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unusual facts about social credit



A. N. Field

Australian anti-Semite Patricia Lewin cited Truth About the Slump in her tract, The Key (1933), as did numerous other Australian Social Credit and Douglas Credit Party figures that based their work on the monetary theories of C.H. Douglas.

Accurate News and Information Act

William Aberhart's Social Credit League, running candidates for the first time, won a large majority in the 1935 Alberta election on the strength of promises to use a new economic theory called social credit to end depression conditions in the province.

The Accurate News and Information Act was a statute passed by the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, Canada, in 1937, at the instigation of William Aberhart's Social Credit government.

Angus Creelman Ree

He represented North Vancouver-Capilano in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1979 to 1991 as a Social Credit member.

Bankers' Toadies incident

William Aberhart's Social Credit League won a substantial victory in the 1935 Alberta provincial election on the strength of its promise to implement social credit, an economic theory proposed by British engineer C. H. Douglas.

Basic income in Canada

William Aberhart, Premier of Alberta, was inspired by Major C. H. Douglas Social Credit theory and tried to implement a basic income for Albertans during the 1930s.

Chester Ronning

He ran unsuccessfully for the CCF in the 1945 federal election in the riding of Camrose, losing to the Social Credit candidate, James Alexander Marshall.

CINF

In 1968, CKVL abandoned its variety format in favour of a hybrid talk/music format, with weekday daytime programming being all-talk with a high proportion of open-line shows, including the famous Jacques Matti / Hélène Fontaine duo and former Liberal (and future Social Credit) politician Yvon Dupuis as morningman.

Clifford Jack Serwa

He represented Okanagan South from 1986 to 1991 and Okanagan West from 1991 to 1996 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Social Credit member.

Dean Whiteway

Whiteway first ran for the House of Commons in the 1968 election as a Social Credit candidate in Dauphin, and finished fourth against Progressive Conservative Gordon Ritchie.

Donald Leslie Brothers

He represented Rossland-Trail in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1958 to 1972 as a Social Credit member.

Evan Maurice Wolfe

He represented Vancouver Centre from 1966 to 1972 and Vancouver-Little Mountain from 1975 to 1983 in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia as a Social Credit member.

George Scott Wallace

He served as an alderman from 1967 to 1969 on the Oak Bay Municipal Council and was elected in the 1969 general election as a Social Credit Member of the British Columbia Legislative Assembly for Oak Bay.

Gordon Kesler

He won the Olds-Didsbury electoral district defeating Stephen Stiles of the Progressive Conservatives and Lloyd Quantz of Social Credit and three other candidates.

Howard Dirks

He represented Nelson-Creston in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1986 to 1991 as a Social Credit member.

Larry Giovando

In the provincial election of 1952, on the first ballot he received only 3346 votes (31.9%) to CCF candidate Daniel Stupich's 3715 (35.4%), but since Stupich failed to receive a majority, the election was decided by "instant run-off" whereby the top two candidates received votes from the third and fourth place Liberal and Social Credit candidates.

Louis Even

Louis Even (March 23, 1885, Montfort-sur-Meu – September 27, 1974) was a lay Christian leader and publisher who founded the social credit movement in Quebec.

Quebec in English

The debut episode included profiles of an artists' event in Montreal, and a feature on the Pilgrims of Saint Michael ("Les Berets Blancs"), a Roman Catholic group which espouses Social Credit philosophy.

Robert Fair

Born in Keelognes, parish of Turlough, County Mayo, Ireland, Fair ran as a Social Credit candidate was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1935 Canadian federal election defeating incumbent Member of Parliament Henry Elvins Spencer.

Saskatchewan general election, 1952

The Social Credit and Progressive Conservative parties continued to lose support.

Thomas Waterland

He represented Yale-Lillooet in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1976 to 1986 as a Social Credit member.

Wesley Drewett Black

He represented Nelson-Creston in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia from 1952 to 1972 as a Social Credit member.


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Alfred Macyk

He was handily defeated by Social Credit candidate John Dubetz finishing second ahead of Progressive Conservative candidate Martha Bielish in the three way race.

British Columbia general election, 1986

Social Credit coincidentally won 12 additional seats, while the social democratic New Democratic Party, led by Bob Skelly, won the same number it had in the previous election.

