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  1. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  2. Anderson, Doris
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian author, journalist and women's rights activist. (1921-2007).
  3. Ian Angus
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Ian Angus is a Canadian ecosocialist activistand the editor of Climate and Capitalism.
  4. Arnold Amber - IFJ mourns loss of true champion of working journalists’ rights
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Working journalists have lost a true champion and the IFJ has lost a dear friend.
  5. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  6. Barlow, Maude
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian auther and activist. National chairperson of the Council of Canadians, a citizens' advocacy organization, co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, and an executive member of the International Forum on Globalization. (Born 1947).
  7. Baum, Gregory
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    A brief biography of Gregory Baum, one of Canada's most influential and controversial theologians and a participant in the Second Vatican Council.
  8. Baum, Gregory - obituary
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Obituary for renowned Canadian theologian Gregory Baum, 94, who died Oct. 18, 2017.
  9. Bertell, Rosalie
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian-American researcher who has worked in the field of environmental health. (Born 1929).
  10. Berton, Pierre
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
  11. Berton, Pierre
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, historian, media personality. (1920-2004).
  12. Bethune, Norman
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
  13. Bethune, Norman
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian Communist physician, and medical innovator who developed the first mobile blood-transfusion service in Spain in 1936. (1890-1939).
  14. Betty Peterson Leaves a Legacy of Peacework
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    It is with great sadness and immense appreciation of her contribution to peace and justice that we let you know of the peaceful passing of our mentor, inspiration and “grandmother with a hug”, 100 year-old Betty Peterson. Long-time Nova Scotia
  15. Bibb, Henry
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author and abolitionist who was born a slave. (1815-1854).
  16. Big Bear
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Cree leader who was involved in the North-West Resistance and subsequently imprisoned. (1825-1888).
  17. Birder Extraordinaire
    The life and legacy of James L. Baillie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A biography of the naturalist Jim Ballie.
  18. Birney, Alfred Earle
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian poet, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Literature. (1904-1995).
  19. Blair, Elgin
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
    Obituary of Connexions collective member Elgin Blair. (Died 1989).
  20. Bob Carty
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 – 2014). Tribute given by John Foster on March 10, 2014.
  21. Milton Born With A Tooth
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Milton Born With A Tooth is a Canadian political activist for First Nations rights.
  22. Brown, Rosemary
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician, prominent member of the New Democratic Party. (1930-2003).
  23. Meyer Brownstone
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Meyer Brownstone is a Canadian activist and academic, particularly notable for his longtime involvement with Oxfam Canada.
  24. Buck, Tim
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Machinist, trade unionists, and a long-time leader of the Communist Party of Canada. (1891-1973).
  25. Buller, Annie
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Union organizer and manager of various Communist Party of Canada (CPC) publications. (1895-1973).
  26. Hugh Burnett
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Hugh Burnett (July 14,1918 - September 29,1991) was an African-Canadian civil rights leader. A descendant of slaves, Hugh Burnett was a carpenter in the rural Canadian town of Dresden, Ontario.
  27. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  28. Callwood, June
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, writer, broadcaster, civil libertarian 1924-2007. (1924-2007).
  29. Dalton Camp
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and commentator, 1920-2002.
  30. Canada's Young Activists
    A Generation Stands Up for Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Twenty five personal accounts of the important work of some of Canada's most prominent young activists championing causes from child labour to environmentalism.
  31. Pat Capponi
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Pat Capponi is a Canadian author and an advocate for mental health issues and poverty issues in Canada. Her works include several nonfiction titles and a mystery novel series.
  32. Carr, Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian union leader who was the first woman president of the Canadian Labour Congress.
  33. Casgrain, Marie Thérèse (Forget)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Feminist, reformer, politician and senator in Quebec, Canada. (1896-1981).
  34. CEC mourns the loss of Jack Layton
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The Canadian Ethnocultural Council, (CEC) its members and supporters are saddened by the passing of the Honourable Jack Layton, Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition and Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada.
  35. Celebrating Bob Carty (1950 - 2014)
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Tribute given by John Foster at the pass of Bob Carty
  36. Chant, Donald Alfred
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Scientist, educator, environmental advocate. (1928-2007).
