death_date death_place birth_place title birth_date term_start spouse image article_title term_end name
13 august 1948 edmonton , alberta st. vincent , ontario alderman on the edmonton city council january 9 , 1865 december 14 , 1908 clara louisa zinken andrew agar.jpg andrew agar
 december 13 , 1909 andrew b. agar
andrew agar

andrew b. agar -lrb- january 9 , 1865 -- august 13 , 1948 -rrb- was a politician in alberta , canada and a municipal councillor in edmonton .
agar was born in ontario in 1865 .
he came to edmonton and established a hardware business in 1907 with his brother , james , which he ran from then until 1911 .
he was elected to the edmonton city council to a one-year term in the 1908 municipal election , and did not seek re-election at the conclusion of his term .
he became the city commissioner for the city of edmonton in 1911 .
in 1917 , he moved to a farm 6 miles southwest of edmonton , where he lived up until his retirement in 1938 .
prior to his retirement , agar lived in a summer home in seba beach , alberta , and in the winters with his daughter , frances in edmonton .
agar had 3 sons and 1 daughter .
one son , egan , was killed in world war i while serving in the 202 sportsmen 's battalion and royal flying corps in 1917 .
another son , edward lloyd died in 1936 .
his daughter , frances , of edmonton and son carlyle `` carl '' , of penticton , british columbia survived him at the time of his death in 1948 .
agar died on friday , august 13 , 1948 at the royal alexandria hospital after an illness that had him hospitalized for about 2 weeks before his death .
he had trouble hearing for several years .
he was interred in the edmonton cemetery .
agar and his wife , clara had celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary 7 years earlier .
his wife , clara died in january 1955 .
