# Edith Gostick

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{{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](/source/Porth), [South Wales](/source/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](/source/Saanichton), [British Columbia](/source/British_Columbia)
| term_start  = 1935
| term_end    = 1940
| predecessor = [Hugh Farthing](/source/Hugh_Farthing)<br />[William Ross](/source/William_Henry_Ross)<br />[Fred White](/source/Fred_J._White)<br />[Norman Hindsley](/source/Norman_Hindsley)
| successor   = [James Mahaffy](/source/James_Mahaffy)<br />[William Aberhart](/source/William_Aberhart)<br />[Andrew Davison](/source/Andrew_Davison_(politician))
| office      = [MLA](/source/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly) for [Calgary](/source/Calgary_(provincial_electoral_district))
| party       = [Social Credit](/source/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta)
| alma_mater  = 
| spouse      = 
| children    = 
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}}

'''Edith Hannah Gostick''' (née '''Thomas'''; January 15, 1894 – July 8, 1984) was a provincial level politician from [Alberta](/source/Alberta), Canada. She served as a member of the [Legislative Assembly of Alberta](/source/Legislative_Assembly_of_Alberta) as a representative from the electoral district of [Calgary](/source/Calgary_(provincial_electoral_district)) from 1935 to 1940.

==Political career==
Gostick ran for a seat as a [Social Credit Party of Alberta](/source/Social_Credit_Party_of_Alberta) candidate in the Alberta Legislature in the [1935 Alberta general election](/source/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](/source/1940_Alberta_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](/source/Ron_Gostick) was a well-known publisher of [anti-Semitic](/source/anti-Semitism) and far right literature.

==References==
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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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Category:Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs
Category:1894 births
Category:1984 deaths
Category:People from Porth
Category:Welsh emigrants to Canada
Category:Women MLAs in Alberta
Category:20th-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta

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