  37. Chartrand, Michel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  38. Chartrand, Michel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Quebec union leader and activist. (1913-2010).
  39. Clarke, Tony
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social justice advocate. (Born 1944).
  40. John Clarke
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    John Clarke is an anti-poverty activist active in Canada.
  41. Coaker, William Ford
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Newfoundland union leader and politician and founder of the Fisherman's Protective Union and the Fishermen's Union Trading Co. (1871-1938).
  42. Martha Cohen
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Martha Ruth Cohen, CM, LLD (née Block; 1920 - February 26, 2015) was a Canadian community activist and philanthropist.
  43. Coldwell, Major James William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social democratic politician, and leader of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation party from 1942 to 1960. (1888-1974).
  44. Cathy Crowe
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Cathy Crowe, CM is a Canadian "street nurse", educator, author, social justice activist and filmmaker, specializing in advocacy for the homeless in Canada
  45. Culhane, Claire
    Connexipedia: Article from PrisonJustice.ca
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social justice activist. (1918-1996).
  46. Darcy, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian trade unionist and president of the Canadian Union of Public Employees from 1991 until 2003. (Born 1950).
  47. Davidson, Joe
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist and self describe evolutionary socialist "with the proviso that evolution needed a shove at every opportunity." (1915-1985).
  48. Libby Davies
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Libby Davies CM is a Canadian politician from British Columbia. She was the Member of Parliament for Vancouver East from 1997 to 2015, House Leader for the New Democratic Party from 2003 to 2011, and the Deputy Leader of the party from 2007 until 2015.
  49. Velma Demerson
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Velma Demerson (born 1920) is a Canadian who was imprisoned in 1939 in the Province of Ontario for being in a relationship with a Chinese immigrant.
  50. Diemer, Ulli
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Canadian socialist publisher, writer, and archivist.
  51. Douglas, Tommy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social democratic politician, CCF premier of Saskatchean and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1904-1986).
  52. Dowson, Ross
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian Trotskyist. (1917-2002).
  53. Ross Dowson
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Ross Jewitt Dowson (September 4, 1917 – February 17, 2002) was a Canadian Trotskyist political figure.
  54. Dr. Mike Carr passes at 73
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Dr. Mike Carr, community activist, academic and teacher, passed away amongst his Cuban family in Havana Cuba.
  55. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  56. Duckworth, Muriel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian pacifist, feminist, social and community activist. (1908-2009).
  57. Dumont, Gabriel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
  58. Dumont, Gabriel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Métis leader in what is now western Canada. (1837-1906).
  59. Edwards, Henrietta Muir
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian women's rights activist and reformer. (1849-1931).
  60. Elizabeth Smart: On the Side of the Angels
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1991
    A documentary about author Elizabeth Smart, with Jackie Burroughts playing Elizabeth Smart.
  61. Erasmus, Georges
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian Aboriginal politician, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations from 1985 to 1991. (Born 1948).
  62. Evans, Arthur
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist, trade unionist. (1890-1944).
  63. Lennox Farrell
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Lennox Victor Farrell is a Canadian community activist and retired teacher from Toronto, Ontario.
  64. Tarek Fatah
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Tarek Fatah is a Canadian journalist, writer, broadcaster, secularist and liberal activist.
  65. Wendell Fields
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Wendell Fields (Aug. 26, 1957 - March 1, 2017) was a veteran anti-poverty activist in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He was director of Hamilton Against Poverty.
  66. Terry Fox
    Resource Type: Article
  67. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  68. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  69. Franklin, Ursula
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Metallurgist, humanitarian, feminist, peace activist. (Born 1921).
  70. Miriam Garfinkle
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Miriam Garfinkle was a Canadian physician and social justice activist.
  71. Miriam Garfinkle 1954 - 2018
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Obituary for Miriam Garfinkle, who died on September 15, 2018.
  72. Hugh Garner
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Hugh Garner (1913 – 1979) was a British-born Canadian novelist.
