Edith Gostick
{{short description|Canadian politician}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Edith Gostick
| image =Edith Hannah Gostick.png
| imagesize = 150px
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| birth_date = January 15, 1894
| birth_place =Porth, South Wales{{Cite web|url=https://hermis.alberta.ca/PAA/Details.aspx?st=%22LEGISLATURE+LIBRARY%22&cp=1&sort=department&adf=true&ReturnUrl=%2FPAA%2FSearch.aspx%3Fst%3D%2522LEGISLATURE%2BLIBRARY%2522%26cp%3D1%26sort%3Ddepartment%26adf%3Dtrue&dv=True&DeptID=1&ObjectID=PR0687|title = HeRMIS - PAA}}
| death_date= {{Death date and age|1984|7|8|1894|1|15}}
| death_place = Saanichton, British Columbia
| term_start = 1935
| term_end = 1940
| predecessor = Hugh Farthing
William Ross
Fred White
Norman Hindsley
| successor =James Mahaffy
William Aberhart
Andrew Davison
| religion =
| party = Social Credit
| alma_mater =
| spouse =
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Edith Hannah Gostick (née Thomas; January 15, 1894 – July 8, 1984) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a representative from the electoral district of Calgary from 1935 to 1940.
Political career
Gostick ran for a seat as a Social Credit Party of Alberta candidate in the Alberta Legislature in the 1935 Alberta general election. She was declared elected on the 18th vote count, taking the fourth seat in the Legislature.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Calgary| title=Calgary results 1935 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation| accessdate=2009-05-17}} Gostick ran for re-election in the 1940 general election but was defeated.{{cite web|url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1940&Constit=Calgary| title=Calgary results 1940 Alberta general election | publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation| accessdate=2009-05-17}}
Her son Ron Gostick was a well-known publisher of anti-Semitic and far right literature.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
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Category:Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs
Category:Welsh emigrants to Canada
Category:Women MLAs in Alberta
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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