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Saskatchewan Archives Board R-A3421
Tommy Douglas, 1904-1986.
Dave Margoshes
Dave Margoshes is a fiction writer and poet living in Regina. He has published several collections of short stories and two volumes of poetry. His novella, We Who Seek, was published in the Fall of 1999 by Black Moss Press. He has won awards for his work, including the 1996 Stephen Leacock Poetry Prize and the 1996 Prairie Fire novella contest. He is the author of a junior high resource book, Saskatchewan, part of the Discover Canada series from Grolier. Margoshes worked as a reporter and newspaper editor for over twenty years and also taught journalism for several years. He continues to work occasionally as a freelance journalist; his column appears regularly in Western Living, and he writes a regular dispatch from Saskatchewan for The Vancouver Sun.
“Margoshes’s prose is eloquent and surprising.” – The Globe and Mail
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Tommy Douglas
Copyright © 1999 by Dave Margoshes and XYZ Publishing.
Fourth printing, 2005.
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Margoshes, Dave, 1941-
Tommy Douglas : building the new society (The Quest Library ; 4)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-9683601-4-9
1. Douglas, T. C. (Thomas Clement), 1904-1986. 2. Saskatchewan – Politics and government – 1944-1964. 3. Social legislation – Saskatchewan. 4. Prime ministers – Saskatchewan – Biography. 5. Co-operative Commonwealth Federation – Biography. 6. New Democratic Party – Biography I. Title. II. Series.
FC3525.1.D68M37 1999 971.24’03’092 C99-941349-X
F1072.M37 1999
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Acknowledgments
There are a number of books, magazine articles, audio-books, and videos about Tommy Douglas available – there are even a few Web sites. Many of these sources are listed in the bibliography at the back. In researching this book, I looked at most of the available material, but I found most invaluable The Making of a Socialist: The Recollections of T.C. Douglas. Tommy never wrote his autobiography, but this is the next best thing: transcriptions of 1958 interviews with the Saskatchewan premier by journalist Chris Higginbotham, placed in the Saskatchewan archives, and edited later by Lewis H. Thomas.
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