Lois Elsa Hole, CM, AOE (1933, Buchanan, Saskatchewan - January 6 2005, Edmonton, Alberta) was a Canadian politician, businesswoman, educator and best-selling author. She was the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta from February 10 2000 until her death. She was known as the "Queen of Hugs" for breaking with protocol and hugging almost everyone she met, including journalists, diplomats and other politicians. Wikipedia
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Mrs. Hole served as a school trustee for the St. Albert School District #6 from 1981 to the fall of 1998. She previously served, for fourteen years, as a trustee and chairperson for the Sturgeon School Division and, for eleven years, as a member of the A www.abheritage.ca/abpolitics/people/lt_hole.html
Lois Elsa Hole was born in Buchanan, Saskatchewan and moved to Edmonton in her teens, where she attended Strathcona Composite High School. For the last 50 years of her life, she lived on a farm on the Sturgeon River north of St Albert, which she and her www.ualbertacentennial.ca/organization/chancellors/hole.html
