Career
In 1890 he helped form a committee to raise money to buy books, periodicals and furnishings for the Miner"s Library in Lethbridge. He was elected in the by-election for Lethbridge in 1908. Bill 8 An Acting to amend the Lethbridge Charter was the first introduced from the opposition and a third party to receive Royal Assent in the legislature.
He also introduced a second bill in the same legislative sitting to get assent, Bill 10 An Acting respecting the Galt Hospital.
McNabb ran for re-election in the new Lethbridge City riding, but was defeated. In 1912, he chaired the meeting that formed the Alberta Federation of Labour.
