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Grant, Alexander Lothian

(7 July 1883-?), farmer, political figure. (Alexander Grant, Alex Grant) Born at Rochester, N. Y. Parents: Rev. Peter Grant and his wife Isabella Campbell. He was brought to Canada in 1884, and was educated at the Breadalbane Public School, Vankleek Hill Collegiate Institute, and Woodstock Baptist College. He “worked at farming in Breadalbane,” after leaving college in 1900. On 12 June 1907, he was married to Henrietta J. Newton, of Vankleek Hill. (children: at least 7) He filed on a homestead south of Swift Current, Sask., in 1910, and in March 1913, he and his family moved to the West. He was a farmer at Hillandale, Sask. (now gone from the map). Elected first in a by-election of June 1926, he was the Liberal MLA 1926-1934 for the Notukeu constituency, in the SW corner of Sask. Baptist. Nothing has been found about his subsequent period of life.


The Canadian Parliamentary Guide (1927) 596-597 (QF) * elected, Glengarry News 11 June 1926

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