Keith Everitt
Keith Everitt | |
|---|---|
| MLA for St. Albert | |
| In office 1959–1971 | |
| Preceded by | Arthur Soetaert |
| Succeeded by | Ernie Jamison |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 2, 1923 Bon Accord, Alberta |
| Died | August 26, 2015 (aged 92) Calgary, Alberta |
| Political party | Social Credit Party of Alberta |
| Spouse(s) | Thelma Margarite Hjeltman
(m. 1942–2015) |
| Children | Six |
Harry Keith Everitt (April 2, 1923 – August 26, 2015) was a Canadian politician who was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta and county councillor in Sturgeon County, Alberta.[1]
Biography[]
Everitt first ran for provincial office in the 1959 election, representing the Social Credit Party of Alberta in the riding of St. Albert. He unseated incumbent Liberal Arthur Soetaert by a margin of 75 votes. He won re-election in the 1963 and 1967 elections by increasing margins against the second place Liberal candidates, and Bob Russell respectively.
Everitt lost his seat to Progressive Conservative Ernie Jamison by a margin of just over a thousand votes in the 1971 election, as Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives swept Social Credit from office. Everitt attempted a comeback in the 1975 election, but finished more than four thousand votes behind Jamison.
Everitt also served as a county councillor in Sturgeon from 1980 until 1992[2] and on the Sturgeon School Division's Board of Trustees from 1977 until 1986.[3]
In 1981 he received an Energize Award from the Alberta department of Community Development for "outstanding contributions at the community or municipal level through a personal commitment to recreation development, a consistent and continuous record of service to the public, community leadership in recreation, and active participation in a variety of volunteer recreation activities."[4] Everitt died on August 26, 2015 at the age of 92.[5]
References[]
- ^ Mardon, Ernest G.; Mardon, Austin Albert (2011). The Mormon Contribution to Alberta Politics. google.ca. ISBN 9781897472231.
- ^ http://www.aamdc.com/index.php%3Foption%3Dcom_content%26task%3Dview%26id%3D394%26Itemid%3D290+%22[permanent dead link]
- ^ The Province of Alberta was founded within the Dominion of Canada in 1905
- ^ Alberta Sport, Recreation, Parks & Wildlife Foundation Archived 2007-05-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Harry EVERITT Obituary - Bon Accord, AB - Edmonton Journal". Edmonton Journal.
- Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs
- 1923 births
- 2015 deaths
- Canadian members of the Community of Christ