Norman Lang was a farmer, rancher and political figure in Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan

Saskatchewan is a prairie province in Canada, which has an area of . Saskatchewan is bordered on the west by Alberta, on the north by the Northwest Territories, on the east by Manitoba, and on the south by the U.S. states of Montana and North Dakota....

, Canada. He represented Humboldt

Humboldt (electoral district)

Humboldt was a federal electoral district in Canada, that was represented in the Canadian House of Commons from 1904 to 1953. When it was created in 1903, it was part of the Northwest Territories. When Saskatchewan became a province in 1905, Humboldt riding was in that province...

 from 1917 to 1921 as a Unionist Party

Unionist Party (Canada)

The Unionist Party was formed in 1917 by Members of Parliament in Canada who supported the "Union government" formed by Sir Robert Borden during the First World War....

 member.

He was born in Exeter, Ontario

Exeter, Ontario

Exeter is a Canadian community in the municipality of South Huron, in the southern portion of Huron County, Ontario, located approximately 50 kilometres north of London. The community proclaims itself the "Home of the White Squirrel", owing to the presence of the unusually-coloured mammals...

, the son of Robert Lang and Elizabeth Wells, and was educated in Manitoba

Manitoba

Manitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...

. Lang served in the Second Boer War

Second Boer War

The Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...

. His family farmed near Oak Lake, Manitoba

Oak Lake, Manitoba

Oak Lake, Manitoba is a town in the south-western "Westman region" of Manitoba, Canada. It is located west of Brandon along the Trans-Canada Highway....

 until the death of his father. In 1885, they travelled west to Saskatoon. The following year, Lang and his family settled at Allan, Saskatchewan

Allan, Saskatchewan

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. He served 7 years as a member of the town council for Allan. Lang commanded a battalion in the Canadian Expeditionary Force

Canadian Expeditionary Force

The Canadian Expeditionary Force was the designation of the field force created by Canada for service overseas in the First World War. Units of the C.E.F. were divided into field formation in France, where they were organized first into separate divisions and later joined together into a single...

 that served in France

France

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 and Belgium

Belgium

Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...

 during World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. In 1920, he married Jean MacDonald. In 1924, he began operating a silver fox farm. He was defeated by Charles Wallace Stewart

Charles Wallace Stewart

Charles Wallace Stewart was a Progressive party member of the Canadian House of Commons. He was born in York County, Ontario and became a farmer. From 1908 to 1918, he was reeve of Pleasantdale, Saskatchewan,...

 when he ran for reelection in 1921. Lang died at the age of 50 after suffering a stroke

Stroke

A stroke, previously known medically as a cerebrovascular accident , is the rapidly developing loss of brain function due to disturbance in the blood supply to the brain. This can be due to ischemia caused by blockage , or a hemorrhage...

while working in a field on his farm.