monarch death_date nationality birth_date birthname term_end death_place governor_general imagesize profession order term_start image name predecessor birth_place office successor premier article_title
george v 16 september 1929 canadian 16 november 1851 robert george brett october 29 , 1925 calgary , alberta the devonshire the viscount byng of vimy duke of connaught and strathearn the duke of 200px physician 2nd october 20 , 1915 robertbrett.jpg robert g. brett george h. v. bulyea strathroy , canada west lieutenant governor of alberta william egbert arthur sifton charles stewart herbert greenfield robert brett

robert brett

robert george brett -lrb- november 16 , 1851 -- september 16 , 1929 -rrb- was a politician and physician in the north-west territories and later alberta , canada .
brett was well educated , attending the university of toronto and attaining his medical degree .
he attended various schools in the united states for his post graduate work .
in 1874 he located in the small village of arkona , ontario , where he even served a term as village reeve .
he was married in 1873 to louise t. hungerford and had four children , all four of whom predeceased their parents -lrb- their eldest daughter , genevieve , died as a four-month-old infant in october 1881 and is buried at arkona -rrb- .
although it has been stated that brett moved to manitoba in 1880 he and his family were listed in the 1881 census in arkona .
in any case in the early 1880s he helped found the manitoba medical college and sat as a board member on the university of manitoba .
in 1883 he moved to banff , district of alberta .
he worked as a physician at the banff sanitarium , which he founded .
in 1888 he was elected to the legislative assembly of the north-west territories .
he became a `` de facto '' leader of the government as chairman of the lieutenant-governor 's advisory council .
robert brett had a rivalry with longtime member frederick haultain .
in 1898 robert brett became the first leader of the official opposition during a time in which the territorial legislature made a transition to party politics .
in the 1902 election he unexpectedly dropped out of the race , a move that hurt the north-west territories liberal party .
when alberta became a province in 1905 he ran in banff for the conservative party but was defeated .
he served as a senior surgeon in banff at brett hospital .
in 1909 he became president of the alberta conservative party .
during his time in the early 20th century he served on a number of boards in alberta .
he was appointed the second lieutenant governor of alberta in 1915 and served in the post for one decade .
he died in calgary , alberta ; he was buried in banff .
mount brett , west of banff , was named in his honour .
