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Stewart, Bill, 1919-2008
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- William Evans Stewart
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1919-2008
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Bill Stewart, a social and political activist committed to worker’s rights, was born in Hamilton, Ontario. He served in the Canadian Army during World War II as a radio operator in the tank corps, having previously joined the Canadian Branch of the League Against War and Fascism to prevent the outbreak of war. He was an honoured and decorated veteran of the Italian Campaign, wherein he was seriously wounded in action. He returned to Ontario and met his spouse Dora, with whom he had five children.
In addition to his advocacy around environmental, peace and socialist causes, he held various elected positions in the trade union movement, including the International Association of Machinists and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. He ran several times for political office and served as the Ontario leader of the Communist Party of Canada (CPC). Following his retirement, he and Dora moved to Peachland in the Okanagan Valley, where he was active in the CPC’s Central Okanagan Club and an activist in various people’s movements in the area.
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An obituary notice and a program from his celebration of life included in the Ian McDonald Collection.