James Woodsworth
Deceased Person
1843 – 1917
Who was James Woodsworth?
Rev. James Woodsworth, D.D. was, in the late 19th century, Superintendent of Methodist Missions in the North-West of Canada, which then included all four of today's western provences. He fathered James Shaver Woodsworth, who was the first leader of the CCF.
Woodsworth was born in Toronto and son of Harold Richard Woodsworth and ordained a Methodist minister in 1868.
He married E. Josephine Shaver in 1868 and was minister in various towns in Ontario before heading west:
1867-1869 Vespra
1871 Nottawasaga
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.
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