Tommy Douglas

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Dave Margoshes. Tommy Douglas

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Saskatchewan Archives Board R-A3421

Tommy Douglas, 1904-1986.

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But after little Tommy’s birth, the proud grandfather couldn’t stay away long. One day there was a knock at the door, and there stood the elder Thomas Douglas, “come to see the boy.”

Over the next few years, each of the old man’s other seven sons “went Labour,” and eventually he too made the switch, so Tommy Douglas, who would become the head of the first socialist government in North America in 1944, came by his politics honestly.

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