page_title: Charles Pingle
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Charles Pingle / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Captain Charles S. Pingle
context_page_description: Charles Stueart "Charlie" Pingle was a druggist, politician and service man in Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1921 and from 1925 to 1928 as a member of the Liberal Party. He also served as Speaker of the Assembly from 1920 to 1921.
context_section_description: Charles Steuart Pingle married Jean McLeay, originally from Ontario, on September 16, 1903. Her parents were both of Scottish descent, with her mother being born in Scotland. Her father worked as a money broker and manufacturer in his hometown of Watford, Ontario. Pingle and his wife had two children, Robert Warren and Charles Glendining; the latter died in infancy. Robert's son, also named Charles Steuart, was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in the Ontario riding of Windsor-Walkerville in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections.
  Pingle was greatly associated with the Medicine Hat community.  He sat on many boards, including the Board of Trade, Rotary Club, and Board of Directors of the Agricultural Society. He also belonged to the Sons of England Society and Knights of Pythias. He also enjoyed baseball and curling, where he was president of the board and a skip of a team respectively. He also took an interest in music as a member of a string quartet and as president of a citizens band.
  The locality of Pingle, near Fort McMurray, which was formerly an Alberta and Great Waterways railway station, was named after him in 1925. Also, a street in Medicine Hat, Pingle Street was also named in his honour.
caption: Captain Charles S. Pingle
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