37-790: Pingle may refer to: People [ edit ] Charles Pingle (1880–1928), politician from Alberta, Canada Moropant Trimbak Pingle (died 1683), the first Peshwā in the court of Shivāji Vishnu Ganesh Pingle (1888–1915), Indian revolutionary and member of the Ghadar Party Bahiroji Pingale , a Peshwa of the Maratha Empire Nikhil Pingle , an Indian figure skater Places in China [ edit ] Pingle County (平乐县), of Guilin, Guangxi Towns (平乐镇) [ edit ] Pingle, Henan ,
74-543: A stroke . He had been in poor health in the years preceding his death. His funeral was attended by various members of provincial and municipal governments, political associations, and communities with which he was associated. St. Barbanas Church, in which it was held, was filled to its capacity, and many people had to stand outside. He was interred at the Hillside Cemetery in Medicine Hat. His wife, Jean,
111-806: A town in Mengjin County, Henan Pingle, Luchuan County , a town in Guangxi Pingle, Pingle County , a town in Guangxi Pingle, Qionglai , Sichuan Pingle, Yanling , Hunan Others [ edit ] Banksia squarrosa , an Australian plant commonly known as Pingle The Pingle Academy , a state comprehensive school in South Derbyshire, England Pingle Cutting , a nature reserve north of Warboys in Cambridgeshire, England Topics referred to by
148-432: A candidate in the Medicine Hat electoral district in a by-election held on September 29, 1925, following the death of incumbent William Johnston . Pingle won on the second-choice preferences of the new alternate vote system. In the 1926 general election Pingle (and Conservative candidate J.J.Hendricks) won Medicine Hat's two seats in a three-way race held under Single transferable voting rules. The following year, he
185-550: A close race. He returned to the Assembly in a 1925 by-election in the riding of Medicine Hat , in which he served until his sudden death in 1928. Charles Steuart Pingle was born to Warren Hume and Georgina (née Steuart) Pingle near Morris , Manitoba on October 16, 1880. His father, born in what would later become Ontario, maintained a family milling business. Upon moving to Regina in 1883, Warren Pingle held many community positions, such as town assessor, jailer, and president of
222-594: A one-party sweep of a district's seats, as had been done in Edmonton in 1909.) The final result was the Liberal Party , under its new leader, Arthur L. Sifton , won a third term in office, defeating the Conservative Party , which was once again led by Edward Michener . Liberal party candidates took 49 percent of the vote and with the election of 38 members, the party took 68 percent of the seats in
259-403: A street in Medicine Hat, Pingle Street, was named in his honour. Pingle attended a conference in the morning on January 10, 1928. He returned to his home shortly after noon. He felt a pricking sensation in his hand, and he was unable to use it and his wife urged him to go have a nap. Pingle died at 7:20 pm that day at his residence in Medicine Hat, of what was reported to be "cardiac troubles" or
296-539: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Charles Pingle Charles Stueart Pingle (October 16, 1880 – January 10, 1928) was a druggist , politician and service man in Alberta , Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1921 and from 1925 to 1928 as a member of the Liberal Party . He also served as Speaker of
333-478: The Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal but remained a sitting member. Sifton faced great criticism for calling the snap election, after ramming gerrymandered electoral boundaries through the legislature, running up the provincial debt and neglecting on promised railways. The Socialist Party carried the banner for labour- and farmer-minded voters in five constituencies; in others, Independent candidates were of distinctively leftist sentiment. Edward Michener ,
370-786: The Canadian Militia as quartermaster of the 21st Alberta Hussars from 1909 to 1914, with the rank of an honorary captain. Pingle joined the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force to fight in World War I on May 25, 1915. He sailed to France in June 1915, serving there from September 1915 to February 1916, when he returned to Canada. From 1910 to 1912, Pingle sat as an alderman on the Medicine Hat City Council. He served on
407-681: The Rocky Mountain constituency , the Socialist vote doubled but the vote for the Conservative went up even more, to make that candidate the winner, and the Socialist Party lost its only seat in the Assembly. Oddly, the Assembly did not have its full complement of MLAs after the election, as C.W. Cross was elected to two seats (one Edmonton seat and Edson). When this happened elsewhere, such as Laurier's election as MP in both
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#1732775939361444-597: The Assembly from 1920 to 1921. Pingle was born in Manitoba. After attending schools in Winnipeg, he apprenticed a druggist in Regina for two years before writing pharmaceutical exams and moving to Alberta to establish his own shop. One of the founding citizens of Medicine Hat, Alberta , he served in various boards and associations within the community. After serving as an alderman in Medicine Hat, in 1915, Pingle enlisted in
