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Lieutenant Governor and in thanking the members of the assembly remarked "May the Great Spirit remain with you, and will you always carry on such a well-done job", becoming the first time the Great Spirit had been invoked in the provincial legislature. In a
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and the potential effect of amendments on treaty rights in
Northern Alberta. Steinhauer had the legislation studied by a legal firm and in the end granted royal assent.
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descent. Steinhauers's father Josiah died in 1908, and his mother married James Arthur
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