James Woodsworth

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James Woodsworth (1843–1917) 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 (which became the New Democratic Party).

Woodsworth was born in Toronto and son of and ordained a Methodist minister in 1868.^[1]

He married in 1868 and was minister in various towns in Ontario before heading west:^[2]

• 1867–1869 Vespra (Simcoe County)
• 1871 Nottawasaga (Simcoe County)
• 1880 Chairman Bracebridge District
• 1882–1887 Portage la Prairie
• 1891 Superintendent of Methodist Missions in Manitoba and the North-West

Woodsworth died in 1917 in Winnipeg.^[3]

Works by[]

• Thirty Years in the Canadian North-West James Woodsworth (1917) McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, Limited, Toronto, Ontario

See also[]

• Methodist Church of Canada
• Egerton Ryerson

References[]

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