Preceded by New district Spouse Erma Wilson Role Politician | Name Roy Wilson Constituency Calgary-Bow Succeeded by Neil Webber | |
Born May 4, 1932 (age 91)
Coronation, Alberta ( 1932-05-04 ) Occupation Real estate agent, politician Political party Alberta Social Credit Party | ||
Roy Gardiner Wilson (born May 4, 1932) is a former provincial level politician and real estate agent from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1975 sitting with the Social Credit caucus in official opposition.
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Early life
Wilson graduated from Olds College in 1951. He later married his girlfriend Erma who also graduated in the same class as him. They had two children Keith and Shannon.
Political career
Wilson ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature for the first time in the 1967 Alberta general election. He ran in the electoral district of Banff-Cochrane but was defeated in a closely contested race by Independent candidate Clarence Copithorne finishing a close second out of the three candidates.
Wilson ran for a second time in the electoral district of Calgary-Bow for the 1971 Alberta general election. He won a hotly contested three way race election to pick up the new electoral district for the Social Credit party. He defeated Bill Wearmouth from the Progressive Conservatives by a margin of around a thousand votes.
Wilson ran for a second term in the 1975 Alberta general election. He was defeated by Neil Webber from the Progressive Conservatives after his vote collapsed.
Late life
After being defeated from office, Wilson became the first chairman of the Olds College foundation. He served that roll from 1982 to 1984. Wilson was inducted into the Olds College Hall of Fame.
In addition to his work for Olds College, Wilson has held a wide variety of positions in real estate and community organizations, including the Presidency of the Alberta Real Estate Association, the Calgary Real Estate Board Charitable Foundation, the Calgary Planning Advisory Committee, the Calgary Police Commission and he worked for the Fraser Institute.