Topic: Social Welfare

The Globe and Mail, Marc 10, 1945, Great Canadian Political Cartoons: 1915-1945.

The Gazette, Glace Bay, N.S., Aug. 29, 1945 Great Canadian Political Cartoons: 1915-1945.

Manitoba delegates to the founding convention of the N.D.P., 1961. Knowles is seated front row, left of centre.

Source: Archives of Manitoba

Tommy Douglas -- T.C. (Tommy) Douglas, shown in this 1961 photo riding aloft in triumph after being chosen NDP leader in Ottawa, ON, Canada. He is held by trade unionist Claude Jodoin (left) and national

CCF president David Lewis. (Ottawa Citizen/CanWest News Service)

Western Development Museum, WDM-2003-5-512

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/medicare/images/photo-history4_5b.jpg

Public servants celebrate the enrolment of 5,298,422 Ontario citizens in the Ontario Hospital Insurance Plan, which was going into effect on January 1, 1959.

Archives of Ontario, RG 10-65, 1982-08291/20

Courtesy of Medavie Blue Cross

http://www.civilization.ca/cmc/exhibitions/hist/medicare/medic-4g04e.shtml

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/health/health-care-system/the-birth-of-medicare/the-pros-and-cons-of-

medicare.html

http://www.cbc.ca/archives/categories/health/health-care-system/the-birth-of-medicare/canadians-ponder-the-welfare-state.html

019. Is there a doctor in the house? : a case history, in cartoons, on Saskatchewan's medical care plan / by Sebestyen Saskatoon : Saskatoon Star Phoenix, 1962 Ed Sebestyen Cartoon, Saskatoon Star Phoenix, 1962

April 27. – LHR.

Library and Archives Canada, Acc. No. 1991-26-239, C-143095. © George Shane.

"Whereas it is contrary to public policy in Ontario to discriminate against men and women in respect of their employment because of race, creed, colour, nationality, ancestry or place of origin whereas it is desirable to enact a measure designed to promote observance of this principle and whereas to do so is in accord with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as proclaimed by the United Nations."

Preamble to Fair Employment Practices Act (1951)

http://www.historyofrights.com/statutes/provincial/Ontario%20Fair%20Employment%20Practices%20Act%201951.pdf

`1951 Female Employees Fair Remuneration Act

http://www.historyofrights.com/statutes/provincial/Ontario%20Female%20Employees%20Fair%20Renumeration%20Act%201951.pdf