The Hon. C. A. Dunning
(Minister of Finance for Canada) Tonight's speaker in this important series has been M.P. for Queens County, Prince Edward Island , and Minister of Finance for Canada since 1935. He was educated at English public schools and went to Saskatchewan . in 1903, and has farmed there at Beaverdale ever since. In 1913 he was appointed Royal Commisioner by the Saskatchewan Provincial Government to investigate the question of agricultural credits and grain markets in Europe. From 1911 to 1914 he was Vice-President of the Saskatchewan Grain Growers' Association and Hon. Vice-President the following year. He was a member of the Canadian Council of Agriculture from 1911 to 1916 and of the Canada Food Board as Director of Food Production for Canada in 1918, and has held at various times portfolios of Railways and Telephones, Labour and Industry, Provincial Treasurer, Provincial Secretary, Municipal Affairs and Agriculture. He was Premier of Saskatchewan from 1922 to 1926, Minister of Railways for Canada from 1926 to 1929.