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1 day ago · Tommy Douglas was once voted the Greatest Canadian but he was not quite as popular in the 1950s.Resources: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/...
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2 days ago · Donald Sutherland, who was proud of his Scottish heritage, married Shirley, the daughter of Tommy Douglas, who was born in Falkirk in 1904 and emigrated with his parents to Canada in 1910 ...
2 days ago · In 1961, at the end of a five-day long founding convention which established its principles, policies and structures, the New Democratic Party was born, and Tommy Douglas, the long-time CCF Premier of Saskatchewan, was elected as its first leader.
1 day ago · His second marriage, which lasted from 1966 to 1970, was to Shirley Douglas, daughter of Tommy Douglas, the social democratic former premier of Saskatchewan. Sutherland and Douglas had two children, twins Kiefer and Rachel.
2 days ago · Pearson never had a majority in the House of Commons, but he brought in many of Canada's major updated social programs, including universal health care (though that credit should be shared with Tommy Douglas, who as premier of Saskatchewan had introduced the country's first medicare system), the Canada Pension Plan, and Canada Student Loans.
5 days ago · Tommy Douglas (1904-1986) is known in Canada as the Father of Medicare. Born in Scotland, Tommy came to Canada with his family in 1910, and they settled in Winnipeg. A dedicated Socialist, Tommy was a Baptist minister who ran in the 1935 federal election under the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation banner in Weyburn, SK.
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