481-658: The Canadian Expeditionary Force, and was stationed in France, where he served for about 5 months before returning to Canada. After winning a seat as a Liberal in the 1913 Alberta general election and being returned to office again in 1917, Pingle was selected as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1920, in which he served until he was defeated in the 1921 Alberta general election by United Farmers candidate William Smith in
518-613: The Fourth Legislature. In the 1917 general election he was returned to office by acclamation under Section 38 of the Election Act , for MLAs who served in the war. In 1920, following the death of incumbent Speaker Charles W. Fisher , Pingle was nominated by Premier Charles Stewart and Attorney-General John R. Boyle for Speaker of the Alberta Legislature. He took up the position on February 17 of
555-596: The Legislature. The opposition received a much higher proportion of the votes than it had done in 1909 and increased its seat count to 17 from 2, while the Liberals again got more votes than any other party and won many of the new seats, allowing them to hang onto a majority. The votes were split almost evenly between the Conservatives and Liberals with a difference of 4 percent separating the two parties. In
592-560: The Medicine Hat district, where for many years he occupied an important position in the business and social life of the community." Alberta general election, 1913 Arthur Sifton Liberal Arthur Sifton Liberal The 1913 Alberta general election was held in March 1913. The writ was dropped on 25 March 1913 and election day was held 17 April 1913 to elect 56 members to the 3rd Alberta Legislature . Elections in two northern districts took place on 30 July 1913 to compensate for
629-718: The Police Committee and Electric Committee. Pingle served as president and vice president of the Medicine Hat Liberal Association. He first ran for to the Alberta Legislature in the 1913 Alberta general election as a candidate under the Liberal banner. He won a two-way race to pick up the new electoral district of Redcliff for his party. From 1918 to 1919, he chaired the Standing Committee on Miscellaneous and Private Bills in
666-475: The Sons of England Society and Knights of Pythias . He also enjoyed baseball and curling , where he was president of the board and a skip of a team respectively. He also took an interest in music as a member of a string quartet and as president of a citizens band. The locality of Pingle, near Fort McMurray , which was formerly an Alberta and Great Waterways railway station, was named after him in 1925. Also,
703-526: The election should be ruled invalid. The big issues of the election centred on the Sifton government's lack of infrastructure building in Southern Alberta. The ballooning Alberta debt which in a few years had gone from C$ 2 million to C$ 27 million was talked about often. Prior to the dropping of the writ the Sifton government forced a bill through the Legislative Assembly of Alberta . The bill
740-415: The electorate they felt they might not win if they ran in just one district. It accused Premier Sifton of having little confidence in his ability to return his government to power. The Liberal government in order to prevent possible vote splitting made promises of concessions to trade unions and labour organizations so that they would not publicly support leftist candidates. The Conservative Party protested
777-407: The hands of a Conservative. The writ of election was issued after a sitting of the house on the night of 25 March 1913. The premier dropped the election writ and dissolved the house after he ensured that the governments legislation on new electoral boundaries had been given Royal Assent. The new boundaries gave the Liberals an advantage, not only were they blatantly gerrymandered to their favour, but
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#1732775939361814-603: The latter died in infancy. Robert's son, also named Charles Steuart, was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in the Ontario riding of Windsor-Walkerville in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections. Pingle was greatly associated with the Medicine Hat community. He sat on many boards, including the Board of Trade, Rotary Club, and Board of Directors of the Agricultural Society. He also belonged to
851-454: The official opposition leader of the Conservative Party , ended up capitalizing on anger toward the Sifton government. He would lead the largest opposition to date in Alberta history. The Liberals would win a comfortable majority of seats despite being almost even in the popular vote. The Socialist Party vote would collapse and lose their only seat as Charles M. O'Brien went down to defeat at
888-629: The opposition and even private citizens had a tough time figuring out what district they were in. Day one of the campaign brought controversy as it was reported that Hotel organizers and Liquor establishments were being expected to donate generously to the Liberal campaign in order to get licence renewals for their establishments. Arthur Sifton, his lieutenant Charles Cross and Liberal candidate Alexander Grant MacKay each won nominations in two electoral districts. The Calgary Herald (a Conservative newspaper) surmised that Sifton and Cross were so scared of
