Elmer S. Knutson was a Canadian fringe politician. He was born on the family farm in Torquay, Saskatchewan. He worked on road gangs, in lumber camps and mines until he won a baseball scholarship to a Lutheran college in North Dakota, USA. After serving in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II, he opened a garage in Saskatoon. He later moved to Edmonton to form his own tractor parts company. In 1969, he established Derrick Dodge Chrysler, a car dealership, and ran it until 1976. The Lutheran movement is a group of denominations of Protestant Christianity by the original definition. ... Official language(s) English Capital Bismarck Largest city Fargo Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 19th 183 272 km² 340 km 545 km 2. ... The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) was the navy of Canada from 1911 until 1968 when the three branches of the Canadian military were merged into the Canadian Armed Forces. ... Combatants Allies: • Soviet Union, • UK & Commonwealth, • USA, • France/Free France, • China, • Poland, • ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Japan, • Italy, • ...and others Casualties Military dead: 18 million Civilian dead: 33 million Full list Military dead: 7 million Civilian dead: 4 million Full list World War II, also known as the Second World... Saskatoon is a city located in central Saskatchewan, Canada, on the South Saskatchewan River. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Industry Integrity Progress Area: 683. ...

With the advent of the National Energy Program in 1980, a policy that gave the federal government of Canada more control over oil and gas resources in western Canada, he formed the Western Canada Federation (West-Fed), a non-partisan organization to fight the federal Liberal Party. Most West-Fed members left the party to join the Victoria-based Western Canada Concept (WCC) party. Knutson was quoted as saying, "I've asked many times what the hell the WCC is and they can't tell me." The National Energy Program (NEP) was an energy policy of the Government of Canada. ... The Liberal Party of Canada (French: Parti libéral du Canada), colloquially known as the Grits (originally Clear Grits), is a Canadian federal political party positioned around the centre of the political spectrum, combining a generally progressive social policy with moderate economics. ... The arms of Victoria. ... The Western Canada Concept was a Western Canadian political party founded in 1980 to promote the separation of the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia and the Yukon and Northwest Territories from Canada in order to create a new nation. ...

He was defeated in 1983 in his attempt to win the leadership of the Social Credit Party of Canada. In 1984, he founded the Confederation of Regions Party to advocate a new Canadian constitution with more regional autonomy. He stepped down as leader a little more than a year later, saying, "If I can't get my message across, I had better give up trying." The Social Credit Party of Canada was a conservative - populist political party in Canada that promoted social credit theories of monetary reform. ... The Confederation of Regions Party (CoR) was a right-wing Canadian political party founded in 1984 by Elmer Knutson. ... The Constitution of Canada is the supreme law in Canada. ...

He tried his hand at provincial politics in two by-elections as well as the 1986 Alberta General Election in the Olds-Didsbury riding, and came up second. A by-election or bye-election is a special election held to fill a political office when the incumbent has died or resigned. ... The Alberta general election of 1986 was the twenty-first general election for the Province of Alberta, Canada. ... Olds-Didsbury was a provincial electoral district in central southern Alberta, Canada. ...

Knutson died at the age of 86 in Edmonton. Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Industry Integrity Progress Area: 683. ...