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Alberta’s new health minister, Tyler Shandro, may not yet be a household name, but he has a bloodline to the legislature that is almost as old as the province itself.

Andrew Shandro, the eldest brother of Tyler’s grandfather, served as Alberta‘s first Ukrainian-Canadian MLA from 1913 to 1922. He was a member of the Liberal government of the day, but his path in politics was something of an adventure, interrupted at various points by electoral court challenges, byelections and military service in the First World War.

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Though less dramatic, Tyler Shandro has experienced some of his own excitement along the way to the legislature.

Following the defeat of the Progressive Conservatives in 2015, the Calgary lawyer — who was born in Edmonton and still has family here — was among a group of party stalwarts hoping to rebuild the brand.

He ran for party president (unsuccessfully) against Katherine O’Neill, both of whom rejected calls to amalgamate with the Wildrose party.