Aberhart on Social Credit: a radio broadcast.(Willam Aberhart, premier of Alberta in 1935)(Speech)(Biography)

Alberta History | September 22, 2005 | Copyright

Editor's Introduction--William Aberhart became premier of Alberta in 1935 during the depths of the Great Depression. At that time he offered voters a "solution" to the economic woes of the province through a radical monetary system called "Social Credit."

Aberhart was born in Perth County, Ontario, and came to Calgary in 1910 to teach at Crescent Heights High School. A deeply religious man, he also was a lay teacher and became unofficial minister of Westbourue Baptist Church. In 1925 he was of one the first ministers to use radio for religious work, ultimately ...

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