Nolan Crouse is the current mayor of St. Albert, Alberta, Canada and a former candidate for the leadership of the Alberta Liberal Party.
Crouse was born in Viking, Alberta and attended Irma High School in nearby Irma. He received a Masters of Business Administration from Cape Breton University.
While in Grande Prairie, he was a co-founder of the Grande Prairie Indoor Ice Society, an organization that raised funds for the Canada Games Arena (now Revolution Place) needed to host the 1995 Canada Winter Games. Crouse sat on the bid committee that led preparations to host the Canada Winter Games. He is also a former hockey coach that had stints with both the Fort Saskatchewan Traders and the Brooks Bandits of the Alberta Junior Hockey League as well as the St. Albert Merchants of the Capital Junior Hockey League that plays in the Edmonton Region.
Crouse has held managerial positions with several companies, including Procter and Gamble (winner of the Canadian Pulp and Paper John Bates Award), Alberta Energy Company, West Fraser Timber Co., Slave Lake Pulp Corporation, Sunchild Forest Products and Crouse Developments Ltd. (which he owned). During these years, Crouse sat on the Board of Directors of the Alberta Forest Products Association Public Relations Committee as well as the Forest Industries Suppliers Association Board.