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unusual facts about Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation



Cedric Cox

He represented Burnaby in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1957 to 1963 as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation member.

Dempster Heming

He represented Moose Jaw City from 1944 to 1960 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member.

Donald MacBeth Kennedy

He was defeated in his bid for a 5th term in office this time running under the Co-operative Commonwealth banner finishing 3rd in a place of 4 candidates to Social Credit Party of Canada candidate René-Antoine Pelletier.

Edward Joseph Garland

He was a founding member of that party, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, when it was officially launched in 1932 and stood as a CCF candidate but was defeated on his bid for a 5th term in office in the 1935 Canadian federal election by Charles Edward Johnston from the Social Credit Party of Canada.

Forman Waye

He sold tombstones and did other odd work, until he was hired in 1938 as a staff worker for the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, on the condition that he leave the Communist Party of Canada and join the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation.

Jacob Schulz

He was a candidate for the Manitoba Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in the 1949 provincial election losing by 300 votes to Ray Mitchell.

James J. Morrison

Morrison's daughter, Rae Luckock, became a politician and served as an Ontario Co-operative Commonwealth Federation Member of Provincial Parliament in the 1940s.

Joseph McNamara

A quarter-century later, he attempted to return to politics by contesting Riverdale in the 1948 provincial election as a Liberal but placed third behind the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation and Progressive Conservative candidates.

Liberal Party of Canada candidates, 1968 Canadian federal election

His father, Ernest Winch, was a prominent member of the British Columbia Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, and his brother Harold Winch led the same party in the 1940s and 1950s and was later a New Democratic Party parliamentarian in the Canadian House of Commons.

Ontario general election, 1937

Meanwhile, the fledgling democratic socialist Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) lost its sole MLA, Sam Lawrence.

Peter Anton Howe

He represented Kelvington from 1938 to 1960 in the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan as a Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) member.

Prince Edward Island general election, 1951

Hilda Ramsay, the first woman ever to stand for election to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island, was a CCF candidate in 3rd Prince in this election.

William Cecil Ross

He finished well behind the winner, Ernest Draffin of the Manitoba CCF.


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