Tommy Douglas
a Scottish-born Canadian politician who served as the seventh premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961 and Leader of the New Democratic Party from 1961 to ...
Tommy Douglas | The Canadian Encyclopedia
Tommy Douglas led the first socialist government elected in Canada and is recognized as the father of universal health care in Canada. He also helped establish ...
Tommy Douglas | Socialist Leader, Health Care ... - Britannica
Tommy Douglas was a Scottish-born Canadian politician. His family immigrated to Winnipeg in 1919. An ordained minister, he became active in ...
Tommy Douglas had a new vision for the role of government; he believed that it had the responsibility to improve the lives of ordinary people. In Saskatchewan ...
Tommy Douglas A Remarkable Canadian - PNHP
1. McLeod, Thomas. & McLeod, Ian. (1987) Tommy Douglas: The Road to Jerusalem Hurtig Publishers. 2. Whelan, Ed. & Whelan, Pemrose. (1990) Touched by Tommy ...
The Honourable Thomas Douglas - Canadian Medical Hall of Fame
The Honourable Thomas “Tommy” Douglas is a prominent name in Canadian history; a respected visionary politician, his personal mission of making medical care ...
Douglas was the first social democratic leader of a government on this continent. He was the first leader of the federal NDP. He was the father of medicare in ...
The Story of Tommy Douglas - BC Open Textbooks
Tommy brought in power across the province. He made a law that bosses had to give workers at least two weeks of paid vacation. He made a bill of rights saying ...
DOUGLAS, THOMAS CLEMENT (known as Tommy Douglas)
Thomas Clement Douglas's political life is divided between the Provincial Arch. of Sask. (PAS) in Regina and Library and Arch. Can. (LAC) in Ottawa.
Back home Tommy was building roads, pushing through legislation that guaranteed two weeks paid vacation for all Saskatchewan workers and he introduced family ...
Tommy Douglas - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tommy Douglas ... Thomas Clement Douglas (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Canadian socialist politician from Saskatchewan. ... Douglas founded a political ...
Extraordinary Canadians: Tommy Douglas by Vincent Lam
Tommy Douglas was a Scottish-born prairie politician who believed in the enormous potential of co-operative action for the common good.
Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing the people may use their political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy pol democracy in ...
Tommy Douglas: Exercise 1 - Reading and Vocabulary
Tommy Douglas was a teenager standing on a rooftop in downtown Winnipeg. He was looking down on a huge crowd of workers protesting low wages.
Tommy Douglas. Actor: The Great Debate. Tommy Douglas was born on 20 October 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland, UK. He was an actor, known for The Great Debate ...
The Story of Tommy Douglas – BC Reads
Tommy Douglas was a socialist. 3. Tommy Douglas was premier of Saskatchewan. 4. Tommy Douglas was the best premier that Saskatchewan ever had.
From Premier to Father of Universal Healthcare - Tommy Douglas
Douglas proved himself as an outstanding Canadian leader. He is largely responsible for our central banking, old age pensions, unemployment insurance and our ...
Tommy Douglas, the father of Canadian Medicare, born on this day ...
On October 20, 1904, Thomas Clement (Tommy) Douglas was born in Falkirk, Scotland.
Tommy Douglas | Maude Abbott Medical Museum - McGill University
Date of issue: June 29, 2012 Printer: Lowe-Martin Design: Derwyn Goodall Tommy Douglas Thomas (Tommy) Douglas was born in 1904 in Falkirk, Scotland.
A Canadian paradox: Tommy Douglas and eugenics - PubMed
Douglas endorsed eugenic oriented solutions such as segregation and sterilization to address what was perceived to be an endemic and biologically determined ...