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Grant Notley ( January 19 , 1939 - October 19 1984 ) was a politician in Alberta , Canada . Notley gratuated from the University Of Alberta in 1960 with a history degree. After having been involved with the Alberta New Democratic Party in campus politics, he became the party's provincial secretary in 1962 . He was an unsuccessful candidate in the 1963 and 1967 Provincial Elections , and in a 1969 By-election . Notley was elected leader of the Alberta NDP in 1968 . In the 1971 Provincial Election , he won a Seat in the Legislative Assembly Of Alberta as the Member Of The Legislative Assembly (MLA) for Spirit River-Fairview, and was, for eleven years, the sole NDP MLA in the provincial legislature. As a result of the 1982 Provincial Election , he was joined by a second NDP MLA, Ray Martin , and became Leader Of The Opposition . Notley spent his political career patiently building the Social Democratic NDP in Canada's most Conservative province. In October 1984 , Notley and five other passengers were killed in a plane crash. His death came shortly before the party's breakthrough in the 1986 Provincial Election in which the NDP won 16 seats with 29% of the vote. Notley's son, Stephen Notley, writes the popular newspaper and web Comic Strip '' Bob The Angry Flower ''.
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