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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Dan Backs, Samuel A. Barnes, James Harper Prowse, Ronald Ansley, Dave Taylor, John Percy Page, Walt Buck, Arthur Wray, Raj Sherman, Lyle Oberg, Louise McKinney, Gordon Taylor, Alfred Speakman, James Douglas Henderson, Raymond Speaker, Robert Parkyn, James H. Walker, William McCartney Davidson, Andrew Davison, Bryce Stringam, Howard MacDonald, Cornelius Hiebert, Alban MacLellan, Frank Laut, Clarence Copithorne, Frank Gainer, Paul Langevin, George Mills, Herbert Ash, Kurt Gesell, Damase Bouvier, Archibald J. McLean, Roberta MacAdams, Frederick C. Colborne, Edward Michener, George MacLachlan, Thomas Milnes, Henry William McKenney, Andrew Beniuk, Pamela Snelgrove-Paul, Tom Sindlinger, John Mackintosh, Thomas Brick, George Edward Cruickshank, James Mahaffy, Eld Martin, Robert Pearson, Lewis O'Brien, Lionel Tellier, Norman Hindsley, Robert Chambers Edwards, James Weir, Fred Moyer, Loftus Dudley Ward. Excerpt: Dan Backs (born December 15, 1953) is a politician and former member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta. He was elected as a Liberal candidate in the 2004 provincial election, but was kicked out of the Liberal caucus by leader Kevin Taft, who cited concerns about Backs' ability to work as a member of a team. He sat as an independent thereafter and, after failing to secure the Progressive Conservative nomination for his riding, sought re-election in that capacity as well. He finished third in the riding in the 2008 election. Backs was educated at St. Francis High School in Calgary, Alberta. He subsequently earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Alberta and a heavy equipment certification from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. He also studied Spanish at the Enforex Language Institute in Marbella, Spain and the Amerispan language school in Antigua Guatemala, negotiations an...