  73. Tooker Gomberg
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Tooker Gomberg (August 12, 1955 - March 3 or March 4, 2004) was a Canadian political and environmental activist. Gomberg founded one of Canada's first curbside recycling programs in Montreal.
  74. Gonick, Cy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian socialist publisher, academic, and politician. (Born 1936).
  75. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader, and socialist who inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. (1887-1918).
  76. Goodwin, Albert (Ginger)
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Canadian labour leader. (1887-1918)
  77. Gordon, Walter
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian accountant, businessman, politician, and writer. (1906-1987).
  78. The Green Trees Beyond
    A Memoir
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    R.D. Lawrence, a self-taught biologist whose first years of life coincided with the Spanish civil war, and who later became a noted as well as self-taught Canadian biologist.
  79. Grey Owl (Belaney, Archibald Stansfeld)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Writer: one of Canada's first conservationist writers. (1888-1938).
  80. Hans Blumenfeld 1892-1988
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    A look at the accomplishments of Hans Blumenfeld, a German-Canadian architect and city planner who was also active throughout his life in promoting peace.
  81. Hartman, Grace
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian labour union activist. (1918-1993).
  82. Grace Hartman
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Grace Hartman (née Fulcher, July 14, 1918 - December 18, 1993) was a Canadian labour union activist, whose 1975 election to the presidency of the Canadian Union of Public Employees made her the first woman in North America to lead a major labour union.
  83. Heap, Dan
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician with the New Democratic Party. (Born 1925).
  84. Heaps, Abraham Albert
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
  85. Heaps, Abraham Albert
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and labour leader. (1885-1954).
  86. Hurtig, Mel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    A Canadian publisher, author, political activist and political candidate. (Born 1932).
  87. I Chose Canada
    The Memoirs of the Honourable Joseph R. Joey Smallwood
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1973
  88. In Memoriam: Joyce Nelson
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
  89. An Inside Look at Our Penal System
    Review of Go-Boy! Memoirs of a Life Behind Bars, by Roger Caron
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    GO-BOY! can be read as a major social document which cries out for long–overdue prison reforms in Canada. It's a major contribution to prison literature and criminology. But GO-BOY!, like much concentration camp literature, can also be read and appreciated as a forceful witness to survival in hell. Caron has been there and come back to life whole, human and still fighting.
  90. Irvine, William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
  91. Irvine, William
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician, journalist and clergyman. (1885-1962).
  92. Jackson, Clarence Shirley
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    (1906-1993). Was a trade union leader.
  93. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  94. Jacobs, Jane
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Author, urban advocate, economist, ecologist, and philosopher. (1916-2006).
  95. Joe Zuken, Citizen and Socialist
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Examines the forces that dominated Winnipeg's social and political life from the 1930s to the 1980s - the impact of European migration, the growth of radicalism, the internment of communists in World War Two, and the political witchunting of the Cold War - through the life of a man who, through good times and bad, remained passionately devoted to social justice.
  96. Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Kneen describes his book as his “political theological autobiography.” The book is a personal life-story with a focus on the 1950s and '60s, coming from someone who was active in the peace and social justice movements in the USA and Canada over the past 5 decades or so. It starts with an inside story of the New Left and the peace and Civil Rights movements in North America, and the Prague-based Christian Peace Conference, and continues with his life as a farmer and writer in Canada.
  97. E. T. Kingsley
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Eugene Thornton Kingsley (1856 – December 9, 1929) was a founder and leader of the Socialist Party of Canada and an editor of the Western Clarion newspaper, one of the most prominent left wing publications in Canada before World War I.
  98. Gary Kinsman
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Gary Kinsman (born 1955 in Toronto, Ontario) is a Canadian sociologist. He is one of Canada's leading academics on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender issues.
  99. Rolf Knight Obituary
    March 4, 1936 - June 22, 2019
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    Born on March 4, 1936, the son of an itinerant cook, Rolf Knight grew up in B.C. logging camps, gained his M.A. in anthropology at UBC in 1962, and a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1968. For decades Knight was a brave and under-heralded historian and a steadfast enemy of the notion that there exists such a phenomenon as the common man.
  100. Joy Kogawa
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Joy Kogawa is a Canadian writer.
