biography
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Woodsworth, James Shaver
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| male
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| lived:
| (1874–1942)
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| biography:
| Reformer and political leader, born in Islington, Ontario, SE Canada. A Methodist minister, he wrote The Stranger Within Our Gates (1909) and other works about problems of recent European immigrants to the Canadian prairies. His pacifist stand throughout World War 1 led to a break with the Church. He was elected as a Manitoba Independent Labour Party MP, serving from 1921, pushed through legislation for an old age pension, and was founder and first chairman of the Commonwealth Co-operative Federation (1932). |
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