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1944, [1961| successor = [Woodrow S. Lloyd, [Scotland, [Ontario/[New Democratic Party| spouse =
Irma Dempsey minister| religion = [Baptist-->
Thomas Clement Douglas, [Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada,
Saskatchewan Order of Merit (
October 20, 1904 – February 24, 1986) was a
Scotland-born
Baptist minister who became a prominent
Canada Social democracy politician.As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh
Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first
socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare (Canada) to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, he was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971. He is warmly remembered for his folksy wit and oratory with which he expressed his determined idealism, exemplified by his
fable of
Mouseland.
In 1930 Douglas married Irma Dempsey, a music student at
Brandon University. They had one daughter, actress Shirley Douglas, and they later adopted a second daughter Joan, who became a nurse. Through Shirley, he is grandfather of actor
Kiefer Sutherland.
In 2004, he was voted "The Greatest Canadian" of all time in a nationally televised contest organized by the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The miniseries
Prairie Giant, was filmed between February and May of 2005 and aired on
CBC Television in two parts on March 12 and 13, 2006.
Early life and activism
Douglas was born in 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. In 1910, his family immigrated to Canada, where they settled in
Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a child, Douglas injured his leg and developed
osteomyelitis. The leg would have been amputated were it not for a doctor who saw the condition as a good subject to teach his students and agreed to help for free. This rooted Douglas's belief that health care should be free to all, as he thought people shouldn't be dependent on generosity in order to get their health in good order. During World War I, the family returned to
Glasgow. They came back to Winnipeg in 1919, in time for Douglas to witness the Winnipeg General Strike. From a rooftop vantage point on Main Street, he witnessed the police charging the strikers with clubs and guns, a streetcar being overturned and set on fire. He also witnessed the Royal Canadian Mounted Police murder two men.This incident influenced Douglas in his commitment to protect fundamental freedoms in a Bill of Rights on his election as Premier of Saskatchewan in 1944. See, Ken Norman, The Saskatchewan Bill of Rights, The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, 2005, Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center, at page 798;
At the age of fifteen, Douglas began an amateur career in boxing. In 1917 Tommy used the One Big Union Gym to train his skill, fighting bouts that included wrestling as well. Douglas appeared with Canadian heavyweight champ Jack Taylor, and the U.S. champion, Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Weighing 135 pounds, Douglas fought in 1922 for the Lightweight Championship of Manitoba; and after a six round fight won the title. Douglas sustained a broken nose, a loss of some teeth, and a strained hand and thumb. Douglas successfully held the title the following year.
In 1924, Douglas attended
Brandon University to study for the ministry. While there, Douglas was influenced by the social gospel movement, which combined
Christianity principles with social reform. He graduated from Brandon College in 1930, and completed his Master's degree (MA) in Sociology from
McMaster University in 1933. His thesis entitled
The Problems of the Subnormal Family was on eugenics, a way to "solve the problems of the Subnormal Family" by sterilizing mentally and physically disabled Canadians, and sending them to camps.
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years=1961–1971-->
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Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands|
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Notes and References
External links
- Tommy Douglas and his Government 1944-1960
- Biography of Thomas Clement Douglas
- CBC Digital Archives - Tommy Douglas and the NDP
- Order of Canada Citation
- Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament
- Douglas-Coldwell Foundation - Promoting Eduation and Research into Social Democracy
- Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
- Tommy Douglas - The Man & The Myth: Tommy Never Let Ideology Get In The Way (.pdf)
- The M.A. thesis of Tommy Douglas concerning eugenics.
- about he T.C. Douglas Centre, Formerly the Calvary Baptist Church
- Weyburn Review's Tommy Douglas website
- CTV.ca - RCMP spied on NDP politician Tommy Douglas
{{Infobox_President| name = Thomas Clement Douglas| image = Tommy Douglas portrait.jpg| caption = The Honourable Thomas Clement Douglas| order = 7th| office = Premier of Saskatchewan| term_start = July 10, 1944, [1961| successor = [Woodrow S. Lloyd, [Scotland, [Ontario/[New Democratic Party| spouse = Irma Dempsey minister| religion = [Baptist-->
Thomas Clement Douglas, [Queen's Privy Council for Canada, Order of Canada, Saskatchewan Order of Merit (
October 20,
1904 – February 24, 1986) was a
Scotland-born
Baptist minister who became a prominent Canada
Social democracy politician.As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public medicare (Canada) to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, he was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971. He is warmly remembered for his folksy wit and oratory with which he expressed his determined idealism, exemplified by his fable of Mouseland.