  101. Harry Kopyto
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Hersch Harry Kopyto (born 1946) is a Canadian legal advocate, broadcaster, and political activist. Disbarred as a lawyer in 1989, he continued to practise as a paralegal until 2015 and currently works as an unlicensed legal advocate and researcher.
  102. William Krehm
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    William Krehm (born November 23, 1913) is a Canadian author, journalist, political activist and real estate developer. He was a prominent Trotskyist activist in the 1930s and went to Spain where he participated in the Spanish Civil War.
  103. The Krug Brothers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1993
  104. Landsberg, Michele
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian writer, social activist and feminist. (Born 1935).
  105. Lavell, Jeannette Vivian Corbiere
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Native women's rights activist. (Born 1942).
  106. Laxer, James
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political economist, professor and author. (Born 1941).
  107. James Laxer - Canadian iconoclast 1941-2018
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Obituary for the prominent campaigner, author and academic James Laxer, who passed away February 23rd 2018.
  108. Laxer, Robert
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian psychologist, professor, author, and political activist. (1915-1998).
  109. LeBourdais, Isabel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian journalist and author. (1909-2003).
  110. Mary Jo Leddy
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Mary Jo Leddy, CM (b. 1 February 1946) is a Canadian writer, speaker, theologian and social activist. Leddy is widely recognized for her work with refugees at Toronto's Romero House.
  111. Megan Leslie
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Megan Anissa Leslie (born September 29, 1973) is a Canadian politician and environmental advocate. She is the president and CEO of World Wildlife Fund Canada.
  112. Lewis, David
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Socialist politician, labour lawyer, and leader of the federal New Democratic Party. (1909-1981).
  113. Lewis, Stephen
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Politician, diplomat, author, journalist, labour arbitrator, and former leader of the Ontario New Democratic Party. (Born 1937).
  114. A Life of Learning
    Charles Homer Haskins Lecture for 1997
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1997
  115. Livesay, Dorothy
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Poet, journalist, writer of short fiction, autobiography and literary criticism. (1909-1996).
  116. Living principles: In memory of Ed Finn
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2020
    Born in Spaniard’s Bay, Newfoundland, in 1926, Ed Finn grew up in Corner Brook, where he later became first a printer’s apprentice, then a reporter, columnist, and editor of that city’s daily newspaper, the Western Star. His long career as a journalist later included two years at the Montreal Gazette and 14 years at the Toronto Star. During his four-year fling in politics in Newfoundland (1959-1962), he served as the first provincial leader of the NDP. He worked closely with Tommy Douglas and helped defend and promote his pioneering Medicare legislation in Saskatchewan. And throughout the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s, he did communications work for several labour unions, and served on the board of directors of the Bank of Canada. From 1994 to 2014 he was Senior Editor at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, and Editor of the CCPA Monitor. On November 27, 2020, Ed was appointed to the Order of Canada.
  117. Livingstone, Kay
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Social activist, radio host. (1918-1975).
  118. James Loney
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    James Loney (born 1964) is a Canadian peace activist who has worked for several years with Christian Peacemaker Teams in Iraq and Palestine.
  119. Lount, Samuel
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Blacksmith, politician, rebel. (1791-1838).
  120. Wiebo Ludwig
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Wiebo Arienes Ludwig (19 December 1941 - 9 April 2012) was the leader of a Christian community named Trickle Creek, just outside Hythe, Alberta, Canada. He was best known for his legal problems arising from his conflict with the oil and gas industry.
  121. Jack MacDonald
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Jack "Moscow Jack" MacDonald (2 February 1888 - 7 November 1941) was a founding member of the Communist Party of Canada and one of its leaders. He was party Chairman from 1921 to 1923, and National Secretary from 1923 to 1929.
  122. MacInnis, Angus
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian social democratic politician. (1884-1964).
  123. MacInnis, Grace Winona
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and feminist.
  124. MacInnis, Grace
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician and feminist. (1905-1991).
  125. Mackenzie
    A political biography of William Lyon Mackenzie
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2002
    History has often dismissed William Lyon Mackenzie as a comical figure, or as the political hothead who bungled the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. Former Toronto mayor John Sewell suggests he may actually be the best model this country has ever had of a responsible politician.
