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  O.B.C. Biography - Grace MacInnis
MacInnis, motivated by her strong belief in democratic socialism, spoke on behalf of the Party all across Canada.
She was a delegate to the Party's founding convention in Regina in 1933 and subsequently held many senior offices with both the C.C.F. and later the NDP, provincially and federally.
In 1965, Grace MacInnis was elected to the House of Commons in the riding of Vancouver Kingsway to become B.C.'s first woman member of Parliament and served until her retirement in 1974.
www.protocol.gov.bc.ca /protocol/prgs/obc/1990/1990_GMacInnis.htm   (309 words)

  
 Grace MacInnis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Grace Winona MacInnis (née Woodsworth) (July 25, 1905 - July 10, 1991) was a Canadian politician and feminist.
The daughter of Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) founding leader J.S. Woodsworth, MacInnis was a politician in her own right, championing issues such as family planning, affordable housing, abortion rights and women's equality.
In 1974, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada "in recognition of a lifetime of service to Canada as teacher, author and parliamentarian".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grace_MacInnis   (166 words)

  
 TurnTo10.com - The Stanley Cup - Blues Retire MacInnis' Number
MacInnis, who skated for the Blues in nine seasons following a 1994 trade from Calgary, is the fifth player to have his number honored by the club.
Best known for his thunderous slap shot, which won him seven hardest-shot titles in the NHL skills contest, MacInnis spent his first 13 seasons in Calgary, which drafted him in the first round (15th overall) of the 1981 draft, and won the Conn Smythe when the team won the Stanley Cup in 1989.
Traded to St. Louis after the 1994 season, he spent his last nine years playing for the Blues before retiring after the 2003 season and was awarded the Norris Trophy as the league's top defenseman in 1998-99.
www.turnto10.com /nhl/8581231/detail.html   (266 words)

  
 Angus MacInnis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Angus MacInnis (September 2, 1884 - March 3, 1964) was a socialist politician and Canadian parliamentarian.
MacInnis, a trade unionist, was first elected to the Canadian House of Commons in the 1930 election as an Independent Labour Member of Parliament (MP) for Vancouver.
He was an outspoken civil libertarian and spoke against the discrimination against Japanese Canadians that was widespread in British Columbia in the 1930s and 1940s, and was an early advocate of extending the right to vote to Japanease Canadians, a right that was not won until 1949.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angus_MacInnis   (247 words)

  
 Harbour Publishing - Grace
Grace MacInnis - daughter of J.S. Woodsworth, founding mother of the New Democratic Party, BC's first woman Member of Parliament, universally respected social democrat who fought tirelessly for the rights of women, consumers and low-income Canadians.
MacInnis worked some sixty years as a social reformer, as BC MLA and MP and as indispensable behind-the-scenes policy worker for the CCF and NDP.
S.P. Lewis was a radio news reporter in 1987 when she first met Grace MacInnis.
www.harbourpublishing.com /book.php?id=286   (120 words)

  
 SI.com - 2003 NHL Playoffs - SI Flashback: Stanley Cup Finals - Tuesday April 08, 2003 01:44 PM
They have won just one Cup in the last ten years, and an inspection of their roster suggests that they could use a Rembrandt or two to supplement a generous supply of housepainters.
Unsolicited, Vernon told a reporter that MacInnis "was ready for the role of a captaincy." Which is well and good, because current cocaptains Jim Peplinski and Lanny McDonald were both scratched at different times in the finals, McDonald for Games 3, 4 and 5 and Peplinski for Game 6.
MacInnis also helped save the Stanley Cup finals from becoming a plodding affair.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /hockey/nhl/features/si_stanley_cup/1989   (1243 words)

