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About Ingimar Ingaldson
- Ingmar Ingaldson (April 4, 1888—September 21, 1934) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada.
- He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1927 to 1932, as a member of the Progressive Party.He was born in Hallson, North Dakota, in the United States of America, to parents of Icelandic origin.
- He came to Canada in 1901, and was educated at the Manitoba Agricultural College.
- He served as manager of several local cooperatives, including the North Star Co-operative Creamery and Arborg Farmers Co-operative Association Ltd.
- In 1913, Ingaldson married Violet Palson.
- From 1917 to 1926, he served as secretary-treasurer of the Rural Municipality of Bifrost.
- He was also active in drama, and took part in several plays in the region. He first ran for the Manitoba legislature in the 1922 provincial election as a candidate of the United Farmers of Manitoba.
- He lost to Liberal Michael Rojeski in the constituency of Gimli by 260 votes. Ingaldson ran again in the 1927 election as a Progressive, and defeated Liberal candidate Einar Jonasson by 225 votes (Rojeski, now an independent, finished third).
- The Progressives won a majority government, and Ingaldson served as a backbench supporter of John Bracken's administration.
- In 1930, he visited Iceland as a representative of the Manitoba government for the nation's millennial celebrations. In 1932, the Progressive and Liberal parties formed an electoral alliance to prevent the Conservatives from forming government.
- Despite the provincial alliance, however, Jonasson again challenged Ingaldson in Gimli.
- Jonasson won the challenge by 271 votes, with both candidates proclaiming support for Bracken's government. Ingaldson died two years later, in a drowning accident.
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