- Title:
- Ringing out the narrowing lust of gold, ringing in the common love of good; the United Farmers of Ontario in Lambton, Simcoe and Lanark Counties, 1914-1926.
- Creator:
- Badgley, Kerry A.
- Date Created:
- 1996
- Degree Awarded:
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Subjects:
- rural development labour agriculture society
- Geographical Focus:
- Canada Ontario Lambton Simcoe Lanark
- Supporting Materials:
- n/a
- Description:
- The United Farmers of Ontario (UFO) was founded in 1914 and, by 1919, had become a significant political force in the province. In that year the organization, through the efforts of locally-nominated candidates, won more seats than any othexr party and formed a governing coalition with the Independent Labor Party (ILP). By that time, its sister organization, the United Farmers Co-operative Company (UFcC), was flourishing, as was the United Farm Women of Ontario. The movement had achieved much of its success by levelling a challenge to the ’‘Big Interests’, a term used by members to denote those who contro’led the economic, political and social structures in the province, and by advancing an alternative vision of democracy, which sought to maximize citizen participation in the decision-making prozess. By the mid 1920s, however, the movement went into a decline from which it was never able to recover. Membership in the UFO declined; the promise of equality put forward by the UFWO did not materialize; and the UFCC, once a key component in the development of an alternative vision, had become a company more focused upon profit-making than anything else.
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- Badgley, Kerry A.. 1996. "Ringing out the narrowing lust of gold, ringing in the common love of good; the United Farmers of Ontario in Lambton, Simcoe and Lanark Counties, 1914-1926.", Department of History, Carleton University
- Link to this page:
- https://cuhistory.github.io/grads/items/hist_213.html
Rights
- Rights:
- Copyright the author, all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.