  
 CM Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There she met Angus MacInnis, a Labour MP from Vancouver, who soon became her spouse and one of the founders of the CCF.
Although she did not consider herself a feminist as the only woman elected in 1968 and one of only a handful of women elected in 1965 and 1972, MacInnis believed it was important to champion what many considered women's issues: abortion law reform, access to day care, and improved protection for consumers.
More than a tribute to one woman, Grace contributes significantly to our understanding of the role of women in Canadian politics and is a wealth of information on the evolution of the CCF and NDP.
www.umanitoba.ca /cm/cmarchive/vol22no4/rev143grace.html   (321 words)

  
 Western's Caucus on Women's Issues Essay Award Winners 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
[6] Grace MacInnis' father, J.S. Woodsworth, was the founder of the Western socialist party the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation.
Grace MacInnis' mother worked outside the home and shared a cooperative lifestyle with her husband.
[37] Grace MacInnis' life with her husband is described as a team effort; her husband respected and appreciated her skills and her excellent education.
www.uwo.ca /wcwi/essayaward/2004.htm   (7135 words)

  
 Japanese Canadians and the Political Left   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Of all the socialists in British Columbia, Grace MacInnis (26) is undoubtedly among the most beloved and respected.
Most typically it is Angus MacInnis with his speeches in the House of Commons, both in the 1930's and in the late 1940's who is singled out for commendation.
(Grace MacInnis, as we have seen, does remember; but she had been personally involved to a much greater extent and had co-authored the party's pamphlet).
www.wernercohn.com /Japanese.html   (7244 words)

  
 UBC Special Collections - Archival Research Collections M
Angus MacInnis was born in 1884 at Glen Williams, Prince Edward Island.
MacInnis sat on the C.C.F. National Executive from 1933-1950 and was Deputy National Leader of the C.C.F. from 1942 to 1957.
Grace MacInnis was the daughter of J.S. Woodsworth, co-founder of the C.C.F. Married to Angus MacInnis, she has enjoyed an active political career, both provincially and federally.
www.library.ubc.ca /spcoll/AZ/inventories/rescolm.html   (5770 words)

  
 globeandmail.com: No. 8: Grace MacInnis
As the eldest of six children born to the founder of Canada's first socialist party, Grace MacInnis earned the nickname ''yeller baby'' because of her skill at grabbing attention in her rambunctious, politically pedigreed family.
MacInnis told her biographer that party leader David Lewis preferred to dodge the abortion issue.
MacInnis refused to call herself a feminist because she preferred to be seen as someone "coming up from the middle." Being labelled a feminist would make it easier for people to dismiss her causes, she said, and she thought it was politically wise to keep the ear of men in power.
theglobeandmail.com /servlet/story/RTGAM.20050403.wbcgreatest08/BNStory   (840 words)

  
 Simon Fraser University | Institute for the Humanities: Archive
In honour of Grace MacInnis and her history of social and political service as a member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, a Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar Program was initiated through the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University in 1993.
The visiting scholar is invited to Simon Fraser University to meet with faculty and students.
In recognition of her literary achievements and the intensity with which she has spoken out against injustice and her contribution toward the Canadian Governments' steps to provide redress to Japanese Canadians in 1988, Joy Kogawa was the Grace MacInnis visiting Speaker at Simon Fraser University in 1995.
www.sfu.ca /humanities-institute/archive/macinnis.htm   (442 words)

  
 Simon Fraser University | Institute for the Humanities: Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar
In honour of Grace MacInnis and her outstanding social and political service as a member of Parliament for the New Democratic Party, the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University established a Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar Program in 1993.
In honour of her citical writing and challenging inquiry, Linda McQuaig, Toronto based author and commentator, was selected the 2006 Grace MacInnis Visiting Scholar.
Shirley Williams, former British Labour MP, and president and co-founder of the Social Democratic Party in Britain (1981), was the first visiting scholar in this program in January 1993.
www.sfu.ca /humanities-institute/macinnis.htm   (298 words)

  
 F to H
Leave the highway at exit 12 (the first of the two Chelsea exits), go right off the exit and we're the second place on the right, just after the veterinary clinic.
Grace MacInnis : A Story of Love and Integrity.
Small closed tear at the lower edge of the front fold of the dust jacket, else near fine.
www.chelseabooks.ca /f_to_h.htm   (3673 words)

