William Sancho Thair

William Sancho Thair was a farmer and political figure in Saskatchewan, Canada.

Biography

He was born near Holstein, Ontario, the son of Philip Franklin Thair and Hannah Maria Mickleborough. In 1915, he married Mary Agnes Thair. With Mary he had a Son, Philip, and eight years later on the 14th of April, 1925, adopted Janet.
He farmed in the Lumsden district from 1910 to 1956. Thair was a member of the United Farmers of Canada and the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. He served on the local school board for 27 years. He represented Lumsden in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1956 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member. The 1944 election of the CCF was the first socialist government in North America. Among Thair's personal political highlights was introducing legislation which created provincial-wide state-operated crop insurance.