Former Premier of Alberta, Jim Prentice, perished in an airplane crash in B.C. Thursday night.
Four people died in a crash just outside of Kelowna. The twin-engine Cessna was en route to Springbank airport. The Transportation Safety Board described the crash as “unsurvivable.”
Passionate about politics, Prentice was through Drumheller and visited the offices of The Drumheller Mail on a couple occasions, when running for the leadership of the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party and also running in the 2015 provincial election.
While he had made a career in law and politics as an MP serving as a cabinet minister under Stephen Harper before becoming an MLA and Premier, he would talk excitedly about his mining roots. His father was a miner, and Prentice, as a student, would return to the Crowsnest Pass during the summer and work in the mines.
Prentice was 60-years-old.
