by romarco1 | Jul 21, 1969 | Timeline:1960s
Berger was quickly labelled an extreme socialist by WAC Bennett and his Social Credit opponents when he stood by the party’s policy to nationalize the BC Telephone Company. Social Credit was relentless, labelling Berger a pro-union, godless Marxist. Berger declined to...
by romarco1 | Apr 18, 1969 | Timeline:1960s
The issues were strong, but the party failed to do better than the CCF had done before it. Bob Strachan served as NDP leader in the 1963 and 1966 elections, but Social Credit was returned with strong majorities. That led to a challenge of his leadership by young...
by romarco1 | Apr 18, 1962 | Timeline:1960s
In British Columbia NDP campaigns in the 1960s were low-budget affairs focused on creating Medicare for all, more funding for universities and schools, a better return to the province from BC’s resources, low-cost publicly-owned car insurance and job creation across...
by romarco1 | Aug 18, 1961 | Timeline:1960s
Bob Strachan, a Carpenters’ Union leader and MLA for Cowichan-Newcastle, was the unanimous choice to lead the BC NDP. While some criticized the NDP for abandoning the CCF’s call to replace capitalism with a more humanitarian democratic socialist society, the party...
by romarco1 | Jul 1, 1961 | Timeline:1960s
It was clear the CCF was stalled everywhere except in the province of Saskatchewan. Something had to change for social democrats in BC and across Canada. In 1958, the Canadian Labour Congress representing Canada’s unions, invited the CCF to join with them to found a...
by romarco1 | Jun 12, 1952 | Timeline:1960s
In the 1952 provincial election the CCF actually won the most votes of any party – 34% and 18 seats. But in a surprising turn of events, the second choice of many non-CCF voters was a new party, a populist conservative movement, Social Credit. In the final count in...
