William Frederick Meyers Explained

William Frederick Meyers
Birth Date:	1848 9, mf=y
Birth Place:	Trenton, Canada West
Death Date:	1912
Death Place:	Kinistino, Saskatchewan
Office:	Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories for Kinistino
Term Start:	November 1891
Term End:	1905
Predecessor:	James Hoey
Successor:	none
Party:	Independent

William Frederick Meyers, (September 3, 1848 – 1912) was a Canadian politician. He served on the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories for Kinistino from 1891 to 1905.^[1]

Meyers was a native of Trenton, Ontario. A member of the Church of England, he was a farmer and rancher.^[2] Though he was politically affiliated with the Conservative Party of Canada, he was opposed to partisanship in the Legislative Assembly.

He was elected in 1891 to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, and served until the dissolution of the legislature in 1905 when the territory was split into Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Electoral results

1891 election

November 7, 1891 election
	Name	Vote	%	William Frederick Meyers	32	52.46%	George Ellis	29	47.54%
Total Votes		61	100%

1894 election

October 31, 1894 election
	Name	Vote	%	William Frederick Meyers	60	51.28%	James Tennant	57	48.72%
Total Votes		117	100%

1898 election

November 4, 1898 election
	Name	Vote	%	William Frederick Meyers	98	65.77%	Thomas Sanderson	51	32.23%
Total Votes		149	100%

1902 election

May 21, 1902 election
	Name	Vote	%	William Frederick Meyers	425	62.32%	Alfred Schmitz Shadd	257	37.68%
Total Votes		682	100%

Notes and References

Web site: North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905 . Saskatchewan Archives . 30 September 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070928101028/http://www.saskarchives.com/web/seld/1-00.pdf . 28 September 2007.
Web site: The Parliamentary Guide and Work of General Reference for Canada, the. 1898.