aboriginal Affairs portfolio

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Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

May 26, 1999 March 15, 2001 Klein Associate Minister of Aboriginal Affairs

Minister of Advanced Education

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Minister of Advanced Education and Technology
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Greg Weadick
Greg Weadick
Greg Weadick is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Lethbridge-West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

February 18, 2011 Incumbent Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Minister of Advanced Education and Technology
Progressive Conservative Doug Horner
Doug Horner
Douglas Alan "Doug" Horner is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

December 15, 2006 February 4, 2011 Stelmach Minister of Advanced Education and Technology
Progressive Conservative Denis Herard
Denis Herard
Denis Herard is a politician from Alberta, Canada, and is the former Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLA for Calgary-Egmont. He is French-Canadian, with fore-fathers coming majorly from Quebec....

April 6, 2006 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Advanced Education and Technology
Progressive Conservative Dave Hancock November 25, 2004 April 5, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

May 26, 1999 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Learning
Progressive Conservative Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford was a Canadian politician in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was first elected in 1993 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lethbridge West, and elected to his fourth term on 22 November 2004...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Advanced Education and Career Development
Progressive Conservative Jack Ady
Jack Ady
Jack Ady is a member of the former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997.-Political career:...

December 14, 1992 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister of Advanced Education and Career Development
Progressive Conservative John Gogo
John Gogo
John Albert Gogo is a former provincial politician and career soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces. From 1949 to 1962 he served as a in the Canadian Army attaining the rank of Sargent. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Advanced Education
Progressive Conservative David John Russell
David John Russell
David John Russell was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Born in Calgary in 1931, Russell was elected to Calgary City Council and served as Alderman on two different occasions, the first time from 1960–1961 and then again from 1963 to 1967.Russell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty Minister of Advanced Education
Progressive Conservative Archibald D. Johnston
Archibald D. Johnston
Archibald Dick Johnston is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Advanced Education
Progressive Conservative Jim Horsman
Jim Horsman
James "Jim" Deverell Horsman, is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993. During his time in public office he also served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Government of Alberta.-Early life:James...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Advanced Education and Manpower
Progressive Conservative Bert Hohol
Bert Hohol
Albert "Bert" Edward Hohol was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Advanced Education and Manpower
Progressive Conservative James Foster
James L. Foster
James "Jim" L. Foster was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed

Minister of Agriculture

Minister of Agriculture
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Evan Berger
Evan Berger (politician)
Evan Berger is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Livingstone-Macleod as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative Jack Hayden
Jack Hayden (politician)
Jack Hayden is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Drumheller-Stettler as a Progressive Conservative.-Political career:...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative George Groeneveld
George Groeneveld
George Groeneveld is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Highwood as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Agriculture and Food
Progressive Conservative Doug Horner
Doug Horner
Douglas Alan "Doug" Horner is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative Ty Lund
Ty Lund
Ty Lund is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Rocky Mountain House as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski is a former farmer as well as a municipal and provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 until 2001.-Early life:...

June 1993 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative Ernie Isley
Ernie Isley (Alberta politician)
Ernest Douglas "Ernie" Isley is a former school principal and provincial and municipal level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993...

March 1989 June 1993 Klein, Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Development
Progressive Conservative Peter Elzinga
Peter Elzinga
Peter Elzinga was the executive director of the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta, Canada, a former Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons and former cabinet minister in Alberta....

May 1986 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative LeRoy Fjordbotten
LeRoy Fjordbotten
LeRoy Fjordbotten is a former provincial level politician, farmer and auctioneer. He served as cabinet minister in the Government of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1982 to 1992...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Wilbur Schmidt was a provincial level politician and Royal Canadian Air Force pilot from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 23, 1979 November 18, 1982 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Marvin Moore
Marvin Moore
Marvin Everard Moore was a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1989...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Hugh Horner
Hugh Horner
Hugh Macarthur Horner was a physician and surgeon. He served as a Canadian federal and provincial politician. Horner was born in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Henry Ruste
Henry Ruste
Henry Arild Ruste was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1955 to 1975 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government and opposition...

July 16, 1968 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...


Social Credit Harry Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

October 15, 1962 July 16, 1968 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...


Social Credit Leonard Halmrast
Leonard Halmrast
Leonard Christian Halmrast was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1945 to 1967 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

January 5, 1954 October 15, 1962 Manning
Social Credit David A. Ure May 8, 1948 January 1954 Manning
Social Credit Duncan MacMillan December 3, 1940 May 8, 1948 Manning, Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...


Social Credit David Mullen May 1, 1937 1940 Aberhart
Social Credit William Chant September 3, 1935 May 1, 1937 Aberhart
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

Frank Grisdale
Frank Grisdale
Frank Sydney Grisdale BSc. CBE was a provincial level politician from Olds, Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 to 1935. He sat with the United Farmers caucus and served briefly from 1934 to 1935 as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier...

June 15, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid, Brownlee
United Farmers George Hoadley August 31, 1921 June 15, 1934 Brownlee, Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...


Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Duncan Marshall
Duncan Marshall
Duncan McLean Marshall was a journalist, publisher, rancher provincial level politician and Minister of Agriculture in 2 provinces and later served in the Canadian Senate representing the province of Ontario.-Early life:Marshall made his first run at federal politics running in the Muskoka riding...

November 1, 1909 August 31, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

, Sifton
Arthur Lewis Sifton
Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter. Born in Ontario, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer...

, Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...


Liberal William Finlay
William Finlay
William Thomas Finlay was a politician and cabinet minister in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada-Early life:...

September 9, 1905 November 1, 1909 Rutherford

Associate ministers in the Agriculture portfolio

Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Associate Minister of Agriculture
Progressive Conservative Shirley Cripps
Shirley Cripps
Shirley A. Cripps was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1989. During her time in the Alberta Legislature she served in the Executive Council of Alberta from 1986 to 1989.-Political career:Cripps ran for a...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty Associate Minister of Agriculture

Minister of Career Development and Employment

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Minister of Career Development and Employment
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Norm Weiss
Norm Weiss
Norman "Norm" A. Weiss is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Progressive Conservative Ken Kowalski
Ken Kowalski
Kenneth "Ken" Reginald Kowalski, MLA is a provincial level politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He is a current member and also dean of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and has served continuously since November 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 8, 1988 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative Rick Orman
Rick Orman
Richard “Rick” D. Orman is a Canadian politician. Orman was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1948 as a fourth generation Albertan. He studied at the University of Calgary before graduating with honours from Eastern Washington University in 1971. Orman served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of...

Between September 1986 and March 1987 September 8, 1988 Getty

Minister of Children and Youth Services

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Minister of Children and Youth Services
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Cross as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Progressive Conservative Janis Tarchuk
Janis Tarchuk
Janis Tarchuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Banff-Cochrane as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:Ms. Tarchuk has a long history of community involvement...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Janis Tarchuk
Janis Tarchuk
Janis Tarchuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Banff-Cochrane as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:Ms. Tarchuk has a long history of community involvement...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Children's Services
Progressive Conservative Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Fish Creek as a Wildrose Alliance representative. She was a Progressive Conservative until she crossed the floor on January 4, 2010.-Early life:Forsyth was...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Children's Services
Progressive Conservative Iris Evans
Iris Evans
Iris Evans is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and is Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for the Canadian province. From November 25, 2004 to December 15, 2006 she served as Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ralph Klein's cabinet...

May 26, 1999 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Children's Services
Progressive Conservative Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

May 31, 1996 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister without portfolio responsible for Children's Services
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Culture, Youth and Recreation
Vacant
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Gordon Taylor
Gordon Taylor
Gordon Edward Taylor was a Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.-Provincial political career:He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1940 provincial election representing Drumheller for Social Credit and continued to sit in the legislature for 39 years...

May 19, 1970 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Youth
Social Credit Robert Curtis Clark
Robert Curtis Clark
Robert "Bob" Curtis Clark is a former teacher, civil servant and provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1960 to 1981. During his career he served as Leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party and Leader of the Official Opposition...

December 12, 1968 May 19, 1970 Strom Minister of Youth

Minister of Community Development

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Minister of Community Development
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Denis Ducharme
Denis Ducharme
Denis Archie Ducharme is a former Albertan MLA. From April 6 until December 15, 2006, he also served as Minister of Community Development...

April 6, 2006 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Gary Mar
Gary Mar
Gary Glen Mar QC, is a Canadian politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2007. On December 3, 2007, he was appointed as the Official Representative for Alberta in Washington, D.C., and worked in the Canadian Embassy with the official...

November 25, 2004 April 6, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Stan Woloshyn
Stan Woloshyn
Stan Woloshyn is a politician in Alberta, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Alberta New Democrats candidate in 1989...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein
Progressive Conservative Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

May 31, 1996 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Gary Mar
Gary Mar
Gary Glen Mar QC, is a Canadian politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2007. On December 3, 2007, he was appointed as the Official Representative for Alberta in Washington, D.C., and worked in the Canadian Embassy with the official...

June 1993 May 31, 1996 Klein
Progressive Conservative Dianne Mirosh
Dianne Mirosh
Dianne Mirosh is a former provincial-level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During her time in office, she served a number of cabinet portfolios in the Don Getty and Ralph Klein governments.-Political career:Mirosh was...

December 14, 1992 June 1993 Klein

Minister of Community and Occupational Health

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Minister of Community and Occupational Health
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Jim Dinning
Jim Dinning
Jim Dinning is a Canadian Progressive Conservative politician and businessman. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta , and now serves on the board of directors of a variety of Canadian companies. Dinning ran for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives to replace...

May 1986 September 8, 1988 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Progressive Conservative Bill Diachuk
Bill Diachuk
Bill Wasyl Diachuk was a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He began his political career in Edmonton municipal politics serving two separate stints as a separate school trustee. The first was from 1962 to 1964 and the second from 1966 to 1971...

May 1986 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister without portfolio responsible for Workers' Health, Safety and Compensation

Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs

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Minister of Consumer and Corporate Affairs
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Dennis Anderson
Dennis Anderson (politician)
Dennis Anderson is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Elaine McCoy
Elaine McCoy
Elaine McCoy, QC, BA, LL.B is a Canadian senator from Alberta. She has been the last remaining member of the Canadian Senate to sit as a Progressive Conservative since the retirement of Senator Lowell Murray on September 26, 2011.-Senate of Canada:Senator McCoy was appointed to the Senate by...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative Al Adair
Al Adair
James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster, published author and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.-Early life:Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace...

November 1, 1985 May 1986 Getty
Progressive Conservative Connie Osterman
Connie Osterman
Constance "Connie" Elaine Osterman is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1992 sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus in government...

November 1982 November 1, 1985 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative Julian Koziak
Julian Koziak
Julian Koziak is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 1986.-Political career:...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Graham Harle
Graham Harle
Graham Lisle Harle was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from February 14, 1972 to 1986 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Robert Dowling
Robert Wagner Dowling
Robert Wagner Dowling was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1969 to 1979 sitting as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Consumer Affairs

Minister of Culture

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Minister of Culture
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Heather Klimchuk
Heather Klimchuk
Heather Klimchuk is a Canadian politician, who was elected in the 2008 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Edmonton-Glenora in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She is a member of the Progressive Conservatives. On March 13, 2008, Heather Klimchuk was sworn in as the...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Minister of Culture and Community Services
Progressive Conservative Lindsay Blackett
Lindsay Blackett
Lindsay Blackett is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-North West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

March 12, 2008 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Minister of Culture and Community Spirit
Progressive Conservative Hector Goudreau
Hector Goudreau
Hector G. Goudreau is a politician from Alberta, Canada. He is originally from the francophone area of Beaumont, Alberta, located just south of Edmonton's metro population....

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Tourism, Parks, Recreation, and Culture
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Doug Main
Doug Main
Doug Main is a Canadian broadcaster, communications consultant, political commentator and former Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He served as Cabinet Minister. He served as the news anchor for CITV from 1975 to 1988....

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Culture and Multiculturalism
Progressive Conservative Greg Stevens
Greg Stevens
Greg Phillip Stevens was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1979 to 1989.-Political career:...

Between September 1986 and March 1987 March 1989 Getty Minister of Culture and Multiculturalism
Progressive Conservative Dennis Anderson
Dennis Anderson (politician)
Dennis Anderson is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993...

