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James Woodsworth

James Woodsworth (1843–1917) was a late-19th-century Superintendent of Methodist Missions in the North-West of Canada, which then included all four of today's western provinces. He fathered James Shaver Woodsworth, who was the first leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (which became the New Democratic Party).

Woodsworth was born in Toronto and son of Harold Richard Woodsworth and ordained a Methodist minister in 1868.[1]

He married E. Josephine Shaver in 1868 and was minister in various towns in Ontario before heading west:[2]

  • 1867–1869 Vespra (Simcoe County)
  • 1871 Nottawasaga (Simcoe County)
  • 1880 Chairman Bracebridge District
  • 1882–1887 Portage la Prairie
  • 1891 Superintendent of Methodist Missions in Manitoba and the North-West

Woodsworth died in 1917 in Winnipeg.[3]

Works by

  • Thirty Years in the Canadian North-West James Woodsworth (1917) McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Limited, Toronto, Ontario

See also

References

  1. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~methodists/w-z.htm
  2. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~methodists/w-z.htm
  3. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20091022232324/http://geocities.com/tljhfamily/April1925.html


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