The Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal was a political scandal in Alberta, Canada in 1910, which forced the resignation of Liberal premier Alexander...
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Rutherford until he resigned on May 26, 1910 due to the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, Rutherford was subsequently replaced by Arthur Sifton...
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to the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway (A&GW) to build from Edmonton to Waterways, Alberta, on the Athabasca River. Construction faltered and the A&GW...
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embroiled with the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal shortly after the election. The scandal divided the Liberal Party and forced Rutherford...
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William Henry Cushing (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
the creation of Alberta Government Telephones. Cushing's resignation in 1910 precipitated the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, which forced...
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government's involvement in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal but remained a sitting member. Sifton faced great criticism for calling the snap...
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Alexander Cameron Rutherford (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
and then as Liberal MLA, Liberal party leader, and premier of Alberta. He lost the premiership in 1910 due to the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway...
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after his government was implicated in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. Arthur Sifton replaced Rutherford as premier. Shortly before...
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This is a list of major political scandals in Canada. Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal — a 1910 scandal that resulted in the resignation of...
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John Robert Boyle (redirect from John Boyle (Alberta politician))
council, he was elected in Alberta's inaugural provincial election as a Liberal. During the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, he was a leader of the...
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Arthur Sifton (category Judges in Alberta)
of Alberta premier Alexander Cameron Rutherford was embroiled in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. The Lieutenant Governor of Alberta, George...
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George H. V. Bulyea (category Lieutenant governors of Alberta)
Babbit and A .C. Gillespie. In 1910, Bulyea presided over the resignation of Premier A. C. Rutherford following the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal...
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aftermath of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. Premier Rutherford refused Cross's resignation. Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing (December...
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Months later, however, Rutherford and his government were embroiled in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, and the Liberal Party was split. Initially...
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Rutherford, whose government would later fall in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. Alberta's other main leader at the time was Frank Oliver....
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BC Rail (redirect from Pacific Great Eastern Railway)
(25 mi) stretch was cancelled after the initial BC Rail scandal. The Pacific Great Eastern Railway (PGE) was incorporated on February 27, 1912, to build...
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Rutherford ministry (redirect from 1st Alberta Ministry)
Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, Rutherford resigned as Premier of Alberta on May 26, 1910, and was replaced by Arthur Sifton and the Sifton...
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Charles Wilson Cross (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
to be its first Attorney-General. Implicated in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, he resigned in 1910 along with the rest of Rutherford's...
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Peace River (provincial electoral district) (category Alberta provincial electoral districts)
been under investigation in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal that rocked the Rutherford government and forced the resignation of Premier...
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Nicolas Dubois Dominic Beck (category Judges in Alberta)
Commission investigating the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. Beck had four children: Cyril L., H. Austin, J.C. Landry, and Beatrice who married H...
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John A. Simpson (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Simpson served as deputy speaker. During the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, he remained loyal to the...
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Charles Stuart (Canadian politician) (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
against the Royal Bank of Canada. In the aftermath of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, the government had attempted to take control of money...
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James Cornwall (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
looking to recoup more than $250,000 lost in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal. The same scandal caused the resignation of the entire Rutherford...
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Ezra Riley (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
became leader of the Liberal party in the wake of the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. Riley would run in the subsequent by-election on October...
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Malcolm McKenzie (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
larger than the one he had achieved in 1905. During the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, he remained loyal to the Liberal government of Alexander...
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Charles W. Fisher (Canadian politician) (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
of them. As Speaker, he presided over the tumultuous Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, when he ruled future premier Charles Stewart out of...
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Horace Harvey (category Judges in Alberta)
Board for National Services in 1940, and member of the Commission on Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal in 1910; the Royal Commission to Investigate...
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Robert Telford (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
Rutherford against a group of dissident Liberals in the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal. The Calgary Herald alleged that he had accepted a bribe...
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Sifton ministry (redirect from 2nd Alberta Ministry)
the Alberta and Great Waterways (A&GW) Railway scandal. Accusations of favouritism by the government towards the Alberta and Great Waterways Railway had...
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John William Woolf (category Alberta Liberal Party MLAs)
margin over Conservative Levi Harker. During 1910's Alberta and Great Waterways Railway scandal, Woolf remained loyal to Liberal Premier Alexander Cameron...
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