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Palmer, Charles Gideon
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Charles Gideon Palmer, 1885-1971, was born in Sackville, New Brunswick and came to Calgary in 1911. He worked as a salesman, and in 1912 opened up the first automobile school in Calgary. In the early 1930s he helped organize the New Age Club which was instrumental in setting up the Social Credit Party in Alberta. He was owner-manager of a parking lot at 9th Avenue and Centre Street in Calgary from 1941 until 1953. He his wife, Gladys May de Clifford, ?-1959, had a son, Sackville.