British Columbia New Democratic Party

The BC NDP introduced capital taxes, slashed funding to universities, but suffered the most for bringing clarity to the accounting Social Credit had used, and showed that BC was significantly in debt.

Canadian federal election results in the Côte-Nord and Saguenay

This region used to be traditionally Liberal, except for Roberval which has voted for the Social Credit Party.

Canadian federal election, 1979

Social Credit attempted to rally the separatist and nationalist vote: Canadian flags were absent at its campaign kick-off rally, and the party's slogan was C'est à notre tour ("It's our turn"), which was reminiscent of the popular separatist anthem Gens du pays that includes the chorus, "C'est votre tour, de vous laisser parler d'amour".

Christian Freedom Party of Canada

When evangelist Ken Campbell became leader of the Social Credit Party in 1990, he continued to describe it as the Christian Freedom Party in public addresses.

Edmund Burke Society

In 1971, three of five Ontario Social Credit candidates in the 1971 provincial election were identified as EBS members.

James Douglas Henderson

Henderson picked up the seat for the Social Credit party defeating incumbent Ronald Ansley who finished a distant third place and Edmonton councilor Ron Hayter who finished fifth.

Because Werner Schmidt lead the Social Credit party from outside the legislature from 1973 to 1975, Henderson was recognized as the Leader of the Opposition for a portion of 1973.

John Gogo

Gogo ran in the 1975 Alberta general election as a Progressive Conservative candidate in the riding of Lethbridge West; he defeated incumbent Social Credit MLA Richard Gruenwald by a wide margin.

John Lymburn

When the government brought social credit founder C. H. Douglas from the United Kingdom as an advisor, Lymburn provided him with a copy of one of Aberhart's speeches and asked him to critique it; Douglas concluded that Aberhart's proposals did not align with "Douglasite" social credit, and that many of them would not have the desired effect.

John Murray Campbell

He won the electoral district of Rocky Mountain House with a near landslide victory defeating three other candidates including future Alberta MLA John Younie and Social Credit leader Lavern Ahlstrom.

John Younie

He finished a distant third place out of four candidates behind future Social Credit leader Lavern Ahlstrom and John Murray Campbell who won the district.

Little Bow

On October 5, 1982, Speaker who was acting as House leader of the Social Credit caucus had issues with Party leader Rod Sykes.

Martha Bielish

She was defeated finishing a distant third place in the three way race losing to Social Credit candidate John Dubetz and finishing behind incumbent MLA Alfred Macyk who finished second.

Martin Hattersley

As leader he led an attempt to merge several Alberta parties into the Alberta Political Alliance, which proved to be a short-lived coalition of Social Credit, the Western Canada Concept and the Heritage Party, in 1986 but neither the Alliance nor Social Credit were prepared to run candidates in the 1986 Alberta election.

Pat Hunt

During the 1984 election campaign, Hunt coined the term "Crimplene Suit and Skoda Brigade" for Social Credit.

Réal Caouette

In 1958, he broke with Union des électeurs founders Louis Even and Gilberte Côté-Mercier, and joined Social Credit forming Ralliement des créditistes as the national party's Quebec wing of which he became the uncontested leader.

Ron Gostick

His mother, Edith Gostick, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta in the 1935 provincial election that brought Social Credit to power for the first time, making Aberhardt Premier of Alberta.

Social Credit Party of Canada

Social Credit attempted to rally the separatist and nationalist vote: Canadian flags were absent at its campaign kick-off rally, and the party's slogan was C'est à notre tour ("It's our turn"), which was reminiscent of the popular separatist anthem "Gens du pays" that includes the chorus, "C'est à votre tour de vous laisser parler d'amour".

Social Credit Party of Ontario

Subsequently, Carmichael was accused of allowing the Social Credit Action headquarters to become a meeting place and organizing centre for neo-Nazis disseminating anti-Semitic material, such as David Stanley and John Beattie.

Ron Gostick, a far right propagandist, established the Union of Electors as a rival organization inspired by the more radical Quebec social credit organization, Union des electeurs led by Louis Even.

William Gilliland

Gilliland would take over 50% of the vote to win on the first count defeating Independent incumbent Eld Martin who finished a distant third place to pick up the seat for Social Credit.