constituency predecessor successor death_date birth_place party office birth_date term_start spouse article_title term_end name occupation
athabasca new district jean côté december 30 , 1942 -lrb- aged 80 -rrb- stormont county , ontario liberal member of the legislative assembly of alberta 1862 november 9 , 1905 anna brown marsh william bredin
 march 22 , 1909 william fletcher bredin farmer
william bredin

william fletcher bredin -lrb- 1862 -- 1942 -rrb- was a canadian politician and pioneer .
born in stormont county , ontario , he came west to red deer crossing in 1883 , where he took over a claim from esias myers .
he subsequently moved to calgary , where he opened a store with r. steen , engaged in freighting between calgary and edmonton , and was active with the oddfellows .
he also established the climax coal mine , southwest of calgary .
he later moved to edmonton and then further north , establishing the buffalo lakes trading post in the area later known as lamerton in 1892 , when there were only seven settlers in the area .
he sold the post to joe edminson in 1895 .
around 1897 , he travelled by boat down the athabasca river to the mackenzie river .
he eventually settled in the peace river country , where he opened a series of fur trading posts with james cornwall ; they sold these to the revillon frères in 1906 .
by 1907 he claimed to have lived `` all over the northwest pretty well '' .
he ran in 1905 alberta provincial election as a liberal in athabasca , and was the only candidate acclaimed during that election .
in office , he advocated for a railway to be built into the northeast corner of the province .
he also gave testimony to a select committee of the senate of canada in 1907 about agricultural conditions in northwest canada , drawing on his experience living and travelling in the area , including his boat trip down the athabasca of ten years before .
in his testimony , he estimated that the `` good land north of edmonton , east of the rocky mountains '' amounted to at least .
he married anna brown marsh in clarksburg , ontario in september 1907 .
bredin sought re-election in the 1909 election , but was defeated by fellow liberal jean côté .
he sought to return to office in peace river in the 1913 election as an independent liberal , but finished a distant third of three candidates .
after leaving office , bredin returned to farming and fur trading around lesser slave lake .
during the 1920s , he served as a director of the united farmers of alberta ; in this capacity , he moved a successful resolution protesting a new pelt tax , as many northern farmers supplemented their incomes by trapping .
william bredin died on december 30 , 1942 at the age of 80 .
