Brief biography of Margaret Crang

Margaret Crang (1910-January 5, 1992) was a Canadian politician and a candidate for the Alberta Legislature. She served on the Edmonton city council from November 1933 to 1937.
Born in Edmonton, Alberta of Dr. Francis and Margaret Crang, she attained degrees in law and education from the University of alberta. Following in her father's footsteps, (he was a long-serving member of the Edmonton public schoolboard and an advocate of human rights and the rights of labour, the sick, the young and the poor),<ref>Monto, Tom. Protest and Progress. Three Labour Party Radicals in Early Edmonton (Rice Sheppard, Harry Ainlay, Margaret Crang). Edmonton: Crang Publishing/Alhambra Books, 2012, p. 24-26</ref>she ran for a seat on the Edmonton city council as a Labour Party candidate. She was elected, becoming only the second woman on the city council, the first Edmonton-born person and the youngest ever in the city's history. <ref>Monto, Tom. Protest and Progress. Three Labour Party Radicals in Early Edmonton (Rice Sheppard, Harry Ainlay, Margaret Crang). Edmonton: Crang Publishing/Alhambra Books, 2012, p. 229-31</ref>
She was re-elected at the top of the polls in the 1935 Edmonton municipal election.
In provincial by-elections in 1936 and 1937, Crang ran as a candidate for a seat in the Alberta legislature. She was not elected.
In 1936 she travelled to Spain, at the time engulfed in a civil war, and made a symbolic gesture in support  of the Republican government fighting against right-wing rebels. For this she was criticized by many Canadian newspapers.
She was not re-elected in the 1937 Edmonton municipal election.
She left Edmonton and as a lawyer pursued the rights of Hindu Indian refugees/ immigrants on the Wesst Coast. She later pursued a journalistic career but suffered from ill health. <ref>Monto, Tom. Protest and Progress. Three Labour Party Radicals in Early Edmonton (Rice Sheppard, Harry Ainlay, Margaret Crang). Edmonton: Crang Publishing/Alhambra Books, 2012, p. 303-304</ref>

She died of old age in January 1992 in Vancouver.

Protest and Progress. Three Labour Party Radicals in Early Edmonton (Rice Sheppard, Harry Ainlay, Margaret Crang) is available from Alhambra Books in Edmonton, Alberta and through abebooks.com.