(NWT) Medical Ordinance, were dissolved. A new entity was formed with the passage of the May 9, 1906Alberta Medical Profession Act , in the newly formed Alberta provincial legislature. Lafferty, who had drafted the medical acts for both newly formed provinces—Alberta and Saskatchewan, organized the 1906 meeting which formed the Alberta Medical Association. Later that same year, he organized the first meeting of the Alberta College of Physicians and Surgeons. Lafferty served as Registrar-Treasurer for the college until 1911. From 1907 to 1910, he served as chair of the Provincial Board of Health. He also served as first president of the Calgary Medical Society. Lafferty retired from the practice of medicine in 1909 but served as a hospital inspector from 1909 until 1918 (or possibly later). Banking career Lafferty was also involved in the operation of a chain of private banks in western Canada known as the Lafferty and Smith Banks in partnership with Frederick G. Smith. He left that partnership in 1889 and formed the Lafferty and Moore Bank. In 1893, Lafferty and Moore was acquired by the Bank of Montreal. Political career in federal politics Lafferty ran for the Liberal Party in the provisional district of Alberta in the 1887 Canadian federal election, but lost out to Conservative Donald Watson Davis. Personal life Three of Lafferty's brothers became physicians, and his brother Tom became a lawyer and moved to Calgary, Alberta. His brother Alan Marshall Lafferty (1861–1947) was a medical practitioner in Lethbridge, Alberta. His sister Janet Lafferty Short (1847–1934) married the lawyer, James Short of Calgary. Lafferty died on July 29, 1920 in Calgary, aged 71. His July 20, 1920 obituary in the Calgary Albertan, described him as an "ebullient, effervescent, entertaining pro westerner [he was] a shrewd judge of character with great drive and persuasion." He was survived by his three of four sons, Guy, Geoffrey, and Heber and by his two sisters. His son Francis (Frank) predeceased him in 1919. References Bibliography 1849 births 1920 deaths Candidates in the 1887 Canadian federal election Mayors of Calgary People from Perth, Ontario Physicians from Alberta Canadian coroners Liberal Party of Canada candidates for the Canadian House of Commons 19th-century Canadian politicians