Farmer, politician, premier of Alberta, Harry Edwin Strom was born in Burdett, Alberta, the son of parents who immigrated to Canada from Sweden early in the 20th century. First elected to the Alberta Legislature in 1955, he was re-elected in 1959, 1963, 1967, and 1971 as a Member of the Social Credit Party. In December 1968, after the retirement of Premier E.C. Manning, he became Premier himself, holding that office until 1971 at which time the Social Credit Party was defeated by Peter Lougheed’s Progressive Conservative Party. Following the provincial election of 1975, the only Premier of Swedish descent of any Canadian province, retired from provincial politics. In this view, Premier Strom confers with students, 1970, at Fort Vermilion, Alberta, 150 miles northeast of Edmonton. [Photo, courtesy Provincial Archives of Alberta/PA 6461]