Ezra Riley

Ezra Riley

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Early life

Riley owned a large sum of land that he sold off to the City of Calgary in 1904. The land was developed into the historical Hillhurst-Sunnyside community northwest of Downtown. [ cite web|url=http://www3.telus.net/public/hsca1/H_S_Remembers_1978.pdf | title = Hillhurst-Sunnyside remembers | publisher = Hillhurst-Sunnyside Community Association | date= 1978 | author = Margaret Tanko | accessdate = 2007-08-01]

1906 by-election

Riley ran for the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in a by-election for the Alberta Liberal Party on December 7, 1906. He would be re-elected to a second term in the 1909 Alberta general election.

Resignation and defeat

After serving a year into his second term he resigned his seat to protest the leadership of Arthur Sifton who became leader of the Liberal party in the wake of the Great Waters Railway Scandal. Riley would run in the subsequent by-election on October 3 ,1910 The Conservatives did not run a candidate in that by-election instead choosing to support Riley. [ cite web| url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=n27p0353.jpg| title = Liberals Stand Back of Riley | publisher = Calgary Herald | date = October 1, 1910 | accessdate = 2007-08-01 ]

Explaining his resignation in a memorable stump speech on September 30, 1910 Riley was quoted as saying

On election day Riley was defeated by 100 votes in a hotly and bitterly contested by-election rife with accusations of tampered voters lists. [ cite web| url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/newspapr/np_page2.asp?code=n27p0383.jpg| title = Futile Efforts Of Machine Organ To Distort Facts | publisher = Calgary Herald | date = October 2, 1910 | accessdate = 2007-08-01 ] [ cite web| url=http://www.elections.ab.ca/pastbyelection.html| title = Past By-elections | publisher = Elections Alberta | accessdate = 2007-08-01 ]

His brother Harold Riley would end up winning the district for the Conservatives in another by-election almost exactly a year later.

Honors

Riley Park in Calgary, Alberta, the site of which was on his former ranch is named in his honor. [ cite web| url=http://content.calgary.ca/CCA/City+Hall/Business+Units/Parks/Parks/Major+Parks/NW+Major+Parks/Riley+Park.htm | title = Riley Park | publisher = City of Calgary | accessdate = 2007-08-01 ]

References

External links

* [http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
* [http://pioneersalberta.org/profiles/r.html#riley_ez Ezra Riley Pioneer Profiles]


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