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3 unusual facts about Stanley Brehaut Ryerson


Stanley Brehaut Ryerson

Following the outlawing of the CPC in 1940, General Secretary Tim Buck along with Sam Carr and Charles Sims fled Canada for the safety of New York where they would reside under the protection of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA).

There is very little information available concerning his parents, but Ryerson was born in 1911, into a well-off middle-class family in Toronto.

While attending classes towards a Diplomes d’Etudes Superieures with a thesis on the writings of Sicilian peasant-realist novelist Giovanni Verga, Ryerson involved himself in communist activities.



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