Abstract

James Shaver Woodsworth has been commonly thought of as a man of unbending practical resolve and constant intellectual principle. This paper argues that he was in many respects a jumble of contradictions. Most obviously, though a socialist and of a modernist turn of mind, Woodsworth remained a product of an earlier pioneer age in Canada, and consequently displayed a world view that was a mixture of gradualism, practicality, nativism, isolationism and individualism.

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