May 1986 Between September 1986 and March 1987 Getty
Progressive Conservative Mary LeMessurier
Mary LeMessurier
Mary J. LeMessurier is a former provincial level politician and social activist from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1986 and sat with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Government Services and Culture
Progressive Conservative September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Culture, Youth and Recreation

Minister of Economic Development

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Minister of Economic Development
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford was a Canadian politician in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was first elected in 1993 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lethbridge West, and elected to his fourth term on 22 November 2004...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Mark Norris March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Jon Havelock
Jon Havelock
Jonathan Niles Havelock was a Cabinet Minister from Alberta, Canada.Jon Havelock was elected as the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta member for Calgary Shaw in the 1993 Alberta general election after the former member of the riding Jim Dinning, switched ridings to Calgary Fish...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein
Progressive Conservative Pat Nelson
Pat Nelson
Patricia "Pat" Nelson née Black is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. As a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Calgary Foothills electoral district from 1989 to 2004...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

May 31, 1996 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Murray Smith
Murray Smith (Alberta politician)
Murray D. Smith is a businessman and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 15, 1994 May 31, 1996 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Ken Kowalski
Ken Kowalski
Kenneth "Ken" Reginald Kowalski, MLA is a provincial level politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He is a current member and also dean of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and has served continuously since November 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

June 1993 September 15, 1994 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow is a former politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993.-Political career:Sparrow ran for a seat as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1982 Alberta general election...

December 14, 1992 June 1993 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Peter Elzinga
Peter Elzinga
Peter Elzinga was the executive director of the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta, Canada, a former Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons and former cabinet minister in Alberta....

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Progressive Conservative Larry Shaben
Larry Shaben
Lawrence "Larry" Ralph Shaben was a Canadian politician of Lebanese descent and the first Muslim Cabinet Minister in Canada. He was also one of the first Muslims to be elected to higher office in North America. He held a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1989 sitting with...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty Minister of Economic Development and Trade
Progressive Conservative Hugh Planche
Hugh Planche
Hugh Planche is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1986...

October 1, 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative Hugh Horner
Hugh Horner
Hugh Macarthur Horner was a physician and surgeon. He served as a Canadian federal and provincial politician. Horner was born in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan...

March 1979 October 1, 1979 Lougheed
Vacant
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Allen Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick was a stock broker, teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

August 2, 1955 September 1, 1959 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Minister of Economic Affairs
Social Credit Alfred Hooke
Alfred Hooke
Alfred "Alf" John Hooke was a teacher, provincial politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit party in government...

April 20, 1945 August 2, 1955 Manning Minister of Economic Affairs

Associate Ministers in the Economic Development portfolio

Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

November 1982 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of State for Economic Development - International Trade

Minister of Education

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Minister of Education
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Thomas Lukaszuk
Thomas Lukaszuk
Thomas A. Lukaszuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Castle Downs as a Progressive Conservative...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Dave Hancock March 12, 2008 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Progressive Conservative Ron Liepert
Ron Liepert
Ronald Liepert is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

May 26, 1999 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Learning
Progressive Conservative Gary Mar
Gary Mar
Gary Glen Mar QC, is a Canadian politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2007. On December 3, 2007, he was appointed as the Official Representative for Alberta in Washington, D.C., and worked in the Canadian Embassy with the official...

May 31, 1996 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Halvar Jonson
Halvar Jonson
Halvar C. Jonson . is a former teacher and high school principal. He was also a long serving provincial politician from Alberta, Canada...

December 14, 1992 May 31, 1996 Klein
Progressive Conservative Jim Dinning
Jim Dinning
Jim Dinning is a Canadian Progressive Conservative politician and businessman. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta , and now serves on the board of directors of a variety of Canadian companies. Dinning ran for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives to replace...

September 8, 1988 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Progressive Conservative Nancy Betkowski May 1986 September 8, 1988 Getty
Progressive Conservative Neil Webber
Neil Webber
Patrick Neil Webber is a former provincial level politician and cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.-Political career:...

November 1, 1985 May 1986 Getty
Progressive Conservative David King
David Thomas King
David Thomas King is a Canadian politician and public education policy activist. He is a former Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from August, 1971 to April, 1986, during which time he was Legislative Secretary to Premier Peter Lougheed , Minister of...

March 1979 November 1, 1985 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Progressive Conservative Julian Koziak
Julian Koziak
Julian Koziak is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 1986.-Political career:...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Lou Hyndman
Lou Hyndman
Louis Davies "Lou" Hyndman is a Canadian academic, lawyer and retired politician. He was named the 15th Chancellor of the University of Alberta on June 10, 1994...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Robert Curtis Clark
Robert Curtis Clark
Robert "Bob" Curtis Clark is a former teacher, civil servant and provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1960 to 1981. During his career he served as Leader of the Alberta Social Credit Party and Leader of the Official Opposition...

December 12, 1968 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Social Credit Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

June 29, 1967 December 12, 1968 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Social Credit Randolph McKinnon
Randolph McKinnon
Randolph Hugh McKinnon was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1959 to 1967 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

July 31, 1964 June 29, 1967 Manning
Social Credit Anders Aalborg
Anders Aalborg
Anders Olav Aalborg was a teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1948 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

September 9, 1952 July 31, 1964 Manning
Social Credit Ivan Casey February 23, 1948 September 9, 1952 Manning
Social Credit Ronald Ansley
Ronald Ansley
Ronald Earl Ansley was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1963 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government and as an Independent....

September 12, 1944 February 23, 1948 Manning
Social Credit Solon Earl Low
Solon Earl Low
Solon Earl Low was a Canadian politician in the 20th century.Low was born in Cardston, Alberta, and was a farmer, school teacher and school principal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1935 provincial that swept the Social Credit Party of Alberta to power...

June 1, 1943 September 12, 1944 Manning
Social Credit William Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

September 3, 1935 June 1, 1943 Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

United Farmers of Alberta
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

Perren Baker
Perren Baker
Perren Earle Baker was a Canadian politician who served as Alberta's Minister of Education from 1921 until 1935.-Electoral record:-Notes:...

August 31, 1921 September 3, 1935 Reid, Brownlee, Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

George P. Smith
George P. Smith
George Peter Smith was a politician and former Minister of the Crown from Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Smith first ran for election to the Alberta Legislature in the 1909 Alberta general election winning the new Camrose district with a comfortable plurality.Smith was re-elected in a landslide...

August 26, 1918 August 31, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

Liberal John R. Boyle
John R. Boyle
John Robert Boyle was a Canadian politician and jurist who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, a cabinet minister in the Government of Alberta, and a judge on the Supreme Court of Alberta. Born in Ontario, he came west and eventually settled in Edmonton, where he practiced...

May 4, 1912 August 26, 1918 Stewart, Sifton
Arthur Lewis Sifton
Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter. Born in Ontario, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer...

Liberal Charles R. Mitchell
Charles R. Mitchell
Charles Richmond Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, cabinet minister and former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

June 1, 1910 May 4, 1912 Sifton
Liberal Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...

September 9, 1905 June 1, 1910 Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...


Minister of Employment and Immigration

Minister of Employment and Immigration
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Thomas Lukaszuk
Thomas Lukaszuk
Thomas A. Lukaszuk is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Castle Downs as a Progressive Conservative...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Hector Goudreau
Hector Goudreau
Hector G. Goudreau is a politician from Alberta, Canada. He is originally from the francophone area of Beaumont, Alberta, located just south of Edmonton's metro population....

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Iris Evans
Iris Evans
Iris Evans is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and is Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for the Canadian province. From November 25, 2004 to December 15, 2006 she served as Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ralph Klein's cabinet...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Employment, Immigration, and Industry
Progressive Conservative Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal is a politician from Alberta, Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 2008. He sat as a Progressive Conservative and represented the districts of Athabasca-Lac La Biche, Athabasca-Wabasca, and Athabasca-Redwater...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Human Resources and Employment
Progressive Conservative Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford
Clint Dunford was a Canadian politician in Lethbridge, Alberta. He was first elected in 1993 as the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Lethbridge West, and elected to his fourth term on 22 November 2004...

May 26, 1999 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Human Resources and Employment
Progressive Conservative Murray Smith
Murray Smith (Alberta politician)
Murray D. Smith is a businessman and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

May 31, 1996 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Labour
Progressive Conservative Stockwell Day
Stockwell Day
Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., PC, MP is a former Canadian politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, and a former leader of the Canadian Alliance. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of...

December 14, 1992 May 31, 1996 Klein Minister of Labour
Progressive Conservative Elaine McCoy
Elaine McCoy
Elaine McCoy, QC, BA, LL.B is a Canadian senator from Alberta. She has been the last remaining member of the Canadian Senate to sit as a Progressive Conservative since the retirement of Senator Lowell Murray on September 26, 2011.-Senate of Canada:Senator McCoy was appointed to the Senate by...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Labour
Progressive Conservative Rick Orman
Rick Orman
Richard “Rick” D. Orman is a Canadian politician. Orman was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1948 as a fourth generation Albertan. He studied at the University of Calgary before graduating with honours from Eastern Washington University in 1971. Orman served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of...

September 8, 1988 March 1989 Getty Minister of Labour
Progressive Conservative Ian Reid
Ian Reid (Alberta politician)
Ian Wilson Carlyle Reid was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1989...

May 1986 September 8, 1988 Getty Minister of Labour
Progressive Conservative Leslie Young
Leslie Young
Leslie "Les" Gordon Young was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1989...

March 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Labour
Progressive Conservative Neil Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford was a politician and jazz musician from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Neil was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He married Catherine May Hughes September 3, 1951...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Labour
Progressive Conservative Bert Hohol
Bert Hohol
Albert "Bert" Edward Hohol was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Labour and Manpower
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

September 1, 1959 September 10, 1971 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

, Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Labour
August 2, 1955 September 1, 1959 Manning Minister of Industries and Labour
Social Credit Norman Willmore
Norman Willmore
Norman Alfred Willmore was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1944 until his death in 1965 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

November 10, 1953 August 2, 1955 Manning Minister of Industries and Labour
Social Credit John Robinson
John Lyle Robinson
John Lyle Robinson was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 until his death in 1953 sitting with the Social Credit caucus...

May 8, 1948 1953 Manning Minister of Industries and Labour

Minister of Energy

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Minister of Energy
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Ted Morton
Ted Morton
Frederick Lee Morton , known commonly as Ted Morton, is a Canadian politician and Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta. As a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta he represents the constituency of Foothills-Rocky View as a Progressive Conservative...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Progressive Conservative Ron Liepert
Ron Liepert
Ronald Liepert is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Mel Knight
Mel Knight
Mel Knight is the Minister of Energy of Alberta and a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

December 15, 2006 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin is a politician and accountant who formerly served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and Cabinet Minister in the Alberta government.-Early life:Greg was born in Raymond, Alberta...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Murray Smith
Murray Smith (Alberta politician)
Murray D. Smith is a businessman and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal is a politician from Alberta, Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 2008. He sat as a Progressive Conservative and represented the districts of Athabasca-Lac La Biche, Athabasca-Wabasca, and Athabasca-Redwater...

June 2, 2000 March 16, 2001 Klein Minister of Resource Development
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

May 26, 1999 June 2, 2000 Klein Minister of Resource Development
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Pat Black
Pat Nelson
Patricia "Pat" Nelson née Black is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. As a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Calgary Foothills electoral district from 1989 to 2004...

December 14, 1992 March 29, 1997 Klein
Progressive Conservative Rick Orman
Rick Orman
Richard “Rick” D. Orman is a Canadian politician. Orman was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1948 as a fourth generation Albertan. He studied at the University of Calgary before graduating with honours from Eastern Washington University in 1971. Orman served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Progressive Conservative Neil Webber
Neil Webber
Patrick Neil Webber is a former provincial level politician and cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.-Political career:...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative John Zaozirny
John Zaozirny
John Brian Zaozirny is a businessman as well as a former lawyer and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1986...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Progressive Conservative Merv Leitch
Merv Leitch
Clarence Mervin "Merv" Leitch is a former lawyer and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
Progressive Conservative Don Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Energy and Natural Resources
-- various April 1, 1949 March 1975 -- see Minister of Mines and Minerals
-- various October 1, 1930 April 1, 1949 -- see Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife (Minister of Land and Mines)

Associate ministers within the Resource Development portfolio

Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal is a politician from Alberta, Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 2008. He sat as a Progressive Conservative and represented the districts of Athabasca-Lac La Biche, Athabasca-Wabasca, and Athabasca-Redwater...

May 26, 1999 June 2, 2000 Klein Associate Minister of Forestry
Progressive Conservative Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Wilbur Schmidt was a provincial level politician and Royal Canadian Air Force pilot from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

August 30, 1976 March 22, 1979 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Associate Minister of Energy and Natural Resources responsible for Public Lands

Minister of the Environment

Minister of the Environment
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Diana McQueen
Diana McQueen
Diana McQueen is a Canadian politician, who was elected in the 2008 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Drayton Valley-Calmar in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She is a member of the Progressive Conservatives....

