Alberta Society - Crime in Alberta, Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence, Organizations Based in Alberta, Joe Clark, Don Getty (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Crime in Alberta, Members of the Alberta Order of Excellence, Organizations based in Alberta, Joe Clark, Don Getty, Demographics of Alberta, Peter Lougheed, Ralph Klein, Grant MacEwan, Mary Percy Jackson, Philip J. Currie, Ian Tyson, Ernest Manning, Mayerthorpe incident, Don Mazankowski, Alex Janvier, W. R. Myers High School shooting, Athletics Alberta, TUXIS Parliament of Alberta, Canadian Defence and Foreign Affairs Institute, Daryl Seaman, Raymond Lemieux, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Harley Hotchkiss, Provincial Archives of Alberta, Donald Ethell, Alberta Public Interest Research Group, Martha Cohen, James H. Gray, List of members of the Alberta Order of Excellence, Richard Haskayne, Ronald Martland, Chester Ronning, Robert Steadward, Tommy Banks, Nature Alberta, C. Fred Bentley, John Murrell, William Arthur Cochrane, Metis Nation of Alberta, Maxwell "Max" William Ward, Don C. Laubman, Camp BB - Riback, Edmonton aircraft bombing, Margaret Southern, J. R. Shaw, Leduc-Nisku Economic Development Authority, Jenny Belzberg, John Callaghan, Eric Newell, Leonard Ratzlaff, Clean Scene, Indian Association of Alberta, People's League. Excerpt: Charles Joseph "Joe" Clark, (born June 5, 1939) is a Canadian journalist, politician, statesman, businessman, and university professor. He served as the 16th Prime Minister of Canada, from June 4, 1979, to March 3, 1980. Despite his relative inexperience, Clark rose quickly in federal politics, entering the House of Commons in the 1972 election and winning the leadership of the Progressive Conservative Party in 1976. He came to power in the 1979 election, defeating the Liberal government of Pierre Trudeau and ending sixteen continuous years of Liberal rule. Taking office the day before his 40th birthday, Clark is the youngest person to become Prime Minister. His tenure was brief...