  
 Biography of Canadian Delegation
She is from a family that has been involved in working for social justice and economic equality for several generations.
Her great uncle was JS Woodsworth founder and leader of the CCF and her cousin was Grace MacInnis who with her husband Angus MacInnis fought against the internment of Japanese Canadians in World War II.
Her father was born and raised in Japan and Ellen completed grades 11 and 12 in Kobe, Japan.
www.vcn.bc.ca /alpha/candel/Bio20030520.htm   (684 words)

  
 The Politics of Racism: Chapter 4: Exile
Grace Woodsworth MacInnis, wife of Angus MacInnis, the CCF Member of Parliament for Vancouver East, however, undertook a speaking tour through the Interior to drum up local support for schools in the camps.
While Grace MacInnis and poet Dorothy Livesay worked actively for Japanese Canadians, the provincial CCF party as a whole failed to address the Japanese question publicly in 1942 and 1943.
For a more complete account of the work of the churches in the camps, see W.P. Bunt Papers at the Vancouver Theological College Archives; and Tadashi Mitsui, "The Ministry of the United Church of Canada Amongst Japanese Canadians in British Columbia, 1892-1949," M.S.Th.
www.japanesecanadianhistory.ca /Chapter4.html   (10170 words)

  
 MHS Transactions: J. S. Woodsworth - Personal Recollections
Your invitation to me to address the members of your Society was a little like the circumstances surrounding my birth.
The children - and there were many children who played with him the game of "Setting the Dinner Table" have never forgotten it.
Nor have we forgotten the little "Grace Before Meat" which my father composed at about the same time and which cues like this:
www.mhs.mb.ca /docs/transactions/3/woodsworth_js.shtml   (4208 words)

  
 Douglas-Coldwell Foundation - Grants
In the past ten years, the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation has provided more than $300,000 in financial aid to ventures that support our mandate: promoting education and research into social democracy.
We have helped to fund the publication of biographies of Tommy Douglas, Stanley Knowles, Clairie Gillis and Grace MacInnis.
The biography of M.J. Coldwell commissioned by the Foundation, and written by well-known Canadian author Walter Stewart was published by Stoddart Press in the spring of 2000.
www.dcf.ca /en/grants.htm   (294 words)

  
 Ruth Latta's Books and Writing Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Grace MacInnis: A Woman to Remember (with Joy Trott)
With co-author E. Joy Trott, Ruth has written a biography entitled Grace MacInnis, A Woman to Remember, soon to be published by Xlibris publishing.
An Ontario-qualified teacher, she has been teaching writing courses since 1985.
www.cyberus.ca /~rklatta/RuthLatta.html   (262 words)

  
 Bibliography on the CCF-NDP and Canadian Social Democracy
Lewis, S. Grace: The Life of Grace MacInnis
MacInnis, G. and C. Woodsworth, Canada Through C.C.F. Glasses
A Change in the CCF Leadership: (From Preacher to Teacher)
www.web.net /~ondp/biblio_whitehrn.html   (1348 words)

  
 Siemens: Canadian Literary Awards and Prizes, from The Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Named in honour of the late literary journalist Doris Giller, the Giller Prize is awarded annually ($25,000) to the author of the best Canadian novel or short story collection published in English.
Winners: 1999 Bonnie Burnard, A Good House; 1998 Alice munro, The Love of a Good Woman; 1997 Mordecai richler, Barney's Version; 1996 Margaret atwood, Alias Grace; 1995 Rohinton mistry, A Fine Balance; 1994 M.G. vassanji, The Book of Secrets.
Short Fiction: Sharon butala, Queen of the Headaches; Poetry: Janice Dales, Sanctuary; Poetry MS: Mick Burrs, The Names Leave the Stones; Non-fiction: Grace Lane, Have you Been to Foyle's Luv?
www.mala.bc.ca /~soules/english/awards.htm   (8100 words)

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