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Ministry of Environment and Water
Progressive Conservative Rob Renner
Rob Renner
Robert William Renner is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Medicine Hat as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

December 15, 2006 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Guy Boutilier
Guy Boutilier
Guy C. Boutilier is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative, and served in several capacities in the Cabinet of Alberta under Premiers Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach before being ejected from the P.C. caucus in July...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor is a former tenured professor and member of the provincial legislature of Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 Alberta general election. He defeated three other candidates including Al Strom of the Social Credit with a...

March 16, 2001 November 24, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Halvar Jonson
Halvar Jonson
Halvar C. Jonson . is a former teacher and high school principal. He was also a long serving provincial politician from Alberta, Canada...

June 2, 2000 March 16, 2001 Klein
Progressive Conservative Gary Mar
Gary Mar
Gary Glen Mar QC, is a Canadian politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2007. On December 3, 2007, he was appointed as the Official Representative for Alberta in Washington, D.C., and worked in the Canadian Embassy with the official...

May 26, 1999 June 2, 2000 Klein
Progressive Conservative Ty Lund
Ty Lund
Ty Lund is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Rocky Mountain House as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

September 15, 1994 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Brian Evans
Brian Evans (politician)
Brian John Evans is a Canadian lawyer and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 to 1997...

December 14, 1992 September 15, 1994 Klein
Progressive Conservative Ralph Klein March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Ian Reid
Ian Reid (Alberta politician)
Ian Wilson Carlyle Reid was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1989...

September 8, 1988 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative Ken Kowalski
Ken Kowalski
Kenneth "Ken" Reginald Kowalski, MLA is a provincial level politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He is a current member and also dean of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and has served continuously since November 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

May 1986 September 8, 1988 Getty
Progressive Conservative Frederick Bradley
Frederick Deryl Bradley
Frederick "Fred" Deryl Bradley is a former provincial level politician. He served as member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993. He also served in the cabinet as Minister of the Environment from 1982 to 1986...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative Jack Cookson
Jack Cookson
John "Jack" William Cookson was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative David John Russell
David John Russell
David John Russell was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Born in Calgary in 1931, Russell was elected to Calgary City Council and served as Alderman on two different occasions, the first time from 1960–1961 and then again from 1963 to 1967.Russell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative William Yurko
William Yurko
William Yurko, MLA, MP, was a Canadian politician, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Canadian House of Commons....

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

James Henderson
James Douglas Henderson
James Douglas Henderson was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1963 to 1975 sitting as a member of the Social Credit caucus in both government and opposition and later as an Independent...

September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...


Minister of Family and Social Services

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Minister of Family and Social Services
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Stockwell Day
Stockwell Day
Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., PC, MP is a former Canadian politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, and a former leader of the Canadian Alliance. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of...

May 31, 1996 March 29, 1997 Klein
Progressive Conservative Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal is a politician from Alberta, Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 2008. He sat as a Progressive Conservative and represented the districts of Athabasca-Lac La Biche, Athabasca-Wabasca, and Athabasca-Redwater...

December 14, 1992 May 31, 1996 Klein
Progressive Conservative John Oldring
John Oldring
John Oldring is a former municipal provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Red Deer city council from 1974 to 1986 before becoming a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1993....

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Connie Osterman
Connie Osterman
Constance "Connie" Elaine Osterman is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1992 sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus in government...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty Minister of Social Services
November 1, 1985 May 1986 Getty Minister of Social Services and Community Health
Progressive Conservative Neil Webber
Neil Webber
Patrick Neil Webber is a former provincial level politician and cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.-Political career:...

November 1982 November 1, 1985 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Social Services and Community Health
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle
Robert Bogle
Robert John "Bob" Bogle is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Social Services and Community Health
Progressive Conservative Helen Hunley
Helen Hunley
The Honourable Wilma Helen Hunley, OC, AOE was a former Canadian politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, the first woman to serve in that post.-Early life:...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Social Services and Community Health

Associate ministers in the Family and Social Services portfolio

Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Roy Brassard
Roy Brassard
Roy Brassard was a Canadian politician who served as a Progressive Conservative Alberta MLA, and more recently a public school board member.-Provincial government:...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Associate Minister of Family and Social Services

Minister of Finance

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Minister of Finance
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Ron Liepert
Ron Liepert
Ronald Liepert is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Lloyd Snelgrove
Lloyd Snelgrove
Lloyd Snelgrove is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Vermilion-Lloydminster in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.-External links:*...

January 27, 2011 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Minister of Finance and Enterprise
Progressive Conservative Ted Morton
Ted Morton
Frederick Lee Morton , known commonly as Ted Morton, is a Canadian politician and Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta. As a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta he represents the constituency of Foothills-Rocky View as a Progressive Conservative...

January 15, 2010 January 27, 2011 Stelmach Minister of Finance and Enterprise
Progressive Conservative Iris Evans
Iris Evans
Iris Evans is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and is Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for the Canadian province. From November 25, 2004 to December 15, 2006 she served as Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ralph Klein's cabinet...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach Minister of Finance and Enterprise
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Pat Nelson
Pat Nelson
Patricia "Pat" Nelson née Black is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. As a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Calgary Foothills electoral district from 1989 to 2004...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

June 2, 2000 March 16, 2001 Klein Provincial Treasurer
Progressive Conservative Stockwell Day
Stockwell Day
Stockwell Burt Day, Jr., PC, MP is a former Canadian politician, and a member of the Conservative Party of Canada. He is a former cabinet minister in Alberta, and a former leader of the Canadian Alliance. Day was MP for the riding of Okanagan—Coquihalla in British Columbia and the president of...

March 29, 1997 June 1, 2000 Klein Provincial Treasurer
Progressive Conservative Jim Dinning
Jim Dinning
Jim Dinning is a Canadian Progressive Conservative politician and businessman. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta , and now serves on the board of directors of a variety of Canadian companies. Dinning ran for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservatives to replace...

December 14, 1992 March 29, 1997 Klein Provincial Treasurer
Progressive Conservative Archibald Johnston
Archibald D. Johnston
Archibald Dick Johnston is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

May 1986 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Provincial Treasurer
Progressive Conservative Lou Hyndman
Lou Hyndman
Louis Davies "Lou" Hyndman is a Canadian academic, lawyer and retired politician. He was named the 15th Chancellor of the University of Alberta on June 10, 1994...

March 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Provincial Treasurer
Progressive Conservative Merv Leitch
Merv Leitch
Clarence Mervin "Merv" Leitch is a former lawyer and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Provincial Treasurer
Progressive Conservative Gordon Miniely
Gordon Miniely
Gordon Miniely was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Gordon was elected to represent the electoral district of Edmonton Centre for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1971 Alberta general election. Gordon served two terms the assembly before retiring in 1979.Gordon served in the cabinet under...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Provincial Treasurer
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Anders Aalborg
Anders Aalborg
Anders Olav Aalborg was a teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1948 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

July 29, 1964 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Provincial Treasurer
Social Credit Edgar Hinman
Edgar Hinman
Edgar Wynder "Ted" Hinman was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1967 and again from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in both government and opposition...

August 2, 1955 July 29, 1964 Manning Provincial Treasurer
Social Credit Clarence Gerhart December 23, 1954 August 2, 1955 Manning Provincial Treasurer
Social Credit Ernest Manning September 12, 1944 December 23, 1954 Manning Provincial Treasurer
Social Credit Solon Earl Low
Solon Earl Low
Solon Earl Low was a Canadian politician in the 20th century.Low was born in Cardston, Alberta, and was a farmer, school teacher and school principal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1935 provincial that swept the Social Credit Party of Alberta to power...

February 2, 1937 September 12, 1944 Manning, Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Provincial Treasurer
Social Credit Charles Cockroft September 3, 1935 February 2, 1937 Aberhart Provincial Treasurer
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

John Love
John Russell Love
John Russell Love was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1921 to 1935 sitting with the United Farmers caucus in government...

July 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid
Richard Gavin Reid
Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935...

Provincial Treasurer
United Farmers Richard Reid 1923 July 10, 1934 Brownlee, Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

Provincial Treasurer
United Farmers Herbert Greenfield August 13, 1921 1923 Greenfield Provincial Treasurer
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Charles Mitchell
Charles R. Mitchell
Charles Richmond Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, cabinet minister and former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

November 28, 1913 August 13, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

, Sifton
Arthur Lewis Sifton
Arthur Lewis Watkins Sifton, PC, KC was a Canadian politician who served as the second Premier of Alberta from 1910 until 1917 and as a minister in the Government of Canada thereafter. Born in Ontario, he grew up there and in Winnipeg, where he became a lawyer...

Provincial Treasurer
Liberal Arthur Sifton March 26, 1913 November 28, 1913 Sifton Provincial Treasurer
Liberal Malcolm McKenzie
Malcolm McKenzie
Malcolm McKenzie was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and, briefly, as Alberta Provincial Treasurer.-Early life:...

May 4, 1912 March 26, 1913 Sifton Provincial Treasurer
Liberal Arthur Sifton June 1, 1910 May 4, 1912 Sifton Provincial Treasurer
Liberal Alexander Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...

September 9, 1905 Juny 1, 1910 Rutherford Provincial Treasurer

Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife

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Minister of Forestry, Lands and Wildlife
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

LeRoy Fjordbotten
LeRoy Fjordbotten
LeRoy Fjordbotten is a former provincial level politician, farmer and auctioneer. He served as cabinet minister in the Government of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1982 to 1992...

Between September 1986 and March 1987 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Donald Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow is a former politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993.-Political career:Sparrow ran for a seat as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1982 Alberta general election...

May 1986 Between September 1986 and March 1987 Getty
November 1, 1985 May 1986 Getty Minister of Forestry
No full minister in charge; Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow is a former politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993.-Political career:Sparrow ran for a seat as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1982 Alberta general election...

 was associate minister (see below)
Progressive Conservative Bud Miller
Bud Miller
James "Bud" Edgar Miller is a retired provincial level politician and farmer from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1986. During his time in provincial office he served in the Executive Council as the Minister of Public Lands and Wildlife...

November 1982 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Public Lands and Wildlife
Progressive Conservative Allan Warrack
Allan Warrack
Allan Alexander Warrack is a former provincial level politician and current University Professor from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1971 to 1979...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Lands and Forests
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Joseph Ross
Joseph Donovan Ross
Joseph Donovan Ross was a medical doctor and a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971. He also served as Minister of Health in the Alberta provincial government.-Political career:Ross first ran for...

May 20, 1969 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Lands and Forests
Social Credit Henry Ruste
Henry Ruste
Henry Arild Ruste was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1955 to 1975 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government and opposition...

December 12, 1968 May 20, 1969 Strom Minister of Lands and Forests
Social Credit Alfred Hooke
Alfred Hooke
Alfred "Alf" John Hooke was a teacher, provincial politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit party in government...

July 16, 1968 December 12, 1968 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Minister of Lands and Forests
Social Credit Henry Ruste February 16, 1965 July 16, 1968 Manning Minister of Lands and Forests
Social Credit Norman Willmore
Norman Willmore
Norman Alfred Willmore was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1944 until his death in 1965 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

August 2, 1955 February 2, 1965 Manning Minister of Lands and Forests
Social Credit Ivan Casey September 9, 1952 August 2, 1955 Manning Minister of Lands and Forests
Social Credit Nathan Tanner
Nathan Eldon Tanner
Nathan Eldon Tanner was a teacher, business leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and a municipal and provincial politician from the Canadian province of Alberta...

April 1, 1949 September 9, 1952 Manning Minister of Lands and Forests
January 5, 1937 April 1, 1949 Manning, Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Minister of Lands and Mines
Social Credit Charles Ross September 3, 1935 January 5, 1937 Aberhart Minister of Lands and Mines
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

Hugh Allen
Hugh Allen (politician)
Hugh Wright Allen was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1926 to 1935 sitting with the United Farmers of Alberta caucus...

July 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid
Richard Gavin Reid
Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935...

Minister of Lands and Mines
United Farmers Richard Reid October 1, 1930 July 10, 1934 Brownlee Minister of Lands and Mines

Associate Ministers in the Forestry, Lands and Wildlife portfolio

Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow is a former politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993.-Political career:Sparrow ran for a seat as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1982 Alberta general election...

