LA PAROISSE DE DONNELLY (9) (172 ENGLISH)
1913 SPRING THE DONNELLY PARISH (8) 172 English
PROVINCIAL –ELECTION
APRIL 17, 1913
ALEXANDER G. MACKAY, LIBERAL
JOHN H. WOOD, CONSERVATIVE
The provincial government announced that on April 17, 1913 there would be a provincial election. In March, a government agent went to the Leblanc home to announce that there would be a voting station at their home.
The Peavine Creek polling booth:…This was quite a news item. The Leblanc family accepted to have the polling booth in their home and Marie-Rose would take charge of the voting. Anyone wanting to vote had to have registered one month in advance. Also they had to choose two people to verify that everything was legal and done according to the regulations.
Marie-Rose asked all those on the list to go to her home for a meeting. There were two candidates: one Liberal and one Conservative therefore there was a need for two candidates to see to the interest of his candidate. Everyone was told of the time the voting was to take place, and after that the champagne started. There were 13 names on the list, mostly from the Leblanc and the Legault families; thirteen people voted. The two people named to do the counting stayed to the very end.
Thirteen votes were counted for the Liberal candidate, and 0 for the Conservatives, even though one person had accepted to represent the Conservative party. Later when the people asked him why his candidate did not get even one vote, he replied, “I accepted the job because no one wanted the job, but I could never vote Conservative.”….
The total of votes for the whole constituency was not very high:
MacKay…………….414
Wood……………….221
I have no other information on this event in the county of Athabasca.
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