Charles McGill Hamilton was born in WhitechUl'ch, Ontario on January 17, 1878. At the age of seventeen he moved to the West with his family. After teaching for four years at Indian Head. He homesteaded in the McTaggart district near Wayburn in 1901. Before his election by acclamation to the Saskatchewan legislature at a by-election in the Weyburn constituency June 15, 1919, Hamilton had participated actively in various agricultural organizations. In 1918 he was appointed a director of the C.N.R., a post he later resigned.. Hamilton was appointed Minister of Agriculture in the Martin cabinet April 26, 1920, a post he held until appointed Minister of Highways upon the retirement of Martin on June 14, 1921. In October, 1921 he also became Minister of Municipal Affairs for two months, becoming Agriculture Minister once more in December of that year and holding the two portfolios of Highways and Agriculture until the formation of the Dunning Cabinet on April 5, 1922. Under Dunning, Hamilton assumed the Ministries of Agriculture and Municipal Affairs. In 1927 be became Minister of the Child Welfare Act and continued to hold his Agriculture post in the Gardiner Cabinet. Upon the defeat of this ministry in 1929, Hamilton resigned in August to accept a post on the Board of Grain Commissioners, a position he held for nineteen years. He was responsible in 1938 for introducing Thatcher wheat to Europe. Hamilton died in Winnipeg May 3, 1952