November 1982 November 1, 1985 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Associate Minister of Public Lands and Wildlife
Progressive Conservative Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Wilbur Schmidt was a provincial level politician and Royal Canadian Air Force pilot from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

August 30, 1976 March 22, 1979 Lougheed Associate Minister of Energy and Natural Resources responsible for Public Lands

Minister of Gaming

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Minister of Gaming
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Gordon Graydon
Gordon Graydon
Gordon Graydon, BA , QC , LL.D was a Canadian politician.Graydon received his early education at Woodlands Secondary School in County Peel, Ontario. He attended Brampton Centennial High School, and was a student at University of Toronto in Political Science. He graduated from Osgoode Hall law...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens, Q.C. is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the current Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Murray Smith
Murray Smith (Alberta politician)
Murray D. Smith is a businessman and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein

Minister of Health and Wellness

Minister of Health and Wellness
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Fred Horne
Fred Horne
Fred Horne is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Edmonton-Rutherford as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Ron Liepert
Ron Liepert
Ronald Liepert is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-West as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Dave Hancock December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Iris Evans
Iris Evans
Iris Evans is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and is Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for the Canadian province. From November 25, 2004 to December 15, 2006 she served as Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ralph Klein's cabinet...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Gary Mar
Gary Mar
Gary Glen Mar QC, is a Canadian politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2007. On December 3, 2007, he was appointed as the Official Representative for Alberta in Washington, D.C., and worked in the Canadian Embassy with the official...

June 2, 2000 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Health and Welfare
Progressive Conservative Halvar Jonson
Halvar Jonson
Halvar C. Jonson . is a former teacher and high school principal. He was also a long serving provincial politician from Alberta, Canada...

May 31, 1996 June 2, 2000 Klein Minister of Health
Progressive Conservative Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

December 15, 1992 May 31, 1996 Klein Minister of Health
Progressive Conservative Nancy Betkowski September 8, 1988 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Health
Progressive Conservative Marvin Moore
Marvin Moore
Marvin Everard Moore was a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1989...

May 1986 September 8, 1988 Getty Minister of Hospitals and Medical Care
Progressive Conservative David Russell
David John Russell
David John Russell was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Born in Calgary in 1931, Russell was elected to Calgary City Council and served as Alderman on two different occasions, the first time from 1960–1961 and then again from 1963 to 1967.Russell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of...

March 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Hospitals and Medical Care
Progressive Conservative Gordon Miniely
Gordon Miniely
Gordon Miniely was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Gordon was elected to represent the electoral district of Edmonton Centre for the Progressive Conservatives in the 1971 Alberta general election. Gordon served two terms the assembly before retiring in 1979.Gordon served in the cabinet under...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Hospitals and Medical Care
Progressive Conservative Neil Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford was a politician and jazz musician from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Neil was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He married Catherine May Hughes September 3, 1951...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Health and Social Development
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

James Henderson
James Douglas Henderson
James Douglas Henderson was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1963 to 1975 sitting as a member of the Social Credit caucus in both government and opposition and later as an Independent...

May 20, 1969 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Health
Social Credit Joseph Ross
Joseph Donovan Ross
Joseph Donovan Ross was a medical doctor and a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971. He also served as Minister of Health in the Alberta provincial government.-Political career:Ross first ran for...

September 18, 1957 May 20, 1969 Strom, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Minister of Health
Social Credit Wallace Cross
Wallace Warren Cross
Wallace Warren Cross was a medical doctor and long serving politician from Alberta, Canada.Wallace was elected in the 1935 Alberta general election for the Alberta Social Credit Party for the Hand Hills district. He served 6 terms in office retiring from provincial politics in 1959.Wallace became...

September 3, 1935 September 18, 1957 Manning, Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Minister of Health
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

George Hoadley 1923 September 3, 1935 Reid
Richard Gavin Reid
Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935...

, Brownlee
John Edward Brownlee
John Edward Brownlee was the fifth Premier of Alberta, Canada, serving from 1925 until 1934. Born in Port Ryerse, Ontario, he studied history and political science at the University of Toronto's Victoria College before moving west to Calgary to become a lawyer...

Minister of Health
United Farmers Richard Reid August 13, 1921 1923 Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

Minister of Health
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Charles Mitchell
Charles R. Mitchell
Charles Richmond Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, cabinet minister and former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

April 29, 1920 August 13, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

Minister of Health
Liberal Alexander MacKay June 19, 1919 April 29, 1920 Stewart Minister of Health

Associate Ministers in the Health and Wellness portfolio

Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein Associate Minister of Health and Welfare

Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs

Minister of Housing and Urban Affairs
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Jonathan Denis
Jonathan Denis
Jonathan Denis, QC is a Canadian politician and currently Minister of Solicitor General and Minister of Public Security for the province of Alberta. He represents the constituency of Calgary-Egmont as a Progressive Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Cross as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk is a farmer and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He currently serves as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 to present sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus in government...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Larry Shaben
Larry Shaben
Lawrence "Larry" Ralph Shaben was a Canadian politician of Lebanese descent and the first Muslim Cabinet Minister in Canada. He was also one of the first Muslims to be elected to higher office in North America. He held a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1989 sitting with...

November 1982 November 1986 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Housing
Progressive Conservative Tom Chambers
Tom Chambers (politician)
Thomas "Tom" William Chambers is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1986...

April 24, 1978 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Housing and Public Works
Progressive Conservative William Yurko
William Yurko
William Yurko, MLA, MP, was a Canadian politician, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Canadian House of Commons....

March 1975 April 24, 1978 Lougheed Minister of Housing and Public Works

Associate Ministers in the Housing and Urban Affairs Portfolio

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Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Cross as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

June 22, 2007 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Associate Minister in charge of Affordable Housing and Urban Development

Minister of Human Services

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Minister of Human Services
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Dave Hancock October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Minister of Industry and Commerce

Minister of Industry and Commerce
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Fred Peacock
Fred Peacock
Frederick "Fred" H. Peacock was a business man and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 1979.-Political career:...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Raymond Ratzlaff
Raymond Ratzlaff
Raymond Samuel Ratzlaff was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

May 27, 1969 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Industry and Tourism
Social Credit Allen Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick was a stock broker, teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

December 12, 1968 May 27, 1969 Strom Minister of Industry and Tourism
September 1, 1959 December 12, 1968 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

, Strom
Minister of Industry and Development
Social Credit Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

August 2, 1955 September 1, 1959 Manning Minister of Industries and Labour
Social Credit Norman Willmore
Norman Willmore
Norman Alfred Willmore was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1944 until his death in 1965 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

November 10, 1953 August 2, 1955 Manning Minister of Industries and Labour
Social Credit John Robinson
John Lyle Robinson
John Lyle Robinson was a Canadian politician who served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 until his death in 1953 sitting with the Social Credit caucus...

May 8, 1948 1953 Manning Minister of Industries and Labour
Social Credit Clarence Gerhart September 12, 1944 May 8, 1948 Manning Minister of Trade and Industry
Social Credit Ernest Manning June 1, 1943 September 12, 1944 Manning Minister of Trade and Industry
Social Credit Wallace Cross
Wallace Warren Cross
Wallace Warren Cross was a medical doctor and long serving politician from Alberta, Canada.Wallace was elected in the 1935 Alberta general election for the Alberta Social Credit Party for the Hand Hills district. He served 6 terms in office retiring from provincial politics in 1959.Wallace became...

January 20, 1937 June 1, 1943 Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Minister of Trade and Industry
Social Credit Ernest Manning January 20, 1937 Aberhart Minister of Trade and Industry
Social Credit William Chant September 3, 1935 Aberhart Minister of Trade and Industry

Minister of Infrastructure

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Minister of Infrastructure
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Jeff Johnson October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Progressive Conservative Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk is a farmer and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He currently serves as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 to present sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus in government...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Progressive Conservative Jack Hayden
Jack Hayden (politician)
Jack Hayden is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Drumheller-Stettler as a Progressive Conservative.-Political career:...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Luke Ouellette
Luke Ouellette
Luke Ouellette is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation
Progressive Conservative Ty Lund
Ty Lund
Ty Lund is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Rocky Mountain House as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

April 6, 2006 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

November 25, 2004 March 22, 2006 Klein Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation
Progressive Conservative Ty Lund
Ty Lund
Ty Lund is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Rocky Mountain House as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein

Associate Ministers in the Infrastructure portfolio

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Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky
Gene Zwozdesky is a politician and current cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.Zwozdeksy, was born in Saskatchewan but came to Alberta at the age of two. He lived in Grand Centre, Hinton and Sangudo before moving to Edmonton, where he has lived in 1963 and where he obtain bachelor's degrees in...

June 22, 2007 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Associate Minister in charge of Capital Planning
Progressive Conservative Barry McFarland
Barry McFarland
Barry McFarland is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Little Bow as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

April 6, 2006 December 15, 2006 Klein Associate Minister in charge of Capital Planning

Minister of Innovation and Science

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Minister of Innovation and Science
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Victor Doerksen
Victor Doerksen
Victor Doerksen is a politician, accountant and former cabinet minister in Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Doerksen was born in Bassano, Alberta on November 25, 1953. He was employed by the Bank of Montreal for 12 years...

March 16, 2001 August 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor is a former tenured professor and member of the provincial legislature of Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 Alberta general election. He defeated three other candidates including Al Strom of the Social Credit with a...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein
Progressive Conservative Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor is a former tenured professor and member of the provincial legislature of Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 Alberta general election. He defeated three other candidates including Al Strom of the Social Credit with a...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister without portfolio responsible for science, research, and information technology
Progressive Conservative Dianne Mirosh
Dianne Mirosh
Dianne Mirosh is a former provincial-level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During her time in office, she served a number of cabinet portfolios in the Don Getty and Ralph Klein governments.-Political career:Mirosh was...

September 15, 1994 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister without portfolio responsible for science and research
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Fred Stewart
Fred Stewart (Alberta politician)
Frederick "Fred" Stewart is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Stewart was elected as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the Calgary North Hill electoral district in the 1986 Alberta general election...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Technology, Research, and Telecommunications
Progressive Conservative Leslie Young
Leslie Young
Leslie "Les" Gordon Young was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1989...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty Minister of Technology, Research, and Telecommunications
Progressive Conservative David King
David Thomas King
David Thomas King is a Canadian politician and public education policy activist. He is a former Progressive Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from August, 1971 to April, 1986, during which time he was Legislative Secretary to Premier Peter Lougheed , Minister of...

November 1, 1985 May 1986 Getty Minister of Technology, Research, and Telecommunications

Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations

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Minister of Intergovernmental Relations
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Cal Dallas
Cal Dallas
Cal Dallas is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Red Deer-South as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Minister of Intergovernmental, International and Aboriginal Relations
Progressive Conservative Iris Evans
Iris Evans
Iris Evans is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and is Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for the Canadian province. From November 25, 2004 to December 15, 2006 she served as Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ralph Klein's cabinet...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Progressive Conservative Len Webber
Len Webber
Len Webber is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Foothills as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

September 17, 2009 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens, Q.C. is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the current Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009...

March 12, 2008 May 15, 2009 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Guy Boutilier
Guy Boutilier
Guy C. Boutilier is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative, and served in several capacities in the Cabinet of Alberta under Premiers Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach before being ejected from the P.C. caucus in July...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of International, Intergovernmental, and Aboriginal Relations
Progressive Conservative Gary Mar
Gary Mar
Gary Glen Mar QC, is a Canadian politician in Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 to 2007. On December 3, 2007, he was appointed as the Official Representative for Alberta in Washington, D.C., and worked in the Canadian Embassy with the official...

April 6, 2006 December 15, 2006 Klein
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

November 25, 2004 March 23, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Halvar Jonson
Halvar Jonson
Halvar C. Jonson . is a former teacher and high school principal. He was also a long serving provincial politician from Alberta, Canada...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein
Progressive Conservative Dave Hancock March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs
Progressive Conservative Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During his time in office he served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Alberta provincial government....

September 15, 1994 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Progressive Conservative Ralph Klein June 1993 September 15, 1994 Klein Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Progressive Conservative Peter Elzinga
Peter Elzinga
Peter Elzinga was the executive director of the Progressive Conservative Party in Alberta, Canada, a former Member of Parliament in the Canadian House of Commons and former cabinet minister in Alberta....

December 14, 1992 June 1993 Klein Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Progressive Conservative Jim Horsman
Jim Horsman
James "Jim" Deverell Horsman, is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993. During his time in public office he also served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Government of Alberta.-Early life:James...

