Alan Joseph Adamson was a Canadian

Canada

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 politician.

Born in Clifden

Clifden

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, County Galway

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, Ireland

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, the son of John Evans Adamson and Harietta Bell, he was educated in Dublin and came to western Canada in 1873. He married Julia Turriff, who was the sister of John Gillanders Turriff

John Gillanders Turriff

John Gillanders Turriff was a Canadian parliamentarian.Born in Petit-Métis, Canada East, Turriff as a young man settled in Western Canada, first in Manitoba, where he established himself as a farmer, and subsequently in that part of the North-West Territories which corresponds to the modern...

, in 1882. In 1883, Adamson moved to Winnipeg

Winnipeg

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 and became involved in the grain trade. In 1899, he went to Rosthern, Saskatchewan

Rosthern, Saskatchewan

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, where he established the Canadian Territories Corporation, which became one of the largest land agencies in western Canada and also operated as a private bank; Adamson served as its president and manager. He was also a director of the Northern Bank and of the Saskatchewan Valley and Manitoba Land Company and president of the Western Trust Company. Adamson was elected to the Canadian House of Commons

Canadian House of Commons

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 as the Liberal

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 candidate for the riding of Humboldt

Humboldt (electoral district)

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 in the 1904 federal election

Canadian federal election, 1904

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. He did not stand for re-election in the 1908 election

Canadian federal election, 1908

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