Career
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1887–1976) was a provincial level politician from Olds, Alberta, Canada. He sat with the United Farmers caucus and served briefly from 1934 to 1935 as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Richard Gavin Reid. He was the first principal of the Olds Agricultural College.
Grisdale ran for a seat in the Alberta Legislature in the 1930 Alberta general election.
He was the United Farmers candidate for the Olds electoral district. He defeated Liberal candidate George Clark in a closely contested election winning by a couple hundred votes.
Grisdale was appointed to the Executive Council of Alberta Cabinet as Minister of Agriculture taking the post over from George Hoadley on June 2, 1934. He ran for re-election in the 1935 Alberta general election and was defeated in a landslide by Social Cr candidate Herbert Ash.
Grisdale would attempt to return to the Alberta Legislature as an Independent candidate in the 1940 Alberta general election.
The race for the district was hotly contested. Incumbent Herbert Ash, who was also an Independent ran a distant third and was eliminated.
