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Thomas Clement Douglas was born in 1904 in Falkirk, the son of Annie (née Clement) and Thomas Douglas, an iron moulder who fought in the Boer War. [1] In 1910 at age 7, [2] his family immigrated to Canada, where they settled in Winnipeg. [3]
Tommy Douglas: 17 years, 120 days July 10, 1944 November 7, 1961 5 Co-operative Commonwealth: 2 Thomas Walter Scott: 11 years, 38 days September 12, 1905 October 20, 1916 3 Liberal: 3 Allan Blakeney: 10 years, 312 days June 30, 1971 May 8, 1982 3 New Democratic: 4 Brad Wall: 10 years, 73 days November 21, 2007 February 2, 2018 3
Tommy Douglas led the CCF from 1942–1962 and led the party to victory in the 1944 provincial election. Douglas and the CCF swept to power In the 1944 election, winning 47 of 52 seats to form the first socialist government in Canada or the United States. [17]
Tommy Douglas, Leader: 1961-1971. In 1956, after the birth of the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) by a merger of two previous labour congresses, negotiations began between the CLC and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) to bring about an alliance between organized labour and the political left in Canada. In 1958 a joint CCF-CLC ...
The 1961 New Democratic Party founding convention was held in Ottawa from July 31 to August 4 to elect a leader of the New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada. This convention formally closed down the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) party, the New Party clubs, and merged them with the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) to form the NDP.
Tommy Douglas (1904–86), a Baptist minister from working class origins, led the CCF to power in 1944 and kept it in power to 1961. Douglas headed the first socialist government elected in Canada, and is recognized as the father of socialized medicine and the leader who put democratic socialism in the mainstream of Canadian politics. [49]
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Timeline . Pre-colonization; 1534–1763; 1764–1867; 1867–1914; 1914–1945; 1945–1960; ... Premier of Saskatchewan – Tommy Douglas; Territorial governments