Lost Cause: The League for Social Reconstruction and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Quebec in the 1930s and 1940s

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Title
Lost Cause: The League for Social Reconstruction and the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation in Quebec in the 1930s and 1940s
Abstract
The author notes that the CCF (the forerunner of the NDP) was too "English" for most French-Canadians in the 1930s and 1940s; its socialism was objectionable to the Roman Catholic hierarchy; and its centralism was unacceptable to left-wing French Canadian nationalists. He explains that the CCF increased its support among French Canadians in the early and mid-1940s, but the dimensions of that support continued to be very modest. Even in the provincial election of 1944 and the federal election of 1945, when support peaked, fewer than three in a hundred Quebecers voted for the party. Most of those votes were in the Montreal area. By the election of 1949, in which Montreal poet and novelist A.M. Klein contested Cartier for the CCF, whatever hopes the party had had of capturing Quebec were clearly dead.
Publication
Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'études canadiennes
Volume
Vol. 19
Issue
no. 2
Pages
132-156
Date
Summer 1984
Language
en
Citation
Horn, Michiel. “Lost Cause: The League for Social Reconstruction and the Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation in Quebec in the 1930s and 1940s.” Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d’études canadiennes Vol. 19, no. 2 (Summer 1984): 132–156.
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