In 1930 Douglas married Irma Dempsey, a music student at
Brandon University. They had one daughter, actress Shirley Douglas, and they later adopted a second daughter Joan, who became a nurse. Through Shirley, he is grandfather of actor Kiefer Sutherland.
In 2004, he was voted "
The Greatest Canadian" of all time in a nationally televised contest organized by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. The miniseries
Prairie Giant, was filmed between February and May of 2005 and aired on CBC Television in two parts on March 12 and 13, 2006.
Early life and activism
Douglas was born in 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland. In 1910, his family immigrated to Canada, where they settled in
Winnipeg, Manitoba. As a child, Douglas injured his leg and developed osteomyelitis. The leg would have been amputated were it not for a doctor who saw the condition as a good subject to teach his students and agreed to help for free. This rooted Douglas's belief that health care should be free to all, as he thought people shouldn't be dependent on generosity in order to get their health in good order. During
World War I, the family returned to
Glasgow. They came back to Winnipeg in 1919, in time for Douglas to witness the
Winnipeg General Strike. From a rooftop vantage point on Main Street, he witnessed the police charging the strikers with clubs and guns, a streetcar being overturned and set on fire. He also witnessed the
Royal Canadian Mounted Police murder two men.This incident influenced Douglas in his commitment to protect fundamental freedoms in a Bill of Rights on his election as Premier of Saskatchewan in 1944. See, Ken Norman, The Saskatchewan Bill of Rights, The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan, 2005, Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center, at page 798;
At the age of fifteen, Douglas began an amateur career in boxing. In 1917 Tommy used the One Big Union Gym to train his skill, fighting bouts that included wrestling as well. Douglas appeared with Canadian heavyweight champ Jack Taylor, and the U.S. champion, Ed "Strangler" Lewis. Weighing 135 pounds, Douglas fought in 1922 for the Lightweight Championship of Manitoba; and after a six round fight won the title. Douglas sustained a broken nose, a loss of some teeth, and a strained hand and thumb. Douglas successfully held the title the following year.
In 1924, Douglas attended Brandon University to study for the ministry. While there, Douglas was influenced by the social gospel movement, which combined
Christianity principles with social reform. He graduated from Brandon College in 1930, and completed his
Master's degree (MA) in Sociology from McMaster University in 1933. His thesis entitled
The Problems of the Subnormal Family was on eugenics, a way to "solve the problems of the Subnormal Family" by sterilizing mentally and physically disabled Canadians, and sending them to camps.
{{succession box|before=
George Crane [Weyburn (provincial electoral district)|
years=1944–1961|
after=[Junior Staveley|
-->{{succession box|title=List of Saskatchewan premiers| before=[William John Patterson|
after=[Woodrow S. Lloyd|
years=1944–1961-->
{{succession box|title=New Democratic Party| before=New position|
after=[David Lewis (politician)|
years=1961–1971-->
{{succession box|title=Burnaby—Coquitlam|
after=District abolished|
years=1962–1968-->
{{succession box|title=
Canadian House of Commons Nanaimo—Cowichan—The Islands|
after=District abolished|
years=1968–1979-->
Notes and References
External links
- Tommy Douglas and his Government 1944-1960
- Biography of Thomas Clement Douglas
- CBC Digital Archives - Tommy Douglas and the NDP
- Order of Canada Citation
- Federal Political Biography from the Library of Parliament
- Douglas-Coldwell Foundation - Promoting Eduation and Research into Social Democracy
- Prairie Giant: The Tommy Douglas Story
- Tommy Douglas - The Man & The Myth: Tommy Never Let Ideology Get In The Way (.pdf)
- The M.A. thesis of Tommy Douglas concerning eugenics.
- about he T.C. Douglas Centre, Formerly the Calvary Baptist Church
- Weyburn Review's Tommy Douglas website
- CTV.ca - RCMP spied on NDP politician Tommy Douglas
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