Ray Prins

Raymond Frank "Ray" Prins (born April 15, 1951) is a Canadian politician and was a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, representing the constituency of Lacombe-Ponoka as a Progressive Conservative.

In 1974, Prins bought a farm near Gull Lake, Alberta where he grew grain and hay, and raised cattle, hogs, elk and bison.

He was a founding member of the North Red Deer River Regional Water Services Commission (2004), a process he saw to completion as an MLA.

Prins has volunteered on community developing trips to Mali, Kenya, Russia and Armenia.

He also participated in a project building water systems throughout rural Sierra Leone, where he was named an honorary Kuranko tribesman.