November 1982 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Progressive Conservative Archibald D. Johnston
Archibald D. Johnston
Archibald Dick Johnston is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Progressive Conservative Lou Hyndman
Lou Hyndman
Louis Davies "Lou" Hyndman is a Canadian academic, lawyer and retired politician. He was named the 15th Chancellor of the University of Alberta on June 10, 1994...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs
Progressive Conservative Don Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs

Minister of International Trade

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Minister of International Trade
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

November 1982 November 1, 1985 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Progressive Conservative Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

November 1982 Lougheed Minister of State for Economic Development - International Trade

Minister of Justice and Attorney General

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Minister of Justice and Attorney General
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Verlyn Olson
Verlyn Olson
Verlyn D. Olson is a former lawyer and a Canadian provincial politician serving in Alberta. He has served as a member of the Alberta Legislature from 2008 to present.-Political career:...

February 18, 2011 Incumbent Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Alison Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

March 12, 2008 February 18, 2011 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens
Ron Stevens, Q.C. is a Canadian politician. He was a member of the current Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Glenmore as a Progressive Conservative until his resignation on May 15, 2009...

November 25, 2004 March 12, 2008 Klein, Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Dave Hancock May 26, 1999 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Jon Havelock
Jon Havelock
Jonathan Niles Havelock was a Cabinet Minister from Alberta, Canada.Jon Havelock was elected as the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta member for Calgary Shaw in the 1993 Alberta general election after the former member of the riding Jim Dinning, switched ridings to Calgary Fish...

March 26, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Brian Evans
Brian Evans (politician)
Brian John Evans is a Canadian lawyer and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 to 1997...

September 15, 1994 March 26, 1997 Klein
Progressive Conservative Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During his time in office he served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Alberta provincial government....

June 1993 September 15, 1994 Klein
Progressive Conservative Dick Fowler
Dick Fowler (politician)
Richard S. "Dick" Fowler is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Minister of the Crown in the Government of Alberta, two-time mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, and Judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta....

December 14, 1992 June 1993 Klein
Progressive Conservative Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During his time in office he served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Alberta provincial government....

September 8, 1988 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Attorney General
Progressive Conservative Jim Horsman
Jim Horsman
James "Jim" Deverell Horsman, is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993. During his time in public office he also served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Government of Alberta.-Early life:James...

May 1986 September 8, 1988 Getty Attorney General
Progressive Conservative Neil Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford was a politician and jazz musician from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Neil was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He married Catherine May Hughes September 3, 1951...

March 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Attorney General
Progressive Conservative James Foster
James L. Foster
James "Jim" L. Foster was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Attorney General
Progressive Conservative Merv Leitch
Merv Leitch
Clarence Mervin "Merv" Leitch is a former lawyer and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Attorney General
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Edgar Gerhart
Edgar Gerhart
Edgar Henry Gerhart was a lawyer judge and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

December 10, 1968 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Attorney General
Social Credit Ernest Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

August 2, 1955 December 10, 1968 Manning Attorney General
Social Credit Lucien Maynard
Lucien Maynard
Joseph Lucien Paul Maynard was a lawyer and a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served a long career as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1955 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus.Maynard served as a cabinet minister under Premier's William...

June 1, 1943 August 2, 1955 Manning Attorney General
Social Credit William Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

August 1937 May 23, 1943 Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Attorney General
Social Credit John Hugill
John Hugill
John William Hugill was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as Attorney General of the province of Alberta from 1935 until 1937. Born in England, he came to Canada and studied law before setting up a practice in Calgary. He became a prominent resident of that city, and served two years...

September 3, 1935 August 9, 1937 Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Attorney General
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

John Lymburn
John Lymburn
John Farquhar Lymburn was a Canadian politician who served as Attorney-General of Alberta from 1926 until 1935. Born and educated in Scotland, he came to Canada in 1911 and practiced law in Edmonton. In 1925, John Edward Brownlee became Premier of Alberta, and sought a lawyer without partisan...

June 5, 1926 September 3, 1935 Reid, Brownlee Attorney General
United Farmers John Brownlee August 31, 1921 June 5, 1926 Brownlee, Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

Attorney General
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

John Boyle
John R. Boyle
John Robert Boyle was a Canadian politician and jurist who served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, a cabinet minister in the Government of Alberta, and a judge on the Supreme Court of Alberta. Born in Ontario, he came west and eventually settled in Edmonton, where he practiced...

August 23, 1918 August 31, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

Attorney General
Liberal Charles Cross May 4, 1912 August 23, 1918 Stewart, Sifton Attorney General
Liberal Charles Mitchell
Charles R. Mitchell
Charles Richmond Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, cabinet minister and former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

June 1, 1910 May 4, 1912 Sifton Attorney General
Liberal Charles Cross September 9, 1905 June 1, 1910 Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...

Attorney General

Minister of Manpower

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Minister of Manpower
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Rick Orman
Rick Orman
Richard “Rick” D. Orman is a Canadian politician. Orman was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1948 as a fourth generation Albertan. He studied at the University of Calgary before graduating with honours from Eastern Washington University in 1971. Orman served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of...

May 1986 Between September 1986 and March 1987 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Ernie Isley
Ernie Isley
Ernest "Ernie" Isley is a member of the iconic American musical ensemble, The Isley Brothers.-Life and career:Ernie was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, where his older brothers formed The Isley Brothers, first as a gospel group, then as a secular-singing group. In 1960 his family moved to Englewood and...

November 1982 Between September 1986 and March 1987 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative Jim Horsman
Jim Horsman
James "Jim" Deverell Horsman, is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993. During his time in public office he also served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Government of Alberta.-Early life:James...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Advanced Education and Manpower
Progressive Conservative Bert Hohol
Bert Hohol
Albert "Bert" Edward Hohol was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Advanced Education and Manpower
Progressive Conservative September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Labour and Manpower

Minister of Mines and Minerals

Minister of Mines and Minerals
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Bill Dickie
Bill Dickie (politician)
William "Bill" Danielle Dickie is a former corporate lawyer as well as a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as an Alderman in Calgary from 1961 to 1964 and also served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1963 to 1975...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Allen Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick was a stock broker, teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

October 15, 1962 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...


Social Credit Ernest Manning September 16, 1952 October 15, 1962 Manning
Social Credit Nathan Tanner
Nathan Eldon Tanner
Nathan Eldon Tanner was a teacher, business leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and a municipal and provincial politician from the Canadian province of Alberta...

April 1, 1949 September 16, 1952 Manning

Minister of Municipal Affairs

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Minister of Municipal Affairs
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Doug Griffiths
Doug Griffiths
Douglas "Doug" Griffiths is a Canadian politician and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Battle River-Wainwright as a Progressive Conservative...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Hector Goudreau
Hector Goudreau
Hector G. Goudreau is a politician from Alberta, Canada. He is originally from the francophone area of Beaumont, Alberta, located just south of Edmonton's metro population....

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk is a farmer and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He currently serves as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 to present sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus in government...

March 12, 2008 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Progressive Conservative Rob Renner
Rob Renner
Robert William Renner is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the constituency of Medicine Hat as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Guy Boutilier
Guy Boutilier
Guy C. Boutilier is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Progressive Conservative, and served in several capacities in the Cabinet of Alberta under Premiers Ralph Klein and Ed Stelmach before being ejected from the P.C. caucus in July...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Progressive Conservative Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski is a former farmer as well as a municipal and provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 until 2001.-Early life:...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein
Progressive Conservative Iris Evans
Iris Evans
Iris Evans is a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and is Minister of International and Intergovernmental Relations for the Canadian province. From November 25, 2004 to December 15, 2006 she served as Alberta's Minister of Health and Wellness in Premier Ralph Klein's cabinet...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Tom Thurber
Tom Thurber
Tom Thurber is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 until 2001.-Political career:...

September 15, 1994 March 29, 1997 Klein
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

December 14, 1992 September 15, 1994 Klein
Progressive Conservative Dick Fowler
Dick Fowler (politician)
Richard S. "Dick" Fowler is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Minister of the Crown in the Government of Alberta, two-time mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, and Judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta....

February 1992 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Raymond Speaker
Raymond Speaker
Raymond Albert "Ray" Speaker, PC, OC is a farmer and Canadian politician.Speaker was born and raised in Enchant, Alberta where he farms to this day...

March 1989 February 1992 Getty
Progressive Conservative Dennis Anderson
Dennis Anderson (politician)
Dennis Anderson is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993...

Between September 1986 and March 1987 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative Neil Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford was a politician and jazz musician from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Neil was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He married Catherine May Hughes September 3, 1951...

May 1986 Between September 1986 and March 1987 Getty
Progressive Conservative Julian Koziak
Julian Koziak
Julian Koziak is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 1986.-Political career:...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Progressive Conservative Marvin Moore
Marvin Moore
Marvin Everard Moore was a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1989...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Archibald Johnston
Archibald D. Johnston
Archibald Dick Johnston is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative David Russell
David John Russell
David John Russell was a politician from Alberta, Canada.Born in Calgary in 1931, Russell was elected to Calgary City Council and served as Alderman on two different occasions, the first time from 1960–1961 and then again from 1963 to 1967.Russell was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Fred Colborne
Frederick C. Colborne
Frederick C. Colborne D.F.C., of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1944 and served until 1971.-Political career:...

May 27, 1969 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...


Social Credit Edgar Gerhart
Edgar Gerhart
Edgar Henry Gerhart was a lawyer judge and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

December 12, 1968 May 27, 1969 Strom
Social Credit Harry Strom July 16, 1968 December 12, 1968 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...


Social Credit Edgar Gerhart June 29, 1967 July 16, 1968 Manning
Social Credit Alfred Hooke
Alfred Hooke
Alfred "Alf" John Hooke was a teacher, provincial politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit party in government...

August 2, 1955 June 29, 1967 Manning
Social Credit Edgar Hinman
Edgar Hinman
Edgar Wynder "Ted" Hinman was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1967 and again from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in both government and opposition...

December 23, 1954 August 2, 1955 Manning
Social Credit Clarence Gerhart June 1, 1943 December 23, 1954 Manning
Social Credit Lucien Maynard
Lucien Maynard
Joseph Lucien Paul Maynard was a lawyer and a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served a long career as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1955 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus.Maynard served as a cabinet minister under Premier's William...

January 20, 1937 June 1, 1943 Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...


Social Credit Charles Cockroft September 3, 1935 January 20, 1937 Aberhart
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

Hugh Allen
Hugh Allen (politician)
Hugh Wright Allen was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1926 to 1935 sitting with the United Farmers of Alberta caucus...

July 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid
Richard Gavin Reid
Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935...


United Farmers Richard Reid November 23, 1925 July 10, 1934 Brownlee
John Edward Brownlee
John Edward Brownlee was the fifth Premier of Alberta, Canada, serving from 1925 until 1934. Born in Port Ryerse, Ontario, he studied history and political science at the University of Toronto's Victoria College before moving west to Calgary to become a lawyer...


United Farmers Herbert Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

1923 November 23, 1925 Greenfield
United Farmers Richard Reid August 31, 1921 1923 Greenfield
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Charles R. Mitchell
Charles R. Mitchell
Charles Richmond Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, cabinet minister and former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

April 29, 1920 August 31, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...


Liberal Alexander Grant MacKay August 26, 1918 April 29, 1920 Stewart
Liberal Wilfrid Gariépy
Wilfrid Gariépy
Wilfrid Gariepy was a Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and provincial cabinet minister, member of the Canadian House of Commons, and municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Early life:...

November 29, 1913 August 26, 1918 Stewart, Sifton
Liberal Charles Stewart May 4, 1912 November 29, 1913 Sifton

Provincial Secretary

Provincial Secretary
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
In 1971, the provincial secretary portfolio was merged into the Attorney General portfolio.
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Ambrose Holowach
Ambrose A. Holowach
Ambrose A. Holowach was a businessman, soldier during World War II and an Alberta provincial level and federal level politician.-Federal political career:...

October 15, 1962 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...


Social Credit Allen Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick was a stock broker, teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

September 1, 1959 October 15, 1962 Manning
Social Credit Alfred Hooke
Alfred Hooke
Alfred "Alf" John Hooke was a teacher, provincial politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit party in government...

August 2, 1955 September 1, 1959 Manning
Social Credit Clarence Gerhart May 8, 1948 August 2, 1955 Manning
Social Credit Alfred Hooke June 1, 1943 May 8, 1948 Manning
Social Credit Ernest Manning September 3, 1935 June 1, 1943 Manning
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

Richard Reid
Richard Gavin Reid
Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935...

July 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid
United Farmers John Brownlee
John Edward Brownlee
John Edward Brownlee was the fifth Premier of Alberta, Canada, serving from 1925 until 1934. Born in Port Ryerse, Ontario, he studied history and political science at the University of Toronto's Victoria College before moving west to Calgary to become a lawyer...

