Winston Osler Backus (October 12, 1920 – June 15, 2020) was a Canadian politician.
The son of Percy Lavern and Verna Henrietta Backus, he was born in Eckville, Alberta in 1920.
[4] After the election Premier Peter Lougheed appointed Backus Minister of Public Works in his first cabinet.
In the 1975 general election he was returned to office with a landslide victory over three other candidates.
He served out the rest of his term as a private member and retired at dissolution of the assembly in 1979.