Progressive → United Farmers of Alberta (1926-09-14)

What the record says

On September 14, 1926, in the House of Commons, the record groups six changes of affiliation, each from the Progressive Party of Canada to the United Farmers of Alberta. Six people are named individually, but the record counts seven participants in this group: one is not named here. The record marks the resolution of this group as partial, which those two figures reflect. The event record cites one source, a primary official record. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were made, and nothing here should be read as a statement of motive. This paragraph was assembled by machine from the rows named in it, and is pending review.

Participants

1. George Gibson Coote

   CTF-EP-PLI-19260914-FD74F180-01

   Progressive Party of Canada→ToUnited Farmers of AlbertaTo another partyRuled an election-time relabellingWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.How the record counts it: Ruled an election-time relabellingThe ruling stored on this leg is not the one its two labels imply, and the ruling is what any published figure follows. The commonest reason is that the label changed at a general election, so the voters were asked and nothing was carried anywhere; the other is that no ruling has been made yet, which is not the same as none being needed.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   September 14, 1926

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

2. Robert Gardiner

   CTF-EP-PLI-19260914-E44609FA-02

   Progressive Party of Canada→ToUnited Farmers of AlbertaTo another partyRuled an election-time relabellingWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.How the record counts it: Ruled an election-time relabellingThe ruling stored on this leg is not the one its two labels imply, and the ruling is what any published figure follows. The commonest reason is that the label changed at a general election, so the voters were asked and nothing was carried anywhere; the other is that no ruling has been made yet, which is not the same as none being needed.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   September 14, 1926

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

3. Edward Joseph Garland

   CTF-EP-PLI-19260914-5EEBF167-03

   Progressive Party of Canada→ToUnited Farmers of AlbertaTo another partyRuled an election-time relabellingWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.How the record counts it: Ruled an election-time relabellingThe ruling stored on this leg is not the one its two labels imply, and the ruling is what any published figure follows. The commonest reason is that the label changed at a general election, so the voters were asked and nothing was carried anywhere; the other is that no ruling has been made yet, which is not the same as none being needed.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   September 14, 1926

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

4. Lincoln Henry Jelliff

   CTF-EP-PLI-19260914-B676AC73-04

   Progressive Party of Canada→ToUnited Farmers of AlbertaTo another partyRuled an election-time relabellingWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.How the record counts it: Ruled an election-time relabellingThe ruling stored on this leg is not the one its two labels imply, and the ruling is what any published figure follows. The commonest reason is that the label changed at a general election, so the voters were asked and nothing was carried anywhere; the other is that no ruling has been made yet, which is not the same as none being needed.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   September 14, 1926

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

5. Donald Ferdinand Kellner

   CTF-EP-PLI-19260914-CE5A5993-05

   Progressive Party of Canada→ToUnited Farmers of AlbertaTo another partyRuled an election-time relabellingWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.How the record counts it: Ruled an election-time relabellingThe ruling stored on this leg is not the one its two labels imply, and the ruling is what any published figure follows. The commonest reason is that the label changed at a general election, so the voters were asked and nothing was carried anywhere; the other is that no ruling has been made yet, which is not the same as none being needed.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   September 14, 1926

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

6. Donald MacBeth Kennedy

   CTF-EP-PLI-19260914-54422389-06

   Progressive Party of Canada→ToUnited Farmers of AlbertaTo another partyRuled an election-time relabellingWhere the seat went: The seat was carried to another partyBoth sides of the change are parties, and they are different parties. The member sat with one caucus and then sat with another, without the seat being returned to voters in between.What you may rely onThat a party gained a seat it did not win. It says nothing about why: the record separates where a member went from whether they chose to go.How it countsThe direction the floor-crossing total is drawn from, but not the total itself. A small number of legs whose labels read party-to-a-different-party are ruled election-time relabelling, and count toward nothing.How the record counts it: Ruled an election-time relabellingThe ruling stored on this leg is not the one its two labels imply, and the ruling is what any published figure follows. The commonest reason is that the label changed at a general election, so the voters were asked and nothing was carried anywhere; the other is that no ruling has been made yet, which is not the same as none being needed.

   Riding

   not recorded

   Effective

   September 14, 1926

   Kind of transition

   Changed party affiliation

   Voluntary

   Not recorded

   Direction

   Not recorded

   Appointment

   Not recorded

Claims and the sources cited for them

Every statement this record makes is stored as a separate claim with its own review state and its own citations. A claim with no citation is shown as such rather than omitted.

1. PARLINFO records a change of party affiliation from "Progressive" to "United Farmers of Alberta" effective 1926-09-14.

