George Lane (6 March 1856 – 24 September 1925) was an American-born Canadian politician and rancher and known as one of the Big Four who helped found the Calgary Stampede in 1912.

[1] Lane was foreman at the Bar U Ranch and eventually returned in the early 1900s to purchase it for $250,000.

[3] In the 1913 Alberta general election, Lane was elected as the first member for the Bow Valley riding for the Alberta Liberal Party.

Somewhat of a star candidate for the Liberal Party, he defeated Conservative incumbent Harold Riley, who had changed from the Gleichen district, thereby helping keep a critical southern Alberta seat from going Conservative.

He would spend very little time as a member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, however, resigning a short time later so that defeated Cabinet Minister Charles R. Mitchell could regain a seat in the legislature.