STRONG, K.C., HEATH EDWARD, lawyer and news reporter; b. 21 August 1882 in Summerside, son of C. Edward Strong and Sarah Davis Ellison; m. 4 November 1925 Ethel Louise Sinclair, and there were no children; Presbyterian; d. 26 November 1950 in Summerside.
Strong, a Conservative, was first elected to the Legislative Assembly in the general election of 1931 for 4th Prince. He was re-elected in the general election of 1943. He was defeated in the general elections of 1935, 1939, and 1947. From 1931 to 1935, he served as Speaker.
His grandfather, William G. Strong, was a member of the Legislative Council for eight years and served as government leader in the Council for three years. Strong’s brother Ernest Henry"' was elected to the Legislative Assembly in 1943 for 5th Prince, but resigned to run, unsuccessfully, as the Conservative candidate for Prince in the 1945 federal election.
Strong received his early education in Summerside and later attended Prince of Wales College in Charlottetown. He was appointed to the Bar on 7 May 1907. Strong worked in Summerside for many years as a lawyer, and was appointed King s Counsel on II December 1924. He served as president of the Prince Edward Island Bar Association and provided legal services to the Children’s Aid Society. Strong was a director of the Prince Edward Island Protestant Orphanage. For several years, he assumed the role of Summerside correspondent for the Patriot. At the time of his death on 26 November 1950, Heath Strong was president of the board of managers of the Presbyterian church in Summerside.
Ethel Strong, daughter of Neil Sinclair of Summerside. She was born ca. 1887. She died 8 May 1987., CPG 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948; Journal 4 June 1987; Patriot 27 November 1950; PARO: Summerside People's Protestant Cemetery Records.