June 15, 1926 July 10, 1934 Brownlee
United Farmers George Hoadley November 23, 1925 June 15, 1926 Brownlee
United Farmers John Brownlee 1923 November 23, 1925 Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...


United Farmers Herbert Greenfield August 13, 1921 1923 Greenfield
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Jean Côté
Jean Côté
Jean Léon Côté was a prominent Canadian politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1909 until 1923 sitting with the provincial Liberal party in both government and opposition. He vacated his provincial seat when he was appointed to the Senate of Canada in 1923...

September 25, 1918 August 13, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...


Liberal Wilfrid Gariépy
Wilfrid Gariépy
Wilfrid Gariepy was a Canadian politician, member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and provincial cabinet minister, member of the Canadian House of Commons, and municipal councillor in Edmonton.-Early life:...

August 28, 1918 September 25, 1918 Stewart
Liberal Charles Stewart October 16, 1917 August 28, 1918 Stewart
Liberal Archibald J. McLean
Archibald J. McLean
Archibald J. McLean was a politician from Alberta, Canada.McLean was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election as an Independent Liberal...

June 1, 1910 October 16, 1917 Sifton
Liberal Duncan Marshall
Duncan Marshall
Duncan McLean Marshall was a journalist, publisher, rancher provincial level politician and Minister of Agriculture in 2 provinces and later served in the Canadian Senate representing the province of Ontario.-Early life:Marshall made his first run at federal politics running in the Muskoka riding...

November 1, 1909 June 1, 1910 Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...


Liberal William Finlay
William Finlay
William Thomas Finlay was a politician and cabinet minister in Alberta and Northwest Territories, Canada-Early life:...

September 9, 1905 November 1, 1909 Rutherford

Minister of Public Welfare

Minister of Public Welfare
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Ray Speaker July 16, 1968 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...


Social Credit Alfred Hooke
Alfred Hooke
Alfred "Alf" John Hooke was a teacher, provincial politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit party in government...

June 29, 1967 July 16, 1968 Manning
Social Credit Leonard Halmrast
Leonard Halmrast
Leonard Christian Halmrast was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1945 to 1967 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

October 15, 1962 June 29, 1967 Manning
Social Credit Robin Jorgenson
Robin Jorgenson
Robin Daniel Jorgenson was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1944 to 1967 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

January 5, 1954 October 15, 1962 Manning
Social Credit Leonard Halmrast 1953 January 5, 1954 Manning
Social Credit Wallace Cross
Wallace Warren Cross
Wallace Warren Cross was a medical doctor and long serving politician from Alberta, Canada.Wallace was elected in the 1935 Alberta general election for the Alberta Social Credit Party for the Hand Hills district. He served 6 terms in office retiring from provincial politics in 1959.Wallace became...

March 30, 1944 1953 Manning

Minister of Public Works, Supply, and Services

Minister of Public Works, Supply, and Services
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Stan Woloshyn
Stan Woloshyn
Stan Woloshyn is a politician in Alberta, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Alberta New Democrats candidate in 1989...

May 31, 1996 May 26, 1999 Klein
Progressive Conservative Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer (politician)
Robert "Butch" Fischer is a former long serving provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 until 2001 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. He was investigated for a conflict of interest in 2001 that...

September 15, 1994 May 31, 1996 Klein
Progressive Conservative Tom Thurber
Tom Thurber
Tom Thurber is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 until 2001.-Political career:...

June 1993 September 15, 1994 Klein
Progressive Conservative Ken Kowalski
Ken Kowalski
Kenneth "Ken" Reginald Kowalski, MLA is a provincial level politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He is a current member and also dean of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and has served continuously since November 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1989 June 1993 Klein, Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Ernie Isley
Ernie Isley (Alberta politician)
Ernest Douglas "Ernie" Isley is a former school principal and provincial and municipal level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative Tom Chambers
Tom Chambers (politician)
Thomas "Tom" William Chambers is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1986...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative April 24, 1978 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Housing and Public Works
Progressive Conservative William Yurko
William Yurko
William Yurko, MLA, MP, was a Canadian politician, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and the Canadian House of Commons....

March 1975 April 24, 1978 Lougheed Minister of Housing and Public Works
Progressive Conservative Winston Backus
Winston Backus
Winston Osler Backus is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Public Works
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Albert Ludwig
Albert Ludwig
Albert Ludwig was a long serving politician and World War II combat veteran, layer judge and current author from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Ludwig was born in 1919 in Melfort, Saskatchewan...

May 27, 1969 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Public Works
Social Credit Fred Colborne
Frederick C. Colborne
Frederick C. Colborne D.F.C., of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1944 and served until 1971.-Political career:...

November 30, 1962 May 27, 1969 Strom, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Minister of Public Works
Social Credit James Hartley
James Hartley
James "Jim" Hartley was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1967 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

August 2, 1955 November 30, 1962 Manning Minister of Public Works
Social Credit Alfred Hooke
Alfred Hooke
Alfred "Alf" John Hooke was a teacher, provincial politician and author from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit party in government...

September 9, 1952 August 2, 1955 Manning Minister of Public Works
Social Credit Duncan MacMillan May 8, 1948 September 9, 1952 Manning Minister of Public Works
Social Credit William Fallow September 3, 1935 May 1948 Manning, Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Minister of Public Works
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

John MacLellan
John MacLellan
John James MacLellan was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1930 to 1935 sitting with the United Farmers caucus in government...

July 14, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid
Richard Gavin Reid
Richard Gavin "Dick" Reid was a Canadian politician who served as the sixth Premier of Alberta from 1934 to 1935...

Minister of Public Works
United Farmers Richard Reid July 10, 1934 July 14, 1934 Reid Minister of Public Works
United Farmers Oran McPherson
Oran McPherson
Oran Leo "Tony" McPherson was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Little Bow from 1921 to 1935 as a member of the United Farmers of Alberta.-Early life:...

December 31, 1926 July 10, 1934 Brownlee Minister of Public Works
Dominion Labor
Dominion Labor Party (Alberta)
The Dominion Labor Party provincial branch of the Canadian Labor Party in Alberta was a minor political party. The party was founded on March 29, 1919 as the Federated Labor Party. The party was renamed the Dominion Labor Party later that year.-Early history:...

Alex Ross
Alex Ross (politician)
-Political career:Alex was first elected in the 1917 Alberta election defeating Conservative Thomas Tweedie. He was elected as the first and only member of the Labor Representation League to sit in the assembly...

August 31, 1921 December 31, 1926 Brownlee, Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

Minister of Public Works
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Archibald J. McLean
Archibald J. McLean
Archibald J. McLean was a politician from Alberta, Canada.McLean was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 Alberta general election as an Independent Liberal...

October 16, 1917 August 31, 1921 Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

Minister of Public Works
Liberal Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

November 28, 1913 October 16, 1917 Sifton Minister of Public Works
Liberal Charles R. Mitchell
Charles R. Mitchell
Charles Richmond Mitchell was a Canadian lawyer, judge, cabinet minister and former Leader of the Official Opposition in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

May 4, 1912 November 28, 1913 Sifton Minister of Public Works
Liberal Arthur Sifton June 1, 1910 May 4, 1912 Sifton Minister of Public Works
Liberal William Henry Cushing
William Henry Cushing
William Henry Cushing was a Canadian politician. Born in Ontario, he migrated west as a young adult where he started a successful lumber company and later became Alberta's first Minister of Public Works and the 11th mayor of Calgary...

September 9, 1905 February 16, 1910 Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...

Minister of Public Works

Minister of Recreation and Parks

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Minister of Recreation and Parks
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
In February 1992, this portfolio was merged with Tourism and responsibility handed to the Minister of Tourism, Parks and Recreation.
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

March 1989 February 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Progressive Conservative Norm Weiss
Norm Weiss
Norman "Norm" A. Weiss is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

May 1986 March 1989 Getty
Progressive Conservative Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy is a former businessman, farmer and long serving municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 2001...

March 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Progressive Conservative Al Adair
Al Adair
James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster, published author and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.-Early life:Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Recreation, Parks and Wildlife
Progressive Conservative Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Culture, Youth and Recreation

Minister of Restructuring and Government Efficiency

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Minister of Restructuring and Government Efficiency
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Luke Ouellette
Luke Ouellette
Luke Ouellette is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein

Minister of Revenue

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Minister of Revenue
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin is a politician and accountant who formerly served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and Cabinet Minister in the Alberta government.-Early life:Greg was born in Raymond, Alberta...

March 16, 2001 November 24, 2004 Klein

Minister of Seniors and Community Supports

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Minister of Seniors and Community Supports
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative George VanderBurg
George VanderBurg
George VanderBurg is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Minister of Seniors
Progressive Conservative Mary Anne Jablonski
Mary Anne Jablonski
Mary Anne Jablonski is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Red Deer North as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

March 12, 2008 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Progressive Conservative Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin
Greg Melchin is a politician and accountant who formerly served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and Cabinet Minister in the Alberta government.-Early life:Greg was born in Raymond, Alberta...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz
Yvonne Fritz is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Cross as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Stan Woloshyn
Stan Woloshyn
Stan Woloshyn is a politician in Alberta, Canada. He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Alberta New Democrats candidate in 1989...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Seniors
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Roy Brassard
Roy Brassard
Roy Brassard was a Canadian politician who served as a Progressive Conservative Alberta MLA, and more recently a public school board member.-Provincial government:...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Associate Minister of Family and Social Services

Minister of Service Alberta

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Minister of Service Alberta
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Manmeet Bhullar
Manmeet Bhullar
Manmeet Singh Bhullar is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Calgary-Montrose as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Progressive Conservative Heather Klimchuk
Heather Klimchuk
Heather Klimchuk is a Canadian politician, who was elected in the 2008 provincial election to represent the electoral district of Edmonton-Glenora in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She is a member of the Progressive Conservatives. On March 13, 2008, Heather Klimchuk was sworn in as the...

March 12, 2008 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Progressive Conservative Lloyd Snelgrove
Lloyd Snelgrove
Lloyd Snelgrove is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Vermilion-Lloydminster in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.-External links:*...

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative George VanderBurg
George VanderBurg
George VanderBurg is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Whitecourt-Ste. Anne in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party....

April 6, 2006 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Government Services
Progressive Conservative Ty Lund
Ty Lund
Ty Lund is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Rocky Mountain House as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

November 25, 2004 April 6, 2006 Klein Minister of Government Services
Progressive Conservative David Coutts
David Coutts
David Coutts is a Canadian politician, who previously represented the electoral district of Livingstone-Macleod in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was first elected in the 1993 election, and was re-elected three times before declining...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein Minister of Government Services
Progressive Conservative Pat Nelson
Pat Nelson
Patricia "Pat" Nelson née Black is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. As a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Calgary Foothills electoral district from 1989 to 2004...

May 26, 1999 March 16, 2001 Klein Minister of Government Services
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Stewart McCrae
Stewart McCrae (politician)
Stewart Alden McCrae was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1973 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Government Services
Progressive Conservative Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Government Services and Culture

Minister of Social Development

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Minister of Social Development
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Raymond Speaker
Raymond Speaker
Raymond Albert "Ray" Speaker, PC, OC is a farmer and Canadian politician.Speaker was born and raised in Enchant, Alberta where he farms to this day...

September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...


Solicitor General and Minister of Public Security

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Solicitor General and Minister of Public Security
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Jonathan Denis
Jonathan Denis
Jonathan Denis, QC is a Canadian politician and currently Minister of Solicitor General and Minister of Public Security for the province of Alberta. He represents the constituency of Calgary-Egmont as a Progressive Conservative in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Frank Oberle, Jr.
Frank Oberle, Jr.
Frank Oberle, Jr. is a Canadian politician and currently is the Solicitor General and Public Security Minister for the province of Alberta, representing the provincial constituency of Peace River as a Progressive Conservative....

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Fred Lindsay
Fred Lindsay
Fred Lindsay is a politician and current provincial Member of the Legislative Assembly in Alberta, Canada.-Political involvement:...

December 15, 2006 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative Harvey Cenaiko
Harvey Cenaiko
Harvey Cenaiko is a former police officer and one-time Solicitor General and Minister of Public Safety for the Province of Alberta. Cenaiko was elected to his second term as Member of the Legislative Assembly for the riding of Calgary-Buffalo on November 22, 2004. On November 25, 2004, he was...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth
Heather Forsyth is a Canadian politician and current member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Calgary-Fish Creek as a Wildrose Alliance representative. She was a Progressive Conservative until she crossed the floor on January 4, 2010.-Early life:Forsyth was...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

February 1992 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Solicitor General
Progressive Conservative Dick Fowler
Dick Fowler (politician)
Richard S. "Dick" Fowler is a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Minister of the Crown in the Government of Alberta, two-time mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, and Judge of the Provincial Court of Alberta....

