{{short description|Canadian politician}} {{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Edith Gostick | image = Edith Hannah Gostick.png | image_size = 150px | caption = | birth_date = January 15, 1894 | birth_place = Porth, South Wales<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://hermis.alberta.ca/PAA/Details.aspx?st=%22LEGISLATURE+LIBRARY%22&cp=1&sort=department&adf=true&ReturnUrl=%2FPAA%2FSearch.aspx%3Fst%3D%2522LEGISLATURE%2BLIBRARY%2522%26cp%3D1%26sort%3Ddepartment%26adf%3Dtrue&dv=True&DeptID=1&ObjectID=PR0687|title = HeRMIS - PAA}}</ref> | death_date = {{Death date and age|1984|7|8|1894|1|15}} | death_place = Saanichton, British Columbia | term_start = 1935 | term_end = 1940 | predecessor = Hugh Farthing<br />William Ross<br />Fred White<br />Norman Hindsley | successor = James Mahaffy<br />William Aberhart<br />Andrew Davison | office = MLA for Calgary | party = Social Credit | alma_mater = | spouse = | children = | occupation = }}
'''Edith Hannah Gostick''' (née '''Thomas'''; January 15, 1894 – July 8, 1984) was a provincial level politician from Alberta, Canada. She served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta as a representative from the electoral district of Calgary from 1935 to 1940.
==Political career== Gostick ran for a seat as a Social Credit Party of Alberta candidate in the Alberta Legislature in the 1935 Alberta general election. She was declared elected on the 18th vote count, taking the fourth seat in the Legislature.<ref name="1935 official">{{cite web| url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Calgary| title=Calgary results 1935 Alberta general election| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation| accessdate=2009-05-17| archive-date=2011-06-12| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612205425/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1935&Constit=Calgary| url-status=dead}}</ref> Gostick ran for re-election in the 1940 general election but was defeated.<ref name="1940 official">{{cite web| url=http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1940&Constit=Calgary| title=Calgary results 1940 Alberta general election| publisher=Alberta Heritage Community Foundation| accessdate=2009-05-17| archive-date=2011-06-12| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110612205446/http://www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/administration/maps_choice.php?Year=1940&Constit=Calgary| url-status=dead}}</ref>
Her son Ron Gostick was a well-known publisher of anti-Semitic and far right literature.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930024650/http://www.assembly.ab.ca/legislaturecentennial/pdf/membersBooklet.pdf Legislative Assembly of Alberta Members Listing]
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