Condolences and memories are already starting to build on the online condolence page for former premier and nation builder Peter Lougheed.
Nearly 100 people have signed and posted messages on the government’s online condolence page. Many others are expected to take time to pay their respects Monday and Tuesday at the Alberta legislature, where Lougheed will lie in state.
Albertans wishing to pay their respects will be able to do so on Monday between 10:30 a.m. and 8 p.m., and on Tuesday between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., in the rotunda of the Alberta legislature, located at 107th Street and 97th Avenue in Edmonton.
The event will mark Lougheed’s final return to the building where he led the province for 14 years. He was premier from 1971 to his retirement in 1985.
Online, many remembered Lougheed’s personality.
“Soon after he retired from politics, we met him at Westin Hotel. He came to our table to say Hi. I will never forget this distinguished Albertan,” wrote Edmontonian Amy Hui on the public page.
Amy Hallett from Pickardville, Alberta, wrote: “My deepest sympathies to the Lougheed family. Peter was the best premier we could have ever had. The rest of Canada envied us when he became premier.”
Books of condolence will also be available until Sept. 28 at the Alberta legislature rotunda, the Oil Sands Discovery Centre in Fort McMurray, the Provincial Building in Grande Prairie (Room 2501, 10320 99th Street) and the Provincial Building in Red Deer (Fourth floor, 4920 51st Street).
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