People from Falkirk - Jack MacDonald, Tommy Douglas, David Weir, Malcolm Middleton, Jack Ross, John Bain, Willie Ormond, Alan Bissett, Aidan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Jack MacDonald, Tommy Douglas, David Weir, Malcolm Middleton, Jack Ross, John Bain, Willie Ormond, Alan Bissett, Aidan Moffat, Neil Dougall, Forbes Masson, Archie Macaulay, Myles Hogarth, Forbes Howie, Giovanni Moscardini, James Walker, Greg Shields, Elizabeth Blackadder, Doug Baird, George Patterson, Thomas Imrie, Billy Dougall, Arthur Duncan, Bill Wells, Alex Scott, Ricky Waddell, Andy Jackson, Jim McLaren, Johnny Carlyle, Joe Jakub, Arthur Mann, Eddie Turnbull, Bob McGregor, Jimmy Douglas, Stuart Munro, Jerry Dawson, John Todd, Craig Pollock, Roger Hynd, Stuart Balmer, Derek Fleming, Willie Brown, Brian Fairley, Peter Miller, John McDonald, Frank McGrellis, Max Murray, George Robertson, Derek Niven, David Provan, George McGeachie, Sheila McKechnie, Liam Corr, Brown Ferguson, Kevin McAllister, Jimmy Archibald, Steve Frew, Jim Stevenson, Alan Lamb, Ian Mitchell, Jim Shirra, Tam Scobbie, David Alexander, Bob Mauchline, Graeme Crawford, John Aitken, Alex Wood, John Steel, Tommy Dunn, Willie Miller, John Meechan, Jim Pearson. Excerpt: Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, (20 October 1904 - 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian democratic socialist politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first social-democratic government in North America and introduced free, universal healthcare to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, Douglas was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971. Douglas was born in Falkirk, Scotland, in 1904, the son of Annie (nee Clement) and Thomas Douglas, an iron moulder who fought in the Boer War. In 1910, his family immigrated to Canada, ...