James Woodsworth


James Woodsworth 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.
Woodsworth was born in Toronto and son of Harold Richard Woodsworth and ordained a Methodist minister in 1868.
He married E. Josephine Shaver in 1868 and was minister in various towns in Ontario before heading west:
Woodsworth died in 1917 in Winnipeg.

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