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- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) abstract "Charles Stewart, PC (August 26, 1868 – December 6, 1946) 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. There he became active in politics and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1909 election. He served as Minister of Public Works and Minister of Municipal Affairs—the first person to hold the latter position in Alberta—in the government of Arthur Sifton. When Sifton left provincial politics in 1917 to join the federal cabinet, Stewart was named his replacement.As premier, Stewart tried to hold together his Liberal Party, which was divided by the Conscription Crisis of 1917. He endeavoured to enforce prohibition of alcoholic beverages, which had been enshrined in law by a referendum during Sifton's premiership, but found that the law was not widely enough supported to be effectively policed. His government took over several of the province's financially troubled railroads, and guaranteed bonds sold to fund irrigation projects. Several of these policies were the result of lobbying by the United Farmers of Alberta (UFA), with which Stewart enjoyed good relations; even so, the UFA was politicized during Stewart's premiership and ran candidates in the 1921 election. Unable to match the UFA's appeal to rural voters, Stewart's government was defeated at the polls and he was succeeded as premier by Herbert Greenfield.After leaving provincial politics, Stewart was invited to join the federal cabinet of William Lyon Mackenzie King, in which he served as Minister of the Interior and Mines. In this capacity he signed, on behalf of the federal government, an agreement that transferred control of Alberta's natural resources from Ottawa to the provincial government—a concession he had been criticized for being unable to negotiate as Premier. He served in King's cabinet until 1930, when the King government was defeated, but remained a member of Parliament until he lost his seat in 1935. He died in December 1946 in Ottawa.".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1913-11-29".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1917-10-16".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1918-08-28".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1921-08-13".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1921-08-31".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1925-10-29".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1926-06-29".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1930-08-06".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsEndDate "1935-10-14".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1909-03-22".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1912-05-04".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1913-11-28".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1917-10-16".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1917-10-30".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1921-12-29".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1922-02-28".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1925-10-29".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) activeYearsStartDate "1926-09-25".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthDate "1868-08-26".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthPlace Canada.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthPlace Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthPlace Strabane,_Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthPlace Wentworth_County,_Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthYear "1868".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) deathDate "1946-12-06".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) deathPlace Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) deathPlace Ottawa.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) deathYear "1946".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) monarch George_V.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Minister of Public Works".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Minister of Railways and Telephones".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Provincial Secretary".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Canadian Minister of the Interior and Mines".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Argenteuil".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Edmonton West".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Sedgewick".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) orderInOffice "3rd".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) orderInOffice "Premier of Alberta".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) party Alberta_Liberal_Party.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) party Liberal_Party_of_Canada.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) religion Anglicanism.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor Albert_Andrews.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor Archibald_J._McLean.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor George_Halsey_Perley.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor Henry_Herbert_Stevens.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor Herbert_Greenfield.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor James_Angus_MacKinnon.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor Vernor_Smith.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor Wesley_Ashton_Gordon.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) successor Wilfrid_Gari%C3%A9py.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) thumbnail Charles_Stewart2.jpg?width=300.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) wikiPageID "233741".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) wikiPageRevisionID "589918901".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) alt "An unsmiling balding white man in a three piece suit".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthDate "1868-08-26".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) birthPlace "Strabane, Wentworth County, Ontario, Canada".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "Catherine Isabel Doris".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "Charles Herbert".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "Christiana Munro Sneath".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "Frederick John".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "George Sneath".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "Henry Alexander Russell".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "Robina Jane Millicent".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) children "Roseanna Alice".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) dateOfBirth "1868-08-26".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) dateOfDeath "1946-12-06".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) deathDate "1946-12-06".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) deathPlace Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) deathPlace Ottawa.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) hasPhotoCollection Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician).
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) honorificPrefix The_Honourable.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) honorificSuffix Queen's_Privy_Council_for_Canada.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) lieutenantGovernor Robert_Brett.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) monarch George_V.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) name "Charles Stewart".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) name "Stewart, Charles".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Minister of Municipal Affairs".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Minister of Public Works".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Minister of Railways and Telephones".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Alberta Provincial Secretary".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Canadian Minister of the Interior and Mines".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Argenteuil".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Member of the Canadian House of Commons for Edmonton West".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Sedgewick".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) office "Premier of Alberta".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) order "3.0".
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) party Alberta_Liberal_Party.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) party Liberal_Party_of_Canada.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) placeOfBirth Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) placeOfBirth Strabane,_Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) placeOfDeath Ontario.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) placeOfDeath Ottawa.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) predecessor Archibald_J._McLean.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) predecessor Arthur_Sifton.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) predecessor Charles_Richmond_Mitchell.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) predecessor Donald_MacBeth_Kennedy.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) predecessor James_Alexander_Lougheed.
- Charles_Stewart_(Canadian_politician) predecessor Peter_Robert_McGibbon.