Harry Marshall Erskine Evans

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Harry Marshall Erskine Evans (born August 17, 1876 in Davenport, Ontario, died September 20, 1973 in Edmonton, Alberta). Mayor of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada from 1918 to 1919. The son of Rev. J.S. Evans, he moved to Alberta to prospect coal seams on the Pembina River in 1906. He married to Edith Isabel Gifford Jackson on September 17, 1910. In addition to his political endeavors, he was active with the Chamber of Commerce, managed and directed several enterprises, and founded the H.M.E. Evans Company, Ltd. He received the Order of the British Empire on July 2, 1946 for meritorious service in war work.

Notably, Evans's brother William Sanford Evans served as mayor of Winnipeg and leader of the Manitoba Conservative Party, and his nephew Gurney Evans was Minister of Finance amongst other porfolios in Manitoba. Evans's daughter Sylvia Evans was amongst the few women who served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Preceded by:
William Thomas Henry		 Mayor of Edmonton, AB
1918-1919		 Succeeded by:
Joseph Clarke
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