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 MHM James Shaver Woodsworth - Winnipeg MB Posted by:  PeterNoG
N 49° 52.838 W 097° 09.673
14U E 632102 N 5526980
This Manitoba Historical Marker is in front of the James Shaver Woodsworth House at 60 Maryland Street near Wolseley Avenue in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Waymark Code: WMKR7Z
Location: Manitoba, Canada
Date Posted: 05/20/2014
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Marker Name: James Shaver Woodsworth
Agency: Manitoba Heritage Council
Languages: English & French
Location:
Winnipeg
Marker Text:
James Shaver Woodsworth
1874 - 1942
Parliamentarian and Methodist minister, J. S. Woodsworth, was born at Etobicoke, Ontario and raised at Portage la Prairie and Brandon. He was educated at Wesley College and the universities of Toronto and Oxford. Ordained in 1900, Woodsworth served his church in southwestern Manitoba missions and in Winnipeg. In 1907 he became the superintendent of Winnipeg’s All Peoples’ Mission, where he worked on behalf of the immigrant poor until 1913.
Woodsworth was an exponent of the social gospel and pacifism, and championed trade union rights and democratic socialism. He was arrested for his participation in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Member of Parliament for Winnipeg North Centre, 1921-42, he was a founder and the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation. Woodsworth lived at this location from time to time between 1909 and 1942.
More than any other Canadian, he transformed the nation, introducing the politics of collective concern for the individual in a society collectively organized.
Website: [Web Link]
Link to HistoricPlaces.ca or mhs.mb.ca: [Web Link]
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