  126. Mackenzie, William Lyon
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
  127. Mackenzie, William Lyon
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, politician, rebel. (1795-1861).
  128. Macphail, Agnes
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political and activist. (1890-1954).
  129. Macphail, Agnes Campbell
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian polician. (1890-1954).
  130. Macpherson, C. B.
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political scientist. (1911-1987).
  131. Marshall, Donald, Jr
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Accused of murder, Marshall, a 16-year old Micmac, was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. After he had served 11 years in a penitentiary, a re-examination of the case found him innocent. (1953-2009).
  132. Matthews, Peter
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Farmer who participated in the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837. (1789? - 1838).
  133. McClung, Nellie Letitia (Mooney)
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian feminist, politician, and social activist. (1873-1951).
  134. McLachlan, James Bryson
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Labour leader. (1869-1937).
  135. McNaughton, Violet
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Feminist, journalist and activist. (1879-1968).
  136. Memorial to Dagmar Baur
    Resource Type: Website
    This site is dedicated to the memory of Dagmar Baur - March 1941 - April 2010.
  137. Mercredi, Ovide William
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Aboriginal Canadian politician and leader. (Born 1946).
  138. Jack Miner
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    John Thomas Miner (April 10, 1865 - November 3, 1944), or "Wild Goose Jack," was a Canadian conservationist called by some the "father" of North American conservationism.
  139. Miriam Garfinkle
    Memories, Stories, Photos, Articles, Statements, Interviews, Letters, Actions, Activism, News
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2018
    This page is dedicated to the memory of Miriam Garfinkle (1954 - 2018). It provides links to Miriam’s articles and interviews, letters; accounts of her activism and organizing; stories from some of the occasions when Miriam’s activities landed her in the news; photo albums; and tributes to Miriam. There is a separate page, Moments with Miriam, on which more 100 people share stories of Miriam.
  140. Diana Moeser Obituary
    March 24, 1944 - September 18, 2013
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
  141. Moffatt, Gary
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Canadian anarchist and activist.
  142. Mooney, Pat
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Winner of the Right Livelihood Award for his work to save the world's genetic plant heritage. (Born 1947).
  143. Joyce Nelson
    Obituary
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
  144. One Woman Army
    The Life of Claire Culhane
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    A biography of Claire Culhane, member of the Canadian Communist Party, crusader for prison abolition, and peace activist opposed to the Vietnam war.
  145. Open Heart, Open Mind
    Resource Type: Book
  146. Panitch, Leo
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political scientist. (Born 1945).
  147. Papineau, Louis-Joseph
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Lawyer, seigneur, politician, defender of the national heritage of French Canada. Led the fight for control of the political institutions of Lower Canada. (1786-1871).
  148. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  149. Parent, Madeleine
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1918).
  150. Parlby, Irene Marryat
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Politician, farm women's leader. (1868-1965).
  151. Parrot, Jean-Claude
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (Born 1936).
  152. PBI-Canada remembers peace activist Frank Showler
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    Frank Showler passed away on February 10, 2022 at the age of 102.
  153. Penner, Jacob
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian radical. (1880-1965).
  154. Rankin, Harry
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Politician. (Born 1920).
  155. Rebick, Judy
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian feminist, writer, and activist. (Born 1945).
  156. Judy Rebick
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Judy Rebick (born August 15, 1945) is a Canadian writer, journalist, political activist, and feminist.
  157. Remembering Lissa Donner
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Recollections of Lissa Donner, 1955 - 2017.
  158. John Riddell
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    John Riddell (born 1942) is a Canadian Marxist essayist, historian, editor, translator and activist. He is best known as editor of The Communist International in Lenin's Time.
  159. Riel, Louis
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
  160. Riel, Louis
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Metis leader, founder of Manitoba, central figure in the North-West rebellion. (1844-1885).
  161. Roback, Léa
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Union organizer, social activist. (1903-2000).
  162. Léa Roback
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Léa Roback (3 November 1903 – 28 August 2000) was a Canadian trade union organizer, social activist, pacifist, and feminist. She campaigned against exclusion, violence, racism and injustice.
