List of Alberta provincial ministers
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Deputy Premier
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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... |
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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... |
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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 | ||
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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 | ||
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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... |
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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
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) |
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Progressive Conservative | Dave Hancock | March 29, 1997 | May 26, 1999 | Klein | Minister of Intergovernmental and Aboriginal Affairs | |
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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
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
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
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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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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... |
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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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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... |
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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 | |||||||
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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 | |||||||
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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
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
Minister of Community and Occupational Health | ||||||
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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... |
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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
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
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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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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
Minister of Education | ||||||
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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... |
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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.... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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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... |
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... |
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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... |
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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
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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
Minister of Energy | ||||||
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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... |
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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... |
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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
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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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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
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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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) |
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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
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
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
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
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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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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... |
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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... |
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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
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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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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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... |
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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
Minister of International Trade | ||||||
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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.... |
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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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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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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
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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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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... |
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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.... |
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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 |
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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
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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
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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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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... |
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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.... |
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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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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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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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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... |
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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 | |
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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
Minister of Service Alberta | ||||||
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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... |
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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... |
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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 | |
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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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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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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... |
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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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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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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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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
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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.Treasury Board President | ||||||
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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... |
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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... |
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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
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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
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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
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
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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... , Brownlee |
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 |