Canadian Socialist League
[3] In Ontario the CSL was organized by George Weston Wrigley and Thomas Phillips Thompson, both former Knights of Labor, in an effort to pull together the reform forces that had become fragmented after the Patrons of Industry were defeated in the 1896 federal election.
[4] The CSL had a local in Port Moody, British Columbia, by January 1900, which became the focus of its activities in that province.
[3] Wrigley, editor of the CSL's organ Citizen and Country, dominated the league with his Christian socialism.
[7] The CSL was broad and flexible, open to radicals, labourites, socialists, and women's rights activists.
[9] The CSL was primarily concerned with educating the electorate about socialism, and was not a parliamentary party in the modern sense.
In his writings Sheldon discussed social problems such as unemployment, poverty, racialism, alcohol, corruption and so on, always asking "What would Jesus do?
In her short-lived column "The Kingdom of the Home" she discussed issues such as suffrage, charity, prohibition, prostitution and the servant problem.
[13]) Her message was typical of maternal feminism, that love and purity, the values of the home sphere, should also guide politics.
[3] The CSL cooperated with the USLP at this meeting, where the red flag flew over the hall during the sessions despite attempts by the police to have it hauled down.
"[16] By January 1902 there were more than sixty CSL branches in Canada, including New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, British Columbia, and the Northwest Territories.
[1] In March 1902 John Cameron organized a CSL local in Winnipeg, recruiting from members of the labour party.
[17] In 1902 James Hurst Hawthornthwaite, an independent labour candidate who was elected to the British Columbia legislature for the coal-mining constituency of Nanaimo, joined the Revolutionary Socialist Party of Canada.
[20] At the end of December 1904 the SPBC held its fourth convention, where delegates were told the locals in Winnipeg, Toronto, and Fredericton, New Brunswick were interested in forming a Socialist Party of Canada (SPC).
