Disease-Related Deaths in Alberta - Cancer Deaths in Alberta, Infectious Disease Deaths in Alberta, Laurence Decore, Don Jardine, Lois Hole (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cancer Deaths in Alberta, Infectious Disease Deaths in Alberta, Laurence Decore, Don Jardine, Lois Hole, Jackie Parker, Arthur Ryan Smith, Larry Shaben, Milt Harradence, Gordon Wright, Alexander Grant Mackay, John Dahmer, Crowfoot, Pam Barrett, Ernie Jamison, Barb Tarbox, John Ostashek, Art Michaluk. Excerpt: Laurence G. Decore, CM (June 28, 1940 November 6, 1999) was a Ukrainian-Canadian lawyer and politician from Alberta. He was mayor of Edmonton, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, and leader of the Alberta Liberal Party. Decore was born Lavrentiy Dikur in Vegreville, Alberta on June 28, 1940, the son of future Liberal Party of Canada MP and judge John Decore; the family later adopted Anglicized names. He was educated in Vegreville, Edmonton, and Ottawa, and graduated from the University of Alberta in 1961 with B.A. in history and political economy, and in 1964 with an LL.B. He was called to the bar the year of his graduation, and eventually founded the firm Decore