Salem Goldworth Bland (1859–1950) was a Canadian Methodist theologian, Georgist,[2] and one of Canada's most important Social Gospel thinkers.

[citation needed] He was ordained a Methodist minister in 1884[20] and served as a preacher in a series of churches in Ontario and Quebec.

Bland, a longtime advocate for the creation of a third party alternative to the Liberals and Conservatives, helped found the Ontario CCF.

[23] Bland also became a regular writer for The Grain Growers' Guide, then the main organ of the progressive farmers' movement,[citation needed] from 1917 to 1919.

[24] This activism led him into conflict with the leaders of Wesley College and he was dismissed in 1917 after a long battle with principal Eber Crummy.

He became close friends with the exiled American activist Emma Goldman, and when she died in Toronto in 1940 it was Bland who delivered the eulogy at her funeral.