Back to the Bible Hour

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Alberta educator and lay preacher William Aberhart (Bible Bill broadcast his radio program called Back to the Bible Hour.



Ernest C. Manning was raised on a farm near Rosetown, Saskatchewan, where as a teenager he listened to the Christian broadcasts of Alberta educator and lay preacher William Aberhart on the Back to the Bible Hour radio show. That drew the young Manning to Alberta where he not only teamed up with the Social Credit movement but also took over the leadership of that government on the death of Premier Aberhart in 1948. Ernest C. Manning also became the host of the Back to the Bible Hour for almost 50 years.