Background
He grew up in an impoverished, fatherless family homesteading in the North country.
He grew up in an impoverished, fatherless family homesteading in the North country.
During his time in office he served as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Harry Strom from 1968 to 1971. Fimrite ran for a seat for the first time in the 1952 Alberta general election as a Social Cr candidate. Fimrite ran for a second term in office in the 1955 Alberta general election.
Fimrite increased his majority running for his third term in office in the 1959 Alberta general election.
He faced three other candidates and tripled the vote of runner up Progressive Conservative candidate Charles Stojan. Fimrite ran for a fifth term in the 1967 general election.
A year after the election Harry Strom was chosen as Premier. Strom invited Fimrite into his cabinet on December 12, 1968 as a Minister without Portfolio.
Fimrite ran for re-election in the new district in the 1971 Alberta general election.
He was defeated by NDP leader Grant Notley.
He won the electoral district of Spirit River in a hotly contested race on vote transfers to hold it for the Social Cr party. He held that position until the end of his political career. Due to boundary redistribution the electoral district of Spirit River became Spirit River-Fairview.
He served as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1952 to 1971 sitting with the Social Cr caucus in government.