He was born near Holstein, Ontario, the son of Philip Franklin Thair and Hannah Maria Mickleborough.^[1] In 1915, he married Mary Agnes Thair (Goldie Traynor).^[1]^[3] With Mary he had a Son, Philip, and eight years later on the 14th of April , 1925, adopted Janet.^[4]

He farmed in the Lumsden district from 1910 to 1956. Thair was a member of the United Farmers of Canada and the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. He served on the local school board for 27 years.^[2] He represented Lumsden in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1956 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member.^[5] The 1944 election of the CCF was the first socialist government in North America. Among Thair's personal political highlights was introducing legislation which created provincial-wide state-operated crop insurance.^[6]

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