  163. Rose Henderson
    A Woman for the People
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    A study of the life of Canadian feminist, socialist, and peace activist Rose Henderson (1871-1937).
  164. Dimitrios Roussopoulos
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos (born 1936) is a political activist, ecologist, writer, editor, publisher, community organizer, and public speaker.
  165. Rowley, Robert Kent
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Trade unionist. (1917-1978).
  166. Ryerson, Stanley Bréhaut
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Historian, Communist. (Born 1911).
  167. John S. Saul
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    John S. Saul (born 1938) is a Canadian political economist and activist whose work has focused on the liberation struggles of southern Africa, from the 1960s to the present.
  168. Schmeiser, Percy and Louise
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winners
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian farmers and opponents of GMO crops.
  169. Scott, Francis Reginald (Frank)
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Founding member of the social-democratic movement in Canada. (1899-1985).
  170. Sewell, John
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Political activist and writer on municipal affairs. The mayor of Toronto, Canada from 1978 to 1980. (Born 1940).
  171. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Philosopher, environmental activist, eco feminist and author. (Born 1952).
  172. Shiva, Vandana
    Connexipedia: Right Livelihood Award Winner
    Resource Type: Article
    Environmental and women's activist. (Born 1952).
  173. Smart, Elizabeth
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Elizabeth Smart (December 27, 1913 – March 4, 1986) was a Canadian poet and novelist.
  174. Spry, Graham
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Journalist, diplomat, international business executive, political organizer, advocate of public broadcasting. (1900-1983).
  175. Jim Stanford
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Jim Stanford is a Canadian economist and founder of the Progressive Economics Forum.
  176. Stanley, Allan
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Hockey player (1926-2013).
  177. Suzuki, David
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian science broadcaster and environmental activist. (Born 1936).
  178. Peter Tabuns
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Peter Charles Tabuns (born October 3, 1951) is a politician in Ontario, Canada. He is a New Democrat member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario who was elected in a 2006 by-election. He represents the riding of Toronto-Danforth.
  179. Barb Tarbox
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Barb Tarbox, MSM (April 10, 1961 - May 18, 2003) was one of the most well-known anti-smoking activists in Canada She was a lifelong smoker dying of brain and lung cancers whose very open and frank discussions of her illness propelled her to the Canadian national stage.
  180. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  181. Tecumseh
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Shawnee chief who attempted to form an alliance of tribes to combat American territorial ambitions and tried to rally the tribes in a common defence against the Americans. (1768-1813).
  182. Temple, William Horace
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian politician, trade union activist, businessman and temperance crusader. (1899-1988).
  183. Thinking about Terry Fox and the Marathon of Hope
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    Reflections on Terry Fox's legacy, forty-two years later.
  184. Truscott, Steven
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian who was sentenced to death in 1959, when he was a 14-year old student, for the allegedly murdering a classmate. (Born 1945).
  185. Vallieres, Pierre
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Writer, radical. (1938-1998).
  186. Violet McNaughton: the Mighty Mite Reformer From Saskatchewan
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Violet McNaughton deserves recognition as one of Canada's greatest and most formidable adult educators and co-operator of the twentieth century bar none
  187. Joe Wallace
    Connexipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Joe Wallace, October 29, 1890 – December 1st, 1975) was a Canadian poet, journalist, and communist activist.
  188. Watkins, Mel
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian political economist and activist. (Born 1932).
  189. Watt-Cloutier, Sheila
    Connexipedia: Article in Library and Archives Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Inuit leader, activist.
  190. Philip Weller
    Wikipedia article
    Resource Type: Article
    Philip Weller (born 1956) is a Canadian environmental scientist.
  191. White, Bob
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Canadian trade unionist. (Born 1935).
  192. Woodsworth, James Shaver
    Connexipedia: Article in the Canadian Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Methodist minister, social worker, politician. (1874-1942).
  193. Zwicker, Barrie
    Sources Select Resources Encyclopedia
    Resource Type: Article
    Barrie Zwicker (born 1934) is a Canadian journalist, documentary producer, and political activist.

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