Labor-Progressive Party
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The Labor-Progressive Party was the legal front of the Communist Party of Canada and its provincial wings from 1943 to 1959. It was established amid World War II after a number of prominent Communist
Fred Rose re-election poster (1945)
The 1945 Canadian federal election was held on June 11, 1945, to elect members of the House of Commons of the 20th Parliament of Canada. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Liberals won a thi
Labor-Progressive Party
…of Communist Party leaders from internment. Nielsen declared her affiliation to the LPP when it was founded in August 1943. She was defeated in the 1945 election when she ran for re-election as an LPP candidate. Only one LPP Member of Parliament (MP) was elected to the House of Commons under that banner, Fred…
William Lyon Mackenzie King
John Bracken in the Toronto Star, 1947
Major James Coldwell
Maxime Raymond