Jimmy Tompkins
Male, Deceased Person
1870 – 1953
Who was Jimmy Tompkins?
Father James John "Jimmy" Tompkins was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the Antigonish Movement, a progressive effort that incorporated adult education, cooperatives and rural community development to aid the fishing and mining communities of northern and eastern Nova Scotia, Canada. The Antigonish Movement later evolved into the Extension Department of St. Francis Xavier University.
Father Tompkins believed in the emancipating power of education and sought to improve economic conditions through study groups and co-operative action. "It is not enough to have ideas, we have to put legs on them", he often said. He started the first regional library in Nova Scotia along with the first credit union and a cooperative housing association in Reserve Mines that was dubbed "Tompkinsville". Father Tompkins was the Spiritual founder of the Antigonish Movement.
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- Born
- Sep 7, 1870
Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia - Nationality
- Canada
- Education
- St. Francis Xavier University
- Lived in
- Inverness County
- Died
- May 5, 1953
Antigonish
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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