   Pending review

   Field:

   affiliation_change

   Confidence:

   Medium

   Signed by:

   Not signed by a named contributor

   • PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)

     Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record George Gibson Coote | 1926-09-14 | Progressive -> United Farmers of Alberta — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 189 · MUL

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

2. On September 14, 1926, in the House of Commons, the record groups six changes of affiliation, each from the Progressive Party of Canada to the United Farmers of Alberta. Six people are named individually, but the record counts seven participants in this group: one is not named here. The record marks the resolution of this group as partial, which those two figures reflect. The event record cites one source, a primary official record. These entries record the affiliations and their dates. They do not record why the changes were made, and nothing here should be read as a statement of motive. This paragraph was assembled by machine from the rows named in it, and is pending review.

   Pending review

   Field:

   summary

   Confidence:

   High

   Signed by:

   Official-source deterministic verifier

   Assumptions: Machine-assembled from this database’s own rows and from no other source. The text restates, as sentences, the participant rows attached to this record: the affiliation recorded on either side of each change, the date at the precision that row carries, the jurisdiction and chamber, whether the change is filed under a group event, and whether the event record behind it carries a citation. No date is printed finer than the row’s date_precision, so a year-precision row yields a year and never a day. Both languages are composed from the same rows rather than translated from one another. No motive, benefit, causation or characterisation of a person appears, and none may be added under this claim.

   Counterarguments: Two limits, stated rather than glossed. First, the prose is only as sound as the rows beneath it: where a party link is wrong the wrong party name is printed, and where an event is a legacy lead the sentence repeats an unverified lead — saying so, but repeating it. Second, restating a thin record fluently can make it read as established; the pending status on this claim, and the sentence inside the text naming the evidence state, are the only things that say otherwise. Four label-to-party mappings were deliberately not printed, because the party row’s name did not exist on the date of the event; the underlying links were left untouched and are still visible on the record.

   • PARLINFO — Changes in Political Affiliation (Library of Parliament)

     Library of Parliament / Bibliothèque du Parlement · record CTF-E-PLI-19260914-24CEA03B — George Gibson Coote | 1926-09-14 | Progressive -> United Farmers of Alberta — research/parlinfo-2026-08-31/transitions.csv line 189 · MUL

     Cited here because it is the source already attached to this affiliation event. It supports the literal affiliation and date only.

     Archived copy — September 1, 2026

     CTF-S-PLI-DATASET-B36D7418 · Reliability tier: primary official · Rights: link only · Accessed: September 1, 2026

What happened afterwards

Recorded outcomes only. An absence here means nothing has been recorded, not that nothing happened, and no causal link to the affiliation change is asserted unless a source establishes one.

No outcome is recorded for anyone on this event.

Linked records

• component of ~12 Progressive MPs join Liberals or UFA (1926)This event records part of the same real-world episode as the group lead progressive-breakup-1926. Both records describe the same people; participant totals that count them separately will double-count. Recorded so the overlap is explicit rather than hidden.

Revision history

Every change to this record is appended here. Nothing is edited away.

1. r5 corrected

   The record asserted participant_resolution_status = "complete" while holding 6 participant rows against its own participant_count_known of 7. Corrected to "partial": the roster is short by 1. No participant row was added or removed; the person named in the source cluster but absent from this record is left for editorial review. The summary sentence that reported the flag as complete was updated to match.

   September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

2. r4 corrected

   The machine-assembled summary reported 6 participant rows as the whole group and repeated the record's "complete" resolution flag, while the event row counts 7 participants. Corrected to carry both figures, name the 1 not present, and state that the two disagree.

   September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

3. r3 expanded

   Wrote summary_en and summary_fr, both of which were empty. The text is machine-assembled from this database’s own rows and from no other source: the 6 participant rows attached to this event, each with the affiliation recorded on either side, the date at the precision that row carries, the jurisdiction and chamber, and whether the event record behind it carries a citation (1/1). No date is printed finer than date_precision. No motive, benefit, causation or characterisation is asserted, in keeping with the published mandate of the automated validator that signs it. Both languages are composed from the same rows rather than translated from one another. The last sentence of the text says, in the text itself, that it was assembled by machine and is pending review, so the disclosure travels with the paragraph through the API and through a copied quotation. The text is recorded as claim CTF-CL-SUM-B9C1358CA104, kind project_analysis, assertion status pending_review. Nothing was copied or paraphrased from any encyclopaedia: the earlier removal of Wikipedia-derived prose from this project is not reversed by this change. Publication status and verification level are unchanged.

   September 1, 2026 · Official-source deterministic verifier

4. r2 corrected

   Corrected the stored permanent URI. It pointed at /en/crossings/progressive-to-united-farmers-of-alberta-1926-09-14, a path this site has never served, so the citation target returned HTTP 404. It now points at /crossings/progressive-to-united-farmers-of-alberta-1926-09-14, the canonical record address. No fact, date, party, participant or source in this record was changed.

   September 1, 2026

5. r1 created

   Created from the Library of Parliament PARLINFO affiliation-change record (class C1_voluntary_party_switch).

   September 1, 2026