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The Canadian Labour Party (CLP) was an early, unsuccessful attempt at creating a national labour party in Canada. Although it ran candidates in the federal elections of 1917, 1921, 1925, and 1926, it never succeeded in its goal of providing a national forum for the Canadian labour movement. In most provinces, the CLP ceased to exist after 1928 ...
The Federated Labour Party was created by the British Columbia Federation of Labour in 1920, absorbing the Social Democratic Party and part of the Socialist Party of Canada. From 1906 to 1909, there was a Canadian Labour Party of B.C. (CLP(BC)). This party was a split from and rival to a group calling itself the Independent Labour Party.
The Marxist–Leninist Party of Canada unofficially uses the name "Communist Party of Canada (Marxist–Leninist)", but Elections Canada does not allow it to be registered by that name because of potential confusion with the Communist Party of Canada. Labour Party. Labour Party candidates ran under numerous different designations:
1917 – The Canadian Labour Party is founded on the initiative of the Trades and Labour Congress of Canada. [24] 1918 – The shooting death of Albert "Ginger" Goodwin sparks the Vancouver general strike, the first general strike in Canadian history. 1918 – Protection Island (BC) mining disaster. 16 were killed when a miine shaft elevator fell.
Pages in category "Labour parties in Canada" ... Independent Labour Party (Manitoba, 1920) Independent Labour Party (Manitoba, pre-1920) L. Labor-Progressive Party;
The Liberal Labour Party name has been used twice in Canadian elections, though it may have been just a convenient label for those two candidates rather than an organized political party. In the 1926 federal election , Alexander Jarvis McComber, a barrister, placed second in a field of three candidates in the north-western Ontario riding of ...
Socialist Labour Party of Canada (SLP) — In October 1894 Canadian supporters of the Socialist Labor Party of America, a group headed by party newspaper editor Daniel DeLeon, established a Toronto section of that party — the first socialist organisation to be established in the country. [1]
The Socialist Labor Party was a political party in Canada that was formed in 1898 by Canadian supporters of the ideas of American socialist Daniel De Leon and the Socialist Labor Party of America. [1] It became a national party in the 1930s and had its headquarters in Toronto. The party never won any seats.