Thérèse Casgrain: An Unlikely Social Democrat
Thérèse Casgrain was a social democrat who fought for the women’s right to vote in Québec and became the first woman to be a leader of a Canadian political party.
Dave McGrane
Dave McGrane is an Associate Professor of Political Studies at St. Thomas More College and the University of Saskatchewan. He has written extensively on the NDP and Canadian social democracy.
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Frank Calder: Living in Two Worlds
As the first status Indigenous person to be elected at either the federal or provincial level in Canada, Frank Calder used his position to advocate for a modern, comprehensive land claims policy to facilitate the negotiation and claims process.
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M.J. Coldwell: From the Prairies to Parliament
CCF Leader M.J. Coldwell fought in Parliament to establish unemployment insurance and old age pensions.
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Moses Coady: Antigonish Awakening
Moses Coady’s ideas about collectivism and co-operation represented the first real challenge to the conservatism of Nova Scotia’s political culture.
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George Hara Williams: CCF Architect
Learn about the the oft-forgotten architect of the Saskatchewan CCF, who laid the organizational groundwork that brought the first social democratic government in North America to power.
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École Sociale Populaire: Quebec’s Social Democratic Tradition
Learn about the unique Catholic roots of Quebec’s social democratic tradition.
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Ernest Winch & Harold Winch: BC’s Radical Father-Son Duo
Meet the radical father-son duo who became two of British Columbia’s left-wing pioneers.
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League for Social Reconstruction: Intellectual Foundations for Canadian Social Democracy
The League for Social Reconstruction was a group of socialist thinkers, brought together by the crisis of the Great Depression, that laid the intellectual foundations for modern Canadian social democracy.
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Agnes Macphail: Canada’s First Woman MP
Rather than treating feminism and social democracy as separate projects, Agnes Macphail understood both as essential to building a more democratic and equal society.
