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          William "Bible Bill" Aberhart is remembered as one of the oddest political leaders in Canadian history....

          ABERHART, WILLIAM (1878-1943)

          William "Bible Bill" Aberhart was a dominating figure in Alberta political, religious, and educational life during the first half of the twentieth century.

          Born in Perth County, Ontario, on December 30, 1878, Aberhart moved to Calgary in 1910.

          Aberhart, William.

        1. Aberhart, William.
        2. Born in Alberta but lived much of life in Victoria area.
        3. William "Bible Bill" Aberhart is remembered as one of the oddest political leaders in Canadian history.
        4. This study tries to create a space to hear their voices.
        5. One particularly utopian formation, what I have come to call Postconservative Evangelicalism, was the most noteworthy of these perspectives.

          6. While serving as a respected high school principal for the next twenty-five years, he became increasingly involved in Baptist lay preaching, founded the fundamentalist Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute in 1927, and successfully established himself as a pioneer radio evangelist.

          By the early 1930s the plight of many Albertans, ravaged by drought and economic depression, was desperate.

          Aberhart's preaching began to incorporate a personalized version of the "social credit" doctrines of the British economic thinker Maj. C. H. Douglas, and Prophetic Bible Institute study groups became the nucleus of a provincewide Social Credit crusade.

          After attempting unsuccessfully to convince the United Farmers of Alberta governm