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After a few years of teaching he moved to Toronto where he 
engaged in daily newspaper work, later acquiring farm paper 
interests. At one time he owned several weekly papers in Ontario, 
and became a sufficiently prominent figure to stand for Parlia- 
ment in one election, but was unsuccessful. In 1905 circum- 
stances seemed ripe for him to locate on a farm, an ambition he 
had cherished throughout the years, hence he removed with his 
family to Alberta. Unusual conditions prevented his immediate 
realization of his ideal, however, and for three years he acted as 
managing editor of the Edmonton Daily Bulletin. During this 
period he completed the purchase of a farm near Olds that is 
now his family home, and he built up on the raw prairie a most 
attractive homestead, with thoroughly modern improvements, an 
exceptionally strong herd of Shorthorn cattle and a notable stud 
of Clydesdales. 
Four years after his arrival in Alberta he was offered the nomi- 
nation to the Alberta legislature for the constituency of Olds, but 
was no sooner elected than he was asked by the Prime Minister 
of the province to become Minister for Agriculture in his gov- 
ernment. This position he has held ever since, his work being 
of a most aggressive nature, both as regards the building up of 
the livestock industry and the spread of agricultural education. 
In the latter he has founded something entirely different from 
the conventional scheme of agricultural schools by establishing 
separate institutions at different points in the province, for the 
education of farmers’ sons and daughters. These schools are 
capable of handling about 150 students, and the six thus far 
established have been a signal success. 
His work has surpassed that of any Minister of Agriculture in 
the Canadian provinces, Joun Drypen (14) only excepted. Dur- 
ing his term of office he has promoted the introduction of pure- 
bred sires to Alberta, and has formed a large number of coop- 
erative sire associations which have imported animals both from 
