John Percy Page

John Percy Page ( born May 14, 1887 in Rochester, New York, † March 2, 1973 in Edmonton, Alberta ) was a Canadian politician, teacher and basketball coach. From 1959 to 1966 he was vice- governor of the province of Alberta.

Biography

Profession

Some years after his birth in the state of New York, the family moved to Page Bronte in the province of Ontario, where John Percy Page was growing up. After graduation, he embarked on a career academic. He was, after he had attended two different universities, bachelor of art and finance. In 1910 he married Maude Page Roche, with whom he had a daughter.

Page 1906 began as a teacher at Rothesay Collegiate in Rothesay. However, he left this school after one year and worked until 1912 at St. Thomas Collegiate Institute. Later he taught at a high school in Edmonton and there also supervised the women's basketball team. About this sporty theme he published in 1932 the book Practical Training Office. His team Edmonton degree was so successful that she participated in four Olympic finals, including 1936 in Berlin (but basketball for women at that time was only demonstration sport since 1976 and belongs only to the official program ). The Edmonton degree managed to get all four finals to exist unbeaten. Of the 522 games that they completed under his supervision, they could win 502. In 1940, the team was disbanded. 1952 Page joined in retirement.

Policy

Page 1940 was elected as an independent candidate in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, where he represented constituency Edmonton. Four years later he won the election again. He was active from 1944 to 1948 as leader of the opposition in Parliament. After he was voted out of office in 1948, he managed the 1952 re- entry into parliament, this time on the part of the Conservative Party of Alberta. Page was leader of the Conservative Group and was re-elected in 1955. After another defeat, he had to give up his mandate in 1959.

On the recommendation of Prime Minister John Diefenbaker Page was appointed on 19 December 1959, Lieutenant Governor of Alberta. He thus took over the office of the recently deceased in the Official John James Bowlen. In 1964 he secured a further nomination and exercised the office finally to January 6 in 1966. Page died on March 2, 1973 in Edmonton, and was buried in the Edmonton Cemetery.

Honors

The Percy Page Centre for Recreation Association was named after him. After his death, also a school in Edmonton was named after him.