Red Deer (territorial electoral district) explained

Red Deer
Province:	Northwest Territories
Prov-Status:	defunct
Prov-Created:	1888
Prov-Abolished:	1902
Prov-Election-First:	1888
Prov-Election-Last:	1898

Red Deer was a territorial electoral district that was mandated to return a single member to the North-West Legislative Assembly from 1888 until 1902.

Geography

The electoral district was named for Red Deer, a community which was incorporated as a village in 1894 and Town in 1901.^[1]

Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs)

Members of the Legislative Assembly for Red Deer

Assembly	Years	Member		Party
1st	1888–1891		Robert Brett	Independent
2nd	1891–1894	Francis Wilkins
3rd	1894–1898	John A. Simpson
4th	1898–1902

Red Deer's first representative was physician Robert Brett. There were no official parties in these early assemblies, but Brett aligned himself with the Northwest Territories Liberal Party when the Dominion party lines were introduced in 1898.^[2]

In the 1891 election, Brett contested the Banff electoral district and Francis Wilkins was acclaimed as the member for Red Deer. In the 1894 election, Wilkins came in third to the elected John A. Simpson and behind Leonard Gaetz. Simpson held the seat in the 1898 election, defeating George Wellington Greene and J. Speakman.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Red Deer. City Commissioners - Alberta On Record . 2024-06-30 . albertaonrecord.ca.
2. Web site: Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan . North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876–1905 . Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan . 2009.