Frederick W. A. G. Haultain

Sir Frederick William Alpin Gordon Haultain ( born November 25, 1857 in Woolwich, England; † January 30, 1942 in Montreal) was a Canadian politician and judge. From October 1897 to September 1905 he was the first Premier of the Northwest Territories, before the division of the newly created provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.

Biography

The son of a product originating in Belgium artillery officer in the British Army, was born in England. The family emigrated to Upper Canada in 1860 and settled in Peterborough. Haultain spent some years of his youth in Montreal. In 1879, he received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and subsequently studied law. In 1882 he was admitted as a lawyer in the province of Ontario, two years later, in the Northwest Territories, after he had settled in Fort Macleod in southern Alberta today.

1887 Haultain was elected to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories. He sat down at the head of a political movement that called for the introduction of self-government. The Canadian government granted them ten years later. On October 7, 1897 Haultain, who had been Chairman of the Executive Committee since 1891, and thus head of government, has been appointed by Lieutenant Governor Charles Herbert Mackintosh for the first Premier of the Northwest Territories. In the same year he founded the Liberal - Conservative party of the Northwest Territories, a branch of the Conservative Party at the federal level, although he kept party politics inappropriate.

In November 1898 and in May 1902 Haultain was confirmed in the elections. When Prime Minister Haultain initiated negotiations on the province status. He advocated a province called Buffalo, which should include the entire Northwest Territories. However, led by Wilfrid Laurier Liberal federal government was against a large, conservative dominated province in the west and opted instead for the creation of the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan in the southern part of the territory.

Haultain remained until September 1, 1905 office. Since he moved politically closer to the Conservative Party, to Laurier sat over him and appointed loyal to Liberal prime ministers of the new provinces. Haultain founded the conservative Provincial Rights Party and was until 1912 Opposition leader in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. From 1912, he spent five years as Chairman of the Supreme Court of the province. In 1917 he was appointed Chairman of the Court of Appeal of Saskatchewan and held this position until 1938.