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James Shaver Charleston Woodsworth was a Canadian Methodist minister, politician, and labour activist.

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Memorable Manitobans: James Shaver “J. S.” Woodsworth (1874-1942)

Cleric, MP (1921-1925), MP (1925-1926), MP (1926-1930), MP (1930-1935), MP (1935-1940), MP (1940-1942).

Born near Islington, Ontario on 29 July 1874, son of Reverend James Woodsworth and Esther Josephine Shaver (c1847-1925), he was educated at Wesley College (BA 1896), University of Toronto, and Oxford University. He became active in social reform and threatened to leave the Methodist Church in 1907, being persuaded to remain by being put in charge of All People’s Mission in the North End of Winnipeg. There Woodsworth worked chiefly with new immigrants, his efforts and ideas discussed in his books Strangers Within Our Gates (1909) and My Neighbour (1911).

While sympathetic to the plight of new Canadians, he feared their ability to assimilate into Canadian society and the ways in which extensive immigration from eastern Europe would change Canada. A pacifist and opponent of national-service registration during the First World War, he served at a mission on the Sechelt Peninsula in British Col

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J. S. Woodsworth

Canadian cleric, politician, and labour activist (1874–1942)

The Reverend J. S. Woodsworth

In office August 1, 1932 – March 21, 1942
Preceded by	new party
Succeeded by	M. J. Coldwell
In office 1932–1938
Preceded by	new party
Succeeded by	M. J. Coldwell
In office October 29, 1925 – March 21, 1942
Preceded by	new constituency
Succeeded by	Stanley Knowles
Constituency	Winnipeg North Centre
In office December 6, 1921 – October 29, 1925
Preceded by	George William Andrews
Succeeded by	constituency abolished
Constituency	Winnipeg Centre
Born	James Shaver Charleston Woodsworth (1874-07-29)July 29, 1874 Etobicoke, Ontario
Died	March 21, 1942(1942-03-21) (aged 67) Vancouver, British Columbia
Political party
Spouse	Lucy Staples (m. 1903)
Children	Grace MacInnis
Alma mater
Occupation	Author, lecturer, minister, secretary, social activist, teacher

James Shaver Charleston Woodswort

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James Woodsworth

James Woodsworth (1843–1917) was a late-19th-century Superintendent of Methodist Missions in Western Canada. 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]

He was very passionate about the importance of the church for the first settlers for educational, moral and religious purposes in their lives and believed that the Canadian west would some day become one of the most important places in the world from travel between Europe and Asia, and the sheer amount of grain producing power it held.

During his time in the west he travelled to First Nations communities in Northern Manitoba and Southern Alberta, and visited settlers in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and British Columbia. In his trip to Northern Manitoba he visite