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| Name | Barry McFarland |
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April 22, 1948
(77 years)
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| Info | Barry McFarland was elected to his sixth term as a Member of the Legislative Assembly for Little Bow on March 3, 2008. In addition to his regular duties as an MLA Mr. McFarland currently serves as chair of the Standing Committee on Health and a member of the Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections, Standing Orders and Printing.
Since he was first elected to the Alberta Legislature in a 1992 by-election, Mr. McFarland has served on the following Legislative committees:
Standing Policy Committee on Agriculture and Municipal Affairs (chair)
Standing Committee on the Economy
Standing Committee on Private Bills
Special Standing Committee on Members´ Services
Standing Committee on Public Accounts
Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund
In 2007 Mr. McFarland was inducted into the Palliser school division's Wall of Fame. Prior to his election as an MLA Mr. McFarland held a variety of municipal government responsibilities. He was elected to the county of Vulcan council in 1977, and until 1992 he served at various times as reeve, councillor, school trustee, chair of the Board of Education, and as both a trustee and board chair of the Little Bow auxiliary hospital. He has also been involved in a number of municipal/agricultural committees, the Municipal Planning Commission, and he was a member of the Carmangay Seed Cleaning Plant Association.
Mr. McFarland was born in Carmangay, Alberta, in 1948. He is a graduate of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) business administration program.
Mr. McFarland´s private-sector experience comes from his tenure in the retail credit area of Gulf Canada.
His involvement with various community groups over the years includes work with the Carmangay Lions Club, the Royal Canadian Legion - Barons Branch, Barons BPOE, Carmangay Curling Club and the Vulcan Atletika Track Club.
Since 1972 Mr. McFarland and his wife, Mary, have resided outside of Carmangay, where they operate a dryland grain farm and raised their four children.
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