40 Facts About Charles Pingle

Charles Stueart Pingle was a druggist, politician and service man in Alberta, Canada.

Charles Pingle served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1913 to 1921 and from 1925 to 1928 as a member of the Liberal Party.

Charles Pingle served as Speaker of the Assembly from 1920 to 1921.

Charles Pingle returned to the Assembly in a 1925 by-election in the riding of Medicine Hat, in which he served until his sudden death in 1928.

Charles Steuart Pingle was born to Warren Hume and Georgina Pingle near Morris, Manitoba on October 16,1880.

Charles Pingle's father, born in what would later become Ontario, maintained a family milling business.

Charles Pingle attended public school in Winnipeg and then apprenticed with the Bole Drug Company in Regina.

Charles Pingle moved to Medicine Hat, Alberta in 1901, and one year later, purchased a drug business from Donald A Black, naming the store Pingle Drug and Book Company.

Charles Pingle was a member of the first council of the Alberta Pharmaceutical Association from 1911 to 1912.

Charles Pingle later served as president of the Association from 1918 to 1919.

Charles Pingle served as director of various corporations, like the Medicine Hat News and the Commonwealth Trust Company in Calgary.

Charles Pingle served in the Canadian Militia as quartermaster of the 21st Alberta Hussars from 1909 to 1914, with the rank of an honorary captain.

Charles Pingle joined the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force to fight in World War I on May 25,1915.

Charles Pingle sailed to France in June 1915, serving there from September 1915 to February 1916, when he returned to Canada.

From 1910 to 1912, Charles Pingle sat as an alderman on the Medicine Hat City Council.

Charles Pingle served on the Police Committee and Electric Committee.

Charles Pingle served as president and vice president of the Medicine Hat Liberal Association.

Charles Pingle first ran for to the Alberta Legislature in the 1913 Alberta general election as a candidate under the Liberal banner.

Charles Pingle won a two-way race to pick up the new electoral district of Redcliff for his party.

Charles Pingle ran for re-election in the 1921 general election but, contrary to many reports, was defeated in a two-way race by United Farmers candidate William Smith.

Charles Pingle was the first Speaker in Alberta to be defeated.

Charles Pingle made a political come back by running as a candidate in the Medicine Hat electoral district in a by-election held on September 29,1925, following the death of incumbent William Johnston.

Charles Pingle won on the second-choice preferences of the new alternate vote system.

Charles Steuart Pingle married Jean McLeay, originally from Ontario, on September 16,1903.

Charles Pingle's parents were both of Scottish descent, with her mother being born in Scotland.

Charles Pingle's father worked as a money broker and manufacturer in his hometown of Watford, Ontario.

Pingle and his wife had two children, Robert Warren and Charles Glendining; the latter died in infancy.

Robert's son, named Charles Pingle Steuart, was an unsuccessful Progressive Conservative candidate in the Ontario riding of Windsor-Walkerville in the 1979 and 1980 federal elections.

Charles Pingle sat on many boards, including the Board of Trade, Rotary Club, and Board of Directors of the Agricultural Society.

Charles Pingle belonged to the Sons of England Society and Knights of Pythias.

Charles Pingle enjoyed baseball and curling, where he was president of the board and a skip of a team respectively.

Charles Pingle took an interest in music as a member of a string quartet and as president of a citizens band.

Also, a street in Medicine Hat, Charles Pingle Street, was named in his honour.

Charles Pingle attended a conference in the morning on January 10,1928.

Charles Pingle felt a pricking sensation in his hand, and he was unable to use it and his wife urged him to go have a nap.

Charles Pingle died at 7:20 pm that day at his residence in Medicine Hat, of what was reported to be "cardiac troubles" or a stroke.

Charles Pingle had been in poor health in the years preceding his death.

Charles Pingle's funeral was attended by various members of provincial and municipal governments, political associations, and communities with which he was associated.

Charles Pingle was interred at the Hillside Cemetery in Medicine Hat.

Lieutenant Governor William Egbert stated that the death of Charles Pingle would be "keenly felt by the Members of the House and by the people of the province".