James Wilfrid Gardiner

James Wilfrid "Wilf" Gardiner (July 27, 1924 – October 3, 2002) and was educated in Regina, in Lemberg, in Ottawa, at Luther College in Regina and at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. In 1946, he married Margaret I. Hudgin. In the same year, he returned to Lemberg, where he began farming; later becoming a general business agent. Gardiner also served as Lemberg's town clerk, as secretary for the local school board and secretary for the Lemberg Rural Telephone Company. before being elected in 1956. He unsuccessfully ran for the leadership of the provincial Liberal party in 1954 and 1959. Gardiner served in the provincial cabinet as Minister of Public Works.