ABERHART, WILLIAM

āˈbərhärt, 1878–1943, premier of Alberta, Canada, b. Ontario. He was a schoolteacher and a founder and dean of the Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute (opened 1927). About 1932 he became interested in Social Credit, which advocated direct money payments to all citizens. He was an organizer of the Social Credit party of Alberta and was elected (1935) to the provincial legislature with enough supporters to control it. Thus Aberhart became premier (1935–43) of the first Social Credit government in the world. However, many of the legislative attempts to enact his principles were declared invalid by the courts.

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William Lyon Mackenzie King: 1932-1939: the Prism of Unity
Book by H. Blair Neatby; University of Toronto Press, 1976
Subjects: King, William Lyon Mackenzie--1874-1950
WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING The Prism of Unity William Lyon MACKENZIE KING 1932-1939 The Prism of Unity...continues the biography begun by R. MacGregor Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King, I : 1874-1923: A Political Biography...
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The Mackenzie King Record - Vol. 1
Book by J. W. Pickersgill; University of Chicago Press, 1960
Subjects: Canada--Foreign Relations, Canada--Politics And Government--1914-, King, William Lyon Mackenzie--1874-1950
...1 Preface to R. MacG. Dawson, William Lyon Mackenzie King: A Political Biography. I Toronto...office; and it gave him deep satisfaction that the grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie had fulfilled the destiny of his grandfather...
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The Incredible Canadian: A Candid Portrait of Mackenzie King: His Works, His Times, and His Nation
Book by Bruce Hutchison; Longmans Green, 1953
Subjects: Canada--History--1914-, King, William Lyon Mackenzie--1874-1950
...THE Incredible Canadian KARSH, OTTAWA William Lyon Mackenzie King THE INCREDIBLE CANADIAN...The Man and the Land THE MYSTERY OF WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING IS NOT THE mystery...feverish specter of the Canadian Rebel, William Lyon Mackenzie, haunted the infant and...
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Encyclopedia of Evangelicalism
Book by Randall Balmer; Baylor University Press, 2004
Subjects: Evangelicalism--Encyclopedias, Evangelicalism--United States--Encyclopedias
...Ridgefield, Connecticut A Aberhart, William (1878 1943) Born in southwestern Ontario, William Aberhart graduated from Queens University...until 1971. References : William Aberhart, Gods Great Prophecies...
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Ezra Pound and Senator Bronson Cutting: A Political Correspondence, 1930-1935
Book by E. P. Walkiewicz, Hugh Witemeyer, Erza Pound, Bronson M. Cutting; University of New Mexico Press, 1995
Subjects: Cutting, Bronson M.--1888-1935--Correspondence, Legislators--United States--Correspondence, Poets, American--20th Century--Correspondence, Pound, Ezra--1885-1972--Correspondence, United States--Politics And Government--20th Century, World Politics--20th Century
...variants. We were helped in this by William Bedford Clark essay, " Ez Sez: Pounds...work: Terry Basford, Philip Burns, William Bedford Clark, Amy Fogelman, David M...Progressive bloc in the U.S. Senate--William Borah, Edward Costigan, Bronson Cutting...
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Mitigating but Not Rethinking: George W. Norris, Tommy Douglas, and the Great Plains
Journal article by Frances W. Kaye; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 36, 2006
Subjects: Douglas, Tommy--Political activity, Norris, George William--Political activity, Politicians--Political activity
...Americans. For instance Douglas is often compared to William Aberhart and the Saskatchewan CCF to the Alberta Social Credit...the spring of 1939 he made the same point (echoing William Jennings Bryan, another Nebraska statesman), calling...
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Continuity Strategies among Political Challengers: The Case of Social Credit
Journal article by Mildred A. Schwartz; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 30, 2000
Subjects: Political parties--History, Political reform--Management, Social Credit Party (Canada)--Planning
...attracted the enthusiastic attention of William Aberhart, a charismatic figure who was a...Credit cause (Irving 1959, 271-274). Aberhart would later model Social Credits...the United Farmers of Alberta, William Irvine. Earlier, Irvine had spread...
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From Riel to Reform (and a Little Beyond): Politics in Western Canada
Journal article by Tom Flanagan; American Review of Canadian Studies, Vol. 31, 2001
Subjects: Canada--History, Canadian Alliance--Political activity, Political parties--Canada, Reform Party (Canada)--Political activity, Western Canada--Political aspects
...who collaborated with them. William Aberharts denunciation of the "fifty big-shots...leaders in these parties. (15) William Aberhart rejected the Social Gospel...Social Credit League, headed by William Aberhart, took power provincially. After...
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Creativity and Destruction: Robert Kroetsch's Notikeewin Trilogy
Journal article by J'Nan Morse Sellery; West Virginia University Philological Papers, Vol. 53, 2006
Subjects: Fantasy writers--Works, Kroetsch, Robert--Works, Notikeewin Trilogy (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation
...government of Bible Bill Aberhart" (Kizuk 57). Prairie...calls "a local pride" (William Carlos Williams...Applecart is modeled after William C "Bible Bill" Aberhart, a teacher and radio...listeners and send Aberhart to the premiers office...
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The Early Use of Radio for Political Communication in Australia and Canada: John Henry Austral, Mr Sage and the Man from Mars
Journal article by Ian Ward; The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 45, 1999
Subjects: Communication in politics--Evaluation, Electioneering--Evaluation, Radio propaganda--Political aspects, Radio--Political aspects
...Alberta in 1934-5 which swept William Aberhart to office. During the campaign...province the Social Credit leader William ("Bible Bill") Aberhart, a former radio preacher with...politicians(36) -- such as Aberhart who was "quick to realise...
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encyclopedia articles on: Aberhart William  - 3 results

 
 
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Aberhart, William
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ABERHART, WILLIAM a b rhart, 1878 1943, premier of Alberta, Canada, b. Ontario. He was...the provincial legislature with enough supporters to control it. Thus Aberhart became premier (1935 43) of the first Social Credit government in the...
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Social Credit
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The program became highly influential in Alberta during the depression years, and the Social Credit party, led by William Aberhart , won a resounding victory in the provincial elections of 1935. The program included distribution of a social dividend...
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Alberta
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...fundamentalism and radical monetary theory. In 1935, William Aberhart became premier of the first Social Credit government...Credit administrations were elected for years after Aberharts death in 1943, but their attempts to reform banking...


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