March 1989 February 1992 Getty Solicitor General
Progressive Conservative Marvin Moore
Marvin Moore
Marvin Everard Moore was a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1989...

September 8, 1988 March 1989 Getty Solicitor General
Progressive Conservative Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad
Ken Rostad is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During his time in office he served numerous cabinet portfolios in the Alberta provincial government....

May 1986 September 8, 1988 Getty Solicitor General
Progressive Conservative Ian Reid
Ian Reid (Alberta politician)
Ian Wilson Carlyle Reid was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1989...

December 20, 1983 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Solicitor General
Progressive Conservative Graham Harle
Graham Harle
Graham Lisle Harle was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from February 14, 1972 to 1986 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1979 November 15, 1983 Lougheed Solicitor General
Progressive Conservative Roy Farran
Roy Farran
Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars was a British-Canadian soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Solicitor General
Progressive Conservative Helen Hunley
Helen Hunley
The Honourable Wilma Helen Hunley, OC, AOE was a former Canadian politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, the first woman to serve in that post.-Early life:...

March 1975 Lougheed Solicitor General

Minister of Special Projects

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Minister of Special Projects
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Neil Stanley Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford
Neil Stanley Crawford was a politician and jazz musician from Alberta, Canada.-Early life:Neil was born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan. He married Catherine May Hughes September 3, 1951...

Between September 1986 and March 1987 March 1989 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Minister of Sustainable Resource Development

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Minister of Sustainable Resource Development
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Frank Oberle
Frank Oberle
Frank Oberle may refer to:*Frank Oberle, Sr., Canadian politician, Progressive Conservative MP, 1972-1993*Frank Oberle, Jr., his son, Canadian politician, Alberta Progressive Conservative MLA for Peace River, 2004-...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Mel Knight
Mel Knight
Mel Knight is the Minister of Energy of Alberta and a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.-Early life:...

January 15, 2010 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Ted Morton
Ted Morton
Frederick Lee Morton , known commonly as Ted Morton, is a Canadian politician and Minister of Energy for the Province of Alberta. As a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta he represents the constituency of Foothills-Rocky View as a Progressive Conservative...

December 15, 2006 January 15, 2010 Stelmach
Progressive Conservative David Coutts
David Coutts
David Coutts is a Canadian politician, who previously represented the electoral district of Livingstone-Macleod in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party. He was first elected in the 1993 election, and was re-elected three times before declining...

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Progressive Conservative Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal
Mike Cardinal is a politician from Alberta, Canada and a former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, having served in that capacity from 1989 until 2008. He sat as a Progressive Conservative and represented the districts of Athabasca-Lac La Biche, Athabasca-Wabasca, and Athabasca-Redwater...

March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein

Minister of Telephones

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Minister of Telephones
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Robert Bogle
Robert Bogle
Robert John "Bob" Bogle is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

November 1982 November 1, 1985 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Utilities and Telecommunications
Progressive Conservative Larry Shaben
Larry Shaben
Lawrence "Larry" Ralph Shaben was a Canadian politician of Lebanese descent and the first Muslim Cabinet Minister in Canada. He was also one of the first Muslims to be elected to higher office in North America. He held a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1989 sitting with...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Utilities and Telephones
Progressive Conservative Allan Warrack
Allan Warrack
Allan Alexander Warrack is a former provincial level politician and current University Professor from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1971 to 1979...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Utilities and Telephones
Progressive Conservative Roy Farran
Roy Farran
Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars was a British-Canadian soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist...

Early 1973 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Telephones and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Len Werry
Len Werry
Len F. Werry was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to his death in 1973 and a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Alberta of Premier Peter Lougheed from 1971 to 1973.-Political career:Werry ran as a...

September 10, 1971 Early 1973 Lougheed Minister of Telephones and Utilities
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson
Raymond Reierson is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

December 12, 1968 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Telephones
Social Credit Anders Aalborg
Anders Aalborg
Anders Olav Aalborg was a teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1948 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

July 13, 1967 December 11, 1968 Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Minister of Railways and Telephones
Vacant
Social Credit Gordon Taylor
Gordon Taylor
Gordon Edward Taylor was a Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.-Provincial political career:He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1940 provincial election representing Drumheller for Social Credit and continued to sit in the legislature for 39 years...

December 27, 1950 Manning Minister of Railways and Telephones
Social Credit Duncan MacMillan May 8, 1948 December 27, 1950 Manning Minister of Railways and Telephones
Social Credit William Fallow September 3, 1935 May 1948 Manning, Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Minister of Railways and Telephones
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

George Hoadley July 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid Minister of Railways and Telephones
June 15, 1934 July 10, 1934 Brownlee Minister of Telephones
United Farmers Vernor Smith
Vernor Smith
Vernor Winfield Smith was a politician in Alberta, Canada who served as the province's Minister of Railways and Telephones from 1921 until 1932. Born in 1864 in Prince Edward Island, he moved to British Columbia in 1883 where he worked for several railway companies as an accountant. In 1915 he...

August 31, 1921 June 15, 1934 Brownlee, Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

Minister of Railways and Telephones
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

October 16, 1917 August 31, 1921 Stewart Minister of Railways and Telephones

Minister of Tourism, Parks, and Recreation

Minister of Tourism, Parks, and Recreation
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Jack Hayden
Jack Hayden (politician)
Jack Hayden is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Drumheller-Stettler as a Progressive Conservative.-Political career:...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Cindy Ady
Cindy Ady
Cindy Ady is a Canadian politician and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She has served in this capacity since the 2001 provincial election, being re-elected in both the 2004 provincial election and 2008 provincial election, sitting as a Progressive Conservative...

March 12, 2008 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative Hector Goudreau
Hector Goudreau
Hector G. Goudreau is a politician from Alberta, Canada. He is originally from the francophone area of Beaumont, Alberta, located just south of Edmonton's metro population....

December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Tourism, Parks, Recreation, and Culture
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Pat Nelson
Pat Nelson
Patricia "Pat" Nelson née Black is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. As a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta, she served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for the Calgary Foothills electoral district from 1989 to 2004...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

May 31, 1996 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Murray Smith
Murray Smith (Alberta politician)
Murray D. Smith is a businessman and former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1993 until 2004 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 15, 1994 May 31, 1996 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Ken Kowalski
Ken Kowalski
Kenneth "Ken" Reginald Kowalski, MLA is a provincial level politician and former teacher from Alberta, Canada. He is a current member and also dean of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and has served continuously since November 1979 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

June 1993 September 15, 1994 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative Donald Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow
Donald H. Sparrow is a former politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 to 1993.-Political career:Sparrow ran for a seat as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the 1982 Alberta general election...

December 14, 1992 June 1993 Klein Minister of Economic Development and Tourism
Progressive Conservative February 1992 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...


Progressive Conservative Between September 1986 and March 1987 February 1992 Getty Minister of Tourism
Progressive Conservative LeRoy Fjordbotten
LeRoy Fjordbotten
LeRoy Fjordbotten is a former provincial level politician, farmer and auctioneer. He served as cabinet minister in the Government of Alberta serving various portfolios from 1982 to 1992...

May 1986 Between September 1986 and March 1987 Getty Minister of Tourism
Progressive Conservative Horst Schmid
Horst Schmid
Horst Adolph Louis Charles Schmid is a former provincial level politician, miner, accountant and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative party from 1971 to 1986...

November 1, 1985 May 1986 Getty Minister of Tourism
Progressive Conservative Al Adair
Al Adair
James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster, published author and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.-Early life:Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace...

March 1979 November 1, 1985 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Tourism and Small Business
Progressive Conservative Robert Dowling
Robert Wagner Dowling
Robert Wagner Dowling was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1969 to 1979 sitting as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Business Development and Tourism
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Robert Dowling September 10, 1971 Lougheed Minister without portfolio responsible for Tourism
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Raymond Ratzlaff
Raymond Ratzlaff
Raymond Samuel Ratzlaff was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

May 27, 1969 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

Minister of Industry and Tourism
Social Credit Allen Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick
Allen Russell Patrick was a stock broker, teacher and a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

December 12, 1968 May 27, 1969 Strom Minister of Industry and Tourism

Associate Ministers in the Tourism, Parks, Recreation, and Culture portfolio

Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Cindy Ady
Cindy Ady
Cindy Ady is a Canadian politician and a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. She has served in this capacity since the 2001 provincial election, being re-elected in both the 2004 provincial election and 2008 provincial election, sitting as a Progressive Conservative...

June 22, 2007 March 12, 2008 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Associate Minister in charge of Tourism Promotion

Treasury Board President

With the exception of a brief period from 1934 until 1935, this function has been fulfilled by the provincial treasurer for the province's entire pre-2004 history.
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Treasury Board President
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative Doug Horner
Doug Horner
Douglas Alan "Doug" Horner is a Canadian politician, who represents the electoral district of Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...

Progressive Conservative Lloyd Snelgrove
Lloyd Snelgrove
Lloyd Snelgrove is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Vermilion-Lloydminster in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party.-External links:*...

December 15, 2006 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...

Progressive Conservative Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan
Shirley McClellan was born in Hanna, Alberta, Canada, on January 22, 1942.-Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta:McClellan was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a by-election held on November 23, 1987....

November 25, 2004 December 15, 2006 Klein
Function filled by Provincial Treasurer
United Farmers of Alberta
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

Richard G. Reid July 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid

Minister of Transportation

Minister of Transportation
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk
Ray Danyluk is a farmer and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He currently serves as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 2001 to present sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus in government...

October 12, 2011 Incumbent Redford
Alison Redford
Alison Merrilla Redford Q.C., MLA, is a Canadian politician, and the 14th and current Premier of Alberta, Canada. Upon winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta, in October 2011, she became the first female premier in Alberta...


Progressive Conservative Luke Ouellette
Luke Ouellette
Luke Ouellette is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the constituency of Innisfail-Sylvan Lake as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

March 12, 2008 October 12, 2011 Stelmach
Ed Stelmach
Edward Michael "Ed" Stelmach, MLA is a Canadian politician and served as the 13th Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 2006 to 2011. The grandson of Ukrainian immigrants, Stelmach was born and raised on a farm near Lamont and speaks fluent Ukrainian. He spent his entire pre-political adult life as a...


Progressive Conservative December 15, 2006 March 12, 2008 Stelmach Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation
Progressive Conservative Ty Lund
Ty Lund
Ty Lund is a Canadian politician and current Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Rocky Mountain House as a Progressive Conservative.-Early life:...

April 6, 2006 December 15, 2006 Klein Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation
Progressive Conservative Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg
Lyle Oberg is an Albertan politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly.Oberg was born near Forestburg, Alberta in 1960. A physician by profession, Oberg was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as an Progressive Conservative in 1993. He was first appointed to the...

November 25, 2004 March 22, 2006 Klein Minister of Infrastructure and Transportation
Progressive Conservative Ed Stelmach March 16, 2001 November 25, 2004 Klein
Vacant
Progressive Conservative Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski is a former farmer as well as a municipal and provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 until 2001.-Early life:...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer (politician)
Robert "Butch" Fischer is a former long serving provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 until 2001 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. He was investigated for a conflict of interest in 2001 that...

May 31, 1996 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

September 15, 1994 May 31, 1996 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy is a former businessman, farmer and long serving municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 2001...

December 14, 1992 September 15, 1994 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Al Adair
Al Adair
James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster, published author and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.-Early life:Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace...

May 1986 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Marvin Moore
Marvin Moore
Marvin Everard Moore was a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1989...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....


Progressive Conservative Henry Kroeger
Henry Kroeger
Henry Kroeger was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 until his death in 1987...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Hugh Horner
Hugh Horner
Hugh Macarthur Horner was a physician and surgeon. He served as a Canadian federal and provincial politician. Horner was born in Blaine Lake, Saskatchewan...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Clarence Copithorne
Clarence Copithorne
Clarence Copithorne was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to 1975 sitting as an Independent and later with the Progressive Conservative caucus in both opposition and government...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Highways and Transport
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Gordon Taylor
Gordon Taylor
Gordon Edward Taylor was a Canadian politician, businessman and teacher.-Provincial political career:He was first elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1940 provincial election representing Drumheller for Social Credit and continued to sit in the legislature for 39 years...

May 1, 1951 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...

Minister of Highways (later Highways and Transport)
Social Credit Duncan MacMillan May 8, 1948 September 9, 1952 Manning Minister of Railways and Telephones
Social Credit William Fallow September 3, 1935 May 1948 Manning, Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...