925-418: The previous 13, with 37 seats in the south half, nine more than previously.) The Conservative and Socialist opposition vigorously opposed the bill, but failed to pass any amendments. The bill was jammed through third reading in the 25 March legislative sitting and given Royal Assent that evening, just shy of the writ of elections being dropped. The Liberal campaign was dubbed "Siftonism" inferring that Sifton
962-770: The remote location of the riding. The method to elect members was under the First Past the Post voting system with the exception of the Edmonton district which returned two members under a plurality block vote. The election was unusual with the writ period for the general election being a very short period of 23 days. Premier Arthur Sifton led the Alberta Liberal Party into his first election as leader, after taking over from Alexander Rutherford . Premier Rutherford had resigned for his government's involvement in
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1036-411: The same year. One of the first issues he dealt with was one involving Wilfrid Gariepy , MLA for Beaver River. This involved the fact that Gariepy, who did not reside in Alberta, appeared not to be eligible to sit in the house, in accordance with the Legislative Assembly of Alberta Act and Alberta Election Act . Although the mention was revoked, Pingle later ruled that it was not his duty to decide on
1073-476: The school board, until his sudden death in 1889 at the age of 41. Charles Pingle attended public school in Winnipeg and then apprenticed with the Bole Drug Company in Regina. In 1899, after apprenticing for two years, he wrote pharmaceutical exams and then entered the profession. He moved to Medicine Hat , Alberta in 1901, and one year later, purchased a drug business from Donald A. Black, naming
1110-546: The snap election by filing a legal injunction in the Supreme Court, to prevent the election from being held on 17 April 1913. The grounds for the injunction were based on the date of nomination closure being in violation of statue. The writs were issued with nomination day being 10 April 1913. The Conservatives argued that this was 10 hours short of the 16 full days prescribed in the Elections Ordinance, and
1147-409: The status of Gariepy, and it was only his duty to recognize every elected member of the house who had been administered the oath of office. He ran for re-election in the 1921 general election but, contrary to many reports, was defeated in a two-way race by United Farmers candidate William Smith . He was the first Speaker in Alberta to be defeated. Pingle made a political come back by running as
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1184-752: The store Pingle Drug and Book Company. He was a member of the first council of the Alberta Pharmaceutical Association from 1911 to 1912. He later served as president of the Association from 1918 to 1919. He also served as director of various corporations, like the Medicine Hat News and the Commonwealth Trust Company in Calgary. He also maintained a farm in Medicine Hat. Pingle served in
1221-600: Was a disease that needed to be cleaned from Alberta. The media at the time picked up on that, and roasted the Liberal party. The Conservative party attacked the Liberals on the Railway Scandal and Lack of provincial infrastructure. First-past-the-post voting was used in the single-member districts. In Edmonton the seats were filled through Plurality block voting , where each voter could cast two votes. (Unusually for block voting, in Edmonton, candidates of two different parties were elected. Usually block voting produces
1258-555: Was appointed to the Legislature's Special Committee on the Rules, Orders and Forms of Proceedings. Charles Steuart Pingle married Jean McLeay, originally from Ontario, on September 16, 1903. Her parents were both of Scottish descent, with her mother being born in Scotland. Her father worked as a money broker and manufacturer in his hometown of Watford, Ontario . Pingle and his wife had two children, Robert Warren and Charles Glendining;
1295-541: Was buried beside him upon her death on September 6, 1944. Senator William Buchanan characterized him as "a fair, dignified and capable presiding officer" and called him the "first citizen of Medicine Hat". Lieutenant Governor William Egbert stated that the death of Pingle would be "keenly felt by the Members of the House and by the people of the province". In an obituary, Pingle was described as "an outstanding figure in
1332-590: Was entitled Bill 90: An Act to Amend an Act concerning members elected to the Legislative assembly of Alberta It was introduced in the assembly on 20 March 1913 and given Royal Assent on 25 March 1913. The bill increased the number of MLAs in the province by 15. Calgary was divided into two single-member districts; Edmonton continued as two-member district. The single-member districts did not contain equal population, with one riding Clearwater , north of Edmonton, only containing 74 people enumerated. Calgary Centre
1369-415: Was the largest population wise with 20,000 people enumerated. The bill drew districts so that a line at the centre of the province's population (about in line with Red Deer), gave 30 seats to the people of the north half with 26 seats to the southern half. (The bill drew districts so that a line at the centre of the province (about in line with Edmonton), gave 19 seats to the north half of the province, up from
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