Eric McKay | |
Birthname: | Eric Bowness McKay |
Birth Date: | 1899 11, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Summerside, Prince Edward Island |
Death Place: | Regina, Saskatchewan |
Spouse: | Lydia Lang Gibson m. 29 September 1923[1] |
Riding: | Weyburn |
Predecessor: | Thomas Clement Douglas |
Successor: | riding dissolved |
Term Start: | June 1945 |
Term End: | June 1949 |
Profession: | principal, teacher |
Party: | Co-operative Commonwealth Federation |
Eric Bowness McKay (26 November 1899 - 20 February 1994) was a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island and became a principal and teacher by career. He was also a school principal at Radville, Saskatchewan from 1925 to 1941.
He was first elected to Parliament at the Weyburn riding in the 1945 general election. After serving his only federal term, and after a change in electoral districts, the 20th Canadian Parliament, he was defeated in the 1949 federal election at Maple Creek riding by Irvin Studer of the Liberal party.