Minister of Railways and Telephones
United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

George Hoadley July 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid Minister of Railways and Telephones
United Farmers Vernor Smith
Vernor Smith
Vernor Winfield Smith was a politician in Alberta, Canada who served as the province's Minister of Railways and Telephones from 1921 until 1932. Born in 1864 in Prince Edward Island, he moved to British Columbia in 1883 where he worked for several railway companies as an accountant. In 1915 he...

June 15, 1934 July 10, 1934 Brownlee Minister of Railways
United Farmers August 31, 1921 June 15, 1934 Brownlee, Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

Minister of Railways and Telephones
Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Charles Stewart
Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
Charles Stewart, PC was a Canadian politician who served as the third Premier of Alberta from 1917 until 1921. Born in Strabane, Ontario, in Wentworth County, Stewart was a farmer who moved west to Alberta after his farm was destroyed by a storm...

October 16, 1917 August 31, 1921 Stewart Minister of Railways and Telephones
Liberal Alexander Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...

November 1, 1909 June 1, 1910 Rutherford Minister of Railways

Minister of Utilities

Minister of Utilities
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski
Walter Paszkowski is a former farmer as well as a municipal and provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1989 until 2001.-Early life:...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Robert Fischer
Robert Fischer (politician)
Robert "Butch" Fischer is a former long serving provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1982 until 2001 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. He was investigated for a conflict of interest in 2001 that...

May 31, 1996 March 29, 1997 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Steve West
Steve West (politician)
Steven "Steve" C. West is a business man, and a former veterinary doctor, teacher, farmer and former provincial level politician. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 2001. He served numerous portfolios in the cabinet for the Alberta government during his...

September 15, 1994 May 31, 1996 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy is a former businessman, farmer and long serving municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 2001...

December 14, 1992 September 15, 1994 Klein Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Al Adair
Al Adair
James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster, published author and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.-Early life:Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace...

May 1986 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Minister of Transportation and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle
Robert Bogle
Robert John "Bob" Bogle is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

November 1, 1985 May 1986 Getty
Progressive Conservative November 1982 November 1, 1985 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Minister of Utilities and Telecommunications
Progressive Conservative Larry Shaben
Larry Shaben
Lawrence "Larry" Ralph Shaben was a Canadian politician of Lebanese descent and the first Muslim Cabinet Minister in Canada. He was also one of the first Muslims to be elected to higher office in North America. He held a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1989 sitting with...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed Minister of Utilities and Telephones
Progressive Conservative Allan Warrack
Allan Warrack
Allan Alexander Warrack is a former provincial level politician and current University Professor from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1971 to 1979...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Minister of Utilities and Telephones
Progressive Conservative Roy Farran
Roy Farran
Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars was a British-Canadian soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist...

Early 1973 March 1975 Lougheed Minister of Telephones and Utilities
Progressive Conservative Len Werry
Len Werry
Len F. Werry was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1967 to his death in 1973 and a Cabinet Minister in the Government of Alberta of Premier Peter Lougheed from 1971 to 1973.-Political career:Werry ran as a...

September 10, 1971 Early 1973 Lougheed Minister of Telephones and Utilities

Associate ministers in the Utilities portfolio

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Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Title
Progressive Conservative Neil Webber
Neil Webber
Patrick Neil Webber is a former provincial level politician and cabinet minister from Alberta, Canada.-Political career:...

March 1979 November 1982 Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Associate Minister of Telephones

Minister without Portfolio

Minister without Portfolio
Affiliation Name Date appointed Date departed Premier(s) Notes
Progressive Conservative
Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta
The Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta is a provincial centre-right party in the Canadian province of Alberta...

Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor
Lorne Taylor is a former tenured professor and member of the provincial legislature of Alberta, Canada.-Political career:Taylor was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1993 Alberta general election. He defeated three other candidates including Al Strom of the Social Credit with a...

March 29, 1997 May 26, 1999 Klein Responsible for science, research, and information technology
Progressive Conservative Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen
Pearl Calahasen is a Canadian politician, who currently represents the electoral district of Lesser Slave Lake in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta...

May 31, 1996 May 26, 1999 Klein Minister without portfolio responsible for children's services
Progressive Conservative Dianne Mirosh
Dianne Mirosh
Dianne Mirosh is a former provincial-level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1986 to 1997. During her time in office, she served a number of cabinet portfolios in the Don Getty and Ralph Klein governments.-Political career:Mirosh was...

September 15, 1994 March 29, 1997 Klein Responsible for science and research
Progressive Conservative June 1993 September 15, 1994 Klein Responsible for the Alberta Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission
Progressive Conservative Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy
Peter Trynchy is a former businessman, farmer and long serving municipal and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 until 2001...

March 1989 December 14, 1992 Getty
Don Getty
Donald Ross Getty, OC, AOE is a retired Canadian politician who served as the 11th Premier of Alberta between 1985 and 1992. A member of the Progressive Conservatives, he served as Energy Minister and Federal and Intergovernmental Affairs Minister in the government of Peter Lougheed before...

Responsible for occupational health and safety
Progressive Conservative Bill Diachuk
Bill Diachuk
Bill Wasyl Diachuk was a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He began his political career in Edmonton municipal politics serving two separate stints as a separate school trustee. The first was from 1962 to 1964 and the second from 1966 to 1971...

1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Peter Lougheed
Edgar Peter Lougheed, PC, CC, AOE, QC, is a Canadian lawyer, and a former politician and Canadian Football League player. He served as the tenth Premier of Alberta from 1971 to 1985....

Responsible for occupational health and safety
Progressive Conservative Milt Pahl
Milt Pahl
Milton "Milt" George Pahl was a provincial level politician and current businessman from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1986. During his time in office he sat as a member of the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed Responsible for native affairs
Progressive Conservative William Payne
William Edward Payne
William "Bill" Edward Payne is a former provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1979 to 1993 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus. Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Payne to the Executive Council of Alberta...

November 1982 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Greg Stevens
Greg Stevens
Greg Phillip Stevens was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the governing Progressive Conservative caucus from 1979 to 1989.-Political career:...

March 1979 May 1986 Getty, Lougheed Responsible for personnel administration
Progressive Conservative Don McCrimmon
Don McCrimmon
Donald "Don" James McCrimmon was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

November 1982 Lougheed Responsible for native affairs
Progressive Conservative Robert Bogle
Robert Bogle
Robert John "Bob" Bogle is a former provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1993.-Political career:...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Responsible for native affairs
Progressive Conservative Stewart McCrae
Stewart McCrae (politician)
Stewart Alden McCrae was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1973 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

March 1975 March 1979 Lougheed Responsible for Calgary affairs
Progressive Conservative Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Schmidt
Dallas Wilbur Schmidt was a provincial level politician and Royal Canadian Air Force pilot from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1975 to 1982 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

April 3, 1975 August 29, 1976 Lougheed
Progressive Conservative Al Adair
Al Adair
James Allen "Al" "Boomer" Adair was a minor league baseball player, radio broadcaster, published author and provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1993.-Early life:Adair played minor league Baseball for the Peace...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Responsible for native affairs
Progressive Conservative George Topolnisky
George Topolnisky
George Topolnisky was a provincial level politician and teacher from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1986 sitting with the governing Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 10, 1971 March 1975 Lougheed Responsible for rural development
Progressive Conservative Robert Dowling
Robert Wagner Dowling
Robert Wagner Dowling was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1969 to 1979 sitting as a member of the Progressive Conservative caucus...

September 10, 1971 Lougheed Responsible for Tourism
Progressive Conservative Helen Hunley
Helen Hunley
The Honourable Wilma Helen Hunley, OC, AOE was a former Canadian politician and the 12th Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, the first woman to serve in that post.-Early life:...

September 10, 1971 Lougheed
Social Credit
Social Credit Party of Alberta
The Alberta Social Credit Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada, that was founded on the social credit monetary policy and conservative Christian social values....

Ethel Wilson
Ethel Sylvia Wilson
Ethel Sylvia Wilson was a seamstress, labour activist and a municipal and provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of Edmonton City Council from 1952 to 1966 and as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1959 to 1971...

November 30, 1962 September 10, 1971 Strom
Harry Strom
Harry Edwin Strom was the ninth Premier of Alberta, Canada, from 1968 to 1971. His two and a half years as Premier were the last of the thirty-six year Social Credit dynasty, as his defeat by Peter Lougheed saw its replacement by a new era Progressive Conservative government...

, Manning
Ernest Manning
Ernest Charles Manning, , a Canadian politician, was the eighth Premier of Alberta between 1943 and 1968 for the Social Credit Party of Alberta. He served longer than any premier in the province's history, and was the second longest serving provincial premier in Canadian history...


Social Credit Adolph Fimrite
Adolph Fimrite
Adolph Olaf Fimrite was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

December 12, 1968 September 10, 1971 Strom
Social Credit Raymond Speaker
Raymond Speaker
Raymond Albert "Ray" Speaker, PC, OC is a farmer and Canadian politician.Speaker was born and raised in Enchant, Alberta where he farms to this day...

June 29, 1967 December 12, 1968 Manning
Social Credit Ira McLaughlin
Ira McLaughlin
Ira McLaughlin was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1944 to 1971 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in government...

November 30, 1962 December 12, 1968 Manning
Social Credit Frederick C. Colborne
Frederick C. Colborne
Frederick C. Colborne D.F.C., of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1944 and served until 1971.-Political career:...

August 2, 1955 November 30, 1962 Manning
Social Credit Solon Earl Low
Solon Earl Low
Solon Earl Low was a Canadian politician in the 20th century.Low was born in Cardston, Alberta, and was a farmer, school teacher and school principal. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1935 provincial that swept the Social Credit Party of Alberta to power...

September 12, 1944 1944 Manning
Social Credit Lucien Maynard
Lucien Maynard
Joseph Lucien Paul Maynard was a lawyer and a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. He served a long career as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1955 sitting with the governing Social Credit caucus.Maynard served as a cabinet minister under Premier's William...

May 12, 1936 January 20, 1937 Aberhart
William Aberhart
William Aberhart , also known as Bible Bill for his outspoken Baptist views, was a Canadian politician and the seventh Premier of Alberta between 1935 and 1943. The Social Credit party believed the reason for the depression was that people did not have enough money to spend, so the government...


United Farmers
United Farmers of Alberta
The United Farmers of Alberta is an association of Alberta farmers that has served many different roles throughout its history as a lobby group, a political party, and as a farm-supply retail chain. Since 1934 it has primarily been an agricultural supply cooperative headquartered in Calgary...

Irene Parlby
Irene Parlby
Irene Parlby was a Canadian women's farm leader, activist and politician.Born in London, England, Parlby came to Canada in 1896. In 1913, Parlby helped to found the first women's local of the United Farmers of Alberta. In 1921, she was elected to the Alberta Legislature for the riding of Lacombe,...

August 10, 1934 September 3, 1935 Reid
August 13, 1921 July 10, 1934 Greenfield
Herbert Greenfield
Herbert W. Greenfield was a Canadian politician who served as the fourth Premier of Alberta from 1921 until 1925. Born in Winchester, Hampshire, in England, he immigrated to Canada in his late twenties, settling first in Ontario and then in Alberta, where he farmed...

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Liberal
Alberta Liberal Party
The Alberta Liberal Party is a provincial political party in Alberta, Canada. Originally founded in 1905, when the province was created, it was the dominant political party until 1921 when it was defeated. It has never been in government since that time...

Prosper-Edmond Lessard
Prosper-Edmond Lessard
Prosper-Edmond Lessard was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1909 to 1921 sitting with the Liberal caucus in government. He also served in the Canadian Senate from 1925 to his death in 1931 sitting with the federal Liberal caucus.-Early life:Lessard was born on February 3, 1873...

November 1, 1909 June 1, 1910 Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford
Alexander Cameron Rutherford was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the first Premier of Alberta from 1905 to 1910. Born in Ormond, Ontario, he studied and practised law in Ottawa before moving with his family to the Northwest Territories in 1895...


Liberal William Ashbury Buchanan
William Ashbury Buchanan
William Ashbury Buchanan, was a journalist, publisher and politician based in Alberta....

November 1, 1909 March 10, 1910 Rutherford
Liberal George DeVeber
Leverett DeVeber
Leverett George DeVeber was a Canadian politician who served as Member of the Legislative Assemblies of Alberta and the Northwest Territories, minister in the government of Alberta, and member of the Senate of Canada...

September 9, 1905 March 1, 1906 Rutherford
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