Petrie Meston


Louis Petrie Meston was a provincial politician from Alberta, Canada. He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in 1963 as a member of the governing Social Credit caucus. He also served as a municipal councilor.

Political career

Meston began his political career serving as a municipal councilor and Reeve for the M. D. of Kneehill.
Meston ran for a seat to the Alberta Legislature in the 1963 Alberta general election. He was nominated to stand as Social Credit candidate in the new electoral district of Three Hills on April 20, 1963. In the election Meston defeated two other candidates by a wide margin to pick up the seat for his party.
Meston died on November 22, 1963 in Drumheller, Alberta. He died before the first sitting of the 15th Alberta Legislative Assembly and never got to take his seat.