Samuel Page
1st Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan
In office
February 14, 1906  October 10, 1916
Speaker
Preceded bynew office
Succeeded byGeorge Arthur Mantle
Clerk of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
In office
March 14, 1901  August 31, 1905
Speaker
Preceded byRobert Bell Gordon
Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories
In office
November 7, 1891  November 4, 1898
Succeeded byEwan Cameron McDiarmid
ConstituencyCannington
Personal details
Born(1857-04-21)April 21, 1857
Lancaster, England
DiedOctober 10, 1916(1916-10-10) (aged 59)
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Political partyIndependent

Samuel Spencer Page (April 21, 1857 – October 10, 1916) was a Canadian politician. He served on the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories for Cannington from 1891 to 1898.[1]

Page was born in England, the son of A. Shaw Page and Eliza Mary Civian Tunney. He attended Rossall School and immigrated to Canada in 1882. An Anglican, he married Frances Michall Pierce in November 1885. From 1906 to his death, Page served as a clerk in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan. He resided in Regina.[2][3]

He was elected in 1891 to the Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories, and was defeated in the next election, in 1898. Upon his retirement he served as a clerk for the assembly, from March 14, 1901 to August 31, 1905.

Electoral results

1891 election

November 7, 1891 election
[1] Name Vote %
  Samuel Page Acclaimed
Total Votes n/a n/a

1894 election

October 31, 1894 election
[1] Name Vote %
  Samuel Page 237 60.00%
  N. McConnachie 158 40.00%
Total Votes 150 100%

1898 election

November 4, 1898 election
[1] Name Vote %
  Ewan Cameron McDiarmid 228 52.66%
  Samuel Page 114 26.33%
  William Hislop 91 21.02%
Total Votes 150 100%

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "North-West Territories: Council and Legislative Assembly, 1876-1905" (PDF). Saskatchewan Archives. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 30 September 2007.
  2. Who's who in Canada: An Illustrated Biographical Record of Men and Women of the Time. International Press Limited. 1914. ISSN 0083-9450. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
  3. "~cansacem/regina/3096". rootsweb.ancestry.com. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
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