Woodsworth College, Toronto
Woodsworth College, named after politician and clergyman James Shaver Woodsworth (1874–1942), is a constituent college of the University of Toronto in Canada. It is one of the largest colleges in the Faculty of Arts and Science at the St. George Campus. It is also the newest of the colleges at the University of Toronto, created in 1974. Woodsworth College's arms and badge were registered with the Canadian Heraldic Authority on October 15, 2006.
Woodsworth College
Woodsworth College Residence Building
James Shaver Woodsworth was a Canadian Methodist minister, politician, and labour activist. He was a pioneer of the Canadian Social Gospel, a Christian religious movement with social democratic values and links to organized labour. A long-time leader and publicist in the movement, Woodsworth served as an elected member of the federal parliament from 1921 until his death in 1942. In 1932, he helped to found the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), a socialist political party which was the predecessor